Citations:room temperature IQ

English citations of room temperature IQ

Noun: "alternative form of room-temperature IQ"

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• 1987, John Leland, "Spins", Spin, July 1987:

  Lurking at the bottom, driving the whole godforsaken thing, is the possibility that the room temperature IQ that informs every groove of Neurotica may very well be the real thing.

• 1993, W. E. B. Griffin, The Assassin, Jove Books (1993), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  “There used to be a Sergeant Henkels in Central Cell Room,” Pekach volunteered. “If it's the same guy, he has a room temperature IQ.”

• 1997, John Kaye, Stars Screaming, Atlantic Monthly Press (1997), →ISBN, page 152:

  "Tight pussy but a room temperature IQ," he had said, winning from Burk a slightly embarrassed laugh.

• 1999, Caroline B. Cooney, Hush Little Baby, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Mom said often to Dad, “She has a room temperature IQ, Gavin. How on earth did you not notice before you actually married the creature?”

• 2001, Robert Lichello, How to Make $1,000,000 in the Stock Market Automatically, Signet (2001), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Anyone with a room temperature IQ and a computer could buy and sell stocks in a frenzy of greed, buy a stock and sell it a few minutes later, buy it again and sell it again as the stock gained a point or lost a point.

• 2005, John Burdett, Bangkok Tattoo, Vintage Books (2006), →ISBN, page 103:

  A man whose main crime was a room temperature IQ would rot on death row while the mastermind Denise went free.

• 2006, Nurse X, Sheer Buffoonery: How Hospitals Kill Patients, Virtualbookworm.com (2006), →ISBN, page 79:

  And last but not least, your nurse, who could have a room temperature IQ, went from giving bed baths as an NA to administering potentially lethal IV medications if she's an RN, without attending a single nursing class.

• 2007, Anil Goel, Release 2.0: The Bangalore Imperative, Undercover Utopia (2007), →ISBN, page 125:

  But Nisha was pissed...pissed that someone with room temperature IQ could wriggle her bottom and get it pinched enough to land a crown on top of her head […]

• 2008, Joe Race, Floater on the Reef, Trafford Publishing (2008), →ISBN, page 67:

  I smiled at Carlos' ingenuity and rolled my eyes, thinking “she might be beautiful but was definitely working with a room temperature IQ.”

• 2009, Karl Eysenbach, The Story of the Century, iUniverse (2009), →ISBN, page 34:

  Anyone with a room temperature IQ assumes that he's carrying product.