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Dumber than rubber doughnuts. (This was used, I think, in Rolling Stone to describe the music of Kiss.)

The porch light’s on but nobody’s home.
The hamster died, but the wheel’s still spinnin’.

As numb as a pit prop.
As thick as pigshit.

I usually say “dumber than a sack of hair” or “dumber than a box of rocks”

You must be as smart as this fern to read this post.

Dumber than a bag of spatulas.

Dumber than a football bat

Dumber than a box of frogs.

Not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Mostly - Dumber than a door knob.

Although I’ve heard it for just about any group of people you can think of.
Dumber than a (group here).

I’ve heard that as “Queer as a football bat.”

I use “Dumber than a box of rocks on a sunny day.”

For some reason, that “sunny day” always gets me.

Dumb as a post. A simple, straightforward classic. :slight_smile:

“Dumb as a mailbox”

but I’ve always really like the visual of “dumb as a box of hair”

There really are never enough opportunities to quote Foghorn Leghorn:
“I say, I say the boys about as sharp as a bowling ball”

I also go for “dumber than a box of rocks” but I then add “sedimentary rocks, because igneous rocks are too sharp.”

Courtesy of the Animaniacs, I prefer

“Dumber than advertised.”

Dumber than a box of dead clams.

dumber than…

… a land war in Asia?

“Stupid as a fried popsicle” always makes me laugh…

As dumb as a chocolate fire-guard.

Depends on the audience.

Dumber than…

a bag of hammers.

a freeper poster.