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  1. Is it ironic that A true story is never quite so true as an invented one.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that How truth commission workers who listen to stories of traumatized victims be traumatized?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that Lagging because your are downloading a anti-lag software.

    83% ironic 6 votes Coincidence Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that Hollywood, a district known for both glitz, American movies, and greasy celebrities alike, is only about 12 minutes away from La Brea, known for the eponymous La Brea Tar Pits?

    67% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that The dude in the Chevy Silverado who changed lanes without signaling or checking his blind spot, cutting me and my motorcycle off, and nearly forcing me into the median, during my commute this morning...

    95% ironic 11 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that The most athletic person I know got atletico (athletic) to define in Spanish class.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that I bought a stock hoping to make a $2 profit per share, and it immediately fell $2 per share as soon as I bought it?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that You die from food that expires on your birthday and you eat it a month later.

    63% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Everyone has it wrong! Irony means to say or write one thing but mean another.

    62% not ironic 6 votes Coincidence Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that My husband works for an environmental company dealing with petitions against oil and gas drilling yet I work for an oil and gas company that looks for places to drill?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that Wouldn't it be ironic to die in the living room.

    78% ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that A vehicle crashes through the wall of a collision repair shop, right underneath the shop's sign?

    67% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that A good friend was pulled over by the police for making a "rolling" stop just as she was explaining to her two-year old that the stop sign meant that you had to come to a compete stop?

    64% not ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that For it to on a weather cast's picnic?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that Christian Horner @redbullracing wants to ban wind tunnels, ironic because Christian is turning out to be a wind bag!

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that A miserable person being named Sunshine.

    53% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that My second-grade son only missed one question on his spelling test: he wrote "mitake" instead of "mistake"?

    75% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that I was at the library working on a short story in which the narrator describes crashing his car into a parked car, and when I left the library I discovered that my own parked car had been crashed into?

    50% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that The one who told me I would never get my driver's license or a vehicle parks next to me?

    70% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that My couisn said "wtf is an acronym?"

    83% not ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that The joy of captivity led him to death.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that A jobseekers firm had to make cuts to their staff.

    80% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that A big dog is small?

    83% not ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that A girl makes a trifold project about Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, on a Microsoft Computer with a Microsoft Office program?

    85% not ironic 6 votes Coincidence Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that That Friday is my Birthday.

    84% not ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →