I think I may have mentioned this before, but there’s a natty little feature on this blog that allows me to see how people stumble across my occasional ramblings.
The part that has started to amuse me (sad, I know) is the Search Engine Terms section. This keeps a log of the words people have typed into their search engine which led them to my site. (There are, for example, a fair few people who — for reasons best known to themselves — type “spacemonkeygaz” into Google, as opposed to the far more laborious task of typing it in the address bar and adding “.com”)
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Irony
In literary terms irony (also called dramatic irony or tragic irony) is a technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character’s words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
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This week sees the return of the BBC’s flagship sitcom Gavin and Stacey. That the show is the BBC’s flagship comedy is more a sad indictment on the state of the current output of television comedy in this country than it is praise for the show itself. At the risk of sounding like a bitter, hateful bastard, I like Gavin and Stacey. But I like it in the same way that I like Friends. It’s watchable, fairly harmless and it raises a few chuckles, but it’s rarely brilliant. Read the rest of this entry »
