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  1. Is it ironic that My son, who eats everything in sight, refuses to eat at the restaurant bemoaning the food choices, while my daughter,who is a very picky eater, enjoys two meals and desserts?

    50% ironic 1 votes Food Vote →
  2. Is it ironic that "Ladies Who Lunch", a song from the musical Company by Sondheim, about the meaninglessness of life for some women is set to a bossa nova.

    60% ironic 4 votes Music Vote →
  3. Is it ironic that My most overused word is 'overuse'?

    53% ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  4. Is it ironic that Chris Kyle did four tours of duty in Iraq and was killed back home in Texas.

    72% ironic 6 votes Death Vote →
  5. Is it ironic that I bought an iphone and lost it ten seconds later.

    77% not ironic 7 votes Technology Vote →
  6. Is it ironic that Freedom of the press is bringing Democracy down.

    50% ironic 1 votes News Vote →
  7. Is it ironic that I wanna go to the place where I am nothing and everything.

    63% not ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  8. Is it ironic that The song Ironic has NOTHING ironic in it.

    89% ironic 10 votes Music Vote →
  9. Is it ironic that Someone trying to fit in is,"in step, in style, insane,".

    80% ironic 1 votes Irony Vote →
  10. Is it ironic that We didn't lose power when the storm knocked out electricity everywhere.

    88% ironic 4 votes Food Vote →
  11. Is it ironic that 'He near laughed at the irony of giving a boy advice on living and girls while he himself still hadn't experienced the pleasures of a relationship with one.

    55% not ironic 4 votes Literary Vote →
  12. Is it ironic that Dr Suess Did not like children.

    88% ironic 6 votes Literary Vote →
  13. Is it ironic that Trumps administration hyerbolally hyping terrorist attacks, and the actively defends the authoritarian leader of Russia.

    67% not ironic 3 votes Literary Vote →
  14. Is it ironic that I wrote a poem about a metaphorical life storm and then a real storm hits.

    59% not ironic 9 votes Literary Vote →
  15. Is it ironic that The dictionary entry for "short" is really, really long?

    78% ironic 9 votes Literary Vote →
  16. Is it ironic that I listen to Simple words in Extension 2 English class.

    57% not ironic 3 votes School Vote →
  17. Is it ironic that A man unknowingly arrives in heaven, and the first words out of his mouth are "What the hell is this place?".

    87% ironic 13 votes Death Vote →
  18. Is it ironic that People in a book are trying to destroy a prison and after being caught they're put there themselves?

    87% ironic 6 votes Literary Vote →
  19. Is it ironic that Someone died trying to save the person who, though he didn't know, he was trying to kill.

    63% not ironic 4 votes Death Vote →
  20. Is it ironic that That you don't know what you got till its gone!

    70% not ironic 3 votes Love Vote →
  21. Is it ironic that A dead body's smell so bad it's alive.

    75% not ironic 2 votes Death Vote →
  22. Is it ironic that Guns won't be allowed at Trump's NRA speech?

    63% ironic 4 votes News Vote →
  23. Is it ironic that Someone died on their birthday.

    70% not ironic 5 votes Death Vote →
  24. Is it ironic that A man takes a detour to avoid a large pothole but accidentally drives into a ravine.

    83% ironic 6 votes Death Vote →
  25. Is it ironic that Hercules killed a lion and died from a tunic?

    50% ironic 1 votes Literary Vote →