# Anybody working on this month's Games Magazine's cartoon rebuses? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 23, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493 "2009-03-23T19:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/1 "2009-03-23T19:35:40Z")
I’m stuck on 4 of them, #s 6, 8, 13 & 14. As you know, they printed the same cartoon for 1 & 10, but they have the correct #10 on their website. I’ll put out four that I got, and put up the rest if anybody responds to this here thread. 1. To Be Or Not To Be (TUBE-EEYORE-KNOT-TUBE-E) 2. Carson Daly (CAR-SUNDAE-LEE) 3. Elephant Ears (ELLA-FAN-TEARS) 4. I Love A Parade (AISLE-OF-UPPER-AID) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/2 "2009-03-24T11:18:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I’m stuck on 4 of them, #s 6, 8, 13 & 14. > > As you know, they printed the same cartoon for 1 & 10, but they have the correct #10 on their website. > > I’ll put out four that I got, and put up the rest if anybody responds to this here thread. > > 1. To Be Or Not To Be (TUBE-EEYORE-KNOT-TUBE-E) > 2. Carson Daly (CAR-SUNDAE-LEE) > 3. Elephant Ears (ELLA-FAN-TEARS) > 4. I Love A Parade (AISLE-OF-UPPER-AID) #8: marked + uh + Cher + a = Mark Texeira #13: pie + per + pair + a + bow = Piper Perabo. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/3 "2009-03-24T13:15:45Z")
It’s been a very long time since I last got a copy of _Games_, so I went to their website to see if I could follow your OP. [Found this](http://www.gamesmagazine-online.com/gameslinks/equationanalysis.html) which makes me wonder if they might know the dreaded "14 = " monster. Since the page links to answers, I guess the fun is all for offline. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/4 "2009-03-24T13:34:06Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > #8: marked + uh + Cher + a = Mark Texeira > #13: pie + per + pair + a + bow = Piper Perabo. I never would have gotten those two. I actually thought 8 would be something like Mark Duchera, but I couldn’t find anything related to an athlete. Thanks! Here’s the rest of mine: 5. Sandra Day O’Connor (SAND-ROD-A-YOKE-HONOR) 7. Carolina Panthers (CARE-O-LINEUP-ANTHERS) 9. Aaron Eckhart (ERA-NECK-HEART) 10. Andean Condor (ANDY-AN-CON-DOOR) 11. The Mighty Thor (THUMB-EYETEETH-OR) 12. Gran Torino (GRANT-OR-E-NO) That leaves 6 & 14 for me. **Zeldar** , what’s the dreaded 14= Monster? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/5 "2009-03-24T14:07:36Z")
Yeah, #6 and #14 are the ones I haven’t got yet, either. But I’ve only been working on it two days, so I’m not panicking yet. #14 has, historically, been the toughest one. #6 will probably dawn on me any second… or so I keep telling myself. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/6 "2009-03-24T14:25:54Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > **Zeldar** , what’s the dreaded 14= Monster? [14 k of g in a f p d](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132) (9 pages!) which was among the threads mentioned in the recent [The truly great threads in SDMB history](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=508687). Somebody has to know! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/7 "2009-03-24T22:01:53Z")
**astorian** , have you figured out what that plant is in 6? I’ve been going through plant identification websites, and the best I could determine is either a lily or a bellwort, and can’t get either of them to work. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/8 "2009-03-24T22:21:10Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > **astorian** , have you figured out what that plant is in 6? I’ve been going through plant identification websites, and the best I could determine is either a lily or a bellwort, and can’t get either of them to work. That could be part of the trick. It looks sort of like the fleur-de-lis the New Orleans Saints wear on their helmets… but I don’t know exactly what it’s supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/9 "2009-03-25T05:19:24Z")
Just now figured out 6. Miley Cyrus (MY-LEASE-IRIS) I looked up Fleur-de-lis, and the design is based on an iris. W00T! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/10 "2009-03-25T15:25:41Z")
So, the possible components of #14 are, what… can cans cola colas Coke eight even five give I Pepsi point rate test tie ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/11 "2009-03-26T12:45:43Z")
I keep thinking the last word might be KANSAS, or that the place has a Spanish sounding name, as if it were a case where COLAS was inserted in the middle, as the last syllable of the first word and the first syllable of the second. Of course, “Place” could refer to something as innocuous as COUNTER TOP, or fictitious like OUTER CONGOLIA. Other words could be: score sodas pops them both an ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/12 "2009-03-26T14:56:34Z")
an both can cans cola colas Coke eight even five give I Pepsi point pop pops rate score scores soda sodas test them tie ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/13 "2009-03-26T16:06:57Z")
If this doesn’t exist online, can someone describe the rebus? ---
**Author:** ![norrin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@norrin2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norrin2)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/14 "2009-03-26T16:52:51Z")
Is there any significance to the fact that the guy in #14’s right hand )the one pointing toward the Coke) is bigger than the other hand? And my number #10 looks exactly like #1 – Pooh tying a knot in Eeyore’s tail – How does that equal Andean Condor? ---
**Author:** ![norrin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@norrin2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norrin2)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/15 "2009-03-26T16:55:04Z")
:smack: Okay, disregard the second part of that missive. I just went to Games’s website and saw the correction for that rebus ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/16 "2009-03-26T17:57:07Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > If this doesn’t exist online, can someone describe the rebus? It’s a 2-page spread in Games Magazine. It’s got 14 1-panel cartoons that each depict a scene that contains clues for the answer. You string the clues together and the answer will most often be a phonetic. We are provided a category and the number of letters. As an example, the category is Magazine, and the number of letters is 6, 4 (meaning two words, first word has 6 letters, second has 4). The cartoon is of a taxi driver dropping off his customer. He tells her “It comes to $4.80.” In the background, there’s a moving van, with a big E on the side, as if the rest of the company name got cut off by the edge of the picture. We’ve got a van, the word “it,” the letter E, and a word to describe what the customer pays for the taxi: fare. String them together, you get VAN-IT-E-FARE. The answer is _Vanity Fair_. What makes these rebuses so annoying is that you can’t overlook ANYTHING. The cartoonist throws in some red herrings. Plus, he draws in such a cutesie poo style, you get sick of looking at it! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/17 "2009-03-26T18:01:02Z")
> [@norrin2](#): > > Is there any significance to the fact that the guy in #14’s right hand )the one pointing toward the Coke) is bigger than the other hand? Could be HAND is part of the answer. Or, the artist just really sucks. Notice how the other hand doesn’t have any fingers, or it’s twisted around like the guy’s wrist is made of latex. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/18 "2009-03-26T19:26:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > It’s a 2-page spread in Games Magazine. It’s got 14 1-panel cartoons that each depict a scene that contains clues for the answer. You string the clues together and the answer will most often be a phonetic. We are provided a category and the number of letters. What I meant was, instead of an alphabetical list of possible answers, could someone describe the sequence of images in this specific rebus? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/19 "2009-03-26T20:27:12Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > What I meant was, instead of an alphabetical list of possible answers, could someone describe the sequence of images in this specific rebus? Three people, testers of some kind, stand over a table where there’s a can of Coke and a can of Pepsi. One says, “I give both an 8.5” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493/20 "2009-03-26T20:29:44Z")
The answer, by the way, is a “place,” consisting of a 5 letter word and a 6 letter word. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-working-on-this-months-games-magazines-cartoon-rebuses/490493.md?page=2)