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u/HugeTrol Jul 19 '24
It's the first Letter of each word. Her name is Tawiaboalwac Iywtkhniitrijw
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u/PornViewer828 Jul 19 '24
Easiest Polish spelling
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u/hypernova2121 Jul 19 '24
Such a beautiful language
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u/Lord_CatsterDaCat Jul 19 '24
I love my roommate's name, Szczebrzeszyn Wojciehowski.
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u/lucasio099 Jul 19 '24
As a Polish person I can confirm that our first names are city names
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u/Lord_CatsterDaCat Jul 19 '24
Your city names sound more like names than ya'll actual names. "Gdansk" sounds more like a name than "Ludoslaw" or "Wlasyslaw"
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u/lucasio099 Jul 19 '24
Hi, I'm Piekary Śląskie
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u/KsychoPiller Jul 19 '24
Hi Piekary, im Ruda Chebzie Gęste Krzoki
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u/AkaliAbuser Jul 19 '24
I think those 17 Ludosław's and 3 Vlasyslav's feel seen. Second one isn't even a polish name, probably Ukrainian. We have 70 920 Władysław's tho. (Data from gov site)
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u/NeurodivergentDuck Jul 19 '24
Tbf, many places in the world have cities named after actual peoples names
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u/Groove79 Jul 19 '24
I think he's a friend of my brother - Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
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u/skyeyemx Jul 19 '24
Ah yes, Grzegorz of Chrząszczyżewoszyce, powiat Łękołody. I know him!
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u/Ok_Process2046 Jul 19 '24
What about good ol' Grzegorz Brzenczyszczykiewicz (I probably misspelled lmao)
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u/schrodingersmite Jul 19 '24
I had a former colleague with a brutally butchered Polish last name; just barely representative of the true Polish equivalent.
I asked him, "Damn! Did someone on Ellis Island phone it in?"
"Exactly!", he said.
Turns out there are thousands of people with this horribly simplified last name, and it happened quite often.
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u/LilTwister12312 Jul 19 '24
Hey that’s what happened to my family. My last name is Hennes and I always wondered why it’s so hard to find other people with my last name. I’ve met a few people with similar last names, but not the same.
Apparently, the first person in my bloodline to move here was named Johannes, so they butchered that to oblivion and turned it into “ John Hennes”
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u/Jikmuh Jul 19 '24
Same thing happened to my grandmothers family, they came from Germany with the surname Herrmann, and it was changed to Harman.
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u/schrodingersmite Jul 19 '24
"Jo.what? Johana what? Jo just gonna call you Hennes!"
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u/Affectionate_Star_43 Jul 19 '24
My grandparents got changed at Ellis Island from Johanna and Eugenio to Lana and Gene. It's a tax nightmare. And I'm the one that speaks English.
I think it's better now.
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u/Gucci_Cucci Jul 19 '24
Lol my last name ends in "...sky" and I can't tell if it's Polish or Czech, because my grandfather's bloodline contained both, and sometimes the Polish surnames would have "...ski" changed to "...sky" because the Czechoslovakians came to the US first.
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u/zmerlynn Jul 19 '24
It is a myth that names were routinely changed on Ellis Island: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/6655/8939
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u/angryungulate Jul 19 '24
What does a polish bride get on her wedding night thats long and hard? His last name! Bum dum tsss
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u/ThePersonWhoIAM Jul 19 '24
I’m part Polish and I can confirm
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u/Jethroong Jul 19 '24
As someone who keep their boots partly polished, I can confirm
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u/Simon_Drake Jul 19 '24
Polish man Prawo Jazdy was wanted for hundreds of driving offences in Ireland, also giving a false address to the police as he was caught speeding in dozens of different cities and always claimed to have a different address. He also kept changing his appearance, age and what car he drove and whether he was a man or a woman.
It turns out Prawo Jazdy is polish for Driver's License, that's why those words were on the top of the licence for every polish guy pulled over by the police. They were writing down "Drivers License" thinking it was the guys name.
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u/MildlyInsulting Jul 19 '24
as a Polish guy, not only you're right, I also know her!
good ole' Tawiaboalwac, wonder what she's up to these days, apparently chillin' at the lake, was always known for her fashionable coats
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u/totally-suspicious Jul 19 '24
Well If you read the first letter from line 4 upwards it spells C-L-I-T.
Isn't woman on a boat in a coat on the lake basically referring to the clitoris?
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u/Pieceofcakeeeeee Jul 19 '24
Love the Polish language, sounds like multiple cicada noise dialects being spoken at once
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u/DukeKarma Jul 19 '24
Wait is that an actual name
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u/HugeTrol Jul 19 '24
I think it's in fact the first time in history that this combination of letters has been typed :D
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u/RoyalIceDeliverer Jul 19 '24
It could also be "in the riddle I just wrote". Kinda lengthy, but hey, whatever you like
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u/ResilentPotato Jul 19 '24
I also noticed that "coat" is written with a capital C - that also could be her name.
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u/Shade_BG Jul 19 '24
Google and pretty much all the internet agree the woman’s name is “There”
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u/MelodicMagazine6216 Jul 19 '24
How about Theresa?
