On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:01:14 -0500, "Mick Fournier"
wrote:

I would be
rich if I had a nickel for every cheap skate like you that has issued such a
threat/admonition on RGO over the last 6 or 7 years.

Main Entry: iro·ny
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
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 ironic 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

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