A blog I found in my web stat referrer log posted this, and cracked me up:

What Irony Is Not

Irony can be humorous, but most humour is not ironic. Some informative examples of what irony is not come, ironically, from the Alanis Morissette song 'Ironic'. Here are a few.

• An old man turned 98/He won the lottery and died the next day - Tragedy, not irony.
• It's a black fly in your chardonnay - Bummer but not ironic (although there is arguably some irony in the fly being black, however this does at least mean you don't ingest it with the drink).
• It's a death row pardon two minutes too late - Not irony, just another example of why the death penalty is fatally flawed.
• It's like rain on your wedding day - Not even close, unless you've gone from Manchester to Hawaii for your wedding and get the first rain in August for 30 years, while Manchester experiences glorious sunshine, and how likely is that?
• A traffic jam when you're already late - certainly fails the 'unexpected' criterion.
• A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break - more of a life-saver than an irony, that.
• It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife - Not unless you are in the Acme Knife Factory being approached by a mad axeman and reach behind you for a weapon, only to find that you're in the newly-opened spoon department.

Source:BBC - h2g2 - Irony - A700958

All of those sound like irony to me....