irony

  • oxygen

    Croatian kid’s show host faints during taping while discussing…wait for it…the importance of oxygen

    Pictured is Zlata Muck, host of the Croatian kid’s show School Hour, just moments before she passes out during taping of the show. In a bit of delicious irony, the show’s topic for the day was the importance of oxygen. You can’t make this stuff up people. Muck, it...
  • Virginia couple accidentally shot by husband…while attending gun safety class

    Michael L. Deel and his wife Michelle were attending a gun safety class in their hometown of Roanoke, Va. when the unthinkable happened.  Shortly after the instructor had momentarily stepped out of the classroom, Deel’s .45-caliber handgun accidentally discharged, sending the bullet through his hand and into his wife’s...
  • titanic

    Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage

    Mark Wilkinson of Birmingham, evidently counting on the Monte Carlo fallacy (i.e., an unlikely event will be even more unlikely to occur in the same circumstances twice), dubbed his sixteen-foot cabin cruiser Titanic II.  Whether he was being ironic (as the tiny boat could practically fit in my hatchback),...
  • Woman Attending Anger Management Class Stabs Fellow Classmate

    I think whoever is running this particular anger management class might want to review the syllabus, because I don’t think the program is working. Faribah Maradiaga of Bellevue, Wash., was attending a court-ordered anger management class when she got into an altercation with a fellow classmate.  Instead of putting...
  • Heavens terminate ‘Touchdown’ Jesus statue

    The “King of Kings” statue was a 62-foot colossus that sat outside the evangelical Solid Rock Church in the town of Monroe in southwest Ohio. The upraised arms led people to nickname the landmark “Touchdown Jesus” because of the similarity to the hand signal that used when a footballer...
  • Missionaries to Position Selves In “Godless” Darwin

    A family of North Carolinian evangelists is planning to set up a mission in Australia’s northern city of Darwin. The Gibbs family is heading to the “unreached city” on account of the high rates of drinking and sexually transmitted diseases. From the Gibb’s family site: As we continue to...