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A classic...

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Romy7 · 20/05/2008 11:11

from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities - an e-mail sent to all students advertising a seminar on the subject of 'Irony and It's Double'... thought you ladies would appreciate

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Bink · 20/05/2008 11:29

(you know, I actually read that grammatically & thought how interesting (as you do))

Reminds me of once walking across a campus & hearing two academics in front talking about how "a critical position" was open in their department (Literature) - and I immediately (without irony) thought, "Oh I wonder if it's a feminist position, or a new-historical one, or perhaps even structuralism"

ShowOfHands · 20/05/2008 11:33

As an undergraduate in an Arts and Humanities faculty I used to very much enjoy the fact that ours was the only toilet block where the graffiti consisted of Petrarchan sonnets and a bit of earnestly etched Byron. Lordy we were pretentious.

Bink, I thought how interesting too. I can't allow it to be a mistake, it's a horrid thought.

onebatmother · 20/05/2008 11:36

o-ho.

(psst, Romy7, you have my daughter's name. Apart from the 7. Is your daughter R age 7? In which case I think I might know you?)

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Romy7 · 20/05/2008 11:37

The correction came out ten minutes later... but it did make me laugh out loud. I was quite keen to go, but don't think I'll bother now...

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onebatmother · 20/05/2008 11:37

Sheesh.. Like, know you?
I've let myself down, haven't I?

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Romy7 · 20/05/2008 11:39

onebat - no, she's 8... phew, close though, nearly had my cover blown!

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onebatmother · 20/05/2008 11:42

It's a lovely name, isn't it?

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Romy7 · 20/05/2008 11:49

Great name! Case of mistaken identity though - was starting to panic that after posting only six times someone had tagged me! So much for internet anonymity !

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onebatmother · 20/05/2008 11:53

Oh sorry, sorry, didn't mean to make you feel hunted!

Actually I don't really know the person I thought you might be, anyway - I'd just clocked that she had excellent taste in names, and in fact her dd was the only other Romy I'd ever come across.

And relax.

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Romy7 · 20/05/2008 12:17

not that I'm on the run or anything...

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StealthPolarBear · 21/05/2008 08:40

lol
what is the double of irony? I don't even understand that when it's been corrected?

Sanguine · 21/05/2008 10:56

I just assumed that it was a two hour seminar instead of one hour. Is that wrong?

onebatmother · 21/05/2008 14:14

I read it as being a literary theory seminar which will climax with the amusing idea that irony has a doppelganger which is erm.. gawd, I dunno, bathos?

StealthPolarBear · 21/05/2008 16:19

sanguine, if you're right then the sentence is correct, although it could probably do with a comma or some brackets! Interesting, would love to know

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Romy7 · 21/05/2008 19:04

oh sanguine, I nearly spat tea all over my keyboard
I like it here
onebat - did you send out the e-mail?

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onebatmother · 21/05/2008 19:12

was I close? Not really bathos?

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