# Real Life Definition of Irony **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626 "2008-06-29T03:53:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/61 "2008-06-30T18:28:33Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I think it was the roller coaster that passed. He stayed behind. [/QUOTE] Well, **most** of him did. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/62 "2008-06-30T18:51:52Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] Do you think their relationship got off on the wrong foot when he lost his head? [/QUOTE] Actually, sounds like she was using him. He gives her head; she kicks him to the curb. BTW supposedly the Beatles’ song “Please Please Me” was about how they’d go down on the girl but she wouldn’t reciprocate. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/63 "2008-06-30T18:54:12Z")
“I I I I I I’m not your steppin’ stone” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/64 "2008-06-30T19:13:48Z")
“I… ain’t got no body” ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/65 "2008-06-30T19:36:24Z")
“Going out of my head… over you” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/66 "2008-06-30T19:39:26Z")
“…and don’t be alarmed if I fall head over feet…” ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/67 "2008-07-01T04:07:51Z")
neck and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. neck and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. eyes and ears and mouth and nose… neck and shoulders knees and toes ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/68 "2008-07-01T04:17:30Z")
_How lucky can one guy be ? I kissed her and she kissed me Like the fella’ once said Ain’t that a kick in the head ?_ ~Dean Martin _I get no kick from champagne. More alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true That I get a kick out of you?_ ~Frank Sinatra Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find And all your kicks ain’t bringin’ you peace of mind Before you find out it’s too late, girl You better get straight, ~Paul Revere and the Raiders ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/69 "2008-07-01T04:51:10Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] He should have called tails. [/QUOTE] But then he would have lost his ass. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/70 "2008-07-01T06:01:50Z")
If it weren’t for the event that got him nominated, he’d be head and shoulders above his competition at the Darwin Awards. Plus, was this what Weird Al had in mind when he wrote [this song](http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Weird-Al-Yankovic/Constipated.html)? ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626/71 "2008-07-01T12:05:46Z")
[QUOTE=DiggitCamara] Um… Next time? When you bother to tell someone they quoted a book incorrectly? Open the book. Look for the passage. [/QUOTE] Speed-reading ‘classics’ should be against the law. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-definition-of-irony/454626.md?page=3)