Ironically-named works

From Wiki:

Let’s just say the better-known version of it wasn’t called “Play, Play, Play.”

Robert Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance actually contained a disclaimer saying, “This book should in no way be associated with that great body of knowledge relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice – and it’s not very factual on motorcycles either.”

I have never heard anyone pronounce the title of that composition as you indicated, but, I bow to superior knowledge. :cool:

BTAIM, aren’t they still “Waiting for Godot”?

The irony is that the song actually IS about him, and therefore is he not vain in believing it is.

The only things ironic in Ironic are the thing about the 10,000 spoons and the fact that a song called Ironic is so jam packed with non-ironic events.

Heck, I don’t pronounce it that way. We Murricans are proudly iggerant of cultoor.

Bill, The Galactic Hero, isn’t.

Because you live in an English-speaking culture, right? Chopin was Polish, living in Paris. And he didn’t even call the piece the Minute Waltz; it was so-named by his publisher, who decided it was a “miniature waltz.” Chopin’s own name for it was “Valse du petit chien” (Waltz of the Little Dog). It was inspired by a dog chasing his own tail.

The movie THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD is not good at all.

I don’t believe any tack was set aflame in Blazing Saddles.

A Modest Proposal was quite intentionally neither modest nor a proposal.

OJ Simpson’s Book If I Did It is presented as a hypothetical.

I’ve got the meta-example here. The song “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette doesn’t actually have much to do with irony.

How ironic that Mr. Shine referred to it first, in post #25.

Life is Beautiful.

:smack: I swear I read the thread looking for my example before I posted it. Sigh … it’s like 10,000 opinions when all you need is a cite.

According to some interpretations, Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden.”

According to other interpretations, not so much.

I know. It’s happened to me. It happens to most of us.

But it doesn’t usually happen to give us as perfect a set-up. :slight_smile:

“A Few Good Men”

How about Emerson Lake and Palmer’s
“Lucky Man” ?