Tripped up post office steps

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Hi mumsnetters. Hoping you can help me here.

My friend Bos asked me to pop to the post office for him. No problem I said. Always glad to help. But when I got there I found him already loitering and, wait for this, he walked up the post office steps!

AIBU?

She came back but WOULDN'T TELL US? That is a heinous crime.

I know him as WELL !!!

The idea of a hoard of malicious Pom Bears swarming out of the post office/library/wherever to trip up the mythical Boswell is actually less weird than the bloody Boswell thing itself.

There cannot be anything to 'get' except 'get excited at the idea of loads of people tying themselves in knots for YEARS trying to work out why the nonsense is not nonsense'.

You'll know him as well.

I posted this on the other new thread about Boswell, so I wasn't sure whether or not to post here also...

However, many people watching this thread might have missed the other one (which doesn't have many posts), so I'll risk the wrath of the Mumsnet mods to hopefully - hopefully! - put you out of your misery.

(I'm not saying it's the correct solution, mind...)

Whether it's correct or not, your cartoon is lovely @malpa. It's made me

Can anyone remind me where the old thread is?

I think it is a mental virus. The riddle needs to replicate itself into a new host. The solution / cure if you are infected is to pass it on to a given number of people. This has now been achieved by this thread.

Like some devilish game of non-joke tag. We are now "it"

Hey Boswellians,

I was the one championing 'I know him as Well'

Doesn't make complete sense I know!

I want closure!

The idea for that cartoon I posted actually came from my Nan (84 years old). She simply said "Well he's ignoring them for not using his correct name; it's obvious!"

And my Grandad (a sprightly 87-year-old) came to this conclusion:

"Boswell's story is incomplete; he's left hanging. Don't you get it? We are all like Boswell.

"Let me run this by you... There once was a man called Grandad. For short they called him Gramps. And he went to a random place.

coolwalking We will never get closure. The original OP apparently knows the answer (if one even exists...) yet won't share it - this is relevant. Even if somebody here worked out the correct answer, they could never confirm it without speaking to the OP.

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Original thread

Second thread

This is the third thread.

And there's a fourth thread

But don't bother reading through it all - you'll be hating me for providing you with the links!

To save time, should you wish, on the second thread there's a list of suggestions near the beginning, of which the OP said none was correct.

My mum once tripped on the post office steps in Bath, gave herself a nasty black eye. A young man came to help and was most put out (and actually quite annoyed with her) to find she was fine and didn't really need his help. Bet it was Boswell, the pillock.

@malpa wins best grandparents award this year!

Malpa and her Nan are both s

I'm - - spartacus - - Bos

Malpa, your grandad is so right. We are all Bos.

If you are really that bothered just @Killingtime9198 I'm sure that eventually she will give you the answer if you aren't happy with the ones that have been provided.

Personally I am more than happy with

it so that smug pretentious arseholes can get fanny flaps/ a hard on pretend to be better than those that they are keeping enthralled by pretending that there is an answer.