There’s a great scene in the film ‘Reality Bites‘ when Troy (played by the oh-so-hot Ethan Hawke) is asked to define irony by Lelaina (Wynona Ryder). It went like this:
Lelaina: Can you define “irony”?
Troy Dyer: It’s when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.”
Which is a HELL of a lot better explanation than what Alanis Morissette's 1996 song, Ironic gave us, even if ultimately, she was herself, being ironic. Because finding '10 thousand spoons when all you need is a knife' is NOT ironic, Alanis. It's just shitty bad luck.
But I digress.
The Oxford Dictionary's defines irony like this:
Irony: The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
But irony is best defined in pictures, and here are 25 that do it perfectly:
1. Not helping there, buddy...
