The prevailing notion is that the Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” is not ironic at all, but instead simply full of bummers, is a pedantic and sad case of unimaginative people wielding sexist bias to ...

The list of “ironic” situations Morissette puts together in this song is more plainly unfortunate than truly ironic. Many naysayers have pointed out this fact, over the years, using this song as a ...

It's 20 years since singer Alanis Morrisette got the world wondering what is - and isn’t – ironic. Critics of her iconic hit insisted that “rain on your wedding day”, “a black fly in your Chardonnay” ...

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JON WINOKUR is the author of 20 reference books and anthologies, including, most recently, "The Big Book of Irony." WHEN it was revealed in 2003 that William J. Bennett, author of “The Book of Virtues ...

From today's Avengers World #1, Bruce Banner and Steve Rogers having a chat. Bruce Banner, one of the most intelligent people in the Marvel universe, has no idea what irony means. Her loving trifles ...

A website has launched a funny take on the true meaning of the word, which clearly confused the singer Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We have ...