# Not the brightest crayon in the box: euphemisms for the dim-witted **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 22, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831 "2019-11-22T18:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/101 "2020-01-04T20:23:47Z")
> [@MeepersC](#): > > Ain’t got the sense God gave a sweet potato My Georgia Grandmother would say: “That boy ain’t got the good sense God gave a cucumber.” And from my New Hampshire family: “He steers straight for the lighthouse.” Which means naive as well as stupid. Still believes in Santa Claus. Can’t spell Mississippi. Mama still buys him velcro sneakers. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/102 "2020-01-05T00:00:42Z")
I like “the sharpest bulb in the box”; that is, the one that’s broken. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/103 "2020-01-05T00:59:23Z")
He’s gone out to lunch and stayed for happy hour. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/104 "2020-01-05T05:36:58Z")
Very standard and mundane phrase, yet not appearing in this thread so far (not even in that Usenet canonical list): “… has rocks where his brains belong.” I had a landlord once of whom this was utterly the case. And he did ALL his own maintenance on the property. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Clarisse\_McClellan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Clarisse\_McClellan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clarisse_McClellan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/105 "2020-01-06T02:28:26Z")
Frequently from my Kentucky born mother: Doesnt have enough sense to come in out of the rain Crazier than a June bug ---
**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/106 "2020-01-06T14:04:07Z")
If you went to a mind reader he’d charge you half price. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/107 "2020-01-06T20:09:35Z")
He’s got a dead cylinder or two. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/108 "2020-01-06T21:38:15Z")
Elementary school drop out. Self appointed recipient of the Dunning Kruger award for brilliance. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/109 "2020-01-07T05:04:44Z")
Don’t know shit from Shinola. Couldn’t find his asshole with a funnel. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/110 "2020-01-07T05:51:39Z")
> [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](#): > > Dumb as a box of rocks. I once worked for a guy who used this one frequently - too frequently. He’d use it for otherwise perfectly intelligent people who had made a single silly error, for example. So most folks around him just kind of ignored that description. Realizing this, he described a particularly egregious case (one that was completely deserved) as “dumb as a box of rocks… a box of really stupid rocks.” ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831/111 "2020-01-07T11:04:07Z")
She’s number than a pounded thumb. He’s got the IQ of a houseplant. And, from a former boss who could (and would) butcher any saying or spelling but thought she was always the smartest person in the room: A few bricks shy of a picnic. 😃 ` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box-euphemisms-for-the-dim-witted/843831.md?page=5)