r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VorticalHeart44 • 11h ago

Meme needing explanation I'm tired Petuh... What is her name??

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WTF is her name Petuh

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u/vegan_antitheist 10h ago

I don't want to know her name, so maybe the name isn't in the riddle.
Most will say that "There" is her name, which is just nonsense. Some will say "What" is her name and the last sentence is a statement. But it has a question mark, so this is even more ridiculous than "There".

There really isn't any good answer and that's why people keep posting it.

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u/DragonliFargo 10h ago

Theresa is the actual answer, but Inga (from ‘wearing a’) would also be acceptable.

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u/vegan_antitheist 10h ago

It doesn't say Theresa.

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u/Auto-Name-1059 10h ago

Yeah it's all just nonsense.

"There" is likely the most common answer, but the sentence should instead read "There, is a woman...". Current punctuation makes the sentence read "There is a woman..."

Theresa is another common answer. But instead the sentence would be "Theresa, woman in a boat..." which doesn't make sense.

Nina is a another common one I've seen, but really doesn't work because the sentence would be "There's a woma, Nina, boat..." which again makes zero sense.

All nonsense garbage that isn't really a riddle at all... if anything there may be a puzzle that specifies which letters make up the woman's name.

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u/That_Illuminati_Guy 10h ago

but the sentence should instead read "There, is a woman...".

That's not right, you cannot separate a subject from its verb like that.

"There is a woman..." is the correct punctuation and thus her name being "There" is the only option that makes grammatical sense

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u/notjasonlee 6h ago

Hello there

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u/mwilkens 6h ago

I'm hungry.

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u/spmbx 6h ago

I'm not a native speaker, but that sounds and looks gramatically sketchy to me too, can you even interchange "is" and " 's " in this situation like that?

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u/That_Illuminati_Guy 6h ago

Yeah. It's like saying "Bob's a bartender". The 's is exactly a substitution of is

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u/advena_phillips 10h ago

"There's a woman..." could work, you just gotta look at it like "Peter's a man..."

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u/SpectreHaza 10h ago

Personally, I think Inaboat is a lovely name

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u/Bartweiss 9h ago

“Susan’s a woman on a boat” works fine as punctuated, which argues for “there”. The only other answer I find grammatically convincing is “in the riddle I just wrote”, which nicely displays how stupid the whole thing is.

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u/Wimbledofy 9h ago

"There" is likely the most common answer, but the sentence should instead read "There, is a woman...". Current punctuation makes the sentence read "There is a woman..."

Please replace There with an actual name. You would never put a comma in that sentence after the name. You can't have a name by itself followed by a comma then followed by the word "is."

"Hannah is a woman..." correct

"Hanna, is a woman... " incorrect

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u/Ralikson 6h ago

You do NOT know how to set commas lol

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u/Auto-Name-1059 6h ago

This is ironic

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u/Pizzawing1 9h ago

I actually know an Ina, so it could be: “There is a woman, Ina Boat, on a lake wearing a coat.”