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[Laurence Horn]

At 6:02 PM -0400 9/5/06, Charles Doyle wrote:
>No, no!  What's IRONIC is growing up in Wichita.  You see, most people DON'T.
>
>--Charlie

Yet ironically some do.

LH

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>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:54:39 -0700
>>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>>Subject: Re: "ironically" again
>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>   "Joe Blow is an aviation artist who created this print of a DC-3
>>landing at the Wichita airport in 1938.  Ironically, Joe grew up in
>>Wichita."
>>
>>   "Joe grew up in Wichita," "Joe even grew up in Wichita," "Joe
>>actually grew up in Wichita," "Joe grew up in Wichita himself," all
>>sound pretty simple-minded in contrast to the unutterable irony of
>>growing up there and then painting a picture of the place decades
>>later.
>>
>>   Goak.
>>
>>   JL
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