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Is it ironic that The yellow pages listed a funeral home as frozen foods.
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Is it ironic that I would never consider buying a red car, but in almost all of my photographs in which a car is a significant part of the composition the car is red.
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Is it ironic that JFK was reading a James Bond novel the night before he was assassinated.
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Is it ironic that Huey Newton, who as a young founder of the Black Panther Party advocated that African Americans carry guns to protect themselves against police brutality and led an armed protest march against one of the first gun-control bills in California into the state capitol, died 20 years later when he was shot down on an Oakland street by a black man half his age?
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Is it ironic that Our school is making us miss a day of studying to learn about how to study.
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Is it ironic that To pretend you're not attracted to someone in front of your partner but act like you're not with your partner in front of the other girl.
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Is it ironic that A fat guy is talking about world hunger.
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Is it ironic that I jokingly commented on a person's poor English on Facebook and incorrectly spelled a word?
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Is it ironic that Someone posted on Facebook "Don't cry when I die or send me flowers, or fly a long way to be at my funeral, if you love me that much come and see me while I'm alive"" and didn't visit his own parents for many years, took a plane to his Dad's funeral?
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Is it ironic that My daughter, who is divorcing her husband, believes that divorce generally is a positive solution and will not negatively impact her young children, even though the issues over which she is divorcing her husband largely stem from that fact that his parents divorced when he was a young child?
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Is it ironic that A person serving his or herself milk but, leaving a centimeter of milk left.
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Is it ironic that A man wins a lottery and dies the next day.
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Is it ironic that Currency is worthless and relative.
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Is it ironic that Someone will write a poem about how homework takes forever, and then they realize they're done?
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Is it ironic that Someone said that she likes warm colors, but her favorite color is blue.
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Is it ironic that Your driving on a road and you see a stop sign but someone on the side of you is holding a sign that tells you to never stop at anytime.
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Is it ironic that A man obsesses over a woman he met at a party and searches for her, when he finally finds her she doesn't remember him at all.
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Is it ironic that Vanilla Ice died in a vanilla ice cream factory explosion.
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Is it ironic that If an Australian man works for a well-known American oil company, but his son, also Australian, who for some reason has a gripe with the United States government, and ends up dating who he thinks to be a South Korean woman - but said 'South Korean' turns out to have actually have been born in or otherwise technically from North Korea?
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Is it ironic that Group of crows is called murder.
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Is it ironic that I've been studying all about appendectomies and I just got appendicitis?
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Is it ironic that The puritan settlers of early American colonies left England to practice their religion freely, but also were very intolerant of other religions?
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Is it ironic that A man studying for his final firefighter's exam fell asleep, dropped a lit cigarette, and died in the subsequent fire.
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Is it ironic that Is someone ruses to do something say using theatrical devises, but end up doing it all the time?
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Is it ironic that In the show, Doctor Who, the Doctors' companion was told by everyone that she was nothing special, not good enough, but at one point in the show she was the most important person in the universe but the doctor had to wipe her memory so now she can't even remember that at one time in her life she was important?