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For those who appreciate irony

I just read this on someone's Facebook feed, and it's making me twitchy:
My son asked me earlier what ironic meant. I started to say, "It's like rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you already paid..." I settled for, "It's ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife." Thank you, Alanis! Never thought she'd be helpful with my kid's homework!
It's taking every ounce of restraint that I have not to post a comment pointing out that none of those examples is actually ironic.
And so I'm posting it here instead. 

Even worse is that one of the comments was:
That is so funny because I can remember last year So-and-So and I discussed this in the teachers' lounge. This was all we could come up with too!
I just sincerely hope that they're not literature teachers!
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Re: For those who appreciate irony

  • (PS - Even if you side with the "situational ironies" argument, I think you can still agree that it would be wiser to teach the primary definition first.)
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  • Showing my age…

    All I can think about is the movie, Reality Bites

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    I write sexy books. I read all the books. I love dresses & macarons.

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  • Thanks for that collegehumor link. I've actually done that activity with my students before! How can we take these situations and make them ACTUALLY ironic? It was fun.
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