“Irony comes from an ancient Greek word, ‘eirōneía’, which means hypocrisy or feigned ignorance.”

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/situational-irony.html

Wow, the word irony literally mean hypocrisy, but I guess I’ll believe this Cracked article because, well, you know some guy wrote it and, I mean he works for Cracked so… good enough for me.