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mattiooo
09-12-2018, 11:00
Author of How to Murder Your Husband charged with murdering her husband

Authorities in Oregon say 68-year-old romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy was arrested for allegedly gunning down her husband at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland in June. In 2011, Crampton Brophy wrote an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband."

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/09/romance_novelist_accused_of_ki.html
10x
09-12-2018, 12:15
That should be banned. Might give some wives ideas.
cstone
09-12-2018, 15:24
That should be banned. Might give some wives ideas.

Killed or castrated; pretty tough choice when it comes to the person you are sleeping with in the same bed.
Duman
09-12-2018, 17:13
I'm surprised it took 3-months to arrest her...
Gman
09-12-2018, 18:12
Saw this earlier. I was joking with the wife, I wonder if she started with, "So here's how I did it..."
beast556
09-12-2018, 21:12
No shortage of crazy!!!!
Great-Kazoo
09-13-2018, 08:33
I'm surprised it took 3-months to arrest her...

Any earlier and the NOW/Pink hats would have been in the streets protesting it was a bias arrest, because she is female
izzy
09-13-2018, 08:44
That book is all foreshadow.
Duman
09-13-2018, 15:38
That book is all foreshadow.

Foreplay? [Coffee]
mb504
09-13-2018, 16:27
Just get concerned when your wife starts to watch "Snapped"
Jim B
09-13-2018, 18:33
Author of How to Murder Your Husband charged with murdering her husband
Is that even irony? [Dunno]
mattiooo
09-13-2018, 18:38
Is that even irony? [Dunno]

Absolutely.
Jim B
09-13-2018, 19:00
Absolutely.
No, it isn't.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/irony

irony1
[ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]

noun, plural i·ro·nies.
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
Literature.
a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
(especially in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
Socratic irony.

She didn't use words to convey the opposite meaning of what literally happened. She a book titled How to Murder Your Husband and she literally (allegedly) murdered her husband. Not the opposite. And rain on your wedding day isn't ironic. It's just bad luck.
mattiooo
09-13-2018, 19:08
You left one out:

a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.