Ooh! I know this one!van_halcyonDecember 26 2004, 17:07:46 UTC
I'm assuming you've pulled this riddle from The Last Unicorn; Schmendrick asks it of Rook to distract him while the hapless wizard (and second-rate pick-pocket!) frees our lady Unicorn from the last cage of Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival. (I had to show off, sorry.) Yes? Well, it's originally a riddle from Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland. The answer, however, does not exist. Ha! Lewis made a funny! At least, the answer -did- not originally exist--until people started plaguing Carrol for the solution and eventually began to come up with their own. (One answer to which was supplied by the esteemed Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. "Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. Ha. Ha. Ha. Lame-ass, huh? But befitting of the Mad Hatter, who originally posed the riddle.) Here I am rambling. Anyway, there's a buttload of information on the web about this riddle, and it's all pretty interesting. Worth checking out. I'll stop waggin' me tongue now.
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