Zeigen

• Exhibit A: Cracked’s Irony Flowchart
• Exhibit B: The Oatmeal’s “Three Most Common Uses of Irony” comic
• Exhibit C: The Wikipedia Irony article and discussion thereof
• Exhibit D: This debate of a BP sign on FriendFeed

Whereas, there is widespread debate about the definition of irony;

Whereas, there are at least three entirely separate types of irony;

Whereas, much time has been wasted and will continue to be wasted debating what constitutes irony; and,

Whereas, the Alanis song is still awesome even if some of the examples aren’t really very ironic;

Therefore be it resolved, that the world begin using the neologism “ironee” to incorporate all types of irony PLUS all of the things that people call irony but purists reject. Furthermore, let one additional properly of ironee be that if someone calls something ironeek, it automatically becomes ironeek if anyone debates them on whether or not it’s an example of ironee.

Here, I have a useful illustration of ironee for you:

All in favor?

Passed unanimously. Proceed!

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