This puzzle answer is ridiculous right?

[Parkandride]

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

I like the Boswell one!

That’s funny 😄. I just read some of the Boswell thread. It’s not quite how we tell it here (the version told to me by a family member is an actual riddle with a request to give his name and occupation), so now I’m going to have to find out from my SIL whether hers is “the family” in the thread.

@TimeIhadaNameChange

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?

b) ringing to say diagnosis of terminal cancer mistaken?

@LastStarFighter

That’s funny 😄. I just read some of the Boswell thread. It’s not quite how we tell it here (the version told to me by a family member is an actual riddle with a request to give his name and occupation), so now I’m going to have to find out from my SIL whether hers is “the family” in the thread.

Gah.... OK, I'll bite.

What's the version you know?

What - Boswell is a riddle now????

My brain has only just recovered from the original thread.

@WineInTheWillows it’s a verbal joke. Doesn’t work so well written down (unless there is a trick to writing it).

There is a man call Bosswell and for short they call him Boss and he walks into the post office in the morning. What is his name and occupation?
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Andrew Bosswell. Post Master.

It’s a bad joke but made me laugh when I first heard it. Not worth a 20 year wait per the linked thread though! Disclaimer - having read the first few pages of the linked thread I’m now not entirely sure the wording is right, but I think it’s close.

(There is a man called Bosswell. “And” for short. They call him boss. And - HE walks INTO the post office in the morning.) I remember SIL having to explain to me that only the postmaster, the boss, would be entering the building as the others left. I think it’s quite an old joke though because it must be at least 10 or maybe 15 years since SIL told me, and I don’t think the punchline really works since the separation of the Post Office and Royal Mail, and also now that now postmen start later (they used to start very early and have deliveries done before 8am, often to get on to 2nd jobs, so they were starting at night whereas the boss was starting at normal office hours)

A man and his son were involved in a road accident and were taken to separate hospitals.

The son was taken into A&E and then to theatre where the surgeon gasped, 'I can't operate on this boy he is my son'

How can this be?

What the hell? That Boswell riddle drove us mad for ages. I can't believe the op left the question off the end and I can't believe you know the bloody riddle @LastStarFighter. We all thought she was a troll and making it up 😂

We need to tell the whole of Mumsnet the Boswell riddle is solved. Please please please start a new thread announcing BOSWELL IS SOLVED LastStarFighter 🙏🏻

@NannyGythaOgg Is the surgeon a woman, so his mum? Or a gay man, so his other dad?

@NannyGythaOgg

A man and his son were involved in a road accident and were taken to separate hospitals.

The son was taken into A&E and then to theatre where the surgeon gasped, 'I can't operate on this boy he is my son'

How can this be?

The surgeon is his mother, that one's a classic

If you look at the original Boswell thread, similar answers were suggested several times but the OP of the thread insisted they weren't correct.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3441291-to-ask-for-your-help-solving-this-impossible-riddle-joke?pg=2

I agree it's the only logical answer though.

[quote HappyTimeTunnelDinosaur]@NannyGythaOgg Is the surgeon a woman, so his mum? Or a gay man, so his other dad?[/quote]
Yep the surgeon is his mother.

I used to use this as part of equality training and it never failed to amaze me how few people got it, even though the training was about equality

If you look at the original Boswell thread, similar answers were suggested several times but the OP of the thread insisted they weren't correct.

The OP insisted she said it correctly too. She even checked with her friend at the time and she confirmed it was correct but she still didn't mention the actual question at the end 🤪
And you're right she even said posters were wrong with those answers.

@TimeIhadaNameChange

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?

B) is that something happened and the woman thought she was the last human alive, jumps out of the window and then hears the phone ringing so she knows she’s not

@NannyGythaOgg

A man and his son were involved in a road accident and were taken to separate hospitals.

The son was taken into A&E and then to theatre where the surgeon gasped, 'I can't operate on this boy he is my son'

How can this be?

It’s his mother.

I remember being absolutely baffled by this one at school.

Well, I’m glad to be of assistance 😁

I texted SIL who says she doesn’t think I have the ending of it quite right so she is going to check with her sister. She says it is a “family riddle” but not in a secret way. Apparently it was a tradition when the siblings were all younger (all 60+ now) to make up riddles to be told at family events like Christmas.

Possible it’s a different variation of the same riddle in the other thread? These things do evolve once told.

Did my thread solve Boswell!??

@Parkandride Yes! It's the old, old story - you always find the thing you've been searching for when you're not looking for at.

Your thread is going to be cited now whenever anyone refers to Boswell.

Oh my Christ, I can't believe it, Boswell was a real thing that just got massively garbled in the 'original' poster's telling of it?

(Something about 'walking up the post office steps'...?!)

I'm simultaneously overjoyed it's a real 'riddle' with a real answer and incredibly disappointed it's so shit

BOSWELL IS SOLVED?!!! Someone needs to tag the OP of the Boswell thread.

[quote LastStarFighter]@WineInTheWillows it’s a verbal joke. Doesn’t work so well written down (unless there is a trick to writing it).

There is a man call Bosswell and for short they call him Boss and he walks into the post office in the morning. What is his name and occupation?
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Andrew Bosswell. Post Master.

It’s a bad joke but made me laugh when I first heard it. Not worth a 20 year wait per the linked thread though! Disclaimer - having read the first few pages of the linked thread I’m now not entirely sure the wording is right, but I think it’s close.

(There is a man called Bosswell. “And” for short. They call him boss. And - HE walks INTO the post office in the morning.) I remember SIL having to explain to me that only the postmaster, the boss, would be entering the building as the others left. I think it’s quite an old joke though because it must be at least 10 or maybe 15 years since SIL told me, and I don’t think the punchline really works since the separation of the Post Office and Royal Mail, and also now that now postmen start later (they used to start very early and have deliveries done before 8am, often to get on to 2nd jobs, so they were starting at night whereas the boss was starting at normal office hours)[/quote]
OH MY GOD.

You just became a MN legend.

Thank you @LastStarFighter!

Please make a thread entitled, 'Boswell solved!'

I'm simultaneously overjoyed it's a real 'riddle' with a real answer and incredibly disappointed it's so shit

Agreed. So good to actually know though!

Moving on from fucking Boswell.

A man pushes his car to to a hotel and when he arrives there he becomes bankrupt.

What is going on?

There should only be one "to" in that sentence!
It's not a sneaky part of the riddle.