2006-06-19 01:41:02 · 21 answers · asked by Jim L 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
That person is the person speaking. So if you were to point to yourself in the mirror and say it, it would be true.
2006-06-19 01:44:22 · answer #1 · answered by ezc692 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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."
2006-06-19 08:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by two 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a man talking about his own grown son. if that man is the youngest and is the son of his father the speaker, then the speaker would be the son of his own father.
2006-06-19 08:48:02 · answer #3 · answered by alienz67 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That Man >>> would be your Son.
2006-06-19 11:27:12 · answer #4 · answered by Basil P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your father
2006-06-19 08:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Jeff J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that man is your son. your lookuing at your son and his father (you) is your fathers son!
2006-06-19 08:57:10 · answer #6 · answered by shaz t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speaker is talking about himself
2006-06-19 08:56:31 · answer #7 · answered by malcy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're talking about YOU. "That man" is your grown son. "My father's son" is you.
2006-06-19 08:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by emilsignia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hes talking about himself, that man is himself as he looks in the mirror, its kinda straightforward as I answered that when I was thirteen,
2006-06-19 08:49:22 · answer #9 · answered by Chunkylover53 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man is you.
2006-06-19 09:53:12 · answer #10 · answered by Deerrunner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