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!

You only have ‘got it’ as long as ‘you can’t say’. As soon as you have an answer you no longer have an answer. It’s an annoying paradox.

IknowTheBoswellJoke exactly
for some reason I am still trapped in this shit trying to convert people!

If the OP could just post ' porcupine has got it'

iamaporcupine, it's hard to prove a negative, but, I'd feel bad if I took my graduation from seeker to zen-non-seeker and buggered off. I sent begging PMs and shouted more at my kids in my deepest 'bos' entrapment....so consider it a dick move to not help finish it.

PEOPLE OF BOSWELLAND, there is no spoon.

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.

Why don't they just say that then?!

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.

Ugh I am so not Zen.

I am trapped trying to convince people that 'there isn't an answer/joke' can't be right.

I am content with my 'answer' but happy to keep thinking as I am not 100%

This almost makes it all worthwhile

I’m now convinced you ‘get it’ once you’ve asked someone else. The OP got it as a result of this thread (she asked all of us) and a couple of other people mentioned they had asked friends or OHs (hence they also ‘get it’). She doesn’t know if Derek got it even though Derek has dropped hints about the type of solution, because asking Derek would required finding out if they’ve passed the joke on.
So, I’ve told DH, therefore I believe I get it ;)

There’s no question so there can’t be an answer. Even there ‘isn’t an answer’ is an answer. So you can only say ‘I cannot say’ to have it. And when you try to give an answer you don’t have it as you are trying to answer.

@TigerDragonMonkey but you're not asking anything.....It's a statement

The joke, IMO, comes from you saying back 'I know him as Well'

That's why it's better in person and better not shared as you haven't worked out the joke

This is my opinion 👊

You might be in to something there @TigerDragonMonkey

"Fwiw I found the hoo doo skit on previous thread far more amusing,"

Me too!

But then I would probably have spoiled that by asking "what's hoo doo?"

OP said she got it after this thread which is the second thread. She didn't "get it" after the first thread so that theory doesn't work Tiger.

But what’s with the I’ll tell you on your wedding day ‘thing’?

What if I said it was more like there is nothing TO tell. The one 'in the know' just has to smugly brush off all attempts and guesses , because they will always be wrong.

It's better in person because explaining it in writing is nigh on impossible.

And, if I was a diabolical cow bag smug type, I'd now be doing the whole "no, wrong. Try again 😈" stuff.

@IknowTheBoswellJoke - funnily enough, I think I got even more stressed after 'getting it'?
Everytime I see someone saying 'you need to change the full stop' I want to scream!

TigerDragonMonkey I mentioned that comment before
The reason why the OP said that she 'got it' as a result of this thread (and I do not think she mean this one in particular, just the threads) is because of what is happening here:
1000s of answers are being suggested but none of them is correct
---> there is no (correct) answer!

I can even imagine the conversation with her friend: I started this thread and no one could find the answer!

So, is it very like;

What is a word made up of four letters, yet is also made up of three and never is written with five.

hey @IamAporcupine are you saying that 'getting it' means that there is nothing to get? Sorry can't find your PP

@coolwalking - yes and no (sorry, not trying to be funny)

There is definitely something to 'get', however that something is that there is no answer**

It's a circular idea. A paradox.

**or correct answer, or that you cannot reveal the correct answer, or other similar expressions that 'cannot be told'

@pinkdelight

But how does "I can't tell you" fit both it being obvious (clearly, with all the arguing, it's NOT) and how someone got part of it and was lead to the rest?

@dogzdinner - I don't think she will ever come back.
If she spent 20 years trying to work it out, she must be on a power trip now

I also think that people have a need to hear the answer from the OP, to have it corroborated by the source. She has already corroborated it by saying she can't tell, but clue is in the fact she can't.