Those are some pretty nice words," he said. "It's good for what it is. It's sardonic, and
very little pop culture is." As for irony, Fussell found some situational irony in the songs but
no rhetorical irony. "Rhetorical irony requires immense intellectual self-respect," he explained,
"you have to be more or less brilliant to get rhetorical irony."

Dear tsuwm: Paul Fussell sounds fuzzled to me.