I NEED MORE ABOUT BOS WELL - solve a riddle part two

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I have just read forty pages of thread and it’s almost full! Let us congregate here for answers!

@IAmaPorcupine I’m accepting that as an answer!!!

IamaPorcupine you sound as if you've baffled yourself!

Waspnest I'm just slightly confused and exhausted really

Yeah....that's it iamaporcupine, you can't tell someone a thing that doesn't exist.

You should start a thread with the answer, so that anyone googling it will find out.

Let's KILL Boswell.

DerekTheWonderdog

Have you a thing for riddles? You posted a weird riddle a few weeks ago on that odd thread about the OPs Dp finding an empty suitcase.

It was an odd post on another odd thread. Funny coincidence to be involved in two riddle based threads in such a short time. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Me too! I'm starting to think it was an attempt to break MN a la Jeffreygate/penisbeaker.

I don't accept that the answer is there is no answer. How dissapointing

@waspnest. Jeffrey gate? What have I missed

How is there an 'answer'? There's no sodding question!!
Or us it like a criptic crossword clue? I never understand them even when I know what the answer is.

Claire I don’t remember all of it but basically MN was hacked one evening, posts were altered/changed, people had vulnerable (username/password) information exposed. It was this big organised attack — we named the attacker, ‘Jeffrey’

It’s like ‘the game’ I lost it reading this so called joke!

Claire A couple of years ago someone/a group hacked into MN, swatted Justine and got the details of lots of posters - everyone had to reset passwords etc, some people deregged they were so worried. Someone named him/her/them Jeffrey.

And it's not like you can start the 'joke' without the preamble about not being able to solve it.
You can't offer it as a stand alone joke.
There is no question, so not a riddle.
You have to set yourself up as a 'non-knower' to get it out there.

Thanks. Jeffrey was before my time here.

Could someone who has apparently solved it at least tell us if it’s worth it?? Or should we all move on with our lives?

@TigerDragonMonkey - see my posts

And once you’ve solved it, you are part of the ‘they’ that call him Bos for short?

If there is no answer, though, I don’t get why someone’s wedding day would be an exception.

Does mumsnet get alerted if someone is using more than 1 username in a thread?

You can name change throughout a thread, yes, it’s not against the ‘rules’.

Pretty shitty though.

Is it called sock puppeting?

It usually is sock puppetry, yes, which is frowned upon, other times it can be a genuine mistake (multiple usernames are allowed).
If OP has sock puppeted(?) here then more reason for a ban I say

This is very very outing so I have namechanged.
I used to work in a 'ahem' certain very specific part of Wiltshire that has been mentioned on this thread. At the time I owned a rescue dog that a previous owner had named Bos.
He would sometimes get called Boswell or Bosley (by me and DH). If he had jumped up in the car I would say "Bos Come Down!!" and think my pun was hilarious (I secretly know it wasn't)

I don't know if this helps any of you but maybe me or my now-dead dog are the key to the riddle?

The fact that none of the people who have supposedly solved it is willing to spill, is very suspicious. Every time someone asks them directly they either ignore the question or give a vague answer. One of them would have just told us by now if it was genuine.

I THINK I HAVE IT!!!!!!!
It's a play on the punctuation and the way it is said. Ignoring the way it's punctuated when you write it down, if you said ' There once was a man called Bos, well for short they called him, 'Bos!'. And he walked up the post office steps'. So there is no joke as such, just a riddle, it's just that 'they' called him and he walked to wherever they were, in this case, the post office. That would fit in with the OPs instruction that it's better said, it doesn't matter if it's male or female and it didn't matter the building. So it could be 'There once was a woman called Bos. Well, for short they called her, 'Bos!' And she walked into the pub.'

This is such balls.