Dr. Dumbass wrote: > > I like Curtis, but I found him to be emotionally duplicitous - that > > means acting one way, while feeling another. Barry remarked: > Whereas you felt completely comfortable with Robin's overuse > (combined with bad writing) of "irony," the very definition of > which is saying one thing and meaning another. I understand. :-) Irony is designed to be understood as such, and most people know it when they see it. But Barry has always had a hard time recognizing irony, which is one big reason why Robin made him so uncomfortable--he could never be sure when Robin was being ironic.
Curtis, in stark contrast, went to considerable lengths to hide his emotional duplicity. Barry's never been good at detecting that either, which is why he describes Curtis as "WYSIWYG."
