Irony?
This one’s a bit of a cop out on my part. Originally, I just thought it would be funny to show someone buried by shovels. Then I started wondering if that was truly “ironic” in a literal sense or just an Alanis Morisette sense. Rather than looking it up, I decided to work my actual confusion into the comic. Plus, I got to make an extra little jab at English majors.
August 24th, 2009 at 12:31 am
I absolutely love how the guy is being crushed by a pile of shovels and the workers are standing around contemplating whether it counts as irony or not.
August 24th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Did the man ever say out loud “I for one know I will never be crushed by a pile of shovels!”? That would be pretty ironic. (At least the populist non-asshole definition of irony.)
August 24th, 2009 at 3:52 am
My understanding is that it’s not ironic, but it probably would be in the situation Great Joe Bivins mentions above. Either way, the comic is great
August 24th, 2009 at 6:51 am
I wouldn’t call this a cop out at all. I think the irony is that you’d use a shovel to dig someone out of a pile of ANYTHING. Sooo…
August 24th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Ironic that he’s packing boxes with an English degree? There’s a lot of layers here
August 24th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Try to keep your jokes short and sweet, and they’ll be funnier.
August 24th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
That’s shovelry. Irony would be if he were buried under a pile of irons…
August 25th, 2009 at 4:43 am
Following on from reynard61, I thought it was because shovels are made of iron (or steel, which is mostly iron)
August 25th, 2009 at 5:50 am
It would be ironic if he was buried under a pile of irons. Just messing with you. I do believe somebody is going to be tested for illegal substances.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
@reynard61,
it might not be true irony – but whatever it is, he has it in spades
September 29th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
The pain! Oh the pain! The comments really killed me on this one.