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EHM-0641 Rico:
but that man's father is my father's son."


Who is this man??? ;)

EHM-1612 Paolo:
Myself? :%

EHM-0641 Rico:
Not quite :P

EHM-0005 Maarten:
his son?

EHM-0641 Rico:
Nice one Maarten ;)

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?
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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."

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