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  1. Is it ironic that The more I try to get people to like me, the less friends I have?

    50% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that That a fence company's fence is broken.

    92% ironic 6 votes Coincidence Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that When you erase something you never completely comes off, but yet when you erase somthing gentle, your mark disappers completely?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that A polie station is robbed by a cop.

    76% ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that Foreign workers cleaning up mess made by the foreign workers because of rioting?

    73% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that A place that was closed down due to fighting now teaches people to fight?

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that When a public trash receptacle is labeled "Litter" (since, by definition, everything in there is isn't)?

    68% ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that The Irony...slavery...

    50% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Nothing in the song 'Ironic' is ironic.

    70% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that Someone called me stupid, but misspelt it 'stuped'.

    62% ironic 15 votes Coincidence Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that TSA doesn't allow you to carry large liquids in your carry-on because they fear that it could be a bomb, but when I put it in my check-in luggage it actually explodes (due to the pressure/cold of the luggage compartment of the airplane).

    68% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that My boss walked up in line at the checkout, as I was buying a business suit for an interview for another job.

    78% not ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that I misspelled genious?

    60% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that "Is it ironic that teling someone you're satisfied yet spelling 'satisfied' wrong?"

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Look up the word irony in a dictionary.

    53% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that Hayden Panettiere got a regrettably misspelled tattoo in Italian "Vivere senza rimipianti" (should be "rimpianti") which translates "to live without regrets.

    50% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that Tropical Storm Isaac will make landfall on the same day as Hurricane Katrina?

    63% not ironic 6 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that The sign indicating the Fema trailer is a Police substation was stolen?

    93% ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Two men try to con each other in order to win a girl but use a slave to do the dirty work and later on the girl falls in love with the men?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that Just as I was about the enter the Cochran Hill tunnel on I64-W, the radio DJ was getting ready to explain why AM radio signals cut out in a tunnel? Needless to say, I didn't hear the explanattion.

    78% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that A Christmas tree fell over, spilling water everywhere.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Horror icon tobin bell played john black father on days of our lives in jigsaw like fashion.

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that Is it dramatic irony when an English instructor who teaches the beauty, meaning and form of great literature, and who skillfully guides her students in the art and craft of writing compelling stories using conflict and conflict resolution, will not, in her personal life, allow her closest friends and family members to speak of anything that might cause disagreement and conflict in their relationships with her?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that After living in a cold attic for two years and after many friends saying "why don't you get a electric heater up there", which I never got round to doing, on the day I move out I found under all the junk in the corner of the attic an electric heater which has been sitting there all along.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that Redd Foxx died from a heart attack?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →