# Do they still throw "mortgage-burning" parties?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 7, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-throw-mortgage-burning-parties/605332 "2011-12-07T02:26:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-throw-mortgage-burning-parties/605332/21 "2011-12-08T13:11:17Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> [nitpick]ironic (unless I was whooshed)[/nitpick]  
> Ironic, irregardless.

[Ironical](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ironical)

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> i·ron·i·cal  
>    [ahy-ron-i-kuhl]  
> adjective  
> 1.  
> pertaining to, of the nature of, exhibiting, or characterized by irony or mockery: an ironical compliment; an ironical smile.  
> 2.  
> using or prone to irony: an ironical speaker.

(and actually, I was being whooshy, since I think it’s a silly word)  
mmm

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-throw-mortgage-burning-parties/605332/22 "2011-12-08T13:15:31Z")

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When we paid off our house early, we kept all the paperwork. I didn’t ever want to have something come up where through some special quirk the mortgage company would come back down the road and claim we owed them something, and then we’d have to scramble to get a copy of the original documentation. We went out for dinner instead.

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-throw-mortgage-burning-parties/605332/23 "2011-12-08T17:12:17Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> [Ironical](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ironical)
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> (and actually, I was being whooshy, since I think it’s a silly word)  
> mmm

Your response was very sillily thought out, but I read it jollily.  
It wasn’t classical or particularly unique, though.

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-throw-mortgage-burning-parties/605332/24 "2011-12-08T18:04:59Z")

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A few years ago my parents’ church burned the physical mortgage agreement. Fun times.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-still-throw-mortgage-burning-parties/605332/25 "2011-12-08T18:14:42Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Your response was very sillily thought out, but I read it jollily.  
> It wasn’t classical or particularly unique, though.

I thought it was very unique.  
mmm

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