"do you know what irony means?" "i take my shirts to a service."

[rone]

[Poll #801741]

Comments

[wisn.livejournal.com]

When I see complaints here echoing earnest complaints I see elsewhere, why yes, I sometimes assume you're being serious.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

And you could hardly be blamed!

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Is this like "how can you tell when Nixon is lying?"

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

It's more like "Is he even being serious with this question?"

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

If you were sarcastic and I couldn't tell, how would I know?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I have this twitch in the left corner of my mouth that's a dead giveaway.

Why is the giveaway always a dead one, anyway?

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Because after you tell anyone, you die.

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Hello?
You there?

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

I guess that's that, then.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

You are the grand-poobah of scarcastic commentary.

You make Baby Jeebus cry.

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

I changed my mind to occasionally because at first, I did and found myself relying on your icons or tags to *read* you. Bowler hat and
Wine Guy Rone meant one thing to me ,BIG NOSE PORE rone and Southpark rone were someone else entirely.
SCHIZOPHRENIC RONE IS ALL OVER YOU SCREEN!

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Please explain to me which of the above choices are and aren't supposed to be sarcastic.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You're fired.

[vampyrecat.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how to answer this poll. I have no sarcasm detector.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, it seems to me that, "You're sarcastic? Really?" would fit you perfectly. But i don't want to answer for you.

[damienw]

these should be check boxes, not radios. hth.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

I said "often." But I don't mind, because I look on the comments to your entries as a place that is the opposite of an irony-free zone: a place where I am free to indulge the misanthropic pleasure of snarking freely at hapless people who can't tell whether I'm being sarcastic or not.

This is a pleasure I largely deny myself in my own journal and other aspects of my life.