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Hugh_Lebowski

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1. While I appreciate the tweet, I'm not quite sure it's funny

Reply to MissMillie (Original post)

Mon Jun 27, 2022, 05:11 PM

Jun 2022

It's actually textbook 'irony'.

Not the Alanis version of the word (I presume the proper word, paradoxical, wouldn't fit in the allotted musical space), the real definition.

Not that irony can't be funny, but I couldn't quite laugh cause of how serious the subject is.

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Funny John Fugelsang tweet [View all] MissMillie Jun 2022 OP

While I appreciate the tweet, I'm not quite sure it's funny Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #1

Rudy drowned a fly in his chardonnay. rubbersole Jun 2022 #2

"Irony" is basically "deadpan sarcasm" Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #3