poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on The Man I Love by Dovina.

zodiac18 Feb 2005

He means, the following conversation cannot exist except under the most bumbling of circumstances:

-=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.: I don't like Polynesians.
Dovina: Racist.
-=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.: I was being ironic.
Dovina: Oh. So was I.

Irony means the person perpetrating it knows some truth different from the one he's asserting (note: correct usage). You didn't, and still don't.