Strike While the Irony Is Hot
I think I remember being told by someone recently that we live in "The Age of Irony"---possibly it was the ambulance driver who ran me over, or the doctor at Planned Parenthood who knocked up my girlfriend---and if the news media is any indication, it's true:
'Saw' Star's Son Has Ironic Halloween Costume'Saw IV' villain Tobin Bell's creepy movie puppet sidekick Billy is such a hit in his household, the actor's young son will hit the streets at Halloween dressed like him.
Now, the son of the star of Saw dressing up as a character from Saw is about as ironic as the son of a fireman dressing up as a fireman, or the son of Dick Cheney dressing up as an asshole, or the son of Tom Cruise dressing up as a batshit-crazy gay dude. Which is to say, not ironic at all.
Now, with a little knowledge of what the word "ironic" means, it's not that difficult to come up with plenty of costumes that fit the definition more accurately. For example:
- Marion Jones' son dressing up as a urine sample
- Sen. Larry Craig's son dressing up as a men's room
- A nappy-headed ho dressing up as Don Imus
- Woody Allen's daughter dressing up as his wife, and vice-versa
- Britney Spears' kids dressing up as underwear
- That Halo 3 guy's son dressing up as Mario
- Nouri al-Maliki's son dressing up as Muqtada al-Sadr (Mom will never let him hear the end of that one!)
- Michael Vick's son dressing up as a pit bull and then biting Michael Vick's balls off
- George W. Bush dressing up as a pilot and announcing "Mission Accomplished," despite the mission clearly not being accomplished (oh, you master of irony, you!), and
- A guy who writes for Cracked dressing up as Sylvester P. Smythe, and then getting his ass kicked by a guy dressed as Alfred E. Neuman
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I think I see an arthouse film in there somewhere.
ReplyA cheese factory owner from switzerland vacations in wisconsin. He goes to a diner and orders a grilled cheese only to find that they're out of cheese. Also he was dead the whole time and his leprechaun was gay.
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ReplyIronic: A comment feature meant to encourage interaction between creators and an audience used exclusively by the creators.
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ReplyMarlowe said:
Reply"A “Saw” movie that was any different from the others and/or didn’t suck!"
Except that would just be surprising, not ironic. It would be ironic if the new Saw movie was found to cure saw-wounds.
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ReplyHey, if someone wanted to write a post about how people always use irony incorrectly, would it be ironic if the author of the post used irony incorrectly all throughout the post? Would that irony be nullified if it was discovered that the author used it incorrectly intentionally? Would that mean it ISN'T ironic anymore? Is it possible that there is NO SUCH THING as irony?
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A "Saw" movie that was any different from the others and/or didn't suck!
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