side question: are there actually any good ones?

question was prompted by seeing a “trumplestiltskin” variant that actually crammed a second pun in there and caused psychic damage. my brain has oublietted the specific phrase but maybe you’ve seen it too

    • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      19 days ago

      I looked it up, and this is true! Via Wikipedia

      Oliver later said that the joke “got out of hand” and never used it on the show again.[33] In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he said, “That joke became old for us very quickly. There’s a reason we didn’t use it again. It really is the song I skip past. It’s ‘Creep.’ It’s a good song, Thom Yorke! It was a good song when he wrote it.”[34]