It's an Editor's Job
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What expression is represented here?
Exnxgxlxixsxh Bx...reakfast
Hxexrxbx...al
Exaxrxl Gxrx...ey
N.e.e.d.l.e.'s. h. etc...ole
V.i.e.w.i.n. etc...g organ
C.a.p.t.a.i.n.'s s.a. etc...lute
NOTE: the ...'s and etc are intended to show continuation
HintPedantic people are generally particularly good at the answer to this teaser.
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Answer
Crossing the t's and dotting the i's
as per
Crossing (x'ing) the t's (teas) and dotting (.'ing) the i's (eyes, ayes)
English Breakfast, Herbal, and Earl Grey are all types of tea (t) and they are being x'd or crossed
A needle's hole = eye
Viewing organ = eye
Captain's salute = aye or aye aye
All pronounced 'i' and these are being .'d or dotted.
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Comments
SaturnCat08 
Jul 30, 2005
| Good Job!  |
Riddlerman   
Jul 30, 2005
| Haha. I'm very pedanxtx.i.c lol. Great and challeng.i.ng xtxeaser  |
(user deleted)
Jul 30, 2005
| wow challenging  |
thecowancannons  
Jul 30, 2005
| good job
great teaser
figured out all the words but not the saying  |
froggygg   
Jul 31, 2005
| Great teaser! This one really made me work for the answer - which I didn't quite get completely correct!  |
yagaloot  
Jul 31, 2005
| fun. the etc . . . 's confused me. |
prettygurl 
Jul 31, 2005
| very confusing!!!!!  |
dsquared   
Jul 31, 2005
| Thanks everyone . lol Riddler  |
sftball_rocks13 
Aug 03, 2005
| hard and complicated
but very good |
schatzy228   
Aug 27, 2005
| WOW THIS DESERVES AN XXX RATING ,,,LOVED IT DEFINITELY GOES INTO FAVS  |
dsquared   
Aug 28, 2005
| Thanks schatzy228... xxx rating hey, surely the content isn't that offensive?  |
schatzy228   
Sep 03, 2005
| you know exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxactly what i meant!  |
paul726   
Feb 23, 2006
| That was very well done. It took a little thought, but was not forced at all. |
dsquared   
Feb 23, 2006
| Thanks very much Paul  |
GebbieRose   
Jun 09, 2006
| Your teasers are excellent!  |
kedith33   
Apr 29, 2008
| That was one of the best and most challenging teasers i came across. Bravo.  |
dsquared   
May 02, 2008
| Thanks kedith33  |
Jimbo   
Jul 20, 2008
| That would have to be the most convoluted teaser I have ever seen. Took me several readings of the answer to get it and I still don't quite get the 'etc's.  |
bigpat  
May 04, 2009
| I agree with the post above me. I get the answer and how to get it from the rebus. What I don't get is why the etcs and ...s?? They just convolute it and have no apparent purpose. If you were going for random convolution then good job, but I think thats a tacky way to make a teaser harder. If there actually is a reason for them then please enlighten me. |
bradon182001   
May 26, 2009
| I never would have gotten this one. Thanks for posting.  |
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