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Why is a raven like a writing desk?


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Hmm. . . found this:

 

"Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: 'Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!' This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all."

 

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1173/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk

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Technically the answer many people have told you is true, just like the answer that "They can't tell you what time it is" is also true. Lewis Carroll created a riddle that he didn't have an answer for, so there is no answer, and anything can be that answer.

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