http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/arts/09NOTE.html

The Grey Lady has spoken. Also, somewhere in there it says how dumb Skies of Arcadia is.

I like the Skies of Arcadia soundtrack. So there.

Liar.

The other day I saw a story on some website, I can't even remember what it was about or where it was posted, but I remember thinking to myself, "hey! Irony isn't dead after all!" You see it was something quite ironic. I was even going to post a link here, but then my computer crashed and I forgot about it... Hmm. It really hurts my story that I can't remember the ironic thing...

There's a point to that, but I'm just not smart enough to figure out what it is.

Maybe it was the same article that I read, although I came away with the message that irony was, in fact, quite dead. Of course, now I can't remember the URL either.

- Alan

Bah, I said irony was dead before anyone!

From an e-mail to a friend dated 9/12:

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Irony is dead. The mental attitude of America feels like it has shifted
back 60 years. Suddenly "Simpsons" episodes seem offstep with the
zeitgeist. Everything people are expressing, from anger to prayer to sorrow
to concern, is in deadly earnest. The quotation marks have come off. We
shall not see them put on again in our lifetime.

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So do I get a prize or something?

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Quote:

So do I get a prize or something?

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.....and if irony isn't dead. Which it isn't.

http://www.theonion.com/onion3736/freedoms_curtailed.html

One sentence in that link is real. Guess which one?

Bah, irony is diminished but is already coming back. Think of it. The Editor in Chief at Vanity Faire wrote a diatribe column proclaiming the Death of Irony in America.

Vanity Faire.

Seems to me that itself launched the phoenix-like rebirth of irony.

-Andrew

"Vanity Faire."

Is this supposed to be an ironic spelling or something?

The thing about saying irony is dead is it's a self-defeating statement. Saying 'irony is dead' is an ironic thing to say. It's like one of those time paradox things you see in Star Trek or crappy Jim Cameron movies, only with declarative statements instead of timelines.

Brad Grenz

Ah. Kind of like the habitual liar saying "I am telling a lie right now." If he's lying, then he must be telling the truth... but he can't be telling the truth because he's a habitual liar... but if he's lying, then he's telling the truth... but he... *smoke starts coming out ears*

Kind of spoils the effect if you have to actually go explain it to people. *heh*

- Alan

What would be ironic is if the guy who said "Irony is dead" suddenly died.

Yes. Irony squared. (I would have done the little 2 but no html = me sad)