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!

Andy: When is a Bos not a Bos?

Andi: i don't know

Andy: I know

Andi: Well, that's not an answer.

Andy: No, but at least it was a question.

Andi: oh Bos off

Ice rebel said on the first thread that there is no answer. But OP said no one had openly stated it.

Welllll AS me and then c&ping what I wrote on another thread on this thread is really bad form, especially to do it twice. And then to ask me a question about this thread on that thread, that^ you're not even on. That is weird.^

Maybe you need to look up anecdote? Only I can decide if what I wrote was anecdotal.

So after reading all of the comments on the other thread and spending a good 30 mins with my husband going through possible solutions I told myself this whole this is ridiculous and swore I'd forget all about it.

Yet here I am, reading all of the new comments.

I NEED CLOSURE

She can't tell us the answer as there is no question?? But then that's explainable so therefore can't be right?

So what other possible reason could there be that you cannot reveal the answer? Because by revealing the answer it becomes incorrect. It is therefore impossible to reveal the correct answer.

I think it's this. And if it is, then the answer really doesn't have anything to do with the words or grammar or anything else in riddle

dogzdinner the OP said that a couple had got it or mentioned it.

Again, in theory, you cannot openly state it because the moment you say it it is not true anymore.

I am still debating whether is has to be a 'correct' answer or 'an' answer,but I think the logic behind it is still the same.

I like how its meaning differs depending on punctuation. Just like the riddle. Maybe.

Anyhoo it’s all a big pile of steaming great hippo poop.

I'm starting to wonder if this is research for a psychology dissertation of the OPs. That is, pose a nonsensical riddle and see how many people -

a. Guess it's nonsensical
b. Come up with answers
c. Pretend to know the answer
d. Spontaneously combust

But if it’s impossible to tell someone the answer, then how was OP going to be told it on her wedding day?

My theory is that OP is actually a recruitment officer for GCHQ scouting for new codebreakers. There is no answer, but is looking for how posters come to that realisation.

I am trying to get my head round "by revealing the answer it becomes incorrect/is no longer true". So does this mean as long as the answer stays in the minds of those who get it it is correct, and as soon as someone reveals it, it becomes incorrect /untrue? But if one or two on the thread have already got it and revealed it surely that means it isn't correct anymore? Or does revealing it only make it incorrect for the person who reveals it?

But if it’s impossible to tell someone the answer, then how was OP going to be told it on her wedding day?

I think that was just a red herring

@IamAporcupine

This makes no sense though because in the post at the start of this thread that collects all the theories there is both "Mornington Crescent" and "a load of bollocks" as theories.

the mornington Crescent and the load of bollocks theory are not the same

the answer is not 'is a pile of rubbish' the answer is there is no answer!

But if the answer is "there is no answer" - then the whole thing is a complete load of bollocks. It is "just a wind up" as posited in the list of theories at the start.

If there is no answer (the answer being there is no answer,) then it isn't either a real "joke" or a real "riddle" - it is a basic wind up.

It also makes no sense to say "the answer is no answer" because THERE IS NO QUESTION IN THE ORIGINAL "JOKE". It was posited as a joke - a joke to "get".

porcupine sorry it was Bloodyuseless who said no one on the thread had stated it. Which suggests they have a different idea to you?

Does revealing that there is no answer mean that there now actually is an answer? And therefore the answer "there is no answer" is no longer true?

But surely that is the case even if it remains in people's minds and isn't "revealed" to anyone? How does revealing it make any difference?

DerekTheWonderDog

I accidentally posted my question for you on the suitcase thread and immediately realized and posted a ‘Sorry wrong thread’ post and asked MNHQ to delete it. Which they did. There is nothing weird with that. It was a simple mistake that I corrected immediately.

As for AS’ing you I agree that it can be bad form to do it but you can surely understand that I (along with a million other Mumsnetters) am curious about all the ‘mystery’ surrounding the main players on this thread. I wouldn’t normally bring up a posters comments from other threads but I don’t see that either of these threads as anything other than silly and light hearted. If there is a reason you don’t want your ‘anecdote’ / ‘riddles post from the suitcase thread on this one I’ll happily ask MNHQ to delete it.

TBH I’m not that fussed about the riddle as I have never thought there was going to be anything to ‘get’.

You could still say that though OP, like porcupine has. What in the world do you think will happen if you do? Even if the answer becomes 'incorrect'? Who cares?

The only closure here is going to be the thread filling up and hopefully some idiot won't start a new one.

What in the world do you think will happen if you do? Even if the answer becomes 'incorrect'? Who cares? confused

People have been sharing incorrect answers the whole time and it hasn't stopped the madness has it?!

But if the friend has confirmed to OP that they've solved it, then everyone would accept what they say

I think the thread will peter out soon. I have to admit, I'm starting to get bored with it (and I love riddles) now it seems there's no prospect of a definitive solution.

If there is an answer than, to fulfil the hints, it must be along the lines of 'only I know the answer I have come up with' - as by telling something automatically invalidates it. But how you get there is anyone's guess.

I presume the answer to this riddle, well actually it is not really an answer but then it is not really a riddle is............."Who the f*ck is Andy?"

Or the answer is personal to you - therefore only you can know it and not want to tell it.