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

[Bamchicabaawaa]

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

WeBuiltTjisBuffet the wonderful thing is - O don't know how to get PMs (unless you mean Tony Blair 😬☹️😲🐦). I'm on the application and PMs (apart from Tony ❤️) don't exist.

Oh FFS: there once was a man [who] called Boswell... etc.
Now I can go to bed.

We’ve been stitched up like kippers

I read the first thread despite avoiding it for some time as riddles annoy my brain, but the theory that someone started to tell a joke and then fell asleep seems the most likely one to me! Which would become an 'in' joke and be hilarious.
Seriously, myself and my friend aged 16, laughed solidly for a half hour over 'There was a trout, there is no doubt'. We never got further than that before breaking into hysterics for about 10 minutes while her brother were trying to drive us pair of delinquents home.

brother & *his girlfriend

@BoswellandAndAndyForshort
Will someone please tell me what The Game is?

Weeeell, (in the voice of Papa Lazarou):
‘You’re playing the game now, Dave’

Ooh, this is like the Shugborough inscription all over again - except that there are still people alive and well who can confirm the answer.

They might not be for much longer, though, if a legion of angry MNers either don't get the answer or DO get the answer and don't consider it was worth all the mental anguish

MightyMagnificentScarfaceClaw
OMG! Claw, I think we’re related. If this really happens this Christmas, you will know me by the red carnation in my lapel.

@DerekTheWonderdog

Glad to hear it - that would come in useful in the very unlikely event that anybody might have misunderstood my clear entreaty

Then we'd just say it again, and we'd be off again. Pair of lunatics we were. Best friends since.

WeBuiltThisCity it would be nice to think, in the future, when I found a proper electrical source to power a computer, that I'd log onto the grown up bit of Muimsney and find 87000 PMs (maybe MARGARET might be there).

@DerekTheWonderdog

I have the opposite problem - I DO have electricity (although it nearly kills me having to keep frantically pedalling this bike so the lights don't go out), but my phone is not a MN fan - keeps sticking and throwing me out, so I usually just go large-screen.

This has nothing to do with knowing or not knowing the answer. I just wanted to put that 👆 there. Night all.

All's well that ends well?

Completely agree, Derek.

Night night - hope your kennel is nice and warm

Could somebody please just @ me when the answer is revealed?

Are we believing Derek knows? I remember pretending I knew the answer to the in-joke as a kid

Maybe pretending to know is the only answer.

It's the Boswell conspiracy

Quite frustrated by this all, so here’s another riddle for you while we wait for OP to put us out of our misery. This is the only riddle I know, and it’s a bit (very) shit:

What goes up down, and down down
But doesn’t go up up, or down up?
.
.
.
.
And umbrella in a chimney.
I told you it was shit.

Placemarking - it had better be worth it

This has absolutely fucked with me all evening

I can't sleep 🤷🏽‍♀️😭

"What usually has four letters, sometimes nine but never five"

I saw that on a board outside a local pub. Ashamed to say it took me quite a while....

It's going to be massive anti climax......

This really better not be a very elaborate joke on us

If it were a joke it’s a million miles from being ‘elaborate’

"There was a (wo)man called Bos"
The (wo)man called his/her dog, whose name was Bos

"Well for short they called him/her"
(S)he was known to everybody as Will [in the originator's Australian accent, 'Will' and 'well' could sound virtually identical] but his/her full name was William/Wilhelmina [rather less plausible for a woman to be called Will, but certainly not impossible]
OR the him/her refers to the dog, who was very large, vicious or howled a lot and was therefore referred to as 'Wolf' by everybody [somewhat tenuous]
OR the him/her refers to the (wo)man, who was adept at handling the vicious large dog and was therefore described as 'wolf-assured'
[edging towards the extreme side of tenuous and then some]

"Bos and (s)he walked up the post office steps"
The (wo)man and the dog both walked together up the steps - or anywhere, for that matter.

Might that get us any closer to it or give us something to work with - any ideas?! Or am I totally barking up the wrong tree (see what I did there)?

Even if I should happen to be exactly right, it's not the most hilarious or witty of jokes is it? Not even in comparable territory to "What's brown and sticky?", and that's saying something.