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Friday 5...Unlucky Events

13/1/2012

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Is a whale dressed as a black cat unlucky?
This is a special Friday 5 (they’re all special, aren’t they) because it falls on Friday the 13th. Oh yeah, trigger warning for all those suffering from friggatriskaidekaphobia. 

We hope you all make it through today without black cats crossing your path. Of course, some people like cats and consider such an encounter as lucky. I think we are all agreed it is hard to feel lucky when a bird poops on you.

One person has a song listing all the things we can unite in considering unlucky. The unlucky thing, as every GCSE English student knows, is that Ms. Morissette was not singing about life’s little ironies so much as life’s little coincidences, or unlucky events in her best known song, Ironic. 

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That's too much Jagged Little Pill for you, Whale
Ah Alanis, the gateway artist to rage filled songs, the woman who wrote the album that made you think… ‘no, no she would not go down on me in a theatrrrrre. Is that a deal-breaker?’

Of course, as Alanis Morissette might tell us, you can’t just TAKE BACK a top 20 single, even on grammatical grounds.

Unfortunately when discussing the misuse of the word ‘irony’ in her single Ironic Alanis said: “I'd always embraced the fact that every once in a while I'd be the malapropism queen”. 

So in honour of it being Friday the 13th and Alanis Morissette’s song Ironic being the very pineapple of pacifically wrong word-use we are using it to take us through 5 unlucky events…

1. Dying the day after a lottery win: Unlucky.

2. Rain on your wedding day: Unlucky

3. Being late in a traffic jam: Unlucky

4. 10,000 spoons and a dearth of knives in your cutlery drawer: Unhinged AND unlucky

5. Living your life strictly to health & safety rules only to die in a plane crash: Unlucky

Hope Friday the 13th turns out to be your lucky day! 


Squeamish Kate & Squeamish Nicola

2 Comments
Gareth
12/1/2012 08:38:13 pm

Rain on your wedding day would only be ironic if you were the High Priest of Ra The Sun God. Or Ra himself I guess.

10000 spoons also suggests a fucking massive cutlery drawer. Good luck managing to open that first thing in the morning when all you want is a teaspoon to fish the bag out of your wake-up tea.

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Squeamish Kate
13/1/2012 12:39:41 am

If you have 10,000 spoons and need a teaspoon I am sure you can improvise a lot better than if you need to slice some bread. THE IRONY.

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