What's Not Ironic is Dave Eggers

Sample: Benji [the dog] was run over by a bus. Isn't that ironic?

NO: That is not ironic. That is unfortunate, but it is not ironic.

Sample: It it ironic that Benji was on way to the vet when he was run over by a bus.

Still: That is not irony. That is a coincidence that might be called eeire.

Sample: It is ironic that Benji was run over on the same day he misused the word ironic.

But see: This is, again, a coincidence. It is wonderfully appropriate that he was run over on this day, deserving as he was of punishment, but it is not ironic.

- Dave Eggers, unironic man.