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Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

Tumour = Tomber.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

The thing that gets creases out of your clothes.

I = The NEW Ultra Magnus

Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

*tries to hit Liam in face but freezes and starts burping compulsively*

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

I don't know what irony is, but I can tell you what it is not. Irony is not rain on your wedding day. It is not a black fly in your chardonnay. It is not being late for the bus when the train is already there.

I = The NEW PsyLiam!

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Irony:

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Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
Date: 1502
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
synonym see WIT

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Oh Sol, you are too literal...literaly.

Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :

Aah, Masters of Obviosity. I shall plan the next manouvre more...carefully.

[ June 16, 2001: Message edited by: Nimrod ]