Maybe this will get you going

From The Oatmeal's "3 Most Common Uses of Irony" (actually pretty informative).

From The Best of the Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader - Behind the Hits

The Artist: Nivana

The Song: "Smells like Teen Spirit" (1991)

The Story: Before Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain fell for Courtney Love, he dated drummer Tobi Vail in 1991. But she eventually broke it off. One night, one of Vail's bandmates, Kathleen Hanna, was hanging out at Cobain's apartment, listening to him lament the break-up. At some point she grabbed a can of spray pain and scrawled the words, "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit" on Cobain's wall. (Teen Spirit was a deodorant that Vail wore, and her scent was still lingering on Cobain.) The phrase immediately struck him and provided the inspiration for what he later called "the ultimate pop song." "Smells Like Teen Spirit" became the first big hit from Nirvana's seminal album, Nevermind. It reached #6 on the Billboard charts and has since been called the anthem of a generation.

Ironically, Cobain later admitted that he didn't know that Teen Spirit was a deodorant until after the song released -- he would have never knowingly put the name of a mass-produced product for teenagers into the title of one of his song.

Man Fatally Shoots Self While Teaching Girlfriend Lesson on Gun Safety

The RFT provides the latest installment of our ongoing Irony Series, continuously trying to accurately identify that which is ironic (and that which isn't). I submit to you The Curious Case of Mr. Looney.

"According to witnesses, Looney was going to take his girlfriend to the shooting range the next day, but insisted on firearm safety the day prior."

Definition of Irony

His stage name was "The Crippler". This is irony. I apologize for the insensitivity in advance

http://www.ketv.com/cnn-news/19578023/detail.html 

For the Hard Headed that don't know the definition of words

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/11/teen.self.diagnosis/index.html

If you still can't see the irony in this, I'm afraid there's no hope for you. Anyone else have thoughts? Am I the only one around here that gives a shit about the rules? You think I'm fuckin' around MARK IT ZERO!

Irony Series: Part IV

After eight years of symptoms, doctors could not figure out what was wrong with this girl. (These are professionals people). So she diagnosed it herself. Full story here

Mother Nature Throws Us All Another Curveball

AP: "The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming — the very problem wind power seeks to address."

Wouldn't that be a kick in the right nut?

Full Story - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090610/ap_on_sc/us_sci_diminishing_winds

Phoenix man killed in gun-safety demo

Part II in the ongoing "Irony Series" (see Part I)

ARIZONA DAILY STAR

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.18.2009

A 26-year-old Phoenix man accidentally killed himself early Sunday while explaining gun safety to two Sierra Vista residents.

Samuel Benally Jr. was at an apartment on West Tacoma Street when he said guns should be kept unloaded because people could point them at their heads, said Sierra Vista police Sgt. Brett Mitchell.

Benally then demonstrated by putting his own 9mm Ruger, which he believed to be unloaded, to his head and firing it, Mitchell said.

Benally was flown to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Mitchell said.

An investigation is ongoing, but police do not believe alcohol or drugs were involved, Mitchell said.

Kim Smith

i chuckled a long time after reading this

Oil Tanker Saves Carbon-Neutral Yachters
By Kate Galbraith
BBC News The crew of the Fleur, a carbon-free yacht, was rescued by an oil tanker last week.
Carbon-neutral travel on the high seas has its perils.
“An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker,” the BBC reported.
Apparently, a trio of environmentally-minded seamen had set sail from the town of Plymouth in Great Britain on April 19, aiming to make a “carbon neutral” journey to Greenland with the aid of solar power and, of course, the wind.
But the solar panels got “ripped from the yacht” amid rough weather, and the winds – reaching 68 miles per hour – were so harsh that they knocked over the boat (named the “Fleur”) several times.
The sailors issued a Mayday call late last week, and in a twist that has struck some Web commenters as the height of irony, the Overseas Yellowstone, an oil tanker loaded with 680,000 barrels of crude oil, came to their rescue roughly 400 miles off of Ireland’s west coast.
The rescued sailors have expressed “heartfelt thanks” to the tanker’s crew and will reach land in Maine in a few days.
The travails of the sailors feed into a broader debate about the merits of eco-tourism. As this blog’s editor, Tom Zeller Jr., has written in a column, there are important questions about “how to strike a balance between appreciating the natural world through firsthand experience and protecting it by staying away — and staying at home?”
“I think it’s fair to say that ’sustainable tourism’ is an oxymoron,” said Auden Schendler, executive director of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. in Colorado, in the column.
(Our thanks to Bradford Plumer at The Vine for flagging this item.)