# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/321 "2003-03-24T18:18:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by peri \* > \*\*You may hold your nose and run away when you solve it. \*\* Well, I’m not close to solving it, though I’ve at least figured out why there are colons. You sneaky person. 🙂 Julie ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/322 "2003-03-24T18:23:03Z")
question: where did Napoleon keep his armies? answer: in his sleevies 😃 Julie ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/323 "2003-03-24T19:21:34Z")
Dang it, I’m **not** going to let this thread get the best of me! Callahan/Tom/Jake (who’s tending this place?): a shot of Bushmill’s please. \*\* Toes up to the fireplace \*\* Notices a sound; duo; deceased queues; \*\* takes a drink \*\* Flower month; sun’s time; piercing tool, routes; castle; joke going overhead; went around another driver; having, eject (with toss); scam, ill, time question, female sib. \*\* Sends glass into fireplace \*\* KAPOW! \*\* And since my toast isn’t likely to come true, back to work… ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/324 "2003-03-24T19:52:27Z")
Here’s to deadlines. May day always keep whooshing past without consequences? Am I close? Julie ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/325 "2003-03-24T20:38:22Z")
Yep, that’s it, except that I tried using “day” as a phonetic equivalent of “they”. Bah, maybe I’ll just stick with the drinking. I’m better at that than puzzles, anyway. **Another shot, would you barkeep?** 😃 ---
**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 24, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/326 "2003-03-24T20:39:19Z")
Oooo…I think you’ve got it, **jsgoddess**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/327 "2003-03-24T23:06:10Z")
Hey, hey! I have returned, ladies and gentlemen! 🙂 **"She graces the crossroads of primal action and pervasive entropy."** —Ian Nottingham, _The Witchblade_ Serving up a few more. They are unrelated within a theme, if that makes any sense. black bird, Chinese surname; parent of a ligon; concealed from view; word describing women’s clothing on a man, not under. melting; month after April, \_\_\_ are for kids you silly rabbit! last name of Adrian, plural; opposite of sisters There you go, everybody. Ought to last you awhile! And welcome, newcomers! I’m still working this out myself! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/328 "2003-03-24T23:12:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > So, **Aspidistra** , maybe you can answer a question for me, about your namesake. If you water a cast-iron plant, doesn’t it rust? I never rust. I only rustle. 😃 _ching!_ So. _yawns and stretches_ any such thing as a shotta caffeine in this place? ---
**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 24, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/329 "2003-03-24T23:12:51Z")
black bird, Chinese surname; parent of a ligon; concealed from view; word describing women’s clothing on a man, not under = **Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon**. melting; month after April, \_\_\_ are for kids you silly rabbit! = **The Matrix**. last name of Adrian, plural; opposite of sisters = **Blues Brothers**. I thought you said there was no theme. 😛 ---
**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 24, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/330 "2003-03-24T23:15:05Z")
_slides a shot of Bushmill’s to **sciguy** and pours an Irish coffee for **Aspidistra** _ There ya go, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/331 "2003-03-24T23:27:08Z")
_Aaah_. Awake now… Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/332 "2003-03-24T23:48:08Z")
Here’s a set on a slightly different theme: Tab;queer,many infinities sideways Windless side, monster lake; hill, many savannahs Not Adam’s partner; many complainers to God Get one, you’ll get 'em all… ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/333 "2003-03-25T00:08:23Z")
Bill Gates Linus Torvalds Lilith something? Oh. Steve Jobs. Julie ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/334 "2003-03-25T00:13:37Z")
Bill Gates Linus Torvalds Lilith something? Oh. Steve Jobs. Julie ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/335 "2003-03-25T00:18:49Z")
Bill Gates Linus Torvalds Lilith something? Oh. Steve Jobs. Julie ---
**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 25, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/336 "2003-03-25T00:19:52Z")
Nicely done, **jsgoddess**! So, what’s yer pleasure, ma’am? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/337 "2003-03-25T00:53:27Z")
- Bows to the goddess of puzzle-solving \* ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/338 "2003-03-25T00:57:45Z")
Gimme a Coca Cola and an amaretto sour. I’ll need a few of those before I get wound up enough to lob things in the general direction of the fireplace! 😃 split apart or stick together, 45 inches, use it to form a bond; Harrison’s role, France is a member, the sound of a leak Niue online; long ago, strike out; tug, ways in razor brand, say it with your mouth open, vamoose; not yet a Boy, sulfur nick for Schlafly, uncertain word, where the farmer is, pay up front, German agreement; young equines young Roger Moore; stead, to be for he; jokester, at home, owners of diners a kind of leader; Ms. Rice, hair goop, you and me; evade, these make us human Julie ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/339 "2003-03-25T01:06:08Z")
Good grief. Sorry about the triple post up there! Julie ---
**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 25, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968/340 "2003-03-25T01:06:16Z")
_Mixes up a Coca Cola and an amaretto sour and slides it across the bar to **jsgoddess** _ Here ya go. Don’t keep us waiting for your debut toast too long, now. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-idiots/162968.md?page=18)