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A SAN FRANCISCO MAN BECOMES FIRST AMERICAN TO GRASP SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY



Jay Fullmer, 38, yesterday became the first American to get to grips with the concept of irony.

"It was weird" Fullmer said. "I was in London and like, talking to this guy and it was raining and he pulled a face and said, "Great weather eh?" and I thought - "Wait a minute, no way is it great weather".

Fullmer then realised that the other man's 'mistake' was in fact deliberate.

Fullmer, who is 39 next month and married with two children, aged 8 and 3,plans to use irony himself in future.

"I'm, like, using it all the time" he said. "Last weekend I was grilling steaks, and I burned them, and I said "Hey, great weather."

Touchy.

I think it's a double irony that your name describes you as an elite hacker, since you're an elite hacker pretending to be someone who ISN'T an elite hacker, who has a name which says he's an elite hacker.

Ironic. Indeed.

That's irony, not sarcasm.

Sarcasm is the deliberate, malicious statement designed to humiliate the other person.

Irony is the misunderstanding of a word/situation, when it bears direct relevance to the point you were making.

Saying he understood irony, yet getting it wrong is irony.

Pretty funny, except what he said was sarcasm.

Some stand up comic gave a PERFECT example of how Americans don't understand irony... but I went and forgot it. Blast.

Was that where it was from? I got sent it by e-mail.

"Props"

Hah!

Props to The Onion.

hahahaha!

It's ironic insofar that what he thought was irony actually wasn't.

Do you see?

Unbeliever wrote:
> "I'm, like, using it all the time" he said. "Last
> weekend I was grilling steaks, and I burned them, and I said
> "Hey, great weather."

LOL

*claps*

yeah, that's what I was thinking.