Braingle: 'Midsummer's Ease' Brain Teaser

Midsummer's Ease

Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.

Puzzle ID:	#27179
Fun:	(2.79)
Difficulty:	(2.9)
Category:	Rebus
Submitted By:	norcekri

It's a rebus; you know the drill:

stEvE EldEr -- smiling and benevolent
bEn mEEkEr -- gregarious and generous
frEd fErbEr -- a snarling old coot
nEll nEff -- penny-pinching
EdgEr bErgEn -- entertaining and law-abiding

Hint

(1) Puck's other name
(2) Count the E's
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Comments

choptlivva Nov 26, 2005	'Fraid you lost me there....
The_Mad_Hatter Nov 26, 2005	XD! I just preformed midsummer! 'Twas fun!
wolfmanh Nov 26, 2005	WOW, this one was hard for me, loved it keep these up
bookworm91 Nov 26, 2005	hard and interesting. didnt get it(have you noticed i say taht in most of my comments) but i liked it.
ChattyMonkey Nov 28, 2005	That was an example of a hard teaser, that was GREAT! That, in my opinion, is the perfect teaser!
Lady_Lani Nov 28, 2005	haha, I'm also joining the group of the lost boys...or girls....the lost group. I did read the play a very long time ago, though.
schatzy228 Nov 29, 2005	woe is me these are my forte and you stumped me GOOD JOB
markmonnin Nov 29, 2005	Who's Puck? (And don't say Robin Goodfellow...)
bhssoccer23 Dec 05, 2005	I tried and i tried but i just couldn't think of his name!!!! Love that play, though. One of my favorite by ole' shakey!
bhssoccer23 Dec 05, 2005	By the way, to understand the hint you kind of have to read the play! good job tho!
kdm13202 Dec 05, 2005	ummmm ... good , i didn't get it , but good...
Brainy_1 Dec 19, 2005	Great one! Only I couldn't think of Pucks other name. And I should know these things... Now for sure I am going to slither away in shame!
jlvsbeks Jan 01, 2006	u confused me oh well
sugarnspice4u7 Jan 03, 2006	love it!
zonarita Mar 19, 2006	norcekri this was a gr8t teaser. Fun, Fun Fun
Vigo95 Mar 26, 2006	oh my god , norcekri ! you're amazing ! very good ! i didn't get it right or even have a clue .
GebbieRose May 29, 2006	stumped me on this 'un. good job!
bradon182001 Jul 02, 2010	I guess I'm not the only one who had trouble with this one. Very well done, Thanks for posting.
auntiesis Jul 05, 2010	I had no clue.
mikidoll Jul 05, 2010	I didn't get this at all. After reading allthe comments, I still don't get it.
mikidoll Jul 05, 2010	wait...duh. I just got it. Good one!
doehead Jul 05, 2010	I was completely clueless.
patiencewithaP Jul 05, 2010	Ouch...my head hurts after that one! Never would've gotten it...good one!
wordmama Jul 05, 2010	No clue (I even counted all the e's together, since that's what the hint said in the English I know--17 E's didn't jog anything.) Shakespeare authorities is a very small audience...Also, 'you know the drill' excludes those of us who are not rebus experts. But for those brainglers who could get past all that, it was indeed a very well put-together teaser.
gaylewolf Jul 05, 2010	I have a head ache, too! I had no idea what it was! But I'm sure it was a good one!
emu77alu02 Jul 05, 2010	Who is "Puck"??? Someone from Shakespear's "Midsummer's Night..." maybe?
craniac Jul 05, 2010	Along with most others, I had no clue.
katie384 Jul 05, 2010	WOW, thats a toughie. Very cute.
elentir Jul 07, 2010	Puck was the servant of the fairy god Oberon in A Midsummer's Night Dream. He said the famous line 'Lord what fools these mortals be'.
norcekri Jul 14, 2010	wordmama -- (1) If you don't know the drill, is it that hard to look at the genre description, or at other teasers in the category? (2) The hints are exactly that: hints, not giveaways. "Count the E's" does not restrict the counting to a simple total. This is a teaser: you often have to try a few different things before you hit on the one that works. Or, like me, you finally give up and look at the answer. (3) You don't need to be a Shakespeare expert; I'm certainly not one. Enter "Puck Midsummer's Ease" into your search engine and see the hits for the play. Finding "Robin Goodfellow" from there was trivial -- in both senses of the word. Yes, the teaser is hard. I'm hopeful that the answer is entertaining enough to justify the effort one puts into trying to solve it.