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.

Lewis Carol

from the horses mouth Koasati

Cavanaugh, you got it! (The answer/pattern to my riddle).

Oh and by the way....

Hungry
Angry
Aggry

Just in case you don't believe it, this is what Webster says:

\Ag"gry\, Aggri \Ag"gri\, a. Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


And, if that wasn't enough.....

Puggry

\Pug"gry\, Puggree \Pug"gree\, n. [Written also puggaree, puggeree, etc.] [Hind. pag[.r]i turban.] A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun. [India] --Yule.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Interesting.. So, where was the big issue with the riddle come from?

heh - motion - I only got it cuz i was sounding it out loud to write it down

angry

Doh! didn't see that there were 3 pages to this.