A little ironic.

Irony, what a weird word. I never did understand what it was supposed to mean. If I were to describe it, I would say irony is like sarcasm, irony is when the opposite of the intended occurs yet could have possibly  occurred because of what was intended in the first place.

Confusing?

It’s more easier to give ironic examples rather than explain it.

1. In KungFu Panda, Shi-Fu sends a duck to instruct a prison to tighten it’s security to prevent it’s lone prisoner from escaping. The lone prisoner escaped thanks to that duck, and possibly might not have been able to escape without it.   [SPOILER ALERT! - If you haven't watched KungFu Panda, the information I have released may spoil your movie experience. I think I should have wrote this spoiler alert before I actually spoilled it, but I'm to lazy to do that. Consider yourself warned!]

2. The entire Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy wanted to return home, she travelled far and had to encounter perilous dangers to meet someone who could tell her how to get home. At the end of her journey she found out she had the means to get home from the very beginning. Oh the irony! Her companions also experience alot of irony in a similar manner. The people in the emerald kingdom were worshiping a short scientist who they thought was a large powerful wizard.

3. Supermans only weakness is from the planet he was born and wants to return to.

There are various other ironic examples you can find just by  googling. Most of them are quite interesting.

The first time the word “ironic” came into my life was in the form of a song, ironically named “ironic” by Alanis Morrisette. Honestly I just understood the meaning of irony just recently, which was the result of researching “wordpress” on wikipedia.

I’ll just plagiarize and copy paste the article here.

Sponsored themes

On 10 July 2007, following a discussion on the WordPress ideas forum and a post by Mark Ghosh in his blog Weblog Tools Collection, Matt Mullenweg announced that the official WordPress theme directory at http://themes.wordpress.net would no longer host themes containing sponsored links. Although this move was criticized by designers and users of sponsored themes, it was applauded by some WordPress users who consider such themes to be spam. The official WordPress theme directory ceased to accept any new themes, including those without sponsored links, shortly after the announcement was made.  Ironically, the closure of the official site and its consequent lack of up-to-date themes drove many people into downloading themes from unofficial sites which inserted their own spam links into all themes downloaded from them.

Oh the irony!