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I Went to School In My Underwear: A Riddle

May 1, 2013 by Jonathan Rogers 18 Comments

Jonathan Rogers is a fine author, an awfully smart fellow, and a man who excels at humorous anecdotes. He even has a humorous anecdote about telling a humorous anecdote. If your family has yet to be introduced to his Wilderking Trilogy, or The Charlatan’s Boy, you are among the world’s underprivileged. His guest post today is a riddle/poem about underwear befitting the august talents of a Ph.D. in Seventeenth Century English Literature. (Featured Image taken from a painting by Larry Dyke) –Sam

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A Riddle

I went to school in my underwear,
But no one really seemed to care.
My teacher didn’t stop and stare
Or stomp or shout or pull her hair.
My classmates didn’t think it rare
To see a boy wearing underwear.

No one even noticed me–
Tell me, dear reader, how could this be?

[Shall I tell you the answer, or do you think you can figure it out?]

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Jonathan is the author of several "fantasy adventure stories told in an American accent:" The Wilderking Trilogy (The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking) and The Charlatan's Boy.

His non-fiction books include The World According to Narnia, Saint Patrick, and The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor.

Jonathan is also the proprietor of The Habit, an online library of teaching resources and hub of community where like-minded writers can connect, discuss, and give one other just a little more courage.
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  1. Becca says

    May 1, 2013 at 9:06 am

    I can’t decide if it’s too early to submit a guess. Is it? Is there a polite amount of time to wait?

    Also, Jonathan Rogers is one of my favorite people on the planet.

    Reply
    • S.D. Smith says

      May 1, 2013 at 11:24 am

      What’s so great about Jonathan Rogers?

      He doesn’t even like Charlotte –which is in the South. So, like, I mean, C’mon.

      Reply
      • Jonathan Rogers says

        May 1, 2013 at 12:42 pm

        SD, you may have meant that as a rhetorical question, but I think “What’s so great about Jonathan Rogers” might make a fascinating (though, perhaps, overly long) blog post.

        Reply
        • S.D. Smith says

          May 3, 2013 at 10:03 pm

          I could knock it out pretty fast. You would probably have problems with it “at the sentence level,” but it’d be OK.

          Reply
      • Julie Silander says

        May 2, 2013 at 9:11 pm

        *like*

        Reply
  2. Randy says

    May 1, 2013 at 9:48 am

    I feel a certain responsibility to withhold my answer for a time, having had a lifetime of experience with underwear, and having written a song which plays on the homonymetics within the word. It seems an unfair advantage.

    Reply
    • Guest says

      May 1, 2013 at 11:09 am

      Randy – I was wondering how you felt about Jonathan encroaching upon your area of expertise here. Jonathan, have you thought about putting your riddle to a tune? (Fairly sure it could somehow fit on the Scripture Songs album).

      Reply
      • Carrie Givens says

        May 1, 2013 at 11:10 am

        Ach. That was me commenting. Somehow managed to log myself out there.

        Reply
    • Jonathan Rogers says

      May 1, 2013 at 12:40 pm

      I wasn’t going to mention this, but I wrote the underwear riddle several years ago, when the underwear song wasn’t even a twinkle in Randy’s eye. My phalanx of lawyers is helping me weigh my options.

      Reply
  3. Jonathan Rogers says

    May 1, 2013 at 10:35 am

    Release the hounds. You have all waited a polite amount of time to offer answers. P.S. My head isn’t as squashed as the image under my name would suggest.

    Reply
  4. Hannah Joy says

    May 1, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    Well he must have gone to school in his underwear, but he must have had his clothes over the top. P.S. my head isn’t blank and emotionless as the image beside my comment would suggest.

    Reply
  5. Josh Bishop says

    May 1, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    I’m not sure I’ve struck on the answer, but I will say that most days I go to the office in my underwear.

    Reply
    • Hannah Joy says

      May 2, 2013 at 10:39 pm

      I hope that doesn’t mean that you don’t wear your underwear some days. 😉

      Reply
  6. Jonathan Rogers says

    May 1, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    Josh and Hannah Joy are correct. Most of us go everywhere in our underwear. Now, everybody picture Josh sitting at his desk in his underwear.

    Reply
  7. Loren Warnemuende says

    May 1, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    I guessed it before I read the comments. Do I get anything? (Accolades? Adoration? The Underwear Song now stuck in my head?)

    Reply
  8. Loren Warnemuende says

    May 1, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    I just read this to my six-year-old and without a pause she said, “I wear underwear under my clothes.” I think it’s time to move on to tougher riddles…

    Reply
  9. Hannah says

    May 1, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Weighing in too late, but I totally assumed it was a dream sequence.

    Reply
  10. James Witmer says

    May 7, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    I’m super late to reading this one, but had to say that I completely enjoyed it. Thanks, Mr. Rogers!

    Reply

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