[Tiresias]

1. Open Dictionary and Thesaurus.
2. Look up "bungle".
3. Scroll down to Thesaurus See word spectrum at adept.
4. See word spectrum at adept.
5. Smile ironically.

I'd be interested to know if this beautifully ironic glitch is local to my dictionary.

[analogika]

I'm seeing

"USAGE NOTE
genius, Wunderkind, grandmaster, virtuoso, prodigy, hotshot, ace, maestro, artist, wizard, conjurer, master, master hand, champion, cognoscente, maven, savant, Admirable Crichton, pantologist, authority, star, professional, pro, oracle, expert, pundit, wiz/whizz, demon, veteran, jack of all trades, dab hand, dab, dead shot, clean hand , crack shot, crackerjack, cracksman, past master, old hand, old soldier, first fiddle, winner, connoisseur, doyen, aficionado, devotee, buff, fan layman, layperson, enthusiast, nonspecialist, amateur, dabbler, dilettante, greenhorn, potterer, trifler, incompetent, hopeless case, dingbat, slow coach, gull, muff, looby, nincompoop, mutt, lurdan, gilly-gawpus, flat, klutz, schlemiel, schmuck, schmendrick, blunderer, botcher, bodger , bumbler, butterfingers, fumbler, duffer, marplot, stumblebum, poor hand, poor shot, prat, lubber, swab, yokel, clown , wally, clod, jackass, clod-hopper, butcher, hack, jackleg, jobber, quack"

[Tiresias]

So it's just me. I feel like such a coachgullmuffloobynincompoopmuttlurdangilly.

[starman]

There's a black fly in my chardonnay.

[Dakar the Fourth]

I waited my whole damn life to take that Oceanic flight 815, and as the plane crashed down I thought, "Well isn't this nice..."

[Mithras]

hackjacklegjobber!

[d4nth3m4n]

car guys will get this.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Ahahaha

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n 

car guys will get this.

beyond the obvious, should the guys actually be driving each others cars?

[Randman]

George Carlin:

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. If two baseball palyers from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father’s it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence. Irony is "a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result." For instance:

If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck, he is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.

If a Kurd, after surviving bloody battle with Saddam Hussein’s army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.

Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now Darryl Stingley’s son plays football, and if the son should become paralyzed while playing, it will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If Darryl Stingley’s son paralyzes someone else, that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes Jack Tatum’s son that will be precisely ironic.

[Dakar the Fourth]

I'm not gonna say "oh what poetic justice." I'm going to say ironic and move on with my life.

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Mithras 

hackjacklegjobber!

Excuse me, but I believe the correct term is shotpratlubberswabyokelclownwallyclodjackassclodho pperbutcherhackjacklegjobberquack.

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n 

car guys will get this.

Regular hinge on a Lambo and the Honda has Lambo hinges?

[TheWOAT]

Isnt incorrectly using the word "irony" a form of irony?

[Tiresias]

To bungle a dictionary entry for bungle is "an amusing state of affairs contrary to what one expects", rather like a spelling mistake on a flyer for a dyslexia seminar, or a Google ad for alcohol coming up on an AA website. Anyone who refutes that these are examples of irony is a fool posing as a pedant.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by King Bob On The Cob 

Regular hinge on a Lambo and the Honda has Lambo hinges?

I believe the quote goes something like:
"Lambo doors: So played out that not even Lambos have them."

[Tiresias]

What was the practical reason for having a door that opens like that anyway? Being able to get out of your car after parking it in a really tight spot?

[Mithras]

In the big mash of letters in Tiresias's screenshot, I thought that I saw the words
hackjack and legjobber.

Upon closer inspection, it's
hack, jackleg, and jobber.

But now I'm fond of the word legjobber, and it's a Googlewhack (until this thread gets indexed, anyway ).

I'd register legjobber.com except that in that context it sounds like a porn site specializing in some kind of very disgusting fetish. Or maybe a blog of photos of people's dogs humping their legs. Either way it's not really a site I'm interested in running...

[ort888]

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

What was the practical reason for having a door that opens like that anyway? Being able to get out of your car after parking it in a really tight spot?

What's the practical reason for $600,000, 600 bhp car to have scissor doors? Really?

[Tiresias]

What's the practical reason for $600,000, 600 bhp car to have scissor doors? Really?

Translation: Dakar has no idea.

[turtle777]

Do you guys also see the irony in Tiresias' definition of irony ?

'Cause I don't

-t

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Do you guys also see the irony in Tiresias' definition of irony ?

'Cause I don't

-t

Dude, you have a point.

[Tiresias]

It's quite simple. The entry for bungle is bungled. It's called Situational Irony.

[besson3c]

How ironic

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

Translation: Dakar has no idea.

The why would I post? The subtlety (or lack thereof) of my phrasing was obviously lost on you.

[Tiresias]

Obviously.

[turtle777]

I think it's ironic that the obvious subtlety of Dakar's phrasing was misunderstood by Tiresias.

But, ironically, I could be wrong.

-t

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

I think it's ironic that the obvious subtlety of Dakar's phrasing was misunderstood by Tiresias.

But, ironically, I could be wrong.

-t

"Obvious subtlety" is an oxymoron. Is that ironic?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

"Obvious subtlety" is an oxymoron. Is that ironic?

*ding ding*

-t

[analogika]

Irony:

http://forums.macnn.com/89/macnn-lou...y/#post3665656

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

Obviously.

Good one.

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[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

Good one.

That's sarcasm, Dakar.

This thread is about irony.

[Dakar the Fourth]

I'm well aware you weren't being genuine there.

This thread didn't need to be about irony to warrant that response anyway.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

So it's just me. I feel like such a coachgullmuffloobynincompoopmuttlurdangilly.

No, it’s not just you, it’s the same here. One long mishmash of a word.