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I'm totally rotfloling right now.

I don't get it.

And shirt not made of iron at all, so it really means something

Iron should be darker. Somebody Chromed the Iron 'e'

Is this the same sculpture located beyond the great Sar-chasm.

*drum riff*

"I ro NY"?

Does that mean we aren't in love anymore?

The giant "E" is giving me a sort of illusion effect. Sometimes it looks like its puffed out, sometimes it looks indented.


Anyone else seeing that?

What do you call an iron that causes wrinkles?

An ironic.

Oh, I get it! It's an e and it's made of out iron. Iron + e = Irony. Ha ha ha!

Elmo likes tonight's shirt!

Hey great, I've been looking for a way to tell the world how much I love Internet Explorer.

Perfect for ravers!

It's funny that this is on a silver shirt blank...

FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS THE MEANING OF THE WORD!!!!

Shouldn't it be made of wood?

That's gonna rust awful quick if it's really 100% iron. Gonna need some chromium in the mix if it's gonna have any longevity. Nevermind the carbon, but then again it's a statue, not a knife...

Should have had '2.718' on the shirt instead of 'e'

Thirdbase9 wrote:Should have had '2.718' on the shirt instead of 'e'

or 2.718281828... that always tricks people.

When I first saw it, I thought this shirt was an homage to Euler's constant and I was really excited. Is it ironic that now that I know what it actually is, I don't want it anymore?

Ironically, This looks more like War-machinE.

I just got done watching Iron Man 2, so I know. =P

The only thing ironic here is that the artist is convinced he knows what "irony" means.

I just can't get past thinking it has something to do with Internet Explorer

I'm studying iron in my PhD work--about 5 years just devoted to iron. Would it be ironic if I don't buy this shirt?

Oh, the iron-e! I love it! Nice concept and great execution!

EDIT: I'm back and in for one before this is sold-out.

The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.
Now that, is, irony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM

AlienZulu wrote:FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS THE MEANING OF THE WORD!!!!

Is bird the word?

The text ruins this shirt. Using the lowercase letter doesn't help either.

That's actually wrong. "Irony" requires that the happening (whatever is ironic) be the opposite of what is expected.

SexConker wrote:The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention.
Now that, is, irony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM

Perhaps it's sad that my first thought was that this was Euler's "e" (2.718 etc.). Perhaps not.

I have to buy this shirt. It will go so well with my other old school woot shirt.

I love this one.

Wow. The instant I saw this shirt, I insta-bought it.

Wouldn't an Iron 'e' have an 'F' before it?

curtisuxor wrote:What do you call an iron that causes wrinkles?

An ironic.

No, a blue light special. Or a wootoff killer. ;-)

Gaucho85 wrote:That's actually wrong. "Irony" requires that the happening (whatever is ironic) be the opposite of what is expected.

No, as bender stated earlier in that very episode, something that is coincidental or unexpected is not ironic.

Irony
Noun:
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Irony means one thing and one thing only. You don't get to make up new definitions for a word because people aren't using it correctly. You don't get to make up a term like "dramatic irony" (typically referring to when the reader/viewer/audience knows something a character does not).

Bender is absolutely correct.

SexConker wrote:Irony means one thing and one thing only. You don't get to make up new definitions for a word because people aren't using it correctly. You don't get to make up a term like "dramatic irony" (typically referring to when the reader/viewer/audience knows something a character does not).

Maybe he doesn't. Maybe you don't. Maybe even I don't. Nevertheless, it seems clear that someone did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony

Your prescriptionist position just flat-out doesn't hold in English. There is no authority, though even for languages where there is almost no one outside the academy walls cares. In this case, your attempted dictate was violated more than century ago. That Wikipedia article has a reference to someone commenting on hundreds of definitions for "irony" in 1906.

bpr2 wrote:Is bird the word?

As a matter of fact...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184&feature=youtu.be

Wouldn't that punny more than irony...?

SexConker wrote:No,
Irony means one thing and one thing only.

I wasn't aware that, for example, dramatic irony and situational irony were the same "one thing only." ... Edit: Oh, so you're denying that dramatic irony even exists. Okay then...

And to stay on topic, the first thing I thought of when I saw this shirt was Internet Explorer, and I shuddered with revulsion.

PocketBrain wrote:Wouldn't an Iron 'e' have an 'F' before it?

I wondered that, myself. In fact, I didn't get it at all until I read the little plaque underneath the 'e.' Before then, I kept wondering where the 'F' was.

Glad someone else was on the same page.