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1 1:36am 05/10/06

Internaut

Alton Verm filed a "Request for Reconsideration of Instructional Materials" Thursday with the district regarding "Fahrenheit 451," written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1953. He wants the district to remove the book from the curriculum.
"It's just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read "Fahrenheit 451." "The words don't need to be brought out in class. I want to get the book taken out of the class."

Trying to censor a book about the censoring of books. Irony.

I do side with him on not wanting his children to be exposed to certain elements in the book that he disagrees with, but I just had to laugh at the irony of the situation.

Trinity

2 2:03am 05/10/06

Imperial Observer

1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony 2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an [url="http://webster.com/dictionary/ironic"]ironic[/url] expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

http://webster.com/dictionary/irony

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milkshake

3 2:57am 05/10/06

Jedi Masterwan ... ... Shaken, Not Stirred

Yeah, so I've been wondering, is it even possible to use the word "Irony" correctly?

I mean... I've seriously never seen anyone do it, I think.

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Samantha Koortyn

4 1:06pm 05/10/06

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Irony is so ironic.

There, I did it.

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Titus

5 6:42pm 05/10/06

Internaut

I think this guy pretty much hit it dead on.

Beff Pike

6 9:58pm 05/10/06

Bounty Hunter

My blood tastes irony.

Heh.

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