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okay, so I brought up the idea of having an emoticon to signify ironic intent. so (as is my wont) I did a little research. the most common suggestions I found are ;-) and ;-> these are, disfortunately, ambiguous (combined with irony that could be deadly). 1) the standard  is inclusively recommended for: Irony; Sardonic incredulity; So happy, s/he is crying; Flirt; Got beat up[?]; Flirtatious or sarcastic remark. 2) likewise, ;-> is used for: Cynical wink; Irony; Winky and devil combined (a very lewd remark was just made); Wicked grin. delving further, I was told "If you use sarcasm or irony, make sure that your readers know it." ignoring any possible irony in this latter statement, it would seem that we need something definitive and disambiguous to denote irony. but foraging on I was warned "Irony, it seems, is like nitroglycerin: too tricky to be good for much, and so best left in the hands of fanatics or trained professionals." never mind.
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tsuwm suggests If you use sarcasm…make sure that your readers know it.
What then the need for sarchasm?
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Here at the hospital we had a case of acute irony deafness last year. We learned that the patient had never been exposed to irony at a young age and thus had no defense against it. We prescribed a bolus of Dennis Miller followed by Jonathan Swift TID for 14 days. However, the local pharmacy in his hometown had no Swift, so they substituted Jeff Foxworthy, which proved insufficient. In fact, the patient developed a resistant strain of irony deafness, and we had to admit him to the hospital so he could watch reruns of "The Kids In the Hall" on cable television for 3 days. This also proved unsuccessfull, and we learned later that the patient had access to the remote control and had been flipping the channel back to "Hee-Haw" reruns on CMT. So we referred the patient to the Transplant Surgery team, and they performed a successful funny bone transplantation. The patient is now a movie reviewer for The Onion, and we regard this as one of our greatest medical achievements. ;|
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>What then the need for sarchasm?
ah. another one of those "genuine new word"s (and a potentially useless one, at that) ;-\
p.s. - as suggested, I ignored any possible irony contained in "make sure that your readers know it" -ron obvious
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do you use cadavers for the funny bones? or do you have to do extensive searching? how long is the transplant list wait? and if you use living doners, do you worry that there funny bone might be strained-- and damaged as they get older?
the whole thing is pretty nervey to me.. but i suppose a little elbow grease helps ease the way for the transplant...
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For an irony icon, how about an iron? It's readily recognizable, and not in current use for anything else, unless there's a laundry message board somewhere.
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" or an irony icon, how about an iron?"
A golf iron? What number?
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And if the person misses the irony, then you award them a 4-wood icon for being so stiff.
For funny bone transplants, we prefer the humerus of an Englishman.
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This is *way off subject, but I figured this was as good a place as any for my query, given the talk about transplants:
I heard a story on the radio just now about the horrors occurring in China on a regular basis, where prisoners' executions are purposefully botched in order to keep them alive while their organs are being harvested for sale, particularly their skin. It seemed to be somewhat of a 'breaking story' in the sense that a bill has been introduced here in the States to prevent federal funding from funnelled into some sort of program that essentially provides scholarships to young Chinese doctors that come here specifically to learn the intricacies of the transplant procedures, whereupon they return to China and commit these human rights violations. The story was fascinating in a horrifying (as opposed to terrifying) way, so I tried to look it up when I arrived home. I searched NPR, CNN and MSNBC, but gleaned (hi, BYB!) only old articles.
My question, then (yes, I'm finally coming to my point) is What news search sites do you folks favor?? Am I missing a good source/search engine for current events? This isn't the first time I've read or heard an interesting story and been unable to find further details online, so I suspect I'm simply using the wrong resources.
Sorry this doesn't have much to do with language, and thanks in advance for any help offered.
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an emoticon to signify ironic intent
How about one of the smileys with one eyebrow raised?
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