Irony Examples

• One of the identical twins says to the other, "You're ugly!"
• I saw a fish drowning.
• Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them.
• Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
• Marriage is the leading cause of divorce
• I have been down so long, it looks like up to me.

• Britain's biggest dog was named Tiny.
• Two marriage therapists got divorced from each other.
• Most tobacco company executives don't smoke.
• Titanic, which was touted as "100% unsinkable", sank on its maiden voyage.
• The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
• A ninety-eight year old man won the lottery and died the next day.
• My friend, who is an incredibly successful artist and writer, often has dreams that are bland and dull.
• A class on prophecy at a church was postponed due to some unforeseen circumstance
• Do you know that fear for a long word is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio phobia?
• Hitler's Grandmother was Jewish.
• The only reason there are evil people in the world is because there are good people in the world.
• A man died in his living room!
• Canada is owned by Britain, yet half the people there speak French.
• Coffee City is a city in Texas, mostly visited to buy beer.
• My family owns a dairy, I work at a frozen yogurt shop and I just found out I'm lactose intolerant.
• The world's largest ice cream cone is made by a factory called 'Tiny Dairies'!
• The owner of a butcher shop is a vegetarian!
• A restaurant called "Hard Times Cafe" has closed down because of the recession!
• The water vendor died of thirst!
• A restaurant with the name "Firewood Cafe" was actually on fire!
• The dictionary entry for "short" is really, really long!
• The only word that you spelled right in this spelling test is "illiterate".
• "Stand by your Man" is one of the biggest hit songs sung by Tammy Wynette's who has been married six times in her real life.
• Do you know that there is a song about the phobia of music?
• The White House isn't white.
• I put on an outfit in the morning and didn't like it, after spending an hour trying on other clothes, I ended up trying back on the same outfit I started with and wore it for the day.
• A seminar on Global Warming was cancelled due to snow.
• An obese teacher is teaching the class about healthy food or physical exercise!
• A class on "planning and scheduling" was cancelled due to poor planning.
• An atheist sues for religious discrimination

• Posting a video about how boring and useless Facebook is on Facebook.
• My friend said he can't go to church because he has a theology test to study for!
• The firehouse burns down.
• The police station was robbed.
• The teacher failed the test.
• The student who didn't study passed the test.
• The marriage counselor gets a divorce
• "Water, water, everywhere,
  And all the boards did shrink;
  Water, water, everywhere,
  Nor any drop to drink."
• A girl was going on about how she wouldn't hurt animals when I noticed she was wearing a leather belt.
• He is a pilot but, is afraid of heights.

• "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
  And Brutus is an honorable man" - Julius Caesar.
• Romeo returns to Verona and he finds Juliet drugged, in a death-like sleep. He assumes she is dead and kills himself. When Juliet wakes up and finds him dead, she kills herself with his knife - Romeo and Juliet.
• Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 is consistently on the top 100 list of banned books in the US.

• Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, the self-styled "eternal revolutionary", who took power in a coup 42 years ago, is himself being deposed in a revolution.
• A Harvard University fellow, who was studying ethics, was charged with hacking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer network to steal nearly 5 million academic articles.