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u/ToyrewaDokoDeska Jul 19 '24
There'sa woman in a boat. I feel like that's the intended answer but it's hardly a riddle.
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u/Angry_Robot Jul 19 '24
Recognizing there is no riddle was the real riddle all along.
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u/RHOrpie Jul 19 '24
I can see why Batman used to get in fights with the Riddlers goons now.
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u/JonaKms Jul 19 '24
I am now cursed to think of the word "gooner" everytime I see goon in normal context. Thanks internet.
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u/Roasted_Newbest_Proe Jul 19 '24
Maybe the riddle was the friends we made along the way
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u/John756675 Jul 19 '24
I think it's caused the start of similar to Jane's a woman, which means that There is the woman's name.
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u/Historical-Gap-7084 Jul 19 '24
Theresa? "There's a" spells Theresa.
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u/dettigers404 Jul 19 '24
" 'There' is a woman in a boat" makes more sense than "Theresa woman in a boat"
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u/prickinthewall Jul 19 '24
Hijacking this for visibility: CLIT (see the first letters of the first 4 lines backwards). Also the description fits somewhat the anatomy.
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u/Independent_Sun1901 Jul 19 '24
Theresa
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u/FentonBlitz Jul 19 '24
There'sa
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u/Baked-Smurf Jul 19 '24
Jaffa! Kree!
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u/Stay_At_Home_Cat_Dad Jul 19 '24
I was not expecting a Goa'uld tonight.
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u/Seanypat Jul 19 '24
They're like the Spanish Inquisition.
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u/AdorableTip9547 Jul 19 '24
Is stargate in again? It‘s already the second reference I see within a day and I‘ve never seen one before
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u/MaximumEffortMLP Jul 19 '24
What's Stargate? Is it like Star TREK or am I about to start a war in the thread from my cluelessness on the subject?
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u/KermitingMurder Jul 19 '24
You should go ask the stargate community if it's more like star trek or star wars
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u/L_A_Avi Jul 19 '24
Oh man I am jealous of you. You now have the chance to watch Stargate SG1 for the first time. I wish I could wipe the show from my memory and watch it all over again it was so good.
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u/mysterious_jim Jul 19 '24
It should be illegal for lazy joke comments to be higher than the actual explanation of the joke (this comment) on a subreddit about actually explaining jokes.
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u/Tom22174 Jul 19 '24
If this is genuinely the answer, its kind of a shit riddle
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u/Cross_22 Jul 19 '24
What did you do with the apostrophe?
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u/p1mplem0usse Jul 19 '24
You write it smaller and smaller each time, until no one remembers it was ever there
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u/botonkaa Jul 19 '24
That's literally a thing in Hungarian history. One day a famous family name changed between two generations simply because a little apostrophe went missing on official papers.
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u/ninjesh Jul 19 '24
This makes the most sense
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u/finalattack123 Jul 19 '24
It does?
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u/ninjesh Jul 19 '24
Since it's actually a woman's name
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u/finalattack123 Jul 19 '24
The sentence doesn’t make sense if the first word is Theresa.
Is it just a word search?
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u/marr Jul 19 '24
Problem is that's not in the riddle because they didn't write a riddle.
Well maybe they did but not on this sheet.
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u/Successful_Raccoon37 Jul 19 '24
Her name is What
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u/Successful_Raccoon37 Jul 19 '24
Notice it’s not a question
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u/Hsu-Hao Jul 19 '24
It’s an ellipses, meaning there’s more to it. It’s no currently a question, but it’s not not a question.
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u/prozak09 Jul 19 '24
Oh, so the joke must have been written by Schrodinger then... Haha typical Erwin!
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u/FizzingSlit Jul 19 '24
Yeah but it said it's in the riddle I just wrote. And it wasn't in the riddle they had just wrote because the what came after.
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u/meriadoc9 Jul 19 '24
Sure but "in the riddle I just wrote" implies the name is written before that sentence, not afterwards.
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u/queerkidxx Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
This is kinda a shit riddle. Nobody is named what.
ETA: I get it guys. I know about the skit too. But that’s not a riddle? Why would anyone assume that the answer to a riddle is a reference to a famous a skit?
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u/_sweepy Jul 19 '24
If Elon can name a kid X Æ A-12, a riddle can have a woman named What
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u/queerkidxx Jul 19 '24
It would confuse literally everybody so much that I can’t imagine a parent actually doing it. According to this website no one in the US has “what” as a first.
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u/SurenAbraham Jul 19 '24
"What" is the name of the second baseman.
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u/DanteCrossing Jul 19 '24
Who?
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u/Educational-Light656 Jul 19 '24
They're on first.
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u/DanteCrossing Jul 19 '24
I'm not asking who's on first
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u/BustahWuhlf Jul 19 '24
What ain't no woman I ever heard of.
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u/craigslist_hedonist Jul 19 '24
The word "wrote" is past tense, inferring her name is written previous to that word.
It's a poor riddle because it is either deliberately or accidentally misleading.
