{"id":3933,"date":"2011-01-28T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2011-01-28T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:00:22","slug":"actually-ironic-fine-spoofiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=3933","title":{"rendered":"Actually Ironic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fun for a Friday morning: I can’t resist sharing this with you caretakers of language. CollegeHumor.com has taken on the Alanis Morrissette song, “Ironic,” and given it lyrics that are in fact ironic, instead of merely unlucky. (There are a few examples I would still quibble with; even the CollegeHumor people had trouble with the “free ride” and “good advice” lines. All in all, however, an excellent job and extremely amusing.)
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\nAn old man turned ninety-eight, he won the lottery and died the next day\u2026of a shock-induced heart attack
\nIt’s a black fly in your Chardonnay\u2026…poured to celebrate your apartment fumigation
\nIt’s a death row pardon two minutes too late\u2026\u2019cause the governor was busy watching Dead Man Walking
\nAnd isn’t it ironic…don’t you think
\nIt’s like rain at a dehydration victim\u2019s funeral
\nIt’s a free ride to your bankruptcy trial
\nIt’s the good advice to never listen to me
\nWho would’ve thought…it figures
\nMr. Play It Safe, he was afraid to fly
\nHe packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
\nHe\u2019d waited his whole damn life to take that flight
\nAnd as the plane crashed down he thought
\n“Now I\u2019ll never make it to that Fear of Flying seminar\u201d
\nAnd isn’t it ironic…don’t you think
\nIt’s like rain flooding an umbrella factory
\nIt’s a free ride to an overpriced car dealership
\nIt’s the good advice from the guy who just got you fired
\nWho would’ve thought…it figures
\nA traffic jam when you’re already late\u2026to receive an award for reducing automobile congestion
\nA no-smoking sign on your cigarette break\u2026 at the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company
\nIt’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife\u2026to rob a soup kitchen
\nIt’s meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife\u2026who\u2019s also my relationship therapist
\nAnd isn’t it ironic…don’t you think
\nA little too ironic…yeah, I really do think…
\nIt’s like rain on your wedding day\u2026to the Egyptian sun god Ra
\nIt’s a free ride when you’ve already paid\u2026for a stolen car
\nIt’s the good advice someone advised you not to take
\nWho would’ve thought…it figures
\nI have a funny way of defining rhetorical devices that I use in songs
\nSongs have a funny, funny way of getting things wrong
\nGetting things wrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fun for a Friday morning: I can’t resist sharing this with you caretakers of language. CollegeHumor.com has taken on the Alanis Morrisette song, “Ironic,” and given it lyrics that in fact are in fact ironic, instead of merely unlucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}