I don’t know about you guys but this riddle has always bugged me.

Why? Because being the way I am, I want an answer

so I looked it up and found these on line:

Here’s Carrolls answer:”Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter’s Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: `Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!’ This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all.”

• Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. (Puzzle maven Sam Loyd, 1914)
• Because Poe wrote on both. (Loyd again)
• Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. (Get it? Aldous Huxley, 1928)
• Because it slopes with a flap. (Cyril Pearson, undated)
• Because they both have Quills

Ok, then…I am satisfied.

Any other answers out there?