Box of hair?
Sack of hammers?
Pail of kittens? (no, that’s cute … sorry)
What do folks where you are compare a dumb person to?
(Thread started to end the hijack in the Ron thread.)
Box of rocks, I guess, because it sort of rhymes.
I’m still going with ‘less brians than a scrambled turnip,’ because it implies not only a lack of intelligence, but a stunning lack of common sense, too.
But there are a number of other good phrases and comparisons brought up both here and in the Ron thread.
I’d like to add, for a description of an otherwise competent and intelligent person, who has a massive brain fart: “So-and-so suffered a critical clue failure.”
GameFAQs forums poster?
Hey! We’re in a family friendly forum! You can’t use that sort of language, here, neutron star!
My favorite has always been “dumber than a sack of wet mice.”
There was a thread about this recently. I say “dumber’n a bag of retarded hammers” can’t help myself, makes me giggle.
Me, I like dumb as a chunk.
I once heard “dumber than a stunted swamp chigger” on TV or a movie. I found that one quite impressive.
I don’t usually use the “dumber than…” phrasing, and say what you will about the show Charles in Charge, but I remember a line from that I still use:
“You have the intelligence of cloth.”
I used “dumber than a pallet of bricks” in a post last week…
My dad used to say, “Dumber than whale s**t in the bottom of the ocean.”
No idea where he got that one.
I always heard this as “About as sharp as a sack of wet mice…”
I sometimes quote Foghorne Leghorne: “That boy’s about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.”
He has a room temperature IQ.
Mine too. Foghorn Leghorn is quite the quote smith.
I always thought “bag of hammers” was a way of describing an ugly person’s face.
“Dumber than a box of hair.” Although usually I prefer to say “his brain must rattle around in his skull like a pea in a tuna can,” myself.
“Dummer 'n sled tracks” has been a favorite of mine since I heard a neighbor use it about one of his kids.
Interesting. I sometimes say “dumber than a bowl of mice.”
More frequently, though, I will say that somebody “has the IQ of a bagel.”