Well, unless he killed a lot of people with his roofing skills, I don't think it qualifies as irony. It's not poetic justice either. Good question. Maybe it's best labeled as a Fortean coincidence.
I think it might be more ironic if the construction of the roof failed (than if he just, say, slipped).
It could also be ironic in the sense that roofing made him, and then a roof unmade him? Or is that just a whatsit... a conundrum?
Or could it be ironic in the sense that he made a freakin' billion dollars off of roofs, and had way too much money to need to be checking out any damn roofs himself? Least of all his own?
We were talking about it at work, and wondered which member of the crew he'd pissed off enough to point him in the direction of a failure waiting to happen.
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Date: 2007-12-21 08:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-21 08:48 pm (UTC)At the very least, I dub it comedy.
It's definitely comedy. It might be irony.
Date: 2007-12-22 12:06 am (UTC)It could also be ironic in the sense that roofing made him, and then a roof unmade him? Or is that just a whatsit... a conundrum?
Or could it be ironic in the sense that he made a freakin' billion dollars off of roofs, and had way too much money to need to be checking out any damn roofs himself? Least of all his own?
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Date: 2007-12-21 11:02 pm (UTC)We did think it ironic.