And the shoemaker couldn't make shoes ....

[shabba4detroit]

Alanis would find this to be ironic ...

link (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/21/roof.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)

[djhutch]

Wow. That's just like rain on your wedding day.

[jackson_cannery]

Isn't this actually ironic? That horrible song is full of things that aren't ironic.

[ToledoTigerFan]

Maybe that was the point. Ironic, eh?

[shabba4detroit]

Isn't this actually ironic? That horrible song is full of things that aren't ironic.

This is really no more ironic than anything Alanis sung about. It is a bizarre coincidence, and a bummer. Roofing magnate dies when his own roof collapses -- not really ironic at all. Incongruous, perhaps.