[quote name=\'melman1\' post=\'119156\' date=\'May 22 2006, 09:12 PM\']
Could someone please explain why many posters to forums like this are so eager, almost desperate, to misuse the word "irony"?
Is it a "look at me, I know a grown-up word" sort of thing, or what? Or do "the kids" just like to describe random coincidences as "ironic" now?
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I strongly suspect that in this case, it's the former.