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?

Are you being sarcastic?

No, I'm not being sarcastic. Why ever would you think I'm being sarcastic?

Also he thinks linguistic change takes hundreds of years.

bon bon's being all ironic....

Also he thinks linguistic change takes hundreds of years.

OMGWTF? I'm going to google his ass and then blog about him.

So tomorrow's my court date. I've never been to court before. I'm already all nervous. Should I dress up? Should I always say "your honon" - like, even if I'm just answering a question, should I say, "Yes, your honor"?

I imagine I should suppress my urge to say to the judge, "Woah, I thought all you dudes wore those funky wigs!", huh?

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

I am here.

tommy, totally call him "honon."