Help with a mumsnet riddle?

[lovingllamaa]

My friend knows this riddle/joke which she learnt on mumsnet, but will not tell me the answer and despite months of me trying to work it out i still have no idea about it and she simply will not tell me. I know she learnt about it from a post on AIBU on mumsnet so I have searched the forums for an answer and despite finding a few threads on it... still no answer! Apparently she learnt the answer, or what there is to 'get' about it, from private messaging someone the answer and them telling her that she was right.

Anyway.. it is really annoying me, and I am know it should not, but I just would really like to know.

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

Any help will be greatly appreciated. :)

Not this shite again.

Please, no!

I am convinced that there is no riddle and no punchline because if there is, someone would tell everyone.

Oh for fucks sake

Oh christ not again

Oh fucking hell. There is no riddle, it was a wind up.

Fucking knew it would be this. You get my first report op. and a biscuit to choke on.

What?

Bos is Latin for letters and he was off to the post office to post himself

Piss off, wasn't funny first time.

He's the grandmaster postman from Honolulu

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3441291-to-ask-for-your-help-solving-this-impossible-riddle-joke

Have a trawl through that if you're bored ✋

This again!!

Bore off.

You joined MN just to resurrect this?

I lost hours of my life to this last time. I cannot go there again.

Have a trawl through that if you're bored

My heart goes out to anyone who is bored enough for that!

My friend knows this riddle/joke which she learnt on mumsnet, but will not tell me the answer

If your friend learnt it from MN and wasn't the one who first told it to the original person who posted asking people to help (if the two were not in fact the same person), then your friend will still not know the answer, hence why she isn't telling you.

Bos is Latin for letters and he was off to the post office to post himself

is it now?

Some posters are clearly far too invested in this forum. Is it really necessary to be so nasty and pissed off about a post? You know you could just...ignore it and move on, it's amazing people care so much sometimes!

You joined MN just to resurrect this?

I think it must be Boswell himself.

Desperate for love and validation, for anybody to show him some interest; and nobody ever responds when he tweets, FBs or IGs about his fascinating hobby of daily walking up the post office steps.

Mumsnet is his very last resort before he finally gives up, actually goes into the post office and posts himself to Timbuktoo.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

clearly far too invested in this forum

@andpancakesforbreakfast I swear