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551 During the Salem witch-trials a pastor was tried and hung for witchcraft...

552 I was skateboarding on Niagra st. And fell multiple times. It's funny yes but Ironic? I think no...

553 Is it ironic that... the tenor group il divo sang amazing grace at the roman coleseum when years ago it was built to throw christians to the lions...

554 That someone posted a picture of a book entitled "things fall apart" and the cover was torn and falling off??...

555 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. But it served its purpose; it kept his master from coming out to see how the work was getting along. I listened to the sermons from the open window of a lumber room at the back of the house. One of his texts was this:...

556 Is it ironic that my friend is giving me the silent treatment and I just got a fortune cookie fortune that sais "There are times when silence has the loudest voice"?...

557 Is it ironic that a disproportional number of educated people use the word ironic incorrectly?...

558 a lifeguard drowned

559 in a public arena where everyone understands person A to be unintelligent, person A accuses person B of being unintelligent, when the general consensus is that person B is passably intelligent?...

560 my ironing board is really wrinkly.

561 some people misuse the word ironic?

562 I wasn't thinking about my brother at all but then he walked right in the door....

563 I asked my friend what she would do if her dog threw up on the carpet, and later that night, her dog actually did throw up on the carpet!...

564 I know a young boy who's birthday I didn't know was coming up and I was in the store looking at items and a tattoo book triggered to me that I should get this for the young boy. Next thing I know his mom puts up a status on a social network. My son said he wants a tattoo....

565 A psychic fair gets cancelled due to "Unforeseen circumstances"?...

566 Is it ironic that I intended to send my daughter a birthday text message at the exact time of her birth, but I was late sending it because I was talking to her on the phone?...

567 I tell my boyfriend I love being close to him and then a song saying "i feel so close to you right now" plays on the radio?...

568 There is a game-thread in a forum, that has a poll in which you can choose who your favourite forum poster is, but none of the options are people who regularly play the forum games?...

569 Is it ironic that someone would give others really good advice, but never follow it themselves?...

570 I looked for a treasure but ended up finding the treasure at home, where I first started?...

571 there is a sign which reads "the procrastinator's meeting has been postponed"...? http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-is-irony-with-examples/...

572 Is it ironic that my older brother saw the band, Soft Machine play live in 1968 but didn't really care, while I was a fan of the group but never got to see them play live? My brother says this is ironic, while I say it was just a coincidence. He claims it is an ironic coincidence....

573 A hetero-romantic asexual reblogs a post on Tumblr about sex and says "WHAT NOW WORLD???!!!"...

574 I threw a bottle of No tears baby shampoo at my sister and it made her cry?...

575 You spend your life picking people up on their spelling, grammar, pronounciation etc. and criticising them for not proof reading their work fully while generally deriding their poor education. Only to post a comment on Facebook spectacularly misspelling your own daughter's name! Is it ironic?...