What is the answer to the riddle....?

Question

How is a raven like a writing desk?

Answer 1

"At this point most of us are thinking, ho-ho, that Lewis Carroll, is he hilarious or what? But inevitably you get a few losers who say, well, OK, but I still want to know why a raven is like a writing desk. One sighs wearily. Guys! It's a joke! The answer is that there isn't any answer!"


Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. (Puzzle maven Sam Loyd, 1914)

Because Poe wrote on both. (Loyd again)

Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. (Get it? Aldous Huxley, 1928)

Because it slopes with a flap. (Cyril Pearson, undated)

"Back in the 1930s, when I first picked up my mother's dog-eared copy of the works of Lewis Carroll, I asked her why a raven was like a writing desk. She answered with a straight face, "Because you cannot ride either one of them like a bicycle." Since this was true, and it was just as true as saying, "Because neither one of them is made from aluminum," I always thought Mom was right. --Anonymous, via the Internet"

Answer 2

They're both part of the name of a book by Francis Huxley.

Answer 3

feather pens were a common writing tool of the day, and that writing desks had inkwells

Answer 4

Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!

Answer 5

because Poe wrote on both? lol check ya later ♥

Answer 6

dunno... i guess the answer is because they aren't sumthin else?kinda confusin... i found it on this riddle site once, but then I forgot wat's it called. hmm....