My loathing for she-who-shall-not-be-named knows no bounds, but ptui! Let us speak of her no more.

Particularly sage advice since, while the urge to defend one of our own is admirable, I'd just as soon avoid a scenario that results in Satan's Bride backtracking someone to here and becoming the board's next Schmoker.

Bon, as long as Alannis is still wrong, I'm okay. He did make my head hurt, and he dissed Merriam Webster. Or does m-w.com have different content from the printed version? Is Merriam Webster a decent dictionary?

Wait, that's not irony. Is it?

Those are some cute pups Nonian.

Is Allyson around? I have questions and would like to for her to answer if possible.

Wait, that's not irony. Is it?

"Ironically", Merriam Webster agrees with him. It lists both what I considered irony, and his "use of words to express something other than their literal meaning."

Based on his last paragraph:

Trying to pretend to yourself and others that a blurb from a random jackass which claims to be an authority on the web (yes, m-w.com are random jackasses) is nothing but a way to delude one's self and to confuse or annoy others.

I conclude that this guy is just some random jackass on the web and I can safely ignore him and his bad grammar.

It lists both what I considered irony, and his "use of words to express something other than their literal meaning."

Yeah, I checked too. And me too. So we're good, since I don't consider m-w.com to be random jackasses.

And watch, he's going to follow his referrer logs back here and we can all have a nice argument about it.

Wait, that's not irony. Is it?

Exactly! I thought most of the examples he cited as definitively not ironic to be excellent examples of what I understood to be irony-- to wit, a type of particularly perverse result. His definition appears to be "sarcasm."

It is ironic that his entirely sarcastic post mistakes sarcasm for irony, maybe.

It is ironic that his entirely sarcastic post mistakes sarcasm for irony, maybe.

Are you being sarcastic?