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I've almost killed one or two in the Appalachians on a cross country to/from DC. Also, this has happened recently...big news: http://hamptonroads.com/2011/04/norfolk-gardens-female-eagle-likely-killed-airplane-strikeThe eagles have definitely started returning to the Twin Cities metro area. Not uncommon to be driving south on I-35 and have one soaring above you.
I've almost killed one or two in the Appalachians on a cross country to/from DC...
I've almost killed one or two in the Appalachians on a cross country to/from DC. Also, this has happened recently...big news: http://hamptonroads.com/2011/04/norfolk-gardens-female-eagle-likely-killed-airplane-strike
Ironic it was a "US Airways" jet.
Not ironic at all. It is an odd coincidence, though. Everyone who uses that word seems to have the same dictionary as Alanis Morissette.![]()
-George Carlin BraindroppingsIrony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. If two baseball palyers from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father’s it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence. Irony is "a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result." For instance:
-If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck, he is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.
-If a Kurd, after surviving bloody battle with Saddam Hussein’s army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.
-Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now Darryl Stingley’s son plays football, and if the son should become paralyzed while playing, it will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If Darryl Stingley’s son paralyzes someone else, that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes Jack Tatum’s son that will be precisely ironic.