OK, so we know it is the Mutiny Now Art Books and Coffee. Should we just call? I can’t do it now, but looks like their # is:
(303) 778-7579
If a few of us call, maybe can get some more hints or even the solution.
What’s SpongeBob holding? A pencil? A sharpened piece of wood?
I’ve seen this thing before, and there has NEVER been a solution that anyone has come up with.
NEVER.
My suspicions are that this means absolutely nothing, but generates a ton of interest in the store it’s hanging over, and the buzz is a good thing for that store.
It’s brilliant, really.
I made up a joke in jr. High once, and this reminds me of that joke.
I told everyone in my study hall except one kid that I was going to tell a joke. And to laugh after the “punchline”.
The joke: two guys walked into a snack shop. One bought coke, one bought potato chips.
I asked everyone to laugh hysterically to convince this kid that the joke meant something… And it worked. Poor kid had no idea why everyone was laughing. It drove him crazy trying to figure out the meaning.
I felt bad when he approached me at our 5 year reunion, asking me what the joke meant.
That stupid joke bugged him for 9 years. He was a combination of relieved, annoyed, angry, happy, suicidal and homicidal. I had to buy him three drinks and apologize for doing that. I had no idea everyone would have kept the “joke” a secret from him, or he would remember it. At the end, he admitted it was funny in a weird way, and it would have been even funnier if he was in on the gag and someone else was the target. The best thing about it was he wasn’t picked for any particular reason. He was popular, and not a target for being picked on. Maybe that’s why it worked. He just happened to be late that day for study hall.
This rebus seems to be the exact same thing. No meaning, cryptic clues, and not one person can arrive at the “recognizable 3 word phrase”.
How about “Joke’s on you!”
If the guy wouldn’t tell Fofer, why would he tell us?
Could the flies be “pests”?
Beauty is in the eye if the beholder.
I think this is it. It’s also the answer to 14 k of g in a f p d.
I maintain it means “I’m shit at making rebuses”.
: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.
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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.
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The Rebus was a work of art created by Jack Jensen, a local Colorado artist.
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It has no answer. Yes, the owner is sure that there is no answer. We spoke for about 5-10 minutes just on this aspect and I’ll do my best to explain. When Jack Jensen initially created the rebus, he put it outside the store. People asked him for hints, but he refused. Because he owned it, the store is filled with his artwork. However, it ended up going outside the store and was there for awhile. They took it down 11 months ago.
They asked Jensen about the puzzle a lot, but he insisted he wouldn’t talk about a solution. They asked him if there was one, and he eventually told them, “No. I made it to fuck with people.”
According to the owner, he sounded genuine about there being no solution. Jensen has moved on since then and like I said, they took the Rebus down from outside the store.
- The owner was aware people are discussing it on the internet, but Jack Jensen is not a big internet fan(though he has a website…) and probably is not aware we are discussing it. However, they are aware at the Mutiny Now coffee shop, where the artwork was for years.
This doesn’t surprise me.
Post 123 was my guess to this puzzle… Which was this rebus has no answer.
I am amazed that it took so long for someone to get the answer out of someone who knows.
I am also amazed that people actually thought there WAS a solution to the thing. There are a lot of bright people on this board, and when no one could come up with ANYTHING that could make sense, it seemed obvious to me.
I’m glad you put this one to bed, Mahaloth… Especially since you have done so much legwork on this one.
Thanks, Stinkpot, though the real question is why it took us(me) so long to call. I called the place for the first time today and a very friendly and talkative owner picked up and chatted for about 20-30 minutes with me about the whole thing.
He was open, honest, and really pretty frank about the whole thing. I know this isn’t true, but he almost sounded like he wanted to put it to bed. He sighed and laughed when I mentioned that it was a “little bit of internet obsession” and he gladly chatted from there.
The thing about Gorbachev and an insulting name for the mark just seems too weird to make up. And, until your post, I had no idea that it was a puzzle no one had solved.
After all, that “14 k of g in a f p d” thing did have an answer, despite it taking until 2010 or so to get it. Don’t ask me what it was, though: I don’t remember.
I have faith in the puzzle solvers of the Dope. When you read through this thread, you will be exposed to the guesses of folks… And these were the guesses they were willing to write down. No doubt, there were countless more that never made the cut for public consumption.
With the multilingual, multinational composition of this board, and the collective intellect of our population, it becomes clear relatively quickly that there is nothing that can be logically harvested from this puzzle.
Sometimes, you just have to admit a good joke when you see it. I’d love to know how many people wasted how many hours working on this rebus. Oh the humanity!
These new smilies suck. Don’t you just want to smack the shit out of this face? And it’s the most likable one!
I could be wrong, but I believe you are mistaken. We never got a satisfactory answer to that one either.
ETA: should have added that I don’t mean to sound ungrateful - I’m glad Mahaloth has given us “closure” on this one, and appreciate the effort made to do so :).
I didn’t think the 14… Got resolved either, though I’d love to be wrong!
I’m grateful, too, that we at least got a resolution here.
Not to resurrect that long-expired horse, but I did a bit of a search which seems to corroborate that not only did we not get a satisfactory answer to 14 k of g in a f p d, but we didn’t even get the culprit (a poster by the name of mittu) to admit it was all a joke. But then, he was telling it to us second-hand to begin with. The collective might of the internet couldn’t solve it either.
Just saw this.
Thank you Mahaloth.
Check with Chessic Sense, guys. He quote a post solving it, I think back in 2010. He brought it up again recently. Surely I didn’t dream that.
