It's already been answered but nobody acknowledged it.

It's already been answered but nobody acknowledged it.

 

My guess: because ravens and desks don't write.

 

 

 

that?

Nuh uh.

Maybe? I don't know.

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

Because a raven and a writing desk can't tell you they love you.

Stupid.

Screw you Emma! This is the universally accepted answer:

 

It has no answer.

 

:escaping:

well then i've been told a made up answer by many people.

 

 

Fuck them!

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.

They both come with inky quills?

Because Johnny Depp said so. :drunk:

 

:awesome:

They both come with inky quills?

 

Liek.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.

:thinking:

How can you write on a raven?! :thinking:

 

OH :idea2:

I know the answer.

Enlighten us :surprised:

Pfft. It's a riddle. I can't just go around giving answers to riddles!

I still think my answer is the universally accepted one, so screw whatever yours is.

I still think you're .

Forgive me.

I still think you're .

 

Wha?! :wreck: I won't sleep until I know what this is :freak:

I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me. I spoke so harshly...