That IS Ironic!

Okay - for want of a better way to spend my saturday morning I'm going to find a good, understandable definition for the word ironic. Here goes...

9.53- searched on google for the word ironic.
9.57 - finished sifting through adds for ebay, porn and smileys and found actual definitions.
9.58 - Found one (1) useless definition:

"'Ironic' is the title of a 1995 song written and performed by singer Alanis Morissette, which first appeared on her highly successful debut album Jagged Little Pill.'

9.59 - Another defintion surfaces:

"A mode of literature in which the characters exhibit a power of action inferior to the one assumed to be normal in the reader or audience, or in which the poet's attitude is one of detached objectivity."

Erm...

10.10 - More definitions surface, all of which simply include the word ironic. Not. Helpful.

10.15 -
Hey, what about this one?

“An Irony is a nipping jest, or a speech that hath the honey of pleasantnesse in its mouth, and a sting of a rebuke in its taile.”
E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue, 1656

Mmm - ye olde ironee : p

Right. That's it. I'm going out to do something constructive.

Keep you eyes peeled for any lucid definitions and watch this space for updates!!

-PS - Arnie, you may want to check Jess' addition to the CGF site...
: )

C.