Irony defined -- by the British, of course, because they did invent the language after all. I'm posting this here because I'm resisting the temptation to send it directly to people.
Favorite part so far: "every one of us, I'd guess, has a friend who engages in an argument, waits patiently until you've said something really trenchant and probably wrong, then cocks his (or her) head to one side and says, "Do you think that's true?" thereafter pursuing each one of your most ridiculous points and challenging them from a perspective of utter (pretended) ignorance. Weirdly, this is never called irony, even though every other bloody thing that anyone ever says is."
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