# Please help me solve this Rebus.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672>\
**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:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/141 "2026-10-03T20:45:13Z")

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I think you missed that Mahaloth called the owners long ago and it turned out it was the new owners at that point and they inherited the rebus from the old owner (Jack Jensen) and took it down shortly after buying the shop and asked the old owner about it and he said he made it to “fuck with people” and had no solution.

> [@Please help me solve this Rebus.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/129):
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> :BUMP: I just spoke to the owner of the store. No, I’m not kidding. He filled me in on the details of the situations. I asked permission to summarize our conversation and he was cool with it. The Rebus has been removed from outside the store. The previous owner(who was the artist Jack Jensen) liked it, but the current owners had it taken down. The Rebus was a work of art created by [Jack Jensen](http://www.jensenart.ca/wp/), a local Colorado artist. It has no answer. Yes, the owner is sure that there is no answer. W…

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**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:** [October 6, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/142 "2026-10-06T20:54:30Z")

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> [@Fofer](#):
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> Hmm, revisiting this again now with fresh eyes, I’m thinking that the rebus can be read as follows:

Hi, I spoke with the owners some time ago and I posted the whole story. It was only made to mess with people. There is no solution.

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**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:** [October 7, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-solve-this-rebus/573672/143 "2026-10-07T17:51:41Z")

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[Here’s a link to the original “art” work.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2Fcan-anyone-solve-this-rebus-buckle-up-folks-this-has-v0-VWRxOjXYNWAH3R3Q-5q8--R58yposwq17E8sNh04IGI.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D9a01db1d3a0dad314268600cf80a81a55224c712)

Also kind of confused about the dates:  
[![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/3e67ec83-dd0f-472b-9e06-e2bf18b2f1ff_l.png) ](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/3e67ec83-dd0f-472b-9e06-e2bf18b2f1ff_l.png)

“ **12** years later”  
“It’s been a while since we’ve seen Fofer — their last post was **16** years ago”

The OP was in 2011. 2026-2011= 15, right? What am I missing?

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