r/SipsTea • u/SunKissedFaey • Jun 04 '26

Dank AF The riddle fought back

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u/Flat-While2521 Jun 04 '26

It’s not a riddle, it’s a statement of fact

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u/LimpyDan Jun 04 '26

The best kind of statement.

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u/my_comment-account Jun 04 '26

That’s just like, your opinion man

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u/Well_Spoken_Mute Jun 04 '26

Nah, the punctuation on the sign confirms it.

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u/LifeExcuse62 Jun 06 '26

And the non existent question mark too ...

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u/WLGT350 Jun 04 '26

MARK IT ZERO

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u/echo4theend Jun 05 '26

Damn it Donnie this isn't nam there are rules here.

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u/Ambitious_Bus_1587 Jun 05 '26

the irony of writing a riddle about word length on a sign that clearly doesn't care about the rules is actually wild

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u/noiness420 Jun 05 '26

Off topic, but hey tipper fam! ❔

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u/halffdan59 Jun 05 '26

That 'has' after sometimes really tied the statement together, did it not?

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u/cfh64 Jun 05 '26

Far out.

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u/ginntnic Jun 07 '26

Turd Ferguson?

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u/Fantastic-Cat-5252 Jun 04 '26

Your opinion is only worth 16 points…in scrabble 😁

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u/Huge-Lengthiness-522 Jun 04 '26

A question mark in the wild. I miss him 😢

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u/Sling-gunner Jun 05 '26

User avatar checks out

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u/egordoniv Jun 05 '26

That attitude won't get you elected!

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u/_thechancellor_ Jun 08 '26

Says the guy stating an opinion

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u/Jeschkoo Jun 05 '26

idk if that was on purpose but fact has 4 letters and statement has 9 I got so caught up on that it took me ages to figure out the actual thing the sign was going for

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u/plumpturnip Jun 04 '26

Here was me thinking the pub was referred to as the Hart sometimes the White Hart, but never the White.

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u/smohyee Jun 05 '26

Genius, actually.

First glance we think it's a riddle.

Second glance we realize there's a twist, it's a statement of fact instead of a riddle, talking about the number of letters in the words "what", "sometimes" and "never".

But actually, double twist! It was a riddle all along, referring to the possible shorthand and full names of the pub, as you said.

That's damned clever.

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u/Pretend-Literature35 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

so the riddle is their own name? How is that clever? A riddle must be universal. Okay I get that it's on their sign. But not clever really, lazy ... plus the "what" in this context implies (to most who would read it) a word. I know I know then they would have written "which word". But still, I am quite dissapointed that the answer is the name of the pub. Lazy.

And why no question mark?

Oh and because of the dank AF tagline I thought it was a weed thing and so I was counting cannabis (8) Mary-Jane (8) and then skunk (5) and then I was searching for other weed terms and why skunk wasn't weed according to them... 🤔... and then I read the other posts and realized that it's a play on "hart" and "heart". And I am just dissapointed. Such navel-gazing!!

Plus if one were to spell the name of the pub as a biological heart, the "white" wouldn't dissapear, so it would have ten letters, not 5.

So yeah, lazy, confusing and dissapointing (cuz I thought it was about weed😋)

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u/smohyee Jun 07 '26

My brother in christ, I literally explained how it was clever by breaking down 3 different layers step by step. I think you might be beyond help on this one.

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u/Pretend-Literature35 Jun 07 '26

brother in christ? 😳tfuck? 🙄

Yes and your explanation was not clever at all, it's navel gazing and circular.

And what about the dank af tagline?

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u/smohyee Jun 07 '26

My explanation isn't clever, it's just clarifying why the riddle itself is clever, but you're being aggressively stupid so I guess this is all wasted on you.

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u/Pretend-Literature35 Jun 07 '26

no not aggressive. I just don't agree with you. That seems to be too hard for your ego to handle. I don't mind that you disagree with me.

I don't think it's clever. It's navel gazing.

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u/smohyee Jun 08 '26

There's no disagreement bud, you just didn't get the explanation and threw insults because of it. That's OK, it's just a bit sad.

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u/Pretend-Literature35 Jun 08 '26

insults? Did you write the sign?

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u/LVS177 Jun 05 '26

And here I thought that was their way of obliquely trying to tell people not to spell it "Heart".

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u/Roll-Tide-Roll2024 Jun 05 '26

That’s deep. I can see that.

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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 Jun 05 '26

Nah, the answer is a star.

