more full of s*** than congress at election time
flightier than a fart in a windstorm
colder 'n a witches tit in a brass bra
'bout as bright as a 10watt bulb, he is.
Dumber than a box of rocks.
A rock with lips.
I’ll hand him his ass in a paper sack.
Homlier than (or “as usefull as”) a sack full of assholes.
He’s so dumb he thinks the Canadian boarder pays rent!
He’s so dumb he thinks Wade Boggs is what you do before swimming across the Potomac.
Don’t just sit there like a bump on a log. (my mother’s personal favorite)
I wouldn’t kick him out of my bed for eating crackers. (though the one time I said it, someone came back with “Why else would he be there?” courtesy of Cheers)
(Note: I’m pretty sure I heard Steve Martin ask “Does the Pope shit in the woods?” on one of his early albums, possibly Comedy is not Pretty. Still a great line.)
Welcome to the SDMB, zoog! That bit of advice would have been a worthy addition to the “Funniest thing you ever heard an old man say” thread of a few months ago.
Here are some of my favorite colloquial similes, metaphors, and other figures of speech:
Dumber than a bag of hammers
“She looks like she got hit in the face with a bag of nickels!”
A few sandwiches short of a picnic
Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree
As hopeless as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest
My dad often uses “older than baseball” or, for something/someone really ancient, “two days older than God”.