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[challenge entry] It would have been inevitable...

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(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:02, archived)
# yes it would have been
NOT
(I helped save b3ta! the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:03, archived)
# Was that "not" said in an American accent?
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:03, archived)
# no, in a strong west country drone
(I helped save b3ta! the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:04, archived)
# It was irony...
Apparently it's not only American's who can't appreciate it.
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:05, archived)
# yes, canadians confuse irony with 'mildly irritating'
(I helped save b3ta! the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:06, archived)
# *furrows brow*
No we don't.
(Rogue Sausage, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:09, archived)
# well, Alanus Nicorette does
(I helped save b3ta! the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:10, archived)
# but surely if all the things she talks about in the song aren't ironic
it makes the whole song ironic by default?
(I helped save b3ta! DeKay There's jam in the bath!, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:11, archived)
# blimey
that's deep
*ponders*
(I helped save b3ta! the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:12, archived)
# I like to think this is what she was getting at.
But I don't think it is.
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:14, archived)
# Scroll down to
Linguistic controversy.

Can't believe I'm defending that daft bint.
(Rogue Sausage, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:23, archived)
# Still...
as Oxford dictionary said there was some irony in the song, Alanis is still wrong.
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:31, archived)
# If it's any consolation...
I've added an ellipsis for people who haven't understood the competition this week.
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:09, archived)
# aar I hear that bey!
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:17, archived)
# I hope the god the
resistance would have be violent and bloody
(I helped save b3ta! Neon Blue Ah ha ha haa! I feel positively capital!, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:09, archived)
# Yes.
It's a well known fact that the Americans exterminated all those silly 'human statues' at the end of the war.
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:19, archived)
# READ THE COMPO.
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:34, archived)
# and?
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:43, archived)
# weep?
(I helped save b3ta! the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:43, archived)
# *weeps*
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:45, archived)
# That is sadly so true
We needed the Americans to manufacture parts for us as the Nazis had bombed us to shit.

Of course, the Americans charged twice as much, because we have a 'special' relationship, and then stole all our technology.
Then they patented it and sued us for breach of patent if we dared to export it anywere.
Which is how they became a superpower.
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:21, archived)
# As British generals
used Canadian and Australian soldiers as cannon fodder, my sympathy is fucking nil.
(Rogue Sausage, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:26, archived)
# and Indian
don't forget Indian
(I helped save b3ta! the wild elk Freeing excellence affects reality, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:27, archived)
# IT BEGINS!
(I helped save b3ta! mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 8:30, archived)