The RPMs on Irony, They're Gettin' High

[akirlu]

Because irony is surely dead and buried (right next to satire) and spinning in its grave.

From the totally deadpan funeral of Kenny-boy Lay:

The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ, and said his name would eventually be cleared.

"He was taken out of the world right at the right time," he said. "History has a way of vindicating people who have been wronged."

No chance at all that this was a case of the great Spaghetti Monster, Harold be thy name, smiting the living shit out of my man Kenneth for being a baby eating, puppy-raping, grandma-buggering lead pipe sonofabitch, eh? 'Course not. He was a Republican. God must be on his side. Or, reason #17,489 why I am surely going to hell.

Comments

Pasta God turkey slaps Lay

[u-must-b-joking.livejournal.com]

Uh, well, if'n yer goin' ta hell, you'n'me kin tag team.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I firmly believe that the fundamentalists' hell is actually a place the rest of us (including liberal Christians) would find comfortable, airy, bright with good will and shared ideas, and their heaven would be a repressive place of many rules, spies that never die, and enforced singing of the most boring hymns of all the various denominations.

[scottscidmore.livejournal.com]

There might not even be any singing of any sort, some denominations are against such

That's not irony...

[del-c.livejournal.com]

...that's humbug.

http://www.google.com/search?q=define:humbug

Definitions of humbug on the Web:

baloney: pretentious or silly talk or writing
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
trick or deceive

fraud: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Humbug in the sense of "hoax, jest" is first attested in 1751 in student slang. Its etymology is unknown. Its present meaning as an exclamation is closer to "nonsense, gibberish", while a humbug means "a fraud, an impostor". The exclamation "Bah, humbug!" has become associated with Ebenezer Scrooge and a dismissive attitude towards Christmas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug

colloquially, a hoax, imposition, fraud, or sham (1751); used interjectionally to mean "stuff and nonsense" (1825); in slang, to deceive or cheat.
www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva116.html

1. a hard, boiled, peppermint sweet or lolly with decorative stripes. 2. a cheat; deceitful, low person. 3. nonsense; rubbish; drivel; insincere and worthless talk.
www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/strine/h-3.php

Re: That's not irony...

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

The utterance is humbug; the situation is ironic.