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!

coolwalking

Let it go.

Even if you get it right they won't tell you.

But the OP has never mentioned any exchange after......."and he walked up the post office steps." Apparently the riddle ended there, so what is said afterward is irrelevant surely. However I would think that instead of the listener saying I know him as Well, the teller would end with "You may know him as well(Well)."

@boneybackjefferson lol you're right. I was bored earlier and as I am in a different time zone thought I would have a stab at it. The most frustrating thing is people saying 'there is no answer or solution or joke'

Going to observe for a bit.....

Cool walking - the content of the 'joke' isn't important. The OPs friend said that. It's the interaction you have with the joke teller - which we obviously didn't get given on an online forum.

Thats why my solution works

I know him as Well

I think I know.......

....him as well

As if people are still bothering with this attention seeking, even after the original OP claims they now know the answer “but can’t tell anyone”.

@coolwalking

Know him as well works with the I think i know in front

@DUNNAPOO yes it does but the simpler the sentence the more effective it is.

Lol said I was observing for a bit........

I'm another vote for "I can't tell you," then, but it's sort of like when I vote for the Greens.

Except OP COULD say "The answer is 'I can't tell you'"…

Oh I love that solution. "I think I know him as well"

Think I'll take that and hopefully stay away from this thread

But that’s the joke as all you need to say is

I think I know....

Then you can have you secret little smug smile

@dunnapoo the joke is that 'as well' has a double meaning.

Don't over think it

I know him as Well

@coolwalking

Thanks for the insight. Obvs

Please someone help me get off this thread ... I've been on it from Day 1 and keep refreshing . Round and round it goes with people who haven't RTFT talking again and again about their epiphanies with Andy and for/four. It's like a metaphor for the pointlessness of life. Waiting for Boswell .....

Maybe you have to tell someone once you ‘get it’ or after 7 days Boswell comes out of your screen and kills you.

I'm calling bullshit on this.

OP has been trying to work this out for 20 years and then miraculously figures it out two days after posting on MN but won't tell us the answer?

Right....

When people are saying 'I can't tell you', it's a statement of the fact that there IS NO ANSWER, they know this, and have therefore 'got it', and you can't give something you don't have.
That's the whole 'joke'.
I can't tell you the answer because I know that it doesn't exist. I have escaped the trap of asking for it. I can't ask for a thing that does not exist. Once you stop asking, you have won.

She said it was after reading this thread where several posters had, according to her, solved it by page 8.

The only solution which popped up more than once is the one I flagged up on the last page.

The OP must have thought for 20 years that it was bullshit.

She has already said there is something to 'get'.

I agree with op about having to work it out for yourself though, untill you have that epiphany, you are still in the stage of 'asking' and you won't work it out.

"Maybe you have to tell someone once you ‘get it’ or after 7 days Boswell comes out of your screen and kills you."

I love this.

Right, several posters had solved it but she can't say who? How come?

I reckon the family have asked not to spill the beans on a long running joke. As I said she's dropping massive clues with the way she signs off on page 8. And as I said there isn't "an answer" as such so porcupines and others interpretation works although I believe this is as corollary because it's the way it's said which is the relevant part and the "payoff".

Has this hit the papers yet?

And really, telling a bunch of strangers on MN is hardly gonna destroy a family "joke" since we don't even know who they are.

I hope Boswell has a nice life.