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« on: June 20, 2006, 07:26:27 pm »
Since when is Pettitte the Astros official Hallmark Holiday starter - started both Mother's Day and Father's Day?
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2006, 08:10:50 pm »
how is that ironic?
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2006, 10:42:47 pm »
Pettitte starting on Mother's Day and Father's Day is a coincedence or happenstance. It might have been ironic as well, if, say he was an orphan who had no parents. Or pehaps, his wife had given birth to a child on one of those days. It would be ironical if she gave birth on both days... and freaky.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2006, 11:31:37 pm »
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how is that ironic?


 
This is the "Alanis Morrisette Syndrome".  There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2006, 12:08:46 am »
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This is the "Alanis Morrisette Syndrome".  There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



Or music, if Alanis Morrisette is the yardstick.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2006, 12:19:57 am »
Or timeliness, since Father's Day was 2 days ago and Alanis was 10 years ago.
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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2006, 02:12:58 pm »
yeah yeah yeah, poor choice of words, just a momentary lapse of vocabulary. I know the difference and am in no way shape or form a member of the Alanis generation.
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2006, 02:17:05 pm »
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yeah yeah yeah, poor choice of words, just a momentary lapse of vocabulary. I know the difference and am in no way shape or form a member of the Alanis generation.



Don't worry, join the crowd of TZers who misuse words.  I apparently do not know what *satire* means, or so I've been told.

Come to think of it, if you're being lumped in with the likes of me... then you should worry.  
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Re: COINCIDENCE
« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2006, 05:46:12 pm »
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yeah yeah yeah, poor choice of words, just a momentary lapse of vocabulary. I know the difference and am in no way shape or form a member of the Alanis generation.


I wasn't trying to be an ass or anything.  I thought maybe he was an orphan or something.
The misuse of ironic and irony is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I do come from the Alanis generation (if there really is such a thing.)  The word is misused all the time by people of all ages.

edit:  because I used a word inappropriately
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2006, 06:15:45 pm »
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This is the "Alanis Morrisette Syndrome".  There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



As in, it was ironic for Alanis Morrisette to record a song about irony, since she apparently has no idea what it means.
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« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2006, 12:32:39 pm »
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As in, it was ironic for Alanis Morrisette to record a song about irony, since she apparently has no idea what it means.


Rumour has it that she actually wanted to more correctly title the song "Shit Happens".  Unfortunately: (a) that wouldn't get past the censors; and (b) Houston's Channel 2 News team had copywrited that phrase.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2006, 10:58:08 am »
That's not irony, it's pathos.
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« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2006, 12:15:39 pm »
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how is that ironic?


 
This is the "Alanis Morrisette Syndrome".  There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



A low inside fastball, on a chilly day in early March (pre-district tournament, maybe).  You swing at it anyway, and hit it right off the handle (wooden bat), making your hands feel like a thousand tiny bee stings.

Yep, that low inside heater on a cold day feels... iron-y.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2006, 02:18:45 am »
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how is that ironic?


 
This is the "Alanis Morrisette Syndrome".  There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



Ironic is Lidge entering to some lyric about bringing the pain and then receiving the pain of allowing the go-ahead run with a pitch that bounces 10 feet in front of the plate.

I'm a huge Lidge believer. Just pointing out a more accurate usage of irony in the pitching context.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2006, 03:21:56 am »
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how is that ironic?


 
There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



to be fair to Alanis Morissette, many of them learned it from  confused sportswriters and on-air personalities who think irony and coincidence are the same thing.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2006, 02:48:21 pm »
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how is that ironic?


 
There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



to be fair to Alanis Morissette, many of them learned it from  confused sportswriters and on-air personalities who think irony and coincidence are the same thing.



If people take lexigraphical information from any sort of sportswriter and on-air personalities then they get what they deserve.
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Re: Ironic
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2006, 07:37:13 pm »
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how is that ironic?


 
There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



to be fair to Alanis Morissette, many of them learned it from  confused sportswriters and on-air personalities who think irony and coincidence are the same thing.



If people take lexigraphical information from any sort of sportswriter and on-air personalities then they get what they deserve.



It's lexicographical... the irony.
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« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2006, 09:37:41 pm »
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how is that ironic?


 
There is a whole generation of people who don't know what irony is.



to be fair to Alanis Morissette, many of them learned it from  confused sportswriters and on-air personalities who think irony and coincidence are the same thing.



If people take lexigraphical information from any sort of sportswriter and on-air personalities then they get what they deserve.



It's lexicographical... the irony.



Just trying to maintain the spirit of the thread.
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