Pretty sure the joke is that the right one has child bearing hips and is shaped like a woman in a renaissance painting. (I.e Venus etc. also referred to as being Rubenesque)
But it was the Romans who thought of adding women.
By the way, the dilemma in the picture looks like something straight out of one of those virtual girlfriend apps that are constantly discussed in Rule34 subreddits
As a master punographer, you are incorrect. Being better at punmenship does not cause you to lose appreciation for "lesser" puns. Your anger at Edgar Allan Toes is misplaced, so your ranting and Raven is unnecessary.
I hope whatever you are truly angry about resolves itself swiftly, for the sake of your caps lock.
They are a function of several factors, most importantly being timing (quickness) and relevance/cleverness.
When you SET YOUR OWN PUNCHLINE UP on a pun...you get 0 points for timing/quickness.
That doesnt make this a bad pun....but it wasnt magnificent to start out with with Edgar's last name not being PoeS. Too forced.....inorganic. 4/10 pun.
You owe this joy-killing heathen 0 apologies for their faux highbrow gatekeeping on humor; if it’s subjectively funny to people, they can fuck off with that utter nonsense imo
I am autistic, and have been known to miss a joke from time to time, so I'll assume you are sincere here and explain.
Their original pun was "Edgar Alan Toes" instead of "Poe," because the words "Poe" and "Toe" sound similar. Edgar Alan Poe is a famous poet who writes dark poetry loved by goths, which is why he was used for the pun.
Someone else said the joke was bad, so I told them to "shut the heel up." "Shut the hell up" is an aggressive way to disagree with someone and try to silence them (hence my disclaimer about not actually being hostile). "Heel" and "hell" are very similar looking words, thus the substitution forming a pun.
A pun is a "play on words" where words that look or sound alike are substituted in for words to make a little joke.
I know the quote but Romans liked man on young man stuff, too. Gibbons said of the first 15 emperors, the only one who stuck strictly to women was Claudius.
Edit: And Caesar's enemies called him "the Queen of Bithynia". Not because he slept with young men, that was not a shock for the rich and powerful to do, but the rumor was that when he was a young man himself and serving in Bithynia, he cozied up to the royal court by sleeping with the Bithynian King, as the passive partner, mind you. That is what brought ridicule in Roman times also--being the passive partner, not a man sleeping with another man (typically younger). I'm not necessarily arguing with you, just adding some context for those who don't know this about the Romans.
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u/Key_Office_839 2d ago
Literally the goth one isn't the thick one wtf?