Re: "Danny Boy" on Shamrock Day?

In article <13tdrsm7qmh17ec@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Harmon  <bad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:18:42 +0000 (UTC) in rec.arts.sf.fandom,
>tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Tim McDaniel) wrote,
>>In article <memo.20080311162757.3744B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>I think you are missing the joke.
>>
>>Don't be too rough on angee -- you have the advantage of being British
>>and therefore recognizing irony.
>
>There's no particular irony in the above.

Very good; you're quite correct, and I never said there was.  The
"joke" referred to supra was some articles back, in

>>>> When I was in New Orleans around Labor Day 1988 (I'm told there
>>>> was a con running there at the time, but I think it was just a
>>>> rumor),

Come to look at it again, that can be interpreted as sarcasm, sneering
about the con.  I actually meant it to be only ironic, that New
Orleans had enough of unusual interest that even a well-run con would
have been somewhat in its shadow.

>You are confusing sarcasm with irony.  It's about one coincidence
>short of irony.

The classic or core definition of irony is "an incongruity or
discordance between what a speaker or a writer says and what they
mean".  Situational irony can have unfortunate coincidence, but I've
not seen it in this subthread.  The "Don't be too rough on angee" was
intended as mild sarcasm only.

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]