Since I've decided to try and blog a little more I think I might want to try to do a little feature called Daily Irony. It seems to me that I frequently run across funny little examples of irony in my life here at school, and I might as well make use of them. Don't worry: I'm an English major, so I know what irony actually is. I won't be posting about any black flies in glasses of chardonnay.
Today's irony: The dumbest people in the room are usually the ones wearing the t-shirts, pins, or hats with pseudo-clever phrases admonishing stupidity. This one actually started a couple of weeks ago when I saw a guy in my Pacific Northwest history class wearing a shirt that said "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Now, I actually owned a pin that had this phrase on it, but after I saw this guy wearing the shirt, I promptly went home and destroyed it. The reason for my disassociation from this otherwise true saying is the ironic fact that the guy wearing the shirt is consistently saying some of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Ok, actually it's not that he says things that are really all that dumb, they're just PAINFULLY obvious. I can't think of any specific examples, but generally it happens when someone makes a joke with a punchline that EVERYBODY else in the room understands is best left unstated. He states it. He's the kind of guy with just enough intelligence to convince himself and the tests that his brain is of proper shape and size for a human being. Ok, you get the point.
The other example I have comes from today's EdPsych class. Now, I need to first explain that each and every day, when I attend this class, I am afraid for the profession of teaching. An astounding number of the people in the class - all Education majors - would have a hard time reasoning their way out of a paper bag. One of these people, a "non-traditional" female student who, like her counterpart described above, has an affinity for stating painfully obvious facts, was wearing a shirt today with the CSI logo on it, and underneath it said "Can't Stand Idiots."
All of this ironic tomfoolery has prompted me to make this solemn (ok, it's not really that solemn... because, let's face it, I'm neck deep in the kingdom of hyperbole here) vow: From where the sun now stands (it should be noted here that one can't actually see the sun from my current location - Cheney, WA - until a couple of months from now) I will display nary a t-shirt, nor a pin, nor a cap, nor a bumper-sticker, nor any other object with pseudo-clever phrase admonishing stupidity on it... forever.
I am the Reverend Humpy and I have approved this message.
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"Because a black fly in your chardonnay isn't ironic. It's just shitty." - Painfully obvious observation.
I'll have to double-check, but I'm reasonably confident that there's not a single bit of irony in that whole song - except, of course, the fact that it's a song called "Ironic" that doesn't actually contain any irony. ;o)
"It's like meeting the girl of your dreams, and finding out she's five."
Get back in the car!
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