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  1. Is it ironic that Moore County, Tennessee, where Jack Daniel's whiskey is made, is actually a dry county?

    83% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that An air-conditioner unit bursts into flames?

    60% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that I travelled several miles to a graphite mine in order to draw maps of the geological structures, reaching the bottom of a pit full of graphite ore before discovering that I had forgotten my pencil.

    73% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that You spend your life picking people up on their spelling, grammar, pronounciation etc.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that The Obama administration has repeatedly said that the investigation into the Benghazi incident is a politically-motivated side show.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that People use the phrase "happy campers"? Every camper I've seen looks cold and miserable.

    73% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that If your last name is bird and you make a bird noise.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that People think Irish people are racist when in fact people are racist towards a girl because she's irish?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that I'm in a Intro to Learning class and have not learned a thing?

    77% ironic 3 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that A persons username on a video game is 'yolo bro'?

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that Brad Pitt, a man with one of the world's most recognizable faces, may have prosopagnosia (the inability to recognize others' faces)?

    50% ironic 3 votes Coincidence Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Filing for bankruptcy costs hundreds and perhaps thousands of dollars? I mean, the mere fact that someone needs to file means that they have no money.

    78% ironic 5 votes Irony Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that Would it be ironic if the word etymology, over time came to mean something else?

    70% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that A textbook of 'value education' tells us that values can't be learnt from a textbook?

    91% ironic 7 votes Irony Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that A short person is scared of heights?

    68% not ironic 4 votes Coincidence Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that I lit a match while my girlfriend in another room happened to say the word boom?

    75% ironic 2 votes Coincidence Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that After a health and safety manager finishes his safety walk round the factory, he goes back to the office to document a satisfactory tour.

    80% ironic 5 votes Coincidence Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that He interrupted his preaching, now and then, to saw a stick of wood; but the sawing was a pretense -he did it with his mouth; exactly imitating the sound the bucksaw makes in shrieking its way through the wood.

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that I push trolleys at Morison's.

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that The Sultan of Brunei is screwing gay people, for screwing gay people?

    50% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that A guy named Christian was an atheist?

    75% ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that I submitted a situation to figure out if it was ironic or not, yet went on to vote on other's submissions of whether or not they were ironic.

    50% ironic 1 votes Coincidence Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that Just below the "No Dumping" sign is several old washing machines, bike parts, broke windows, boxes of mismatched shoes, trash bags.

    83% ironic 4 votes Irony Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that I slip on the salt that was meant to melt the ice on the ground?

    55% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that When asked about his strengths, a person says he has good memory, and later criticizes himself for having bad memory?

    70% not ironic 2 votes Irony Vote →