Life's little ironies

[Teddy Eagle]

Garry Pankhurst, the young star of Skippy (What's that Skip? A helicopter crashed out by the old opal mine?) later started a business exporting kangaroo meat.

 

[Badger11]

Alanis Morissette was criticised for her lyrics by an American society for the use of good English. They felt she embarrassed America to the rest of the world.

Alanis is actually Canadian, now that's ironic.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

When you are a 'made man' in the Mafia, or other high ranking capo, nobody can kill you. And you often see all the mafia fellas going bonkers when a nobody takes out one of their brethren. 'he broke da rules'.

i mean duh....

either irony or more likely hypocrisy.

Irony.

Hannibal Barkah was intent on the destruction of Rome. And he taught them how to be brilliant military strategists. Thus forging Rome into a superpower for the next half millennium.

The Russian revolution was aiming to unshackle the peasants from a nasty oppressive overbearing violent tyranny.

Irony.....the key proponents of many clubs are not actually a part of that club. The Surrealist painter movement expelled Salvador Dali.
Einstein was rejected from physics circles in Germany because his mathematics were 'too jewish'.

Charles II, leader of the Church of England, converted to Catholicism on his deathbed - and had probably always been a secret Catholic.
Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Much of the charity work of Jimmy Savile was directed to helping children.
Charlemagne preached the loving forgiveness of Christ by murdering those who were reluctant to convert.
El Cid, who defended Christian Spain from the Moors, was himself a Moor.
Peace & Love campaigner, John Lennon was notoriously aggressive.
The irish Governments top man for spearheading the irish language revival was himself incapable of stringing a sentence together in that language.

Syd Barrett , credited as the creative inspiration behind Pink Floyd, had left the band before all the Platinum albums.

 

[ASCPFC]

When you are a 'made man' in the Mafia, or other high ranking capo, nobody can kill you. And you often see all the mafia fellas going bonkers when a nobody takes out one of their brethren. 'he broke da rules'.

i mean duh....

either irony or more likely hypocrisy.

Irony.

Hannibal Barkah was intent on the destruction of Rome. And he taught them how to be brilliant military strategists. Thus forging Rome into a superpower for the next half millennium.

The Russian revolution was aiming to unshackle the peasants from a nasty oppressive overbearing violent tyranny.

Irony.....the key proponents of many clubs are not actually a part of that club. The Surrealist painter movement expelled Salvador Dali.
Einstein was rejected from physics circles in Germany because his mathematics were 'too jewish'.

Charles II, leader of the Church of England, converted to Catholicism on his deathbed - and had probably always been a secret Catholic.
Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Much of the charity work of Jimmy Savile was directed to helping children.
Charlemagne preached the loving forgiveness of Christ by murdering those who were reluctant to convert.
El Cid, who defended Christian Spain from the Moors, was himself a Moor.
Peace & Love campaigner, John Lennon was notoriously aggressive.
The irish Governments top man for spearheading the irish language revival was himself incapable of stringing a sentence together in that language.

Syd Barrett , credited as the creative inspiration behind Pink Floyd, had left the band before all the Platinum albums.

Just one thing for you here. El Cid worked with the Moors but he wasn't a Moor. He pretty much worked with everyone.

 

[mezzer]

A dwarf went into the library and said "Do you have any books on irony?"
"Yes. They're over there on the top shelf."

 

[Eagleman13]

Just one thing for you here. El Cid worked with the Moors but he wasn't a Moor. He pretty much worked with everyone.

Charlton Heston was El Cid . . . so there. 😉

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Just one thing for you here. El Cid worked with the Moors but he wasn't a Moor. He pretty much worked with everyone.

actually you are correct. He had worked for the Moors previously, but wasn't one.

however, Brian Boru is often credited with expelling the Vikings out of Ireland. A lesser known fact was the huge number of Vikings in his own army.

Another irony : 1066 , William the Conqueror established dominion over the England & the English. A lesser known fact was that nearly half his army were Breton. The Breton descendants of the Celtic Britons that the Anglo-Saxons had kicked out half a century earlier. Breton speakers of a language derived from Welsh. Less of a foreign hostile invasion than a legal re-possession of a house from some squatters.