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[malachi]

Some get burger, some a whopper

Irony.

Webster's New World Dictionary defines it as "a combination of circumstances or a result that is the opposite of what is or might be expected or considered appropriate." It lists, for example, a firehouse burning down.

Now, compliments of McDonald's Corp., the world's largest purveyor of fast food, Webster's can add a bigger, better example of irony.

It goes like this: A multibillion-dollar corporation that fiercely resisted paying even a pittance of a death benefit to the family of a low-paid restaurant manager killed on the job turned around and happily paid more than $5 million in after-death bonuses and perks to the families of two of its top executives.

"... the opposite of what is... considered appropriate."

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/11370202.htm