Finally, we have a definition for the most misused word in the English language: irony.
Now when anyone is confused, you need only direct them to the most recent Food Safety Summit in Baltimore. It was here, at a convention devoted entirely to food safety, that four people came down with food poisoning.
Alanis Morissette, please take note.
Just 12 hours after eating at the convention centre, members of the food safety convention reported experiencing diarrhea and an upset stomach.
The Executive Director of the centre was understandably grim, saying, “None of us are very happy when we hear these things.”
Centerplate, the food contractor at the convention centre, released a statement about the incident, saying, “No issue is more
City health officials have previously issued Centerplate with a violation notice for condensation that was dripping from an ice machine in the kitchen. It is not yet known whether any members of the summit sampled this condensation directly.
Although no particular food has been blamed for the outbreak of illness, we have all gained one very important piece of information about this event.
And that is, school children everywhere now have a suitable definition of irony we can trust.
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My partner of fourteen years and I had our first ever argument over that stupid song! We were driving along one day when it came on the radio and I started ranting about how none of the examples in the song were actually examples of irony and my partner turned around and said: "Why do you have to analyse everything? You've just ruined this song for me!" lol.
The food convention story though – a perfect example!
I had a great example of irony at work a while back: We outsource our email service to another company who send us a bill for the service each month. They called to ask why we had not paid the bill for the past three months. Turns out they hadn't redirected our "accounts@" email address correctly and no-one had received their bills! Nice, huh?