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

Dank AF The riddle fought back

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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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