"The lights are on, but nobody's home"...

[Hamletmaschine]

Everyone knows that colorful phrase describing a person's lack of sentience or higher brain functions.

I just heard a new one today:

"The wheel's still spinning but the hamster died."

I know some others, and you probably do, too.

What are they?

 

[cybergirly]

A few fries short of a happy meal.

 

[Guest]

 

[Siren]

 

[peachykeen]

one bulb short of a full string

 

[HeavyStick]

a sandwich short of a picnic

 

[cybergirly]

Their elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

 

[Guest]

Bats in the belfrey.

He/She must have lost some marbles.

How many screws are loose?

There's no crackers left.

 

[celiaKitten]

(you knew I'd pull something like this out of my ass..)

Crazy | Barenaked Ladies

I climb the walls of my mind just like I'm climbing on a jungle gym
I am more than content with the
state of mind I am in
'cause I am crazy just like you
I am crazy just like you.

I don't think I need a rubber room,
but hey, that might be nice
I'm not a manic depressive paranoid or schizophrenic
so I don't need your advice.
I am crazy just like you
I am crazy just like you.

The lights are on but nobody's home
my elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck
I've lost my marbles
The lights are on but nobody's home
my elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck
I've lost my marbles.

I'm a few bricks short of a load,
but a full load always hurt my back.
I flew over the cuckoo's nest and
I'm never ever coming back because
I am crazy just like you
I am crazy just like you.
I am crazy

 

[Freya]

Not the brightest star in the sky.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Dumb as the back end of a shovel.

 

[celiaKitten]

How smart can the front end of the shovel be?

 

[Cheyenne]

He rides the short bus.


hehe... just used that one here yesterday, too.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

That thought hit him like a ton of bricks

 

[april-wine]

40 watt bulb in a 100 watt package

 

[april-wine]

Dumb as a stump

Dumb Like Dumptruck

A few bricks short of a load

 

[SkyBluAngelEyes]

Dumb as a box of rocks

Dumb as a post

 

[celiaKitten]

My momma calls 'em *twitasses* and leaves it at that.

*shrugs*

 

[Guest]

Low Marble Count

 

[Guest]

Low Marble Count

LMC for short.

 

[Weird Harold]

Couldn't take a hint if you stapled it to his forehead.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

One can shy of a six-pac.

 

[Guest]

 

[hogjack]

We just ask...

..."Were you born a brick or did you become one?"

 

[hogjack]

.

Two feet short of a yard.

(Sorry, unable to do a metric translation.)

 

[unclej]

the boy's got too many crows on his antennae.

from the movie the green mile, "his cheese done slipped right off his cracker".

and my personal favorite for many years.....that boy's so stupid he could fall into a bucket of tits and come up sucking his thumb.