[thechat] Irony - your cut out and keep guide

[Martin Burns]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,985375,00.html

"There are a few reasons why we think the Americans have no sense of 
irony.
...
[B]ecause we think Canadian Alanis Morissette is American, and she 
proved some time ago, with her song Ironic, that she didn't know what 
irony meant (this is so ironic - first, because we think we're the more 
sophisticated and yet don't know the difference between America and 
Canada, second because America sees Canada as such a tedious sleeping 
partner, and yet Canada is subversively sending idiots into the global 
marketplace with American accents. Of course, I'm being ironic. 
Canadian accents are not the same as American ones!)"

Cheers
Martin