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1126 My five year old daughter looked out of our hotel window and asked "Daddy, What is the University of Phonics?" Of course the sign read University of Phoenix....

1127 Is it ironic that while our self-proclaimed enemy N.Korea is testing a nuclear bomb our biggest focus is on disarming our own people?...

1128 It is ironic that most people dislike baseball for the same reasons that I like baseball: The inherent slowness of the game, the narrow odds of getting a home run--or even a hit-- when at bat; the lone aspect of the pitcher, and the lack of action and physical contact....

1129 I fell asleep as my teacher was talking about sleeping disorders?

1130 Idaho state senator State Sen. John Goedde introduced legislation that would require Idaho secondary students to read and pass an examination on Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, whose themes focus on the freedom to make one's own decisions and the pernicious efforts of government and social leaders to infringe on such freedom in the name of the public good?...

1131 Is it ironic that you hate something that you are?

1132 I love when people buy me gifts. But at the same time, I don't want them to spend their money on me....

1133 The fire station burned down

1134 It actually did rain on my wedding day, and I got married to Harry, a weather man, who set the date...

1135 a book with the title, "The Book Thief"

1136 two separate individuals, not married to each other, begin dating and discover that they shared the same wedding date as well as the same date of divorce?...

1137 the meeting of a Florida Crime Watch group to celebrate the low rate of crime in the neighborhood was interrupted by a package of cocaine dropping from the plane it was being smuggled on, and through the ceiling of the meeting space....

1138 we go to a room for something and forget what we were going to do and remember when we comes out...

1139 In a picture of 4 men the 3 straight men look gay and the gay guy doesnt?...

1140 I went on the bus and paid only to be told that buses are free today?

1141 I was leving a dental convention and on the walk home a homeless person asked for change, I went in my purse to give him and apple and he opened his mouth an had no teeth....

1142 I posted on Facebook, "Running away doesn't solve your problems. Our problems are not physical things, our problems are not people. Our problems are mental constructs. They are barriers that exist in our minds. You can run as far as you want, but your problems will not stay behind because they have no location. We deceive ourselves into thinking that our problems are products of our environment. The hard reality is that your environment is a product of you." and my two friends that are moving to Utah to "start over" liked the status?...

1143 elephants are used in the logging industry in Asia, thus destroying their own habitat?...

1144 One day while doing grammar, I asked my teacher a question and he answered with bad grammar!...

1145 Is it ironic that there's a hazmat team, fire trucks and police cars surrounding a hospital?...

1146 someone gay call something gay

1147 Is it ironic that a video rental store called "Family Video" has a back room of rentable pornography?...

1148 Here's my example and people can vote because I don't fully understand irony: is it ironic that my mother tells me that if I emphasized my personality and got over my fear of being judged on externals that my potential is 'limitless' in the same email that she berates me for not contacting plastic surgeons (whose links she is resending) about relative minor issues? If it's not ironic, what is that? Other than messed up, of course....

1149 a person yells at me and calls me names like "rude" and "unprofessional" and later calls me to do him a very big favor that will benefit him at work?...

1150 Is it ironic for a gay person to be racist?