OT: Sarcasm and irony

Theerasak Photha hanumizzle at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 03:37:24 EDT 2006


On 10/11/06, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> mensanator at aol.com wrote:
> [...]
> > Any? Don't people plan June weddings thinking the weather
> > will be nice? And isn't one of the defintions of irony when
> > things turn out the opposite of what you expect?
> >
> But rain at a June wedding isn't truly ironic since it isn't the result
> of the planners' actions.
>
> It would be ironic if I chose to get married in June and then all the
> people I invited instead chose to attend a conference because I wasn't
> going to be there.

Better yet: plan an elaborate wedding and fly to Europe (or America if
in Europe) when the wedding is set to take place.

Whee!!

-- Theerasak



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