Irony Irony
Yes, you read that right. "Irony irony" is a real category on this site - examples of irony about irony itself. If you've ever wondered whether a site about irony could be ironic, or whether the very concept of irony is somehow ironic, you're in the right place. We have 1,758 examples and we're honestly not sure what that says about us, or the English language, or the universe. Probably all three.
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Is it ironic that I called a credit card company to ask them to please stop sending me solicitations through the mail.
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Is it ironic that A whole town of people are ignorant of the meaning of the word \'ignorant\'.
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Is it ironic that Fiona Shaw played a witch hating Muggle for 10 years in the Harry Potter film series, but she is now playing a witch in the HBO series True Blood!
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Is it ironic that A man goes to jail for stealing clothing from a mall.
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Is it ironic that Someone talks about reconnecting with their friend whose name is "Dee" and how they always seem to connect irregardless of how much time had passed from the time they had seen one another...
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Is it ironic that An anorexic finds herself trapped in an "all you can eat buffet".
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Is it ironic that Mark Twain said, "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco".
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Is it ironic that Two little people can procreate a child who grows up to be normal height.
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Is it ironic that A person boasts (in writing) how intelligent they are, and they spell it "intellegent"?
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Is it ironic that A hospital ad is featured in a ice-skating rink?
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Is it ironic that I can't fall asleep for fear of not waking up on time, but the longer I stay awake the more likely it is that I will oversleep?
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Is it ironic that As a nurse you are so busy documenting that you don't have time to complete the tasks you are required to document.
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Is it ironic that Hating something, but knowing too much about...
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Is it ironic that US officials didn't think Vietnam was capable of governing itself in 1945 even though it had been a self governing state 900 years before the US constitution was written?
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Is it ironic that A free ride when you've already paid.
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Is it ironic that A girl wears pants that have the word pink written on them, but the pants and lettering are gray?
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Is it ironic that Relationship therapists Barbara DeAngelis and John Gray (Men are from Mars...)...
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Is it ironic that On this site, which is about literacy and irony and the like, you spelled "ironic" wrong? (you spelled it like this; "ironiq").
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Is it ironic that People who love to watch horror movies and say their not scared, are gullible and easily scared?
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Is it ironic that Sigmond Freud had controversial ideas about latent sexuality becasue of his own latent sexuality was controversial.
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Is it ironic that A villain plans to destroy the world with chemicals the hero comes to stop him and the villain explains his plan the hero says "the world is doing a good enough job already" STOP POLLUTION.
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Is it ironic that The transport manager couldn't drive.
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Is it ironic that Stating the obvious is somehow equated to pointing out the ridiculous.
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Is it ironic that A rough looking biker dressed in leather, sporting multiple viper and skull tattoos walks out of a diner and gets in a light pink colored Toyota Tercel?
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Is it ironic that Jane is always late for work so one morning she decides to rush to work twice the speed of sound.