Yeah, I stay awake nights worrying about this. I can't get to sleep sometimes because of it, so then I have to shift gears and figure out how many angels I could get to dance on the head of a pin.

And that gets compounded by whether or not they are line dancing, doing a waltz, break dancing, the electric slide, the fox trot, the twist.

It gets really, really complex sometimes.

IRONY, n.
1. A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt.

    b. with an and pl. An instance of this; an ironical utterance or expression.

    2. fig. A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things. (In F. ironie du sort.)

    3. In etymological sense: Dissimulation, pretence; esp. in reference to the dissimulation of ignorance practised by Socrates as a means of confuting an adversary (Socratic irony).

ADDITIONS SERIES 1993

    irony, n.

    Add:    [2.] spec. in Theatr. (freq. as dramatic or tragic irony), the incongruity created when the (tragic) significance of a character's speech or actions is revealed to the audience but unknown to the character concerned; the literary device so used, orig. in Greek tragedy; also transf. (Later examples.)