# Irony, Thy Taste is Sweet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097 "2005-10-20T16:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/1 "2005-10-20T16:02:26Z")
Yesterday I’m wearing a shirt that says, “You know what your problem is? You’re stupid.” A lady at the laundromat comes up to me, reads the shirt and says, “Well that doesn’t make any sense.” :smack: I’ve got to wear this shirt more often. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingCowOfDoom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyingcowofdoom/32/21776_2.png) [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/2 "2005-10-20T16:08:23Z")
I have a shirt that says: > [@](#): > > I > see > dumb people > reading my t-shirt. I get a lot of good looks with this one. I’ll see someone reading, than squinting, and then looking embarassed as they realize what it says. It’s great. –FCOD ---
**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/3 "2005-10-20T16:22:51Z")
I have a couple T-shirts like that. My fave is the one that says “Yes, they’re real.” ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/4 "2005-10-20T19:53:13Z")
**davmilsav** , I feel your pain. My irony meter pegged out at lunch today. While I was waiting for a couple slices of pizza at my favorite campus pizza place, I overheard a conversation between two guys who were in a Spanish class together. They’d both gotten their first midterms back recently. One had barely passed, and the other had flunked. The one who flunked was rather adamant in his claim that the test was unfair. “How was I supposed to understand _anything_ on that exam?!” he fumed. “It was all in Spanish!” The guy who barely passed nodded sympathetically. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/5 "2005-10-20T20:17:18Z")
**davmilsav** are you sure she wasn’t whooshing you? 'Cause saying that would be the first thing that came to my mind if I saw one of those shirts. ---
**Author:** ![Nilor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Nilor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nilor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/6 "2005-10-21T02:09:46Z")
I have a shirt that says “You could be dead” on the front…nothing on the back ---
**Author:** ![Nilor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Nilor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nilor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/7 "2005-10-21T02:11:26Z")
and it seems I forgot the rest of my post! People often asked to see the other side…and were rather confused when it didn’t say anything ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/8 "2005-10-21T02:20:43Z")
Hey, I have a shirt that says “How about a nice hot cup of…” People try reading the back of the shirt, then give up and ask me what it means. :eek: What, is the expression not that common?! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony-thy-taste-is-sweet/327097/9 "2005-10-21T02:25:54Z")
> [@davmilasav](#): > > Yesterday I’m wearing a shirt that says, “You know what your problem is? You’re stupid.” A lady at the laundromat comes up to me, reads the shirt and says, “Well that doesn’t make any sense.” In that vein: In high school, I was friends with this girl called Sarah. Sarah was very often a stereotypical blonde(although she was quite smart, especially at math and science). One day, one of my friends was telling blonde jokes in class. Sarah pipes up: > [@](#): > > I don’t like blonde jokes; I don’t get them. We just about killed ourselves laughing.