Life has a funny way of serving up the unexpected, and these funny pictures are prime examples of irony in its purest form. Whether it’s rain on your wedding day or a free ride when you’ve ...

Needless to say, a dog carrying around a “no dogs” sign, for instance, as well as other examples of irony on this list, surely provide some at least somewhat incompatible sights.

There are many who would agree with his own apparently self-denigrating epithet of being an “elegant bullshitter”. It doesn’t get better than irony Goffman’s technique depends on irony.

JON WINOKUR is the author of 20 reference books and anthologies, including, most recently, "The Big Book of Irony." WHEN it was revealed in 2003 that William J. Bennett, author of “The Book of ...