# Help With A Brain Teaser
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 6, 2004, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588 "2004-08-06T09:56:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/1 "2004-08-06T09:56:48Z")
I have been given these lists of brain teasers that are visual and normally connect to a phrase.
An example is that there are seven C’s in a row and it means the Seven Seas.
There is one which is He’s/ Himself. Closest I can get is "He’s up himself’ but I don’t think that is correct.
Any clues?
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/2 "2004-08-06T10:03:39Z")
He’s beside himself.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/3 "2004-08-06T10:11:17Z")
This is one of those spreadsheet based games where if you put in the incorrect answer it is rejected.
The computer rejects the answer ‘He’s beside himself’.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/4 "2004-08-06T10:33:18Z")
Can you send it to me or link me to it?
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/5 "2004-08-06T10:37:41Z")
Unfortunately it is on paper (the version I have). I gave your answer to the person who was asking me and she told me about it being rejected.
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### Author:  [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/6 "2004-08-06T10:56:48Z")
> [@Cicero](#):
>
> This is one of those spreadsheet based games where if you put in the incorrect answer it is rejected.
>
> The computer rejects the answer ‘He’s beside himself’.
If you haven’t already, try “He _is_ beside himself”
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/7 "2004-08-06T11:01:53Z")
> [@Trillionaire](#):
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> If you haven’t already, try “He _is_ beside himself”
Also try Hes beside himself. The people that make those things don’t always have the best spelling or grammar.
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### Author:  [@Rock\_n\_Roach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock_n_Roach)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/8 "2004-08-06T12:56:44Z")
He’s by Himself ?
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/9 "2004-08-06T13:31:16Z")
Split personality, perhaps?
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/10 "2004-08-06T13:49:15Z")
If that is really a ‘/’ perhaps something along the line of “Divided against himself” but I vote for “Beside”.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/11 "2004-08-06T16:11:40Z")
He’s ahead of himself…?
(I’m with the ‘besides’ crowd, but this is worth a shot)
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### Author:  [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/12 "2004-08-06T16:27:28Z")
Huh? I don’t get it. How does “He’s beside himself” relate back to dealing with the seven seas and having “7 c’s in a row?”
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/13 "2004-08-06T17:18:14Z")
He’s over himself. No more narcissistic behavior for him. Or, it just means that he’s one. With himself. It’s a zen thing.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/14 "2004-08-06T17:46:00Z")
He’s over himself was my first guess.
He’s not himself perhaps.
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### Author:  [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/15 "2004-08-06T17:51:13Z")
Split personality?
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/16 "2004-08-06T18:40:43Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#):
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> Huh? I don’t get it. How does “He’s beside himself” relate back to dealing with the seven seas and having “7 c’s in a row?”
It’s a separate puzzle. They’re visual puns, if you like. I know them as “Dingbats”.
e.g.
**C C C C C C C** = the seven seas
**[sub]S[/sub][sup]G[/sup][sub]E[/sub][sup]G[/sup]** = scrambled eggs
**HE’S / HIMSELF** = he’s beside himself.
I think I’ve seen the last one as:
```auto
| HIMSELF
HE'S |
| RAGE
```
or “he’s beside himself with rage”.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/17 "2004-08-06T18:41:58Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> He’s not himself perhaps.
Dingbat logic would require the “HIMSELF” part to be struck through, I’d have thought.
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### Author:  [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/18 "2004-08-06T18:58:59Z")
Ah! I get it. He’s over himself sounds best to me if it’s a division thing.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/19 "2004-08-06T19:18:48Z")
He’s divided himself? What is he, an amoeba?
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-brain-teaser/258588/20 "2004-08-06T21:41:01Z")
Thanks for the replies- I do like the amoeba one. I don’t know the answer, but if it was ‘He’s over himself’ wouldn’t it more correctly be ‘He’s’ on a line above ‘himself’?
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