# Invisible Idiots **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968 "2003-03-21T02:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/221 "2003-03-23T19:02:50Z")
_Holds his nose and runs screaming out of the bar_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/222 "2003-03-23T19:12:04Z")
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/223 "2003-03-23T19:26:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*I’ve been looking for a website with a page of these sorts of puzzles, but I’ve never found one. I can’t believe no one has done it yet. \*\* I’ve seen a computer game that has them, it was from the creators of You Don’t Know Jack but wasn’t part of that series. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/224 "2003-03-23T20:01:36Z")
_Ambles up to the bar, takes a stool between Fast Q.E.D. and Long IDrinkNot, and signals Mike for a Glenlivet 12 yr. Special Reserve_ Did I ever mention that I used to breed snakes? Yup, I did. Mostly Kingsnakes, Corn snakes, and a few others. Geckoes, too. But, one of my all time favorites, for a number of reasons, was the Rubber Boa. Cute little guys. 🙂 They’re from the Pacific Northwest, you know. The only species of boa found outside the tropics. At the time, they were rarely kept in captivity. Anyway, I managed to get hold of two pair of hatchlings; two males, two females. Being more of a pet owner than a business, I had to come up with names for them. Right off the bat, I came up with Gum, India and Sponge. Well, they’re _Rubber_ boas, after all. My wife, at the time, whom I should mention was the one who got me into snakes, cringed. But, she was used to this sort of thing from me, and had built up a certain amount of tolerance. It wasn’t until I told her the second male’s name, that she threw a pillow at me. That was her equivalent of holding her nose and running out of the bar. As I recall, she threw every pillow on the sofa at me, that time. Just because I’d named him Spock. _sips his drink and waits_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/225 "2003-03-23T20:10:06Z")
“Seems like a silly thing to get upset about, if you ask me.” I said warily. “I mean, what’s in a name?” _sips_ ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/226 "2003-03-23T20:19:32Z")
Uh huh. I thought so, too. _sips_ I mean, who _wouldn’t_ want the world’s only Vulcanized Rubber Boa? _Smash!_ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/227 "2003-03-23T20:22:31Z")
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! _holds nose and exits the bar_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/228 "2003-03-23T20:23:50Z")
You know, we really ougta starta new GodAwful Puns™ thread for this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/229 "2003-03-23T20:36:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! _holds nose and exits the bar_ > > 😃 \*\* Thank you, thank you! 😃 I should maybe not admit this, but that is an absolutely true story. It’s how I earned my Masters; an MPU (Master of Puns UnGodly). I have more, but that’s my true masterpun. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/230 "2003-03-23T20:38:37Z")
You mean there really _is_a rubber boa? Unbelievable _snort_. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/231 "2003-03-23T20:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*You know, we really oughta start a new GodAwful Puns™ thread for this stuff. \*\* Sounds good to me. Are there a lot of punslingers in these here parts, Sheriff? How about another idiot? - typographical unit of measurement, it’s only human, laid up; City in California (short), bean byproduct, main This one should even give _you_ guys trouble. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/232 "2003-03-23T20:49:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*You mean there really _is_ a rubber boa? Unbelievable _snort_. \*\* LOL! 😃 Yeah. Charina bottae, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/233 "2003-03-23T20:53:06Z")
Emerill Lagasses. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/234 "2003-03-23T20:55:24Z")
Strike the last S. (preview is your friend, **Q.E.D.** ) ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/235 "2003-03-23T21:19:50Z")
_looks around, realizes she is **unbelievably** out of her league in the Really Bad Pun department, so decides to toss out another puzzle_ letter after I; not high; insects plural; melting; opposite of heaven; not in; for spelled backwards without the R; IThinkNot. Awfully mundane and pointless, isn’ it, then? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/236 "2003-03-23T21:24:51Z")
J-Lo bugs the hell out of me. And me, as well. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/237 "2003-03-23T21:32:23Z")
Wow— that was fast (probably because I made it easy). 😉 opposite of boring, ‘the’ with a Norwegian accent, crazy, is with an m; courage and perserverance; to curse, not out; always, Spanish for ‘and’, an object. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/238 "2003-03-23T21:43:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > \*\*This one should even give you guys trouble. 😉 \*\* Five minutes later… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*Emerill Lagasse. 😛 \*\* I should’a known better. The man’s just toying with me. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/239 "2003-03-23T21:47:32Z")
HIJACK \ That was really scary. I just came from the “I have two options [If I want to die happy]” thread and **I got flamed for the first time**! It was scary! I don’t want people to hate me! What should I do? /HIJACK ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/240 "2003-03-23T21:47:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IThinkNot \* > _ **looks around, realizes she is unbelievably out of her league in the Really Bad Pun department, so decides to toss out another puzzle** _ I know how ya’ feel. That’s how I feel in the puzzle department, usually. Clue me in, on this one… > [@](#): > > **letter after I; not high; insects plural; melting; opposite of heaven; not in; for spelled backwards without the R; IThinkNot.** How does melting = the? I might have actually gotten this one, had I seen it before **Q.E.D.** Gonzales solved it, because I’ve actually heard of J-Lo. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968.md?page=13)