--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote: > > Read each statement. Answer True (T), False (F), or Can't Answer (CA) > > 1. I always get where David Letterman is coming from in his monologues. > > 2. The best tweets in the world are usually ironic. > > 3. I understand appreciation for irony to be somewhat involuntary and almost > automatic. It can ambush one's pet beliefs and ideas. Ruthlessly. > > 4. I know the difference between using irony as a weapon and using irony to > be playful. > > 5. Sometimes irony is the only means of being efficacious in a response to > someone; to be non-ironic is to invite ridicule, to be a sitting duck. > > 6. I believe I am 99% correct in my reading of when irony is being deployed > on this website. There is a categorical difference psychologically between > irony and sincerity. > > 7. Sophistication in the postmodern world makes irony, or the appropriate > sensitivity to irony, indispensable, a sine qua non in order to flourish > socially. > > 8. All late night talk shows are based upon an understanding of and skillful > application of irony. > > 9. To claim to be in a higher state of consciousness--in this age--means you > should have an irony fluency in your presentation of yourself. Else you are > most certainly deceived. > > 10. Irony at one's own expense should elicit the same response as irony at > another's expense. > > 11. The absence of irony on FFL would make it a very dull place indeed. > > 12. There are no different points of view when it comes to irony: you either > get it or you don't. And the appreciation for irony objectifies one's > subjectivity in the moment of appreciating it. > > 13. If there is a God I am sure he is capable of impeccable irony. > > 14. If the irony is good, it will always justify itself in its execution. > > 15. The deployment of effective irony requires a certain sense of taste and > discrimination. > > 16. The 1950's lacked a sense of irony. > > 17. In its place, I love irony. > > 18. Death brings irony to an end. For oneself at least. > > 19. I have no complaints about the use of irony on this website. If it > doesn't make it, it wasn't irony anyway. If it makes it, that means it was > justified. > > 20. You can't understand young kids these days unless you have a well-honed > sense of irony. Irony is big there--we hardly knew what irony was when we > were ten years old. Now a ten year old has a sense of irony that we probably > only had at 21. > > Score: True = +1 False = -1 CA = 0 > > Score of 18-20 means your irony IQ is very good. Below 10 means maybe you > should work on your irony. ;-)
3rd quiz of the day, I must be close to gaining self-knowledge. Something wrong with this one though, I don't notice much irony on FL, probably because I'm English and grew up thinking it was supposed to be funny or clever. It must be an American version I don't get.
