"What???"

"Grandpa,
what do you
call it when
something is
so overly
something
that it
becomes the
opposite?"
"I don't know
what you're
talking about
there little
girl...???"
"Ok, like if
gas is so high
that you think
it's cheap. Like
gas used to be
$4.50 a gallon
and now that
it's $3.67, we
think that it's
cheap but
actually it's
so NOT cheap."
"Oh...ok....I
see now...um
...I think that you call that 'ironic'."
"No Grandpa, ironic is like rain on your wedding day...
like meeting the man of your dreams and then meeting
his beautiful wife."
"No Alanis...that's not ironic...that's mental...I think what you're
talking about is like when something is so UN-funny that
it's funny. Like when Jerry Lewis does something that's
supposed to be funny, but it's actually so UN-funny, that
it automatically becomes funny, because he thinks he's funny.
And then you're laughing because it's so NOT funny."
"No Grandpa, that's not ironic...that's retarded. Kind of like
how you're having these imaginary conversations with your
granddaughter, but she can barely say the word 'Grandpa',
let alone discuss the differences between irony and retarded."