Ironic street names

[Kniwt]

[xcellntbuy]

We have lots of roads, streets and neighborhoods with "Hill" or "Hills" in south Florida.  T'ain't no hills in south Florida except for the landfills.

[A.J. Bertin]

Isn't it ironic that there's no sign here? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.173382,-78.844929&spn=0.007726,0.016512&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=38.173348,-78.844818&panoid=PgZVe78ymYLVakw50FCmcQ&cbp=12,27.81,,0,14.65

I think the word ironic is being thrown around way too much in this thread. How does the absence of a sign at an intersection constitute irony? I don't follow.

[hobsini2]

One that always gets me in Chicago is not so much the names but where geographically they are in the city. For example, Western Avenue is east of Central Avenue.  There is also a 5th Ave near I-290 and Kedzie Ave that unlike the rest of the numbered avenues that run north-south, actually runs east-west.

[theline]

Isn't it ironic that there's no sign here? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.173382,-78.844929&spn=0.007726,0.016512&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=38.173348,-78.844818&panoid=PgZVe78ymYLVakw50FCmcQ&cbp=12,27.81,,0,14.65

I think the word ironic is being thrown around way too much in this thread. How does the absence of a sign at an intersection constitute irony? I don't follow.

NE2 assumed you would notice that the intersection pictured is Ironic Lane & Thorofare Road. The label reappears in the upper left corner of the picture when you move your mouse.

Thanks to all of you for your excellent submissions. I knew you wouldn't let me down.

[Brandon]

Isn't it ironic that there's no sign here? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.173382,-78.844929&spn=0.007726,0.016512&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=38.173348,-78.844818&panoid=PgZVe78ymYLVakw50FCmcQ&cbp=12,27.81,,0,14.65

I think the word ironic is being thrown around way too much in this thread. How does the absence of a sign at an intersection constitute irony? I don't follow.

NE2 assumed you would notice that the intersection pictured is Ironic Lane & Thorofare Road. The label reappears in the upper left corner of the picture when you move your mouse.

Thanks to all of you for your excellent submissions. I knew you wouldn't let me down.

Ironically, the corner of Thorofare and Ironic lacks a sign denoting which street is which (which, I believe was part of SPUI's point).

[A.J. Bertin]

Isn't it ironic that there's no sign here? http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=38.173382,-78.844929&spn=0.007726,0.016512&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=38.173348,-78.844818&panoid=PgZVe78ymYLVakw50FCmcQ&cbp=12,27.81,,0,14.65

I think the word ironic is being thrown around way too much in this thread. How does the absence of a sign at an intersection constitute irony? I don't follow.

NE2 assumed you would notice that the intersection pictured is Ironic Lane & Thorofare Road. The label reappears in the upper left corner of the picture when you move your mouse.

Oh... haha! I totally missed that. That is quite funny!

[jwolfer]

One of my friends has a degree in English Lit and he hates Allanis Morrisette because almost nothing in the song " Isn't It Ironic" is Ironic.  They are unfortunate events.  Get a few beers in him and he will bring it up without fail.  I point this out in honor of Vince....

Irony is when the complete opposite of what is expected happens.

[1995hoo]

One of my friends has a degree in English Lit and he hates Allanis Morrisette because almost nothing in the song " Isn't It Ironic" is Ironic.  They are unfortunate events.  Get a few beers in him and he will bring it up without fail.  I point this out in honor of Vince....

Irony is when the complete opposite of what is expected happens.

My mother was an English teacher and she introduced the lesson on irony by playing a tape of that song and asking the students if they knew what was wrong with it. Almost none of them ever did. She says she concluded the lesson by telling them to think of the song as "Things That Stink" instead of as "Ironic."

[Alps]

She says she concluded the lesson by telling them to think of the song as "Things That Stink" instead of as "Ironic."

Pooing is cool and unironic.

[1995hoo]

She says she concluded the lesson by telling them to think of the song as "Things That Stink" instead of as "Ironic."

Pooing is cool and unironic.

I don't think the school administration would have appreciated it if she'd said that.

[kphoger]

She says she concluded the lesson by telling them to think of the song as "Things That Stink" instead of as "Ironic."

Pooing is cool and unironic.

If you think you're only going to fart, and you mistakenly poop, does that count as irony?

[kphoger]

We also have a South Street, which is located in downtown Jackson. It runs east & west. There's also a South Drive, which is in west Jackson. It also runs east & west. West Street goes north & south from downtown.

