That last part of the riddle says something like, “I know what I am, do you.”
A “journey” is sentient?
Unless it is stretching it to cover Steve Perry’s group “Journey,” but I don’t think so.
I don’t doubt that that was the “real” answer. I just don’t agree with it for that reason.
I also don’t think any of the other answers would have been characterized as sentient.
Feel free to set me straight on the error of my thinking.
It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water.
–Will Cuppy
OOPS! Sorry, for any non-loopers:
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The only thing I’d criticize about your thinking is that you’re doing too much of it. The kid made up (or repeated, or whatever) a bad riddle. Case closed.
Don’t spend any more stress on it than you would trying to come up with a good punchline for a bad joke.
Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine
I think that there were several answers that at least are as good as if not better than the journey answer.
Could journey be an answer? Maybe. But others fit better IMHO.
Jeffery
I remember now why I’m not in the riddle loop - riddles piss me off.
It may be that when an ornithologist says the Water Ouzel walks under the water, he only means that he has seen a Water Ouzel or some other bird sitting on a stone in the general vicinity of a body of water.
–Will Cuppy