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This puzzle answer is ridiculous right?

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Parkandride · 04/02/2021 19:12

Two men went into a restaurant. They both ordered the same dish from the menu. After they tasted it, one of the men went outside the restaurant and shot himself. Why?

I'll put the answer below incase you want to guess. But I can't see how the hell you could ever reach this conclusion Confused

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LOTM · 04/02/2021 22:00

@HappyTimeTunnelDinosaur - I suspect the victim had lacerations to both wrists and lost a lot of blood ;)

parietal · 04/02/2021 22:01

I need some clues on the phone box one
was the man murdered?

parietal · 04/02/2021 22:02

there was some impossible puzzle on MN a few years ago where the clues were something about a letter for Boswell. I don't know if anyone ever got the answer

EmmaGrundyForPM · 04/02/2021 22:07

@Parkandride

What is Boswell??
God knows. I was on the original Boswells thread and none of us had a clue
WineInTheWillows · 04/02/2021 22:09

@Parkandride

What is Boswell??
An infuriating thread which, I maintain to this day, was started by an ingenious troll.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3441291-to-ask-for-your-help-solving-this-impossible-riddle-joke

LOTM · 04/02/2021 22:15

This was one of the final Boswell posts...

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Picture the scene. Christmas 1993. Uncle Knobhead is a bit tipsy and regaling the fam with more hilarious tales. He starts another story with the words:

"There was a man whose name was Boswell, for short they called him Bos, andhewalkedupthepostofficesteps..."

And quick as a flash someone wittily intercepted with "that's not short for Boswell!!"

And how they all laughed. Auntie Janice peed her pants, mum dropped the sprouts and the Bos joke was immortalised for ever. It may well have been quite funny at the time but you probably had to be there.

HighHeelBoots · 04/02/2021 22:19

We did that at school. You could ask questions and get a yes or no answer. There was a man in a lift one that was on the same lines
We did get to the tight answer

WineInTheWillows · 04/02/2021 22:19

I like to think it's,

'There once was a man called Boswell. Four short, they called him Bos. And he walked up the post office steps (to get his missing letters).'

In my head, that's the answer.

BertieBotts · 04/02/2021 22:22

If the men were BOTH on the island, why didn't they both have a visceral reaction to realising that they had never eaten albatross before?

This makes no sense! Is the other one a psychopath or did he just already know?

BertieBotts · 04/02/2021 22:22

Oh not fucking Boswell again. That haunted my dreams.

InterfectoremVulpes · 04/02/2021 22:23

THEN WHO WAS PHONE!!! 😯

WineInTheWillows · 04/02/2021 22:24

@BertieBotts

Oh not fucking Boswell again. That haunted my dreams.
"NO, BOSWELL, DON'T GO UP THE STEPS!

WHY, BOSWELL??

WHHHHHY?"

Grin
LOTM · 04/02/2021 22:25

@Interfectoreumvulpes... if you listen carefully you can hear the person on the other of the line saying "How big?"

Doyoumind · 04/02/2021 22:32

These really take me back.

But please, no more Boswell.

spaceghetto · 04/02/2021 22:42

I remember there used to be a game called Mindbreaker or something. I got it for my parents one year for Christmas. I spent weeks reading the questions and learning the answers. They wanted to get me Mensa tested 🤣

TimeIhadaNameChange · 04/02/2021 23:36

I like these!

The ones I remember are:

a) a deep sea diver is found in the middle of a burnt rain-forest. Explain.

b) a woman jumps from a 20 storey window. She hears a phone ring. She screams. Why?

MindGrapes · 04/02/2021 23:44

Hmm, (b) must be something to do with losing her hearing, or thinking she had.
Reminds me of a Jonathan Creek episode.

snappedandfarted123 · 05/02/2021 00:46

A) they had to suck up water from the sea to drop on the forest fire e.g. from a helicopter and the diver got sucked up by accident?

snappedandfarted123 · 05/02/2021 00:48

B) she's jumping from a burning building into a sheet being held by people below, one of their phones rings meaning their going to answer it and drop the sheet

DoCVideoCall · 05/02/2021 01:07

This is a very 1980s Christmas Day evening type riddle. Or caravan holiday in Norfolk in the rain. My dad loved them and we used to spend hours doing them.

My favourite was
A bell rings. A man dies. A bell rings. Why?

DoCVideoCall · 05/02/2021 01:09

A: a blind man goes sea swimming (?) and sets an alarm clock on the shore to tell him the direction to swim to (?) but instead he swims towards bouy whose bell is ringing and drowns.

theThreeofWeevils · 05/02/2021 07:25

DH was googling puzzles for us
LTB

HappyTimeTunnelDinosaur · 05/02/2021 07:30

Sorry for being slow, I fell asleep early!

@Parkandride Exactly, he had been fishing and caught a massive fish, rang his wife to tell her and stretched out his arms to demonstrate saying 'It was this big.' His wrists were slashed as he broke the glass on either side of him, he then bled to death. Delightful really.

Buntysbosom · 05/02/2021 08:01

@BertieBotts

If the men were BOTH on the island, why didn't they both have a visceral reaction to realising that they had never eaten albatross before?

This makes no sense! Is the other one a psychopath or did he just already know?

@BertieBotts I thought it was because the other one was the one that cooked up/ fed them his son?
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Parkandride · 05/02/2021 08:50

@theThreeofWeevils

DH was googling puzzles for us LTB
My first LTB! And totally justified

Hmm @TimeIhadaNameChange all I can think for the phone ringing one is shes waiting for a bloke to call, thinks he's not interested and kills herself. Which is horrible. Not sure that's it though

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