Irony is the lowest form of humour...but its still funny..!

Andrea Pininfarina, head of the family company that designs cars for Ferrari, Fiat and Ford, has been killed in a road accident in Italy while riding his Vespa scooter.

For those of you who have had your brain beside you on a desk in a jar of formaldehyde you won't be privy to who the Pininfarina's are. Anyone who hasn't had a lobotomy will know they design some of the most beautiful, and subsequently most expensive, 'motor vehicles' in the world. I use the term motor vehicle with apprehension, the only manner they can be defined as being vehicles in is when they take you to heaven as a burning Nordic eulogy pyre.

Alanis Morisette used to be the linguistic queen of ironic prose with her catchy song lyric phrases and she emphatically entrenched her title when her boyfriend of many years dumped her for Scarlett Johansson. (if the irony is lost on you it is because Alanis is officially the worst looking female celebrity whereas Scarlett is in the top 3 on the other end of the scale) However, step aside Alanis, or just be joined on your regal throne by the king of irony, Andrea Pininfarina.


A designer of the most amazing cars, dies on a scooter!

I am not for a second advocating that it is cooler or more prestigious dying in a flaming Ferrari that you've smashed into a Mediterranean cliff face at 350km/hour than being sideswiped whilst doing 60km an hour somewhere north of Turin by a delivery van commuting Italian bread! But that doesn't change the fact that it is. Fact.