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* ''The Outcast of [[Redwall]]'' features a hare nicknamed Jodd. His [[Overly Long Name|full name]] results in this trope, and in the end we only hear ''part'' of it. {{spoiler|According to the official website's "Ask Brian" feature, it's ""Wilthurio Longbarrow Sackfirth Toxophola Fedlric Fritillary Wilfrand Hurdleframe Longarrow Leawelt Pugnacio Cinnabar Hillwether Jodrellio".}}

* ''The Golden Globe'' by [[John Varley]] averts [[Forbidden Fruit]] in this regard: to show that you don't want to know how Charonians have sex, you're given a description of their coming-of-age ceremony. For context, Charonians [[Good Thing You Can Heal|regenerate quickly]] and worship pain, and the ceremony itself is either [[Narm]] or [[Nausea Fuel]].

{{quote|'''Anghammarad''': "Neither Deluge Nor Ice Storm Nor The Black Silence Of The Netherhells Shall Stay These Messengers About Their Sacred Business. Do Not Ask Us About Sabre-Tooth Tigers, Tar Pits, Big Green Things With Teeth Or The Goddess Czol." [...]

'''Moist''': "The goddess Czol?"

'''Anghammarad''': "Do Not Ask." }}

*** Similarly, the modern post office declares that neither sleet nor snow nor gloom of night shall stay these messengers about their business, with it's own "don't arsk us about" list. Mrs. Cake appears twice.

* Subverted and inverted early on in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]], when Arthur takes the precaution of asking Ford, "if I were to ask you where the hell we were, would I regret it?" Ford cuts to the chase and tells him where they are. Arthur was probably happier when he didn't know.

* Used in a decidedly non-comedic fashion in ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'', when [[Shell Shocked Senior]] Camaris refuses to tell the protagonists about his mysterious past that led to a [[Heroic BSOD]], on the grounds that it's too shameful. He does confess it twice, once to a priest and once to [[The Wise Prince|Prince Josua]], and both emerge from the experience wishing they hadn't been told. At the end, it's revealed that he's {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Josua's father]]}}, and lived his life afterwards in misery over his weakness and the subsequent [[Death by Childbirth]] of the woman in question.

 

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