A friend claims that I once said to her, "I don't believe in god, but I do believe in irony." I don't recall saying it, and I'm not sure if it's from somewhere else, but I'm willing to take credit for the sentiment...
yes, but what does it mean...?
LarryBS, I just got to your post about Jay Fulmer and irony. I think it is one of the funniest jokes I have heard. It gets, not a guffaw, but a chuckle that grows to laughter. Thanks a bunch. I've added it to the couple hundred jokes in my repertoire.
Glad you liked it, I received it by e-mail.
Larry, thats he he mail right
Its a daily news e-mail from the he-he-C (BBC).
...indubitably....but what has this to do with irony?
"A fine thing indeed!" he muttered to himself
Thats two tellimgs off in one day I'm going home and take my ball with me ! harrumph.....
dlowan wrote:yes, but what does it mean...?
Re not believing in god, but believing in irony. Well, I don't think there's a supreme being to whom I'm ultimately answerable, but I do think my actions have consequences, and not always in ways I may have intended. I guess I believe in an amalgam of karma and randomness, so that the net result may be anything other than what I meant to happen. And it's often ironic, if viewed with a little detachment.
Or something like that!
Thanks, Joanne, my favorite actor. I've told me people that I want Irons to take the role of me, in case I ever become famous and my life story is filmed.
D'art he is one of my favs too. Love him in all his work but watch and re-watch Brideshead all the time which is ironic, isn't it?
Thank you D'artagnan!
Waaaaaaaaaaah! Seems I cannot turn around without stepping on Hiama!
(Picks Hiama up gently, tenderly dusts him off with her hanky, sensitively reinserts his ball (!) into appropriate portion of his anatomy, gives him a stiff drink of his choice and apologises sincerely AGAIN...all the while thinking what a tender soul he is, and how she admires sensitivity in a man....and returns him to his proper place in the game of A2k - hoping he remains there...)
Hmmm... the fact that poor hiama has only one ball and that the lonely ball was inserted by a wascally wabbit in what the wabbit considers an appropriate part of said hiama's anatomy...well, it seems to me as an American, that there must, surely must, be some irony to be found in something, or somewhere or.......
(how big was the ball and where was it inserted?????) This could be important!! Even.....ironic!!!
I had assumed it to be HIS ball, that was put back from whence he had taken it - he said: "I'm going home and take my ball with me !"
It would be awfully ironic if it had, in fact, been somebody else's ball!
You don't think?............NO!
Anyway, Hiama is British - he is exquisitely attuned to irony and would probably just laugh and carry on were the worst to have happened...
It did seem to pop into place quite easily...
Ah that's better my ball is safely back in place and all is well with the world. Its the one that won prizes ! The other one is so small it can stay off, its hardly a ball at all if the truth was known.
Jeremy Irons being english like me, is indeed a formidable actor (I am sure that you were not alluding to matters physical but to the metaphysical), however he has never really fulfilled his early promise. which is a shame. I have the boxed set of Brideshead and watch it now and again, don't they all look so young ? What has he really achieved since then, he seems to have picked some wrong uns. I'd like to see him come into his own, it is difficult to think of much that is very good of his that is contemporary. Out of all his films I would pick Reversal of Fortune, The Mission and The French Lieutenant's woman as the only ones where he did himself justice -what say you all ?
Indeed - but I have always found him rather slithery and reptilian - was Reversal of Fortune the one where he played Claus von Bulow? If so, I think he found a role perfect for him in that film.
