Re: Bachelor Wagons Re: Evil SUV's >was RE: Hybrid Car Info

[John D. Giorgis]

At 10:12 PM 3/13/01 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>What I don't understand is why rain on one's wedding day should be ironic.
>
>If it rains on your wedding day, all that means is that you'll have a wet
>honeymoon.

I actually read an article by some muckety-muck English professor who noted
that the vast majority of incidents in "Ironic" were actually not ironies
at all, but more properly "bummers."   

"Meeting the man of my dreams,
and meeting his beautiful wife"

qualifies as ironic, though.

JDG
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