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OK, so this one was not that tough. I could have made it tougher if I’d wanted. But I didn’t want.
BTY: These are not puns; they’re rebuses.
According to Google, a rebus is “a puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters.”
Rebuses are interesting (to me, anyway) because they span at least three areas of the brain: (a) the visual cortex, (b) the linguistic cortex, and (c) the hippocampus (memory).
Every brain solves rebuses differently, though, so if you could somehow unwind the exact method by which your brain solved this one, then you’d have a significant bit of your personal cognitive genome, right there.
Consider:
A twenty-something might not get this rebus, even if he’s able to solve all the separate parts. And the reason for that lies with his hippocampus. Not that there’s anything wrong with his hippocampus, mind you. It’s just that it might not be . . . how shall I say it . . . mature enough. ;-)
Meanwhile, some older folks who “theoretically” know the answer and have delighted in saying it out loud dozens of times (whimsical thing that it is) STILL won’t get it, because they’re thrown off-track by a single clue.
Some people would have a very hard time solving this if I abstracted (made harder) just the first picture, while others might get even if I abstracted most of them beyond recognition — as long as I left at least two consecutive clues as they are.
A few highly dedicated (or highly unusual) people could get it even if all the visual clues were completely abstracted.
How would they do that? —By ignoring the visual clues completely and counting syllables.
In other words, they’d solve it using the linguistic cortex alone.
Yes, it can be done.
Such is the power of the mind.
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