Memory Game Irony vs. CoincidenceOnline version Matching examples of situational irony with the coincidental counterparts by Barbara Conway A man named "Art" is an artist. Your friend’s father, who is a famous gardener, has no healthy plants in his home's garden. A family's pool filter explodes on the hottest day of the year. A computer pop-up ad says, "Remove all ads!" A famous gardener buys an expensive shrub to plant in his garden the same day the highway department digs up his yard to widen the road. Jim was stung by six bees after clearing out a storage room at the insecticide factory. A pool filter explodes at the home of the inventor of non-explosive pool devices. Dracula is killed by blood-sucking spiders at the Annual Insecticide Ball. A farmer plants peppers on his farm and gets heartburn after eating at Taco Bell the next day. The Washington Redskins played the Plymouth Pilgrims on Thanksgiving Day. A social media diva insults her followers on Facebook. My sister was nicknamed Melody after refusing to sing or whistle ever again. An ad for computer sales pops up on your laptop the day after you finally bought your computer. A chili farmer never cooks or eats spicy food. A social media critic uses Facebook to campaign against social media. A snowstorm strikes Denver on the only day in history it has never snowed anywhere on the East Coast. Dracula swallows a dead fly that was floating in his glass of blood-red fruit punch. A snowstorm strikes Denver on the day the snowplows are in the mechanic’s garage being serviced. At Walmart, Jim found a nest of bees inside a carton of insecticide cans. The first football team to sign a contract against inter-team violence was named Washington Warriors.
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