Examples of irony
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Tim Schrader, an Australian convicted in Thailand for heroin smuggling and sentenced to death, received a Royal pardon on medical grounds after contracting HIV as a result of sharing needles during his heroin use while in prison....
Category: Irony
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"A Nebraska teenager - dressed as a mobile breathalysing unit for a Halloween party - was pulled over on his way home and arrested for drink-driving." - The Daily Mail (UK)...
Category: Death
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...if you have a phobia of longs words you have to tell people that you have Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?...
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Picking up pocket kings playing online Texas Holdem only to lose to pocket aces. Then picking up the beautiful pocket aces yourself only to loose to pocket kings hitting that measly three of a kind on the river. That's (well known) poker irony......
Category: Sport
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there is a song about the phobia of music?
Category: Music
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Cat food smells the same on the way in, as it does on the way out?
Category: Animal
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a domestic violence prosecutor in the US has recently been charged with domestic violence
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Category: News
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bears are actually hairy?
Category: Animal
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a fish that drowns
Category: Animal
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the water vendor died of thirst
Category: Food
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