I imagine that's probably more common than South Streets actually running north and south.

[Alps]

She says she concluded the lesson by telling them to think of the song as "Things That Stink" instead of as "Ironic."

Pooing is cool and unironic.

If you think you're only going to fart, and you mistakenly poop, does that count as irony?

I imagine that's probably more common than South Streets actually running north and south.

[kphoger]

Now that's ironic!

[Takumi]

I imagine that's probably more common than South Streets actually running north and south.

Petersburg, VA has one of those. It's divided into North South Street and South South Street.

[cpzilliacus]

I imagine that's probably more common than South Streets actually running north and south.

Frederick, Maryland has a South Street that runs (partly) from west to east, but it turns more to a north-south orientation as it approaches and crosses under I-70, where it passes by a quarry owned by Lafarge North America (but still informally known by many truck drivers as the South Street Quarry) and then becomes Reichs Ford Road.

[tdindy88]

Speaking of the directional streets, I remember a business in the Southern Plaza Shopping Center in Indianapolis that I was in a few weeks ago. The plaza is on East Street (formerly US 31 before the rerouting onto I-465.) Now the roadway is called East Street as it is in the same position as East Street in Downtown (part of the Mile Square with a North, South, East and West Streets as it's original border) even though it doesn't connect to the Downtown East Street. Anyways, long story short, the business card for this business refers to the address as XXXX S.E. Street, they mean South East Street, but to me it looks like Southeast Street.

[Kacie Jane]

I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the opposite.  Here in Bellingham, there's a street that's divided into West North Street and East North Street.  Perhaps it's better that it can't be confused with Westnorth (as opposed to Northwest) but it does come dangerously close to short circuiting my brain.

And for extra brain-twisting fun, there's this intersection that I wasn't aware existed until I pulled up the Goog. http://goo.gl/maps/xQ8Nf  West North Street & West Street.  (No directionals for West Street.)

[triplemultiplex]

One of my friends has a degree in English Lit and he hates Allanis Morrisette because almost nothing in the song " Isn't It Ironic" is Ironic.  They are unfortunate events.  Get a few beers in him and he will bring it up without fail.  I point this out in honor of Vince....

Irony is when the complete opposite of what is expected happens.

Like a song supposedly about irony that contains mostly none.
In that way, "Ironic" is a very ironic song.  Almost as if it was intentional...

[roadman65]

Its ironic in Atlantic City where Pacific Avenue is the closest street to the Atlantic Ocean over Atlantic Avenue one block inland.

[english si]

Irony is when the complete opposite of what is expected happens.

Like a song that is called ironic and suggests a load of things as ironic, none of which are?

My mother was an English teacher and she introduced the lesson on irony by playing a tape of that song and asking the students if they knew what was wrong with it.

• In terms of English, nothing - it's an ironic song, not an English lesson. English teachers' jobs involve understanding genres and being genre-savvy enough to spot the difference between pop song and textbook. I know that Americans struggle with the concept of irony, but an English teacher not spotting irony when giving a lesson in irony... Now isn't that ironic...don't you think. A little too ironic...
  
• In terms of song, Canada needs to apologise for Alanis Morissette, just has they have done for Bryan Adams many, many times...
  
• In terms of teaching people what 'ironic' means, it doesn't work - I mean look here, two people here (and countless more) have failed to get it! But was that the point?

[roadman65]

Irony is when the complete opposite of what is expected happens.

Like a song that is called ironic and suggests a load of things as ironic, none of which are?

My mother was an English teacher and she introduced the lesson on irony by playing a tape of that song and asking the students if they knew what was wrong with it.

• In terms of English, nothing - it's an ironic song, not an English lesson. English teachers' jobs involve understanding genres and being genre-savvy enough to spot the difference between pop song and textbook. I know that Americans struggle with the concept of irony, but an English teacher not spotting irony when giving a lesson in irony... Now isn't that ironic...don't you think. A little too ironic...
  
• In terms of song, Canada needs to apologise for Alanis Morissette, just has they have done for Bryan Adams many, many times...
  
• In terms of teaching people what 'ironic' means, it doesn't work - I mean look here, two people here (and countless more) have failed to get it! But was that the point?

The problem is that world now has become too political  and its meaning is looked at quite differently than it was years ago.  Technical definitions are a thing of th past for some words and the norm now is politically correct.  You have have to learn that many of us here in this world and especially here on this forum are quite politically motivated.  You will get some conversations that can become quite interesting I must say.

[NE2]

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[Brandon]

what

Why?