IRONY:
- Main Entry: iro·ny
Function: noun
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
synonym see WIT
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May 17, 2007
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I'd Duck and Cover!
Posted by: sjfngnv | May 18, 2007 at 05:22 PM
loook at that little dude go!
Posted by: mlle_x | May 29, 2007 at 08:50 PM