Did we ever find out about Boswell?

[marmeladerose]

'There once was a man called Boswell. For short they called him Bos, and he walked up the post office steps.'

Did we ever find out the answer/what the joke was?

Place marking!!!!

I was wondering this too!

No. The OP dicked us with an "oh, I found out but can't tell you, but two people have got it right in the thread. Byeeee!"

And that was it.

The joke is that we never find out his real name. He’s just called Bos for short. Hilarious. Not.

oh
my
god

not again
yes we did

Was there actually an answer or was it just a wind up. I'm thinking wind up.

It's the Mumsnet equivalent of playing Mornington Crescent.

Yes we did?? So what was the answer?!

This is almost as annoying as the thread that reminded us that we just lost THE GAME!!!

It was a nothing. Don't worry about it.

One of the most irritating things I had ever read. Still no closure!

So there wasn't an answer? Or the answer was nothing? Or something like that.

@marmeladerose one of the previous replies on this thread was frustratingly close to the actual answer!

I knew Bos well? Just a guess

There was a joke - it was on all of us and it wasn't funny.

Complete waste of time, apart from the tiny benefit of adding another shortcut phrase to the standard MN vocabulary:

Boswelling = Timewasting / Being extremely annoying

I think the OP was a 12yo boy in his bedroom thinking how hilarious he was being to lead us all a merry dance. Yawn.

From @mumsnet_madness on twitter.

"It’s a wordplay riddle. But the OP got the words wrong 🤦‍♀️"

This is important - see screen shot for correct words.

Possible solution.

Is it something along the lines of

"oh I know him as Well?"

And...

Oh my god this is has been annoying.

Seriously. What a lame "joke"

As the esteemed philosopher Leslie Dennis would have commented, winter nights must really fly by in their house if this 'joke' has been amusing them for decades.

There was no solution. The op came back and said they’d been told but wouldn’t tell us. There is no such riddle. It was just a wind up.

Fucking Boswell. And losing The Game all on one thread!

Feck, another thread title that promises more than it delivers. I came here thinking I'd missed a news story about a country vicar finding yellowed documents in his attic suggesting that Boswell held a hidden and very deep contempt for the insufferable Dr Johnson, and that OP was asking had they been verified as the less-insufferable Boswell's.

As for the riddle, the solution is that as everyone knows the PO door was level with the footpath and so there were no steps.

Look at the OP’s username which is “killingtime”. Perhaps that’s what their intention was after all