Isn’t It Ironic? Or: How I’m Better Than Alanis Morissette
I am better than Alanis Morissette because she has a song called Weekend Song, but when you google it, you are directed here above references to her tune.
Before all the lyrics sites and everything, I win out over the confessional Canadian breakthrough soloist every time.
Seriously. Google it.
See?
Do it again.
You see what happens? BANG.
Sorry Alanis – Ha ha. In your toothy face, sister.
Oh dear. It’s like rain on your wedding day.
She used to be a fella, you know. Seriously. Alan Morris.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Other ways in which you are better than Alanis Morissette include, but are not limited to, the fact that you know what “irony” means, whereas she does not.
“It’s like rain on your wedding day.” NO. That is just bad luck.
“It’s a free ride, when you’re already late.” NO. That is just GOOD luck because you will be less late than you would have been otherwise. I know she’s depressed but Jesus.
“It’s like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.” NO. That is just poor kitchen management.
“It’s like meeting the man of your dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife.” NO. But on the other hand, welcome to my life.
May 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Oh, and “It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take?” THAT IS JUST STUPIDITY, not unlike writing a whole song about “irony” without using a DICTIONARY first.
I’m stopping now. See? I’ve stopped.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Don’t tell Ryan Reynolds.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Katy, while I agree with you that AM has no clue what irony means (though my favorite collegiate a capella group, All Night Yahtzee, does a fabulous cover), the line is “It’s like a free ride when you’ve already paid”… which makes a lot more sense.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Oh, really? She should enunciate better. Seriously. AND it’s still not irony. It’s just annoying. Irony is more karmic, isn’t it? I think that irony is a term best applied to a situation in which you’ve created your own bad luck, whether advertently or inadvertently.
Irony would be something like, I don’t know, if you owned a car that had a major mechanical fault, and you sold it to someone without telling them about the major fault and then they ran over your gerbil because the fault in the car meant they couldn’t stop in time when they saw the gerbil.
Gerbils get irony. They get it.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I like you more than Alan Morris. He’s a tool.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Dammit Cliff you are holding my very clever answer to VerseFameBeauty in moderation. What’s that all about?
May 6th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Sometimes my spam thing does that. Are you using a different new computer or ISP or network?
Ah - I know - you have changed your URL and it needs time to get used to new Katy.
Anyway - comment liberated.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Isn’t irony like a vegetarian getting run over by a butcher’s lorry, or a vicar not being able to claim on his house insurance because of an act of god?