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Is It Ironic That...?

151 The author of the departmental newsletter writing about the news that she quit the newsletter team in a drunken rage....

152 In this story, a grandmother warns her son that there is an escaped criminal in the area that her son's family is vacationing in. The son does not care and he does not believe that he will run into the criminal. Later in the story, the son's car breaks down and they run into the escaped criminal. They are all shot and killed....

153 Reading the novel "the stand" while sitting.

154 Jane Austin hardly ever used punctuation in her prose, and didn't group sentences into paragraphs on the manuscripts she sent to her publisher? http://tinyurl.com/kt2bmaz...

155 People type to other people "your a idiot"

156 I am rereading the book "Driven to Distraction." I wanted to reread the other book "Delivered from Distraction", but I got too distracted and misplaced it somewhere in the house....

157 the word irony is so misused?

158 "Isn't it ironic,Jack, that the very thing that makes you feel alive Is the thing that may end up killing you."...

159 Is it ironic that the quality assurance form for a medical record was misprinted in a way that cut through the words "quality assurance"?...

160 The service had already begun and Jack adjusted his jacket and tie, as he made his way up a short flight of steps and along the narrow concrete pathway next to the side of the red brick church. As he made his way through the large timber doors and into the rear of the predominantly empty space, he quietly took a seat in one of the timber pews. It immediately struck him as strange, that such a small group was gathered in a way that seemed almost incongruous with the space. The high vaulted ceilings of the Romanesque church towered over the scene and it seemed somehow manufactured. The thought in itself was ironic, considering he was not entirely sure why he was here in the first place, other than a last ditch effort to try and make sense in his own mind, that maybe there really was nothing more to this than a Kimball's death than his number being up. Had Schaeffer made the right call?...

161 there was a sign in the library with bad grammar and spelling mistakes?...

162 After studying the book 'of mice and men' I want to shoot myself in the back of my head?...

163 Is it ironic that my buddy took over 12 hours to respond to my email and in his response he complained that I take too long to respond to, or check, emails?...

164 Jesus was betrayed with a kiss?

165 the designers of a website that is dedicated to helping people develop their English writing skills (as well a their understanding of irony) have forgotten to capitalize the word "English" in one of the boxes at the top of their homepage? Hey, typos happen =)...

166 A young boy tells his mother is a very loud voice that he can say the word whisper....

167 My young son tells me in a very loud voice that he's learnt how to say the word whisper...

168 From Saving Private Ryan- the General had a metal plate welded to the glider to protect him causing the glider to crash from the added weight killing him....

169 When using more difficult words to explain or clarify the meanings of other words...

170 All I want to do is eat my sandwich, but my one year old keeps shoving "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" in my face and demanding I read it, repeatedly....

171 Is it ironic for someone to say: "I wish I could be everywhere....... then I would be truly 'omnipotent'; unfortunately I can only be in one place at a time..... like the Devil!"...

172 Is it ironic that we do the opposite of what we think? Is a situation ironic wherein our actions are the opposite of our thoughts or our values?...

173 necromantic books are heavenly?

174 ... the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because their families are at war is the reason that the Montagues and Capulets reconcile at the end of the play?...

175 The word misspelled is often misspelled?