Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.
Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!
Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.
He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.
The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.
It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.
Thunder only happens when it's raining.
It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.
