In the spirit of NOSTR I'd like to give back 10% of my generous @hodl haul to the first 10 people that answer this question accurately with the correct explanation as to why their answer is correct. '"Brothers and sisters I have none but THAT man's father is my father's son. Who is THAT man?" 10,000 sats to the first 10 people that answer it correctly with correct explanation. Explanation must be included! Contest stops tomorrow at 6pm eastern standard time. Oh ya and 100,000 sats goes to @gabe at the end of the contest for spotting me in the wild. God speed Nostrians!
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It’s you, if you’re an only child the fathers son is you.
He is speaking of his own son.
His sons father (speaker) is speaker's father's son.
Me looking at myself in a picture.
Myself?
The man being referred to in the riddle is the speaker's son.
The riddle states that "THAT man's father is my father's son." To determine who "my father's son" is, we need to consider who the speaker is. The riddle doesn't give us any information about the speaker's gender, so we can't assume that the speaker is male or female. However, we can assume that the speaker is referring to themselves, since they use the first person singular pronoun "I".
Me looking into the mirror.
It’s me. Me because I am that man the son of the father. Did that make sense.
THAT man is the son of the person speaking....
You, in the mirror.
"THAT man" is the son of the person narrating the riddle. "THAT man's father" refers to himself because being an only child he is his father's only son and is also the father of his son, i.e. "THAT man".
My son
Dear Cecil: This riddle has been bugging for years now. A man is standing in front of a judge waiting for sentencing, when all of a sudden he excitedly gestures toward a picture of a gentleman hanging on the wall above the judge’s head. The prisoner exclaims, “That man’s father is my father’s son!” Who is the man in the picture? Please solve this. G.G., Chicago
Cecil replies:
I’d love to, but unfortunately you goofed up the joke. Usually it goes, “Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Rhymes, you see. Rash and impetuous persons are often inclined to say that the guy in the picture is the speaker himself. However, those who have had their minds toughened by regular exposure to the Straight Dope will see at once that the guy in the picture is the speaker’s son. The way you tell it, though, the guy could be either the speaker’s son or his nephew. (You may want to ponder this for a while.) Take it from me, sport–humor is no business for amateurs.
I have no brothers and sisters so my father's son can only be me.
I'm that man's father.
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Selfie time
If we rephrase the statement "my father's son" as "me", we can simplify the riddle to "THAT man's father is me." In other words, the man being referred to is the speaker's son. This is because the speaker is saying that the man's father (who we don't know) is the same person as "me" (i.e., the speaker's father's son). The only person who fits this description is the speaker's son.
So, the answer to the riddle is "the speaker's son."
Contest may already be over... But the speaker is referencing his own son. The speaker has no siblings, but if THAT man's father, is the speaker's own father's son, then THAT man must be the grandson of the speaker's father. Since he himself had no siblings, it must be his own son.
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