Pubdate: Thu, 16 Aug 2007
Source: NOW Magazine (CN ON)
Copyright: 2007 NOW Communications Inc.
Contact:  http://www.nowtoronto.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n947/a03.html
Author: Andrew Ryan Fox

IRONY OR JUST A COINCIDENCE?

I hate to drop the Alanis Morissette label on you, but I'm gonna be 
the English geek for just a second here. A lawyer named Roach 
fighting against pot laws is coincidence, not irony (NOW, August 9-15).

If a lawyer named Roach were defending tough pot laws on behalf of 
the government, a case could be made for it being ironic (situational 
irony occurring when the results of a situation are far different 
from what's expected), but otherwise it's not.

Now, obviously, your first reaction will be to call me a stickler or 
anal or something like that, but y'all led with it, and you're 
supposed to be writers. Don't be cliches. No one wants to be compared 
to Alanis.

Andrew Ryan Fox

Toronto
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