Irony

It's kind of interesting watching people who live out in 5 acre zoning land lecturing other people about sprawl.

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Irony - still fucking dead

Horribly mangled in an accident involving a jet ski, a quart of tequila, and Lindsay Lohan.

From AOL Money, 25 (Unconventional) ways to raise quick cash:

Desperate move #23:
Seek Emergency Assistance


Many charities provide services and items that you would otherwise spend money on, freeing up some dollars to apply to your most pressing needs. Among the most common of these are food banks and open-dining opportunities, help or waiver of utility costs, and clothing and other household essentials.

Desperate move #21:
Rent Out Your 'Spot'



If you own some prime parking real estate, you could put cash in your pocket and get more exercise by renting out your spot and parking further away. If access to your car is less convenient, perhaps you'll even drive less, saving money on gas, too.

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Irony? Yep, still dead

Not only that, but so disfigured that the charred corpse had to be identified by dental charts:

But Ms. Didion might be on to something. A Nexis search found that the incidence of the words “irony,” “ironic” and “ironically” in major American newspapers during the two-week period beginning Nov. 6 slipped 19 percent from the same period last year.

In New York, Ms. Didion’s home city, irony has been steadily disappearing from daily newspapers for a decade, the analysis found. In those same two-week November periods from 2000 to 2008, appearances of “irony” and its cognates tumbled 56 percent. Some of the drop seems to be because of the shrinking of newspapers, but a similar Nexis search with a control word, “went,” showed a drop of only 32 percent, leaving an irony gap of 24 percentage points.

The analysis may have its flaws. For one thing, the search algorithm also, ironically, picked up phrases like “end of irony.” More significantly, no self-respecting ironist actually uses the word “ironic,” except, perhaps, ironically.

Oy.

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