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[olderekgb]

There is an interesting brain game that was given to me to figure out and i can't quite get around it because every answer that i have in mind is not right.


He was the perfect gentleman even though his nephew could not see it. who was he?


People have been giving answers with names of famous characters and none of those was correct, some say;
a) the uncle who was the perfect gentleman, is deceased and burried, or had passed before the nephew was born, so his nephew could not see his uncle's sterling qualities.
b) the nephew is blind, preventing him from literally seeing the uncle being the perfect gentleman.

i need somebody to really help me out with this please because i have been working it out for weeks and still can't get the right answer.
Please help.

[robo]

Spoiler for My gusses

1. He was He. (Second 'He' being the name.)
2. He was the perfect gentleman.

[RESHAW]

I recognised this riddle from somewhere - can't remember now, so I quickly googled this to check it was correctly written, In various online hits, the word Nephew is capitalised... Is there a significance?

but...

Spoiler for I believe the best answer is

that the Uncle is deceased and the nephew couldn't see him but I don't like this answer as it doesn't need the 'perfect gentleman' line to work so I don't think this is absolutely correct.

[ak4su]

Uncle

[optimus prime]

I find Robo correct.
but if seen grammatically i don't feel that it
means the gentlemen else it would have been him

[optimus prime]

and for other such answer you can also say that the gentlemen didn't had a sis.or bro. so no chances of nephew.
but it's irrelevant to this riddle

[olderekgb]

uncle is not the right answer

[WitchOfDoubt]

Well, there are a lot of answers that work for this, but here's one that doesn't seem to have been thought of:

Spoiler for A little different

He was an actor who played a gentleman in an R-rated movie. His nephew was too young to watch. He was a "perfect gentleman," even though his nephew couldn't see it.

The reason I prefer this answer is that, in this context, the sentence closer to something a human being might actually say. Alternatively, if "see" means "understand," we can apply this sentence to any gentleman who was misunderstood by their nephew.

Edited by WitchOfDoubt, 17 January 2012 - 11:44 AM.

[ElTwo]

Spoiler for My answer is:

Me.
I was the perfect gentlemen last night. However, my nephew, who lives 300 miles away, could not see it.

[thoughtfulfellow]

Well, there are a lot of answers that work for this, but here's one that doesn't seem to have been thought of:

Spoiler for A little different

He was an actor who played a gentleman in an R-rated movie. His nephew was too young to watch. He was a "perfect gentleman," even though his nephew couldn't see it.

The reason I prefer this answer is that, in this context, the sentence closer to something a human being might actually say. Alternatively, if "see" means "understand," we can apply this sentence to any gentleman who was misunderstood by their nephew.

Ilike this answer

Spoiler for With additional research

Following along these lines, I came across several "...Perfect Gentleman" movies and TV shows. Only one was "The Perfect Gentleman". The lead male roll was played by Frank Morgan. He also played the part of The Wizard in Wizard of Oz. I could find no nephew. If a nephew doesn't exist, then a nephew couldn't know him.