Remembering the riddle Boswell

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There was a man called Boswell
For short they called him bos
He walked up the post office steps

Anyone remember?

It was stupid them, and it's stupid now.

HTH.

I don't remember the riddle but I remember seeing several threads about it on MN

YABU

It was solved, his name was Andy, And for short. You missed out the word and in your op. There are loads of threads about it and the answer comes up if you Google it