American's and Irony

[Marshy]

I saw this and thought it was funny so i thought i would share it with you all,
I hope it doesn't cause too much offence :|:Q

San Francisco: [

The Daily Telegraph yesterday spoke to Jay Fullmer, 38, the first American
to get to grips with the concept of irony. "It was weird," Fullmer said, "I
was in London and, like, talking to this guy and it was raining and stuff
and he said, like, great weather, or something like that". "And I thought -
wait a minute, it's like, no way is it great weather" said Fullmer. Fullmer
soon realized that the other man's 'mistake' was deliberate. "This guy was
pretty cool about it," Fullmer said. Fullmer, who is 39 next month and
married with two children, aged 8 and 3, said he planned to use irony
frequently in the future. "I'm using it all the time," he said. "Like last
weekend, I was grilling steaks and I like burned them to cinders and I said,
'Great weather.' /i]

 

[Nemesis77]

 

[tweakmm]

ok, it really is too early to think.... i dont get it...

edit:
I think i might get it.....(need coffee) but is it because the american is too stupid?

 

[xyyz]

man I can count the members here who fall in the same catagory.

 

[Balt]

That is more like sarcasm than irony.

 

[xyyz]

<< That is more like sarcasm than irony. >>



that's what I was thinking... the word sarcasm is probably better suited... but Irony is a perfectly workable definition.

BTW... was this guy originally from Iowa or something?

 

[ChrichtonsGirl]

Yeah, irony would be more like rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid and good advice that you just didn't take.

 

[Mitzi]

<< Yeah, irony would be more like rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid and good advice that you just didn't take. >>



You should write a song, they would make great lyrics

 

[tweakmm]

<< Yeah, irony would be more like rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid and good advice that you just didn't take. >>


2000 spoons when all you need is a knife....

 

[Marshy]

That is not ironic ChrichtonsGirl

Alanis Morrisset knows about nothing about irony, which is the only ironic thing about the song hence tying in nicely with the origonal paragraph.

 

[tweakmm]

<< Alanis Morrisset knows about nothing about irony, which is the only ironic thing about the song hence tying in nicely with the origonal paragraph. >>


ok, so I got the joke, I just found it to be less than funny

 

[ChrichtonsGirl]

<< That is not ironic ChrichtonsGirl

Alanis Morrisset knows about nothing about irony, which is the only ironic thing about the song hence tying in nicely with the origonal paragraph. >>



Sigh.

Marshy - meet a joke. Joke, here's Marshy.

Sigh.

 

[Marshy]

One more thing about the spoon thing,

2000 spoons and all you nead is a knife, what she ment to sing was "2000 spoons and all you nead is a spoon", understand?

and ChrichtonsGirl

thanks for introducing me to one of your friends,

 

[iamwiz82]

<< One more thing about the spoon thing,

2000 spoons and all you nead is a knife, what she ment to sing was "2000 spoons and all you nead is a spoon", understand?

and ChrichtonsGirl

thanks for introducing me to one of your friends, >>



i love it. Marshy attacks ChrichtonsGirl because he cannot grasp a joke. Typical...

 

[cherrytwist]

Great weather, eh?

 

[Marshy]

I was just trying to help enlighted some people,

but please forgive me if i was being rude and accidently attacked some people.

now was that sarcasm or irony?

 

[chansen]

Ahh, Canadian irony.

 

[diamondgoat53]

is the exchange rate on Canadian irony the same as canadian money? i think it's worth half as much as canadians would like to think. or is it on the lines of Canadian military intelligence, and non-existent. (i better watch out. maybe they'll get mad and skate down to steal all of our cheese.)

 

[ChrichtonsGirl]

<< I was just trying to help enlighted some people,

but please forgive me if i was being rude and accidently attacked some people.

now was that sarcasm or irony? >>



I'm going for sarcasm.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Irony's, much like a character in a Monty Python movie, is "not dead yet". It is, however, teetering on the brink. And to whoever said it was more sarcasm than irony;

Sarcasm: (n) A cutting, often ironic, remark.



ZV

 

[AnthraX101]

You know what's ironic?

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

Armani

And if you don't get it, marshy, feel free to direct flames to /dev/null

 

[Balt]

<< Irony's, much like a character in a Monty Python movie, is "not dead yet". It is, however, teetering on the brink. And to whoever said it was more sarcasm than irony;

Sarcasm: (n) A cutting, often ironic, remark.



ZV >>



Zen, there are MANY types of irony. Sarcasm is only one of them. As such, one should be more specific.

A square is also a rectangle, but that does not mean that a rectangle is a square. Yet would you describe a square as a rectangle or a square?

 

[Mean MrMustard]

<Lebowski>Thats like...your opinion, man.</Lebowski>

 

[BigJohnKC]

<< You know what's ironic?

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

Armani

And if you don't get it, marshy, feel free to direct flames to /dev/null >>


Now that is ironic, and quite funny.


<< BTW... was this guy originally from Iowa or something? >>


What is that supposed to mean?

 

[gopunk]

i don't get it, is this supposed to imply that americans don't know what irony is? some people need to watch some woody allen movies...