March 24, 2009

Idi-Yums: The Second: Revelations Revealed

***SPOILER ALERT*** Answers to my last post are given here. Check the previous post before reading these answers.

Sorry for the heinous delay...I went to SXSW last week and drank a few days of my life away. Well I'm back now and I'm happy to report that this time, if the world’s fate rested on everyone’s ability to guess some pictograms, Earth would be MUCH better off. In case there were some you missed, here are the answers:

The first one is bury the hatchet. Props to EK for getting it. Side note: That’s one of my favorite childhood books ever.

The second one is bull in a china closet/shop. Pretty much everybody got this one once they figured out who the fat guy holding the cue stick was. When I made the picture, I got sidetracked watching Jordan highlights on YouTube. That man was so motherfucking good at basketball.

The third one is shot in the dark. A couple of people guessed "blue moon," which don’t make no sense seeing as how the moon is practically the only thing in the whole picture that isn’t blue.

The picture of the horse, wait, I think that’s a rhino, is supposed to be tickle the ivories. After I made it, Raoul pointed out that elephants are the animals that have ivory. I did a Google search and the results were inconclusive. I know rhino horns are the same material that make up hair and fingernails, but the BBC calls their horns “rhino ivory” and I’m inclined to believe anyone with a British accent.

The fourth one is shoot the bull. Raoul got this one. A couple of people guessed “holy cow,” which is, well, wrong.

The fifth one is get over the hump. The only alteration I did to that picture was add the hurdler, honest.

The answer to the sixth one is a few tricks up my sleeve. Props again to EK for getting this one.

The last one is don’t blow it. Sorry, Pennywise.


Well played, everyone. I'm getting to the point where I'm going to have to start making up my own idioms to keep doing this, but I realize how ridiculously hard that would be. I mean, making a picture of "don't strangle your neighbor's donkeys after midnight" would be easy, but there's no way anyone would guess it. Until next time, this is Darrell Woolery saying: Don't strangle your neighbor's donkeys after midnight.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I just thought you should know I showed my coworkers the pictures and for the rhino one my boss guessed: "Shake your horn feather."