# Please help me solve this Rebus. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 6, 2011, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672 "2011-03-06T08:45:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/81 "2012-12-11T01:53:13Z")
Any dopers in Denver that can make a trip down to the bookstore and just ask the guy? I for one gave up months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/82 "2012-12-11T02:03:13Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > Any dopers in Denver that can make a trip down to the bookstore and just ask the guy? I for one gave up months ago. Me too, but I’d kill for someone to just go down there and ask. It may not have as much discussion on the Dope, but this is up there with 14 K…for me. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/83 "2012-12-11T03:14:22Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > Any dopers in Denver that can make a trip down to the bookstore and just ask the guy? I for one gave up months ago. Hope a doper volunteers! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/84 "2012-12-11T05:33:44Z")
Which bookstore is it in Denver? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/85 "2012-12-11T12:08:08Z")
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the bookstore turned out to be as fictional as the answer to the puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/86 "2012-12-11T13:30:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Which bookstore is it in Denver? [This](https://www.google.co.in/search?q=mutiny+now+art+books+and+coffee+denver&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari). ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/87 "2012-12-11T20:10:57Z")
On Google Streetview there seems to be another rebus next to it ( [http://goo.gl/maps/69NHp](http://goo.gl/maps/69NHp) ). You can’t see any real detail though. Can anyone get anything from it? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/88 "2012-12-11T20:27:16Z")
Best I can tell is the second rebus starts with spongebob. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/89 "2012-12-12T01:06:53Z")
The dude who runs the place must be obsessed with them, there’s one on the floor behind the counter inside the shop, too. And I have to say, I never knew Google Maps had that much detail. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Willcross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Willcross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willcross)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/90 "2012-12-13T04:13:01Z")
Could Mikheil+eye equal the female name Micheala? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/91 "2012-12-13T15:30:21Z")
I have a feeling the answer is going to be extremely unsatisfying. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/92 "2012-12-13T15:52:54Z")
> [@Willcross](#): > > Could Mikheil+eye equal the female name Micheala? Hm. The band Fly Paper, fronted by Micaela Kingslight, started their very first national tour in Denver in August of last year. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/93 "2012-12-13T16:51:44Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > I have a feeling the answer is going to be extremely unsatisfying. At this point, it’d have to be an equation for the philosopher’s stone not to be. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/94 "2012-12-13T17:23:37Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Hm. > The band Fly Paper, fronted by Micaela Kingslight, started their very first national tour in Denver in August of last year. We’ve already determined that the first part of the puzzle is an insulting name a child might call someone with such a birthmark and it’s not the word flies but a name that someone in another part of the country might call flies. About the only thing I’m sure about is that it’s a shitty riddle and the store owner is crap at brain teasers. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/95 "2012-12-14T01:32:01Z")
Do any Dopers live near enough to go and ask? ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/96 "2013-09-15T04:56:49Z")
Curious minds want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/97 "2013-09-15T22:48:10Z")
Okay, working from the middle out: you subtract flies, but add an I before that, leaving “fles” to be removed. This makes me think the term for the birthmark should have the word “flesh” in it, which would be reduced down to just an “h” after “+I -flies”. Thus we have “…h season”, “…h pepper”, “…h spill”, “…h grains” or some such. Hassenpfeffer (or a variant spelling) comes to mind, if the birthmark is something like “assenflesh”. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/98 "2013-09-15T23:23:45Z")
Haven’t seen it mentioned so far (may have missed it…), but one of Gorbachev’s nicknames was The Marked One (mecheny in Russian). It started out as being a favorable nickname, but then they turned it into a derogatory one over time. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/99 "2013-09-15T23:42:54Z")
Marked One + Eye - (? = eeye) + Pepper = Marked On Paper. It’s a bookstore. perhaps “eeye” is the sound they make… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/100 "2013-09-16T00:12:14Z")
Seriously, does anyone live close enough to go ask? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672.md?page=6)