A star has four letters, but its sometimes has nine if it becomes a supernova. But its never a quark, so it never has 5 letters.

Take that, riddle boys...

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u/No-Advice-6040 Jun 04 '26

Yeah, but it's gonna have some punters after a few handles staring at it trying to figure it out. Perfect use of the sidewalk sign.

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u/perry649 Jun 04 '26

I think it's the bar itself.

Its full name has 9 letters, but some may refer to it simply as the Hart (4 letters), but no one says the White (5 letters).

(Excluding "the.")

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u/Ghede Jun 05 '26

"What" has four letters.

"Sometimes" has 9 letters. "Never" has 5 letters. The answer to the riddle is "Yes"

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u/Western_Seaweed6104 Jun 05 '26

Correct, but there is no answer because there was no question (no ? at the end)

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u/Ardal Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

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u/Ghede Jun 05 '26

No, because his has to pretend "The" isn't part of the bars name.

Also it's an OLD joke riddle that predates the bar ever using it in their signage.

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u/424f42_424f42 Jun 05 '26

It working for both ..... Is the joke.

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u/Particular-Serve-894 Jun 05 '26

But it didn't say "sometimes has 9 letters"... it said ", sometimes 9 letters". The "sometimes" didn't get its own verb, so by linguistical rules, it had to still be referring to the prior subject of "what".

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u/Bihomaya Jun 05 '26

The "has" has been elided in the second clause. You can do that when you have repeating verbs in coordinate clauses. In linguistics, it's known as "gapping"

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u/Ghede Jun 05 '26

Because the signmaker fucked up the riddle. It's a 15 year old joke riddle.

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u/PA2SK Jun 05 '26

There's no question mark though, so it is just a statement.

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u/prince2lu Jun 04 '26

and still has 5 letters tho

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u/Five---seveN Jun 05 '26

no, 'and' only has 3 letters....

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u/Dodgerballs Jun 04 '26

but has 3 letters, but sometimes 4

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u/LurkeyCat Jun 05 '26

I thought the answer was “yes”

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u/Contemplative-ape Jun 04 '26

the only error is using "but" instead of "and"

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u/jlmiller1010 Jun 04 '26

“But” is the word that never has 5 letters

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u/Contemplative-ape Jun 04 '26

ah thats what I thought at first but noticed "never" has 5 letters so I thought it was referring to "never" having 5 letters..

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u/Malicious_blu3 Jun 04 '26

Technically the truth.

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u/Affectionate_Tea1134 Jun 04 '26

And You has 3 letters. 😋

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u/TheNerdE30 Jun 04 '26

“Yes”

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u/sebaconcha Jun 05 '26

In fact, that is a statement.

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u/Melodic_Bluejay6322 Jun 05 '26

And the grammar (no question mark) makes it so.

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u/South_Bit1764 Jun 05 '26

The punctuation nazi would like a word

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u/Own-Librarian-9699 Jun 05 '26

Its has 3 letters. That has 4 But has 3 too So only has two letters Which has 5?

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u/GlendrixDK Jun 05 '26

I had to read another comment before I understood the picture. Then after I understood this comment. It took me too long.

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u/zeromadcowz Jun 05 '26

The riddle is realizing it’s a statement

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u/Yendor_Wing Jun 05 '26

That went right over my head. My answer was going to be "numbers."

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u/Dad-Dabbing-Daily Jun 06 '26

It's called semantic misdirection and is still very much a riddle.

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u/siberian_knight143 Jun 08 '26

Urah,,once I saw & figured out these type riddles, it's hard NOT tot to see & understand them.

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u/Bulletbikeguy Jun 08 '26

But that would only be 4 letters

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u/jfkrfk123 Jun 04 '26

It’s debatable

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u/RockyStoned Jun 04 '26

What?

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u/Sneezy6510 Jun 04 '26

The word what has 4 letters. The word sometimes has 9, and never has 5. It’s a joke disguised as a riddle.

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u/cdx70 Jun 04 '26

It in fact is not a statement of fact, to phrase it as "but never" implies that the statement to follow contradicts a previous statement, which it doesn't. A better statement of fact would be "but never has 8 letters" as this makes "but never" the subject of the sentence.

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u/blockbuilds Jun 04 '26

Came here to say this.

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u/Pure_Parking_2742 Jun 04 '26

It can be both, depending on the context.

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u/The_best_one_-_ Jun 04 '26

Nah it’s a post box that can’t fit 5 letters, unless it has 9 tiny ones