9 Hilariously Ironic Stories
4/12/2010
The
artist who was asked to paint the headmaster who expelled him
An artist
who was thrown out of school and told he would 'never amount to much' was
commissioned to paint a portrait of the headmaster who expelled him 55 years before. David Ingham
was thrown out of Ermysted's Grammar School as a 12-year -old by Marcelus
Forster. But the 67-year-old, who went on to become an art teacher himself, was
approached by the school to paint a portrait of Mr Forster. (Link)
The man
who drowned to death at a lifeguard's party
In
September of 1985, there was a celebration held at a New Orleans municipal pool. The
party was being held in order to celebrate the first summer in memory without a
drowning at the pool. In honor of the occasion, two hundred people gathered,
including one hundred certified lifeguards. As the party was breaking up and
the four lifeguards on duty began to clear the pool, they found a fully dressed
body in the deep end. They tried to revive Jerome Moody, 31, but it was too
late. He had drowned surrounded by lifeguards celebrating their successful
season. (Link)
Charles
Darwin, the man who rose the importance of genetics, married his first cousin.
Darwin
was a logical man, and he approached the important issue of marriage like he
would approach any other problem. He made a careful pro and con list before
deciding to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. But it is ironic that the man who
gave rise to the importance of genetics in natural selection chose to marry a
first cousin. (Darwin wasn't alone in this - Einstein also married his cousin).
(Link)
The man drowning at a lifeguard party is situational irony because he was surrounded by people trained to save lives celebrating their lack of need to save lives that year. Not such a successful year after all, was it?
ReplyDeleteThe first story is situational irony because the boy gets expelled and told by his principal that he is worthless and will never succeed. Then years later, the principal is asking for a self portrait done by the man who is now a professional artist.
ReplyDeleteThe lifeguard one is situational because there was a situation that had a bad effect
ReplyDeleteThe first story is situational because they guy gets expelled by the head master and then later in life he has to paint a picture of him.
ReplyDeleteThe second story is situation irony. Because there are all the lifeguards at the party and you don't expect anyone to drown, but then someone drowns.
ReplyDeleteThe second one is situational irony because there were already lifeguards there and they were too busy celebrating their non-drowning summer and they kid ended up drowning.
ReplyDeleteThe second article is considered situational irony. While they are at a party full of lifeguards, no one was able to save the man that was drowning.
ReplyDeleteThe second one's irony was situational irony because they are all lifeguards are trained to save lives and he drowned.
ReplyDeleteThe portrait story is an example of situational irony. The man expelled him saying that he would not amount to much. The man then was approached to paint a portrait of the same headmaster.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading, "The artist who was asked to paint the headmaster who expelled him," I can conclude that it is situational irony because the artist got expelled, but then was called back to do a portrait of the man who expelled him.
ReplyDeleteI read the first story and found a type of situational irony. It was ironic because the headmaster expelled the boy and told him he had no talent but years later asked him to paint a portrait for him.
ReplyDeleteThe man who drowned at the party, it is a situation irony because they were celebrating that no one had drowned and the man decided to drown.
ReplyDeleteThe second Paragraph was situational irony, because he drowned when he was surrounded by life guards who are trained to prevent drowning.
ReplyDeleteThe irony in the life guard party (paragraph 2) is situation irony because the party was for celebrating for people not drowning, but a man drowned at the party.
ReplyDeleteThe second story about the man who drowned is situational irony because they were celebrating not having someone drown in the pool that year, and then someone drowns at the party surrounded by lifeguards.
ReplyDelete"The man who drowned to death at a lifeguard party" was situational irony because the lifeguards were not expecting someone to drown.
ReplyDeleteThe story of the man who drowned at the pool with the life guards was situational irony because it was a party to celebrate no body drowning but someone drowned.
ReplyDeleteThe man drowning in the pool. That's an example of situational irony. They were celebrating no drowning incidents. Sure enough somebody drown. Plus there were 100 lifeguards at the party and a few were on duty.
ReplyDeleteThe second story the irony was situation irony, because everybody was a lifeguard there and the person still found a way to go in a pool and drown.
ReplyDeletethe lifeguard story is situational irony because no one expects someone to drown around people that are trained to save drowning people
ReplyDeleteThe man that was kicked out of school at age 12 is a type of verbal irony because he was kicked out and told, "He was not going to become anything" when he became an artist and then was asked to paint the portrait.
ReplyDeleteThe first article was situational irony because the artist was expelled from school because he would "never amount to much". Years later he paints the portrait of the headmaster who expelled him from the school.
ReplyDeleteThe man who drowned at the party of lifeguards. It is situational irony because the people around him were all people that were trained to save somebody that is drowning, or in danger whilst in the water, and he drowned anyways.
ReplyDeleteThe second story is situation irony because they were having a party to celebrate the first summer nobody had drowned in the pool and a man drowned at the party even though there were over 100 certified lifeguards.
ReplyDelete"Charles Darwin, the man who rose the importance of genetics, married his first cousin" was situational irony, he was the one who stressed about the gene pool and ended up marrying his cousin, which was not very bright.
ReplyDeletethe drowning man is situational irony
ReplyDeletebecause there were a bunch of lifeguards around him who should have been there to save him from being drowned
The second story was situational irony. It is situational because the person who drowned was surrounded by lifeguards.
ReplyDeleteThe story about a man drowning at a party is a type of situational irony. You would think that would be the safest party since there was over one hundred lifeguards and they're celebrating a whole summer without any deaths but then a man drowned.
ReplyDeleteI read the first paragraph. I found situational irony in it because the man was kicked out of his school at age 12, later the headmaster who kicked him out asked him to come back and paint a portrait of him.
ReplyDeleteThe second story is situational irony because the lifeguards were celebrating not having anyone drown in the pool and then a guy drowns in the pool surrounded by lifeguards.
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