# Irony **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276 "2001-03-08T22:31:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276/21 "2001-03-17T00:40:27Z")
In one Sunday strip, Calvin imagined himself as a rampaging dinosaur terrorizing the elementary-school playground. “The children at the top of the slide are the first to go! How ironic that they had pushed and fought each other to be there!” ---
**Author:** ![aviddiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aviddiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aviddiva)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276/22 "2001-03-17T01:40:42Z")
**Gatsby** , maybe you’d share my irritation (I’ve got enough to go around) with the scene in _Roxanne_, in which Daryl Hannah’s character claims that by refusing Steve Martin’s character’s offer of a robe, she was “being ironic.” “I was being sarcastic” makes sense. “I was being ironic,” in this example, doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Gatsby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Gatsby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatsby)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276/23 "2001-03-17T04:48:32Z")
Well, she is being ironic in a different sense of the word than this thread has focused on. Sarcasm frequently depends on irony. I agree it sounds a bit self important, and that “I was being sarcastic” would have been more accurate, but it is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276/24 "2001-03-18T04:18:03Z")
Here’s a better example. Friend from Long Beach came to visit today. He and Mr. Rilch and Friend Who Will Move Next Door on Monday, and I, hung out for a while, then they went out to get provisions for St. Pat’s. After they left, I started changing into looser clothing in preparation for a night of drinking. FWWMNDOM came back two minutes after they’d left, having forgotten something…just in time to see me in a t-shirt and half-slip at the top of the stairs. Said I, “The irony is, I’m wearing the slip so that no one can see through the skirt. I didn’t count on anyone seeing me in just the slip.” Still, he’s seen nude sketches Mr. Rilch has made of me. (No, I won’t scan them.) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276/25 "2001-03-18T04:31:41Z")
How about unwittingly slaying your own father and marrying your own mother, just as was foretold by the oracle? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276/26 "2001-03-18T05:35:14Z")
You’ve done that, **MEBuckner**? _raises eyebrow_ ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276/27 "2001-03-18T05:53:18Z")
Well, not as far as I know… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irony/57276.md?page=1)