The Lil' Irony Thread

[Aggie]

   For those flashes of irony from your day-to-day life. 


Just now I was working on writing the Fatigue Management Policy for our OH&S manual...  and nearly nodded off. 

I guess that's still better than when I was catching up on the Drug and Alcohol Policy at home, while having a couple of beer....   

[anthrobabe]

That's good!

I often find myself retyping the "Do Not" lists for the dispatch office while doing some of the Do Not's (like having a soda near at hand ready to spill on the terminal!)
Why do out lists from the walls need retyping?
Are they outdated?
No- they have food on them because dispatchers eat while working and well you can imagine the mess( hey, I might not be the neatest person but I am totally honest about it) we bring tons of paper towels and such but it does not seem to help- even though the biggest sign of all says
"Do Not Eat at the Dispatch Work Stations!"

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

I was once late for a meeting due to unforseen major traffic congestion.

The topic of the meeting was traffic forecasting.

Things that I have not actually seen happen, but would be funny because of their irony:

- rain at the Meterologist Association picnic
- a worker being injured by a falling "### days without an accident" sign

[Alpaca]

(like having a soda near at hand ready to spill on the terminal!)

Funny.. I don't see any "don't eat or drink around the sensitive and expensive state-of-the-art semiconductor instruments" signs here...

(He says as a guy working on the machine across the room takes a drink.)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

The sign should say "No clumsy people eating or drinking on this station"

[Griffin NoName]

Along the same lines but a slight tangent:

A notice in the middle of a field which has the words "Do not throw stones at this notice" on it.

[Alpaca]

That reminds me of a cute phrase I saw on a sign in Central Park in New York. It was in the middle of some sentence - I don't remember the context -  but the phrase was "passive activities."

Oxymoron!

[Aggie]

Heh, or the ever popular "No (pick your verb) beyond this point". 

Uh.... that's a bit tough for us 3-dimensional types, although fine for one-dimesional being, I guess.

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

One question:

Do vegetarians get butterflies in their stomach when in love?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

They get rapidly turning sunflowers? 

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Crime fighters fight crime.

Fire fighters fight fire.

But what do freedom fighters fight?

[Alpaca]

Has anyone done the progress-congress thing yet?

[anthrobabe]

on a fire exit door here at work

"the last person out should make sure no one is left in building"

[Aggie]

Irony probably isn't the right term, but I did get a kick out of seeing an ad for an investment firm in the newspaper promoting 11.8% returns. 

They provided a 1-800 number and said to ask for Rael or Aggie.

I wonder how much you need to invest to get a free clone?