Janice, there's a difference between "funny" and ironic or "funny" and simply using some of the common techniques or ingredients found in funny poems. Most sugar cookie recipes list salt among their ingredients, but that doesn't mean we would say sugar cookies are a "salty" food. I like that Gluck poem, but it's certainly not funny. Why can't we reserve "funny" for things that tend to make us laugh? Gluck doesn't.
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