Once, again, Mr. Punch, with my help, is offering up a true Victorian riddle. The first person to answer correctly--by posting in the comments--will receive public congratulations.
So, here's this week's riddle. We ask that you don't Google the answer. Mr. Punch would not find that sporting at all. Give it a shot and see what you can come up with. Here we go... No cheating...
Who is the first male character mentioned in any book?
And, the answer is CHAP I. As in "chap(ter) number one." Get it? A chap is a man, or, as drug-addicted farm animals would say, "a dude." Oh, for fun! Thanks to all of you who answered! You're a creative lot, indeed. In honor of our friend, April, we may wish to consider starting a support program for friends and families of methadone-addicted sheep. Or not. I don't care. I have puppets to feed. Come back next week for another of Mr. Punch's Puzzles. It promises to be a fun and, evidently, educational (as in ovine "After School Special" ) time.
16 comments:
Sir Bleatsalot, the traditional METH-addicted sheep narrator made popular by Shakespeare. Aren't you a novelist, Joseph? Don't you know this? Yet I see no addicted sheep in The Garnet Red and there has not been ONE INSTANCE of this totally appropriate lierary device in any of the Punch stories. Meanwhile you're just playing with your puppet head and letting the classics suffer. FLOUNCE,
luuuuuuuuuuv youuuuuuuuuu...
I'm sorry for my many failures, April. I hope one day to write the great American meth-addicted-Sheep novel from the correct POV. Until then, I look to the guidance of my friends such as yourself who would never do anything as weird as playing with a puppet head. April, I just want to be normal like you. Guide me.
By the way...great start here. Thanks, April. : )
The-0?
A suitable answer. Not right, but suitable.
This is hard, but April is funny.
Mr. "Once Upon a Time."
Sounds like a 1933 song title, Gene.
For Ward?
Matt--very clever! I like that better than the actual answer.
The Page
Very close, Book Gurl!
Ca-male (camel) the supplier of meth-addicted sheep?
Ha! I'm learning a lot about sheep.
God aside, the first male character, in the Bible would be Adam. But as the Bible isn't the OLDEST book, that's surely not right. So the first male "Character" would have to be "Y" when following an "X" for the male chromosome.
As the Victorian Mr Punch would not have known about Chromosomes, then it must, perforce, be Beowulf's meth-addicted sheep, Percy.
So there.
Good answer, Dashwood!
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