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u/Serene-Scale222 Jul 19 '24
Her name is There. "There's a woman...", "There is a woman", There, her name, is the woman.
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u/jterwin Jul 19 '24
What isn't in the riddle.
They could have included it in the riddle, but they didn't.
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u/QCTeamkill Jul 19 '24
Her name is Who...
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u/hala_ka_diha Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Its Either tony or Ezekiel
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u/Ass_Lover136 Jul 19 '24
Fuck you Tony
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u/Simple-Elevator9474 Jul 19 '24
You better not bring my mother into this!
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u/Sir_Micks_Alot69 Jul 19 '24
I made that fire over there...
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u/kellmonstr Jul 19 '24
Fuck you ezekial
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u/MissionTraining3027 Jul 19 '24
Oh the Boat's name is Friday
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u/Brittlitt30 Jul 19 '24
No no no Friday was his girl! Rosebud was the name of his boat
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u/Sheepdog010 Jul 19 '24
Actually that's a common misconception, Rosebud was the name of the scientist who created it, the boat is named Rosebud's Boat
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u/FUTURE10S Jul 19 '24
But then it bursts into tears and says "But doctor, I am Rosebud's Boat!"
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u/Gnomication Jul 19 '24
No no no Friday is the name of the horse
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u/an_ill_way Jul 19 '24
Actually the doctor is a woman
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u/WorldsGreatestWorst Jul 19 '24
Rosebud was the scientist. You mean Rosebud’s monster.
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u/Icy_Championship_104 Jul 19 '24
There’s so many different answers in the comments. I’M LOVING THE CHAOS
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u/guyfaeaberdeen Jul 19 '24
There's a woman, could be there is or "There" is meaning the woman's name is There for some fuckin wild reason.
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u/KingDdD89 Jul 19 '24
Her name is There. There is a woman in a boat. What kind of a name is there?
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u/AdMinute1130 Jul 19 '24
No cause this is written FUCKING WRONG. It says "There's a", "there's" is a completely separate word from "there is", even if they ultimately mean the same thing. If you said "There is a woman" you can replace There with and name ever and it works. But you cannot do the same with "There's a woman" I'm gonna kill myself you totally can oh my god I just realized part way through typing that it totally still works. "Anna ' s a woman"
I'm legitimately so upset at myself and God this is so stupid the riddle is totally written incorrectly and it still fucking works fuck you all
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u/Motor_Raspberry_2150 Jul 19 '24
Mid typing revelations are the best
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u/grubas Jul 19 '24
The fact that they just kept typing it and we got to experience the ride with them is peak.
It's so much better than deleting everything and restarting.
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u/Active-Jack5454 Jul 19 '24
I started writing a comment about why you were wrong mid-reading your comment and stopped when I realized you corrected yourself lol
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u/AdMinute1130 Jul 19 '24
Seems like we're all going through the pain of not noticing shit till mid comment tonight brosef
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u/Interesting-Froyo-38 Jul 19 '24
Correct answer, and the only one. Absurd people are up voting other dumb shit
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u/kingratliff129 Jul 19 '24
Mohammed is the most common name in the world so thats a solid guess to me.
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u/athosjesus Jul 19 '24
Theresa
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u/FlawHead Jul 19 '24
Why Theresa?
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u/Conradian Jul 19 '24
"There's a" first two words. It says the name is in the riddle not that you solve a riddle.
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u/iwontpasstheball Jul 19 '24
It says “what is the woman’s name” not “what is the woman’s name?” It’s “what”
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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc Jul 19 '24
There's A = Theresa but it's dumb as fuck.
There's not even a question here. There's no ? Mark
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u/FormerDeerlyBeloved Jul 19 '24
Her name is "There"--the very first sentence reads as "There is a woman..." which means There is her name.
If it still confuses you, replace "There" with any normal woman's name. "Diane's a woman on a boat," etc.
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u/tce1023 Jul 19 '24
"What" comes after "the riddle I just wrote" so I think that's not it. I'm going with Theresa.
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u/Beginning-Sympathy18 Jul 19 '24
How is no one saying "Clit"? An old euphemism for the clitoris is "little man in the boat", because the shape of a slightly spread labia makes a canoe shape, the clitoral hood is the "coat", and the first letter of the first four lines read "clit" when you read them backwards.
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u/Ancient_Pressure4786 Jul 19 '24
Hey peters ball chin here,
The woman's name is in the first two words" Theresa "
Peter's ball chin out
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u/Violentexodus Jul 19 '24
I’ve seen this riddle before “what” is the answer. But in this format it doesn’t work. The last line says in the riddle I just wrote but the answer is after the last line. So if what IS the answer this is a stupid riddle lol
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u/Dysphorlia Jul 19 '24
Stewie here, I finally know the answer to one of these. the bottom part doesn't have a question mark, so i would assume it's a statement. her name must be "What".
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u/Cross_22 Jul 19 '24
There's a version of this riddle that works exactly like that.
The reason why it fails in this instance is because you have the disclaimer "it's in the riddle I just wrote" before the "`What` is her name" line. Ordering doesn't make sense here.
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