# The most ironic thing. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-ironic-thing-ever/277869 "2004-12-03T07:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-ironic-thing-ever/277869/21 "2004-12-03T19:39:23Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > And what’s wrong with that? It’s not like you can’t get the book or the uncensored rap CD someplace else. They are a business and they’ve made a decision on what they want to sell. It’s not censorship. Actually it is [censorship](http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=censorship). If you block or get rid of something you don’t like, you [censor](http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=censoring) it. In the strickest sense of the word. Is there anything wrong with Walmart blocking the sale of (censoring) items in their own stores? That is a question best left for GD. That’s my long winded way of saying that I don’t think **Cinnamon Girl** was passing judgement, just over-analyzing. 😃 BTW, I support the chip theory. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-ironic-thing-ever/277869/22 "2004-12-03T20:11:27Z")
_(TROTSKY staggers across the room, bleeding from several near-misses. His gardener RAMON approaches, brandishing a mountain-climber’s axe.)_ RAMON: Now you will witness the revolution first-hand! I will free you from your bourgeois corporeal form! TROTSKY: Not so fast, Ramon – you’ve backed me into a corner, but I still… _(TROTSKY fumbles in the silverware drawer)_ … have… _(fumbles some more)_ Damn. I’ve got, like, ten thousand spoons here. What are the odds? RAMON: Maybe you shouldn’t have invested the profits from your books in a spoon factory! After all, the proletariat control the means of production. TROTSKY: I’ll concede the point. But it’s still a damn silverware drawer. And all I need is a _knife_. RAMON: Damn. That’s pretty ironic, don’tcha think? \*(RAMON buries a mountain-climber’s axe in TROTSKY’s skull.) fin\* ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-ironic-thing-ever/277869/23 "2004-12-03T22:40:43Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > That’s my long winded way of saying that I don’t think **Cinnamon Girl** was passing judgement, just over-analyzing. 😃 :: sigh :: I’ve been accused of this more than once. I’ll concede that. And you’re right. I wasn’t passing judgment. If I want something Wal-Mart has chosen not to carry – for whatever reason, righteous or not – I’ll pick it up some place else. Their loss, not mine. **The Devil’s Grandmother** , [they do](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=657053&cat=21641&type=3&dept=3920&path=0%3A3920%3A18835%3A18838%3A21641) [do](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=195635&cat=21641&type=3&dept=3920&path=0%3A3920%3A18835%3A18838%3A21641) [sell](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1056223&cat=21641&type=3&dept=3920&path=0%3A3920%3A18835%3A18838%3A21641) [quite](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1249715&cat=21641&type=3&dept=3920&path=0%3A3920%3A18835%3A18838%3A21641)[a few](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2675130&cat=21641&type=3&dept=3920&path=0%3A3920%3A18835%3A18838%3A21641) [of these books](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2665632&cat=21641&type=3&dept=3920&path=0%3A3920%3A18835%3A18838%3A21641). The thought of buying [this book](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2665632&cat=21641&type=3&dept=3920&path=0%3A3920%3A18835%3A18838%3A21641) for no good reason did make me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-ironic-thing-ever/277869/24 "2004-12-03T23:17:11Z")
> [@Cinnamon Girl](#): > > Meh. I found [this](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=731329) more ironic (if ironic is even the right word for it). Perhaps [this](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=329533), [this](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=761406), or [this](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2659286) and my favorite: [this](http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1128434). Perhaps Wally World execs ought to start reading the books they put on the shelves, huh? umm… I think you’re a little unclear on the concept of “most \_\_\_\_\_\_ ever”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-ironic-thing-ever/277869.md?page=1)