Ironically

[Robert Fitzke]

One other interpretive possibility occurs to me: Armstrong could have been
referring to the yellow jersey awarded to each day's winner. The irony being
a yellow stripe on the shoe just for the purchase vs. the hard work needed
to win the yellow jersey on each day's  lap.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Smith" <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: Ironically


> The irony, if there is any, is naming a running shoe
> after Lance, but that doesn't seem to be what he is
> speaking of.
>
>
>
> --- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
>> Here's a paradigm case of  "ironically" used to mean
>> "surprisingly" (or maybe even "actually"?)with no
>> evident "irony" intended.
>>
>> Lance Armstrong was being interviewed on _Fox &
>> Friends_ about the coming Tour de France and about a
>> new Nike running shoe named after him.
>>
>> "And what is the meaning of this yellow stripe on
>> the [side of the] shoe?"
>>
>> "Ironically, there are people who study color and
>> what colors mean to people, and the yellow
>> represents [the color of my jersey]."
>
>
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