Re: Re: Isn't it ironic?
Originally posted by Tonio
Pop Up Video correctly pointed out that most of the "ironic" things in the song were just bummers.
It's one of the things that makes my eyelid
whenever I hear that song. It's a decent song, I suppose, but being a fan of Irony, it kills me that there is no irony mentioned in the song.
Like the 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife... that's not irony. Irony would be if you finally do find a knife: and it turns out you needed a spoon after all.
A no smoking sign on your cigarette break would be ironic... if it was covered with cigarette burn marks.
And then meeting the man of your dreams and meeting his beautiful wife: Not ironic. Irony would be if you met the man of your dreams - and it turns out that it's your ex-husband.
Or, perhaps the entire song is deliberately ironic, in that it contains no examples of irony.