The neuroscience of irony: It's a lot more complicated than rain on your wedding day.
Last summer, a spoof of Alanis Morissette's song Ironic went viral after doing what the original did not: describing events that were actually ironic. Morissette famously flubbed the concept in her hit, largely singing about coincidence or bad timing rather than actual irony. The spoof corrected the problems; the "black fly in your chardonnay," for instance, became a chardonnay "specifically purchased to repel black flies."
