The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm delivers the perfect bathroom reading material. Not that you give a crap, as the author might say. James Napoli, who bills himself on the cover as executive vice ...

It’s funny how sarcasm is associated with humor. “To tear flesh like a dog,” is not a jolly image, but the word nonetheless derives from the Greek sarkazein, meaning just that. It evolved to mean “to ...

What do the phrases "Nice job," "Very funny," and "That was clever" all have in common? Each statement in its literal form reads as socially appropriate praise, but in spoken word may more closely ...