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!

When OP said "The BAD news is.....I really can't tell you the answer. "

It's because she can't tell us, literally can't tell us why boris walked up the post office steps

Can't as in not allowed and can't as in doesn't know herself

That's the joke! Please?

If the OP wasn’t on the wind up though, she would have been back to post on this thread. I think it’s safe to assume it’s all bullshit. Otherwise why drop ‘I can’t tell you’ then disappear?

The obvious answer is that knowing the answer is not telling the answer or the answer will no longer be the answer.

Once you know the answer you have enlightenment. Just like Boswell (when he got where he was going) though Boswell's answer may not the the answer that is the answer, but it is because he knows the answer is not knowing the answer so you can't tell the answer.

As for Andy Forshort, he can do one.

The OP has now disappeared. I would chalk this one up to "troll" and let's move on.

Then we have all "solved the riddle".

Has the 'Boswell is dead' theory been done?

Like the chicken IknowTheBoswellJoke?

Bloody useless - was your theory the same as is a porcupine?

I think that the phrase 'I get it' is the answer. So, once you say the 'I'm a total and utter wanker of massive proportions' key phrase, you become BOSWELL and can now start the game with others.

Stop trying to find some clever solution to the "Boswell Joke", there isn't one.

So do you agree that the answer is, there is no answer?

dogzdinner she will not tell you that that is the correct answer

"dogzdinner to be honest I agree with Bloodyuseless. People will only be happy when they feel THEY have worked it out. If s/he told you her answer you will not believe it anyway

I am telling you what I think it is the explanation (which by the way fits with other random things said by derek and bloody before) and you still do not listen!

Exactly. Nobody will ever tell you if you have the right answer. Even the OP, when she "worked it out" didn't even check Derek's answer so in reality neither of them knows 100% if the other has the right answer."

Okay so why don't you just say, 'this is what I think...blah blah Boswell blah' and if they don't accept your theory fine.

@ Eliza9917

Arsehole: There once was a man called Boswell. For short they called him Bos, and he walked up the post office steps.'

Victim: Why

Arsehole: I can't tell you Meaning they don't know.

Loving the use of "Arsehole" in this dialogue. This is a variation on @BlockRockinBeats suggestion.

Both works the same way - whether the person says "Well?" or "Why?" or "What did he do?" or "What happened next?": "I can't tell you" is an answer that works.

This also fits with the OP's point that the "joke" (if you can call it that) works if Boswell is a woman who does something else - like approach the library.

YOU WILL BURN IN HELL FOR THIS OP

There was a man called Bos (well for short)

They called him, "Bos!"

And he walked up the Post Office steps and KICKED THE STUPID FUCKING THREAD ALL THE WAY TO BOSCOMBE DOWN

And then refused to tell anyone why.

Porcupine - I just wanted to check if she agrees with you.

I know I know, was just kidding.

@TellItLikeItReallyIs I wanted to use cunt but thought I'd be polite.

@Eliza9917 . Well quite.

@captainpantbeard

There was a man called Bos (well for short)

^They called him, "Bos!"

^And he walked up the Post Office steps and
KICKED THE STUPID FUCKING THREAD ALL THE WAY TO BOSCOMBE DOWN

was violently and brutally clubbed to death by an angry mob, the anger of the like of which had never been seen before in history.

Is Boswell dead (he is only referred to in past tense)? Walking up the post office steps is a euphemism for death?

Why did Boswell walk up the post office steps? (alluding to famous chicken joke)

To get to the other side.

@cherrysfortea

If that was the answer then the OP would have just explained that the same way you managed to.

@MNHQ this is ruining people's lives. Can you step in? Force the OOP to tell us the answer?

I'm going to restate and stand by my guess of the first thread just because, well, why not.

There once was a man called Boswell.

We've been told to call him "Bos" for short, so there must be another way of saying "walked up the post office steps".

If "There one was a woman called Boswell. For short they called her Bos. And she walked up to the library" works too, then the answer must be some common way of describing the action of going up the post office steps or approaching the library. And that then follows the Bos...

Bos approaches? Bos arriving? Bos nearing the building??

BOSNIA something??

Bos near and he's a go in-ah.

...Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Not funny, not clever, don't care. I'm sticking my flag in the ground with this one.

I would just like to say that I fail to see (whatever the solution is) how this by any stretch of the imagination could be called "a joke".

*BloodyUseless

Stop trying to find some clever solution to the "Boswell Joke", there isn't one.*

😂 I don't think you do actually get it bloody useless, perhaps you thought you did and now don't want to admit you are wrong. Ah well must have been nice to think you were in on it for a while 😂

@Florries

@MNHQ this is ruining people's lives. Can you step in? Force the OOP to tell us the answer?

I think we should bring a class action - group litigation on the basis of breach of a duty of care. The Defendants are OP, Derek and MNHQ for allowing this to continue.

It is reasonably foreseeable that if you post a riddle and ask people to solve it they will become interested and invested.

If you know the answer and reveal you know but fail to tell the group you have encouraged, it is also reasonbly foreseeable that they will become emotionally distressed and suffer anxiety.

There is a duty of care here that has been breached horribly.

Lives ruined. Time wasted. Utter carnage.

How are we going to fund our litigation????