Brain Teaser

[Bob B]

the key was a mirror.

So there's a person looking into the mirror and says

Brothers and sisters have I none,
which means they are an only child

But this mans father
the person in the mirrors father

is my fathers son
the person is me and I'm the only son of my father

WHooooooooooo Hooooooooo it's me I'm aliveeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

[rcon]

Your wrong bob - you don't exist!

But this mans father
the person in the mirrors father

is my fathers son
the person is me and I'm the only son of my father

This doesn't make sense. See David's post above

[David]

the key was a mirror.

So there's a person looking into the mirror and says

Brothers and sisters have I none,
which means they are an only child

But this mans father
the person in the mirrors father

is my fathers son
the person is me and I'm the only son of my father

WHooooooooooo Hooooooooo it's me I'm aliveeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Um, no.
That doesn't make sense.

[Bob B]

Your wrong bob - you don't exist!

But this mans father
the person in the mirrors father

is my fathers son
the person is me and I'm the only son of my father

This doesn't make sense. See David's post above

LOL

Okay go stand in front of a mirror and say it.

Brothers and sisters have I none.....makes you the person looking in the mirror at yourself the only child YES?

But this mans father, which would be your father seeing your looking at yourself in a mirror, LOL you vain little shit LOL

Is my fathers (my father mine get it LOL) son, me, mine, LOL he's my bloody dad not yours or anyone elses LOL

OMG this is fun

[David]

Bulls!it Bob.

You just proved that you are your own Dad.

[Scotty]

Yeah, I read it wrong. (there are several derivations of this riddle.)

This riddle, one of the world's oldest, is still good for starting arguments. A man is looking at a portrait. "Whose picture is that?" someone asks, and the man replies: "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." At whose picture is the man looking?


The portrait is of the man's son. Many people mistakenly argue that the man is looking at a picture of himself. If he had said, "... that man is my father's son." then this solution would be correct, but he said, "... that man's father is my father's son." One way out of the confusion is to substitute the word "me" for the more cumbersome phrase "my father's son." Then the statement becomes, "that man's father is me."

[Bob B]

No way ................... he's dead

[David]

Scott - exactly.

Bob - you're proving you're wrong!

[rcon]

Your father's son = YOU

this man's father, is YOU

therefore, "this man" = someone to whom you are father

[Bob B]

Yeah, I read it wrong. (there are several derivations of this riddle.)

This riddle, one of the world's oldest, is still good for starting arguments. A man is looking at a portrait. "Whose picture is that?" someone asks, and the man replies: "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." At whose picture is the man looking?


The portrait is of the man's son. Many people mistakenly argue that the man is looking at a picture of himself. If he had said, "... that man is my father's son." then this solution would be correct, but he said, "... that man's father is my father's son." One way out of the confusion is to substitute the word "me" for the more cumbersome phrase "my father's son." Then the statement becomes, "that man's father is me."

OMG Scotty, Dave, isn't this better than going to the movies. I love both of your reasonings....................but are they correct????????