Dragaera

Speaking of irony...

Thu Aug 15 13:46:12 PDT 2002

On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 04:40 PM, Chris Olson - SunPS wrote:

>>     . . . Failure is a great business opportunity if you know what 
>> you're
>>     doing. There was a web site for quite some time, 
>> dotcomfailures.com,
>>     that existed to document the collapse of the dot-com economy.  Of
>>     course, as that collapse slowed down through attrition (nobody was
>>     left TO fail), dotcomfailures itself went away. (Note to Alanis
>>     Morrisette: THAT'S what "ironic" means.)
>
> Heh.  Yeah, the most ironic thing about her song
> is its severe lack of actual irony...  I'd hope that
> it was intended that way, but I doubt it... :)
>
> Chris
>

That would be dramatic irony, if it was intended that. Irony in a lack 
of irony! I love irony! ironic we are discussing irony, which makes this 
whole thing ironic in itself.