Send a query. Lucky dip. Any answers? Nooks and crannies. Semantic enigmas. The body beautiful. Red tape, white lies. Speculative science. It first appeared in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , a famously creepy children's book which Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice falls asleep one day, follows a white rabbit down a rabbit hole, and ends up in a world of crazy logic which Carroll based on what he considered the nonsensical logic that was piling up in his chosen field of mathematics.
Arguably the craziest characters are the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. Alice ends up at a tea party with them, and the Mad Hatter asks her the now-famous question, "Why is a raven like a writing desk? Alice asks him why, and he admits he doesn't know. He was just asking. Alice chides him with, "I think you might do something better with the time than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers. Take that you upstart mathematics punks!
Get a job! The unanswered riddle, which many people were exposed to in their formative years, got under people's skin. In their attempt to adequately extricate it, they've come up with answers. When Alice asks about why they are wasting their time with riddles which have no answer, she's really asking a larger question about adults. Carroll's pun was unfortunately lost to the red pen of a proofreader, confusing the issue of the riddle even further.
Saying it aloud might make it clearer. The answer to the question of is largely up to you.
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