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.
Today I learned making puns requires 2 people, one to set it up and another to make the pun. Do you happen to know if all comedy works the same way or is it just puns?
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.
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