All feminism-Alanis-rocks put aside...this guy doesn't really know what he's talking about. Irony is not what's statistically expected, it's what you expect. A man who wins the lottery expects to live the rest of his life happy and rich, dying the next day would be ironic. The black fly in the chardonnay is a Spanish fly, I believe. All of the instances in the song are ironic by the definition of irony which is "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs." Man, that kind of made me angry...kind of makes the saying "irony is wasted on the stupid," take on a whole new meaning. There is, however, the chance I could be wrong, there always is.
It's really an arguement of semantics. To be fair, even your viewpoint on the old man winning the lottery makes it not ironic, the man did probably live the rest of his life happy and rich even if his life was only one day. I don't get the illusion of the Spanish Fly, especially because Spanish flys are green beetles or were you referring to their aphrodisiac properties?
when you win the lottery, you aren't rich until you claim the money. it doesn't exactly take just one day, so he won the lottery and was happy, but never got the money.
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Oh, and that's ^ pretty funny
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Actually, that thing was satirical.
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