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476 if you've put in two weeks notice to quit your job, the person who is supposed to take your place actually ends up quitting before you?...
477 Commercial for Migraines side effects may include: Pain areas: in the face or neck Pain types: can be dull Headache: can be acute, frequent, severe, or throbbing Whole body: dizziness, lightheadedness, or malaise Sensory: sensitivity to light, aura, or sensitivity to sound Gastrointestinal: nausea or vomiting Visual: distorted vision or seeing flashes of light Also common: irritability, nasal congestion, or scalp tenderness (For those who do not know these are the things Migraines cause)...
478 People always "wait" to lose weight?
479 white Americans are telling African Americans to go back where they came from....
480 The Irony...slavery was abolished in 1865, and they are now slaves to an ideology that is enslaving them....
481 Isn't it ironic after spending most of my life taking people I loved to their doctors & now I need help and there is no one that can take me?...
482 a fireman's house caught on fire
483 Isn't it ironic that dictionaries do not agree on the definition of irony?...
484 The dictionary definition of irony, which has the express purpose of clarifying the meaning of the term, only manages to further confuse the reader; thereby itself standing as an example of irony....
485 just when your friend says that it just isn't the time for me to marry, I'm about to tell her I'm going to get engaged?...
486 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?...
487 If a child is beaten up ruthlessly by his parents, whose parents were themselves beaten up in their childhood by their parents?...
488 Is it ironice that Hillary Clinton wants stricter gun laws to save the toddlers but is ok with late term abortion?...
489 Carlos Vives, co-singer of the latin pop song "La Bicicleta" with Shakira, had his actual bike stolen a month after debuting the music video (in which they are both riding bikes around their hometown)?...
490 if your punished for something by having to sit on a tack, I think you get the point....
491 There is braille on the buttons of a drive thorugh ATM
492 One manager who you love and have lots of banter with, and whose a friend outside of work anyway says something cheeky, to which you laugh. The other manager, who you feel uncomfortable even being in the same room as, catches you later and says that if "anyone was making you feel uncomfortable, all you need do is say, no matter who they are."...
493 I lost a book at home, I lost some else book her home
494 My second-grade son only missed one question on his spelling test: he wrote "mitake" instead of "mistake"?...
495 Assuming there is no lightning, people at a beach to get wet running for cover when it starts to rain....
496 a person tripped over the plastic sign in the break room that warned the person about tripping because the floor was wet?...
497 I post a general insulting/disparaging comment about contestants on The Bachelor (Australia, lots of fakery, and awful hair). And I am trolled by a poster, accusing me of being nasty, by being nasty and insulting me personally. The Bachelor contestants will never see the general comments, and they would be too vain to think i was talking about them anyway. So, troll, passive aggressive poster, being nasty is calling me out for being blunt nasty, by being personal nasty, ironic??? - ironic...
498 when teaching a lesson on irony (to support a unit on Greek myths) the teacher intended to hold a discussion on what was ironic in the story the class had read, but failed to do so during class....
499 a person might characterize liberals by saying...."Liberals are name callers" ?...
500 Environmental group should try to make the environment better, and save the Earth. The way to spread their thought is campaigning. So, it would be ironic if they give a cup of coffee to the people on the street, with the disposable cup, and the words "Let's use recyclable items for the Earth!" written....