coltonr1   
Jun 29, 2007
| That was a Great Teaser! |
Panther91
Jun 29, 2007
| I didn't get it I saw the answer, then I was like Duh! should've figured it out. Anyway, great job! |
LeafFan4life
Jun 29, 2007
| thanks guys  |
villageofmany
Jun 29, 2007
| Cute one!  |
boodler
Jun 29, 2007
| Once I had counted 13 call-on-knees, it all fell into place!  |
AlanJS
Jun 29, 2007
| Good one |
Smeraldina
Jun 29, 2007
| I really enjoyed this teaser, LeafFan. Thanks! |
LeafFan4life
Jun 29, 2007
| thanks everyone |
FutureMD
Jun 29, 2007
| I really enjoyed this brain teaser. I should have gotten it quicker- my whole year in Social Studies was American History. |
HarryPutter 
Jun 29, 2007
| cool teaser leaf |
drussel3
Jun 29, 2007
| Very Creative |
feste
Jul 01, 2007
| Loved it. Figured so many of them meant something and the 13 didn't stump me for long. Loved it. |
sports_freak 
Jul 01, 2007
| that is stupid i whant my penny back(jk i luved it) |
tintiniscool
Jul 01, 2007
| Wow Leaf fan, I am impressed. This is by far one of the greatest rebuses that I have ever seen. You should be so proud of yourself! |
cooltigerr1
Jul 02, 2007
| haha good one |
soccermissy29
Jul 03, 2007
| good teaser!!! I actually got it which means Im getting better!!! Good job on this one!!! |
guitargirl55
Jul 13, 2007
|  I was confused until i looked at the anwser. I would never have guessed that |
LeafFan4life
Jul 20, 2007
| thanks everyone i really appreciate it |
cloughme
Jul 30, 2007
| Clever!  |
Trishgal
Jul 30, 2007
| I really liked that . Had me confused for a minute , but that isn't hard but when I got it , it really felt good. THX I hated history. |
coltonr1
Jul 30, 2007
| Awesome Teaser of the day! Very good TOTD selection. |
grams60
Jul 30, 2007
| hey, I got it! I usually can not solve these teasers. but at last one I could get. Thank you for great teaser of the day.   |
leftclick
Jul 30, 2007
| Hmmm, it must be an American pronunciation thing. In Australia we would never say that "colony" starts with "call" - "colony" is pronounced "COLL-on-nee" but "call" is pronounced "CAWL" - totally different sounds!  |
leftclick
Jul 30, 2007
| Does that mean you guys make "caller" and "collar" into homophones? |
bradon182001
Jul 30, 2007
| I got it, but wasn't positive I had right answer until I read the hint. I have to agree with Leftclick tho. Maybe 13 cow knees would work.Good rebus.  |
puttumup
Jul 30, 2007
| i should have got it great teaser |
4princesses
Jul 30, 2007
| I got this teaser!!! I liked it too. It was clever. And as far as the pronunciation of call, it seems it really depends on where you are from. For the most part in the U.S., we pronounce call as "cawl" |
leftclick
Jul 30, 2007
| I don't think it's the pronunciation of "call" that changes, but that of "coll" (in collar or colony). To me, the "o" in these words is pronounced short, nothing like the long "a" in call. |
doehead
Jul 30, 2007
| Pretty easy if you counted the lines |
i_lov_jordan07
Jul 30, 2007
| Too easy! I got it when I counted 13 Call Knees. |
2ndhandrose
Jul 30, 2007
| I flunked history in school.
I counted 13 Call Knees. Didn't
clue in to Colonies. I looked at hint & gave up cause it was US
history. (I'm Canadian)Gave up too easily
Very Good Though when I read the
answer. I liked it.
Clever! |
masquerademe235
Jul 30, 2007
| did not get it! excellent teaser! |
GrandmaB
Jul 30, 2007
| Mumbling it to myself several times revealed it.
Very creative! |
avonma
Jul 30, 2007
| I got it! That was fun. Thanks.
Hey, "Grandma B" - I'm a grandma B., too. And I was muttering 13 call knee over a couple of times until I figured it out, too. I completely missed the call "ON" knee hint, though. |
Harmony_Girl
Jul 30, 2007
| Very creative teaser. I love it! |
Thrashmeister
Jul 30, 2007
| Once I figured there were thirteen of them, it immediately clicked into place. Very easy, but still, quite clever. |
mommy6399
Jul 30, 2007
| Welcome to the English Language!! Very cute!! |
mondayschild59
Jul 30, 2007
| I got this one right for a change. Thanks for the post.
Monday~ |
katjojo
Jul 30, 2007
| Yeah I Got It!!! |
bestgirl
Jul 30, 2007
| Nice one. |
happyhak
Jul 30, 2007
| Nice! |
volleyballchik
Jul 30, 2007
|
oh my god, i never would have quessed that! |
aprildawn
Jul 30, 2007
| way 2 easy, but good one...keep up the good work  |
jacstop
Jul 30, 2007
| The best part about this one was that it wasn't a rebarfed teaser from 2003 and 2005!
It was also cool and I got it when I read the first one and saw so many below it |
shawnbse
Jul 30, 2007
| took me a few minutes but i finally figured it out |
speedqueenkmw
Jul 30, 2007
| didn't care for this one  |
Brock
Jul 30, 2007
| That was great going in my favs |
jabdr
Jul 30, 2007
| I enjoyed it. Once I counted the 13 call on knees, I tried to make it harder, thinking it couldn't be so basic.....but it was....... |
mosca
Jul 30, 2007
| Great teaser! Brilliant rebus! It took some thinking though. I was looking and saying, "Call over knee?" "Knee under call?" "Call on knee?" Hot dawg! Colony. Yup, there's 13 of them! |
breathesunshine
Jul 30, 2007
| Had to think for a minute but got it in the end. Fun one! |
isis528
Jul 31, 2007
| Read it at first and counted; didn't get it until i said it out loud. Strange pronunciation, smiled after i heard myself. Love these rebuses, or is it
rebi? |
lmurray
Jul 31, 2007
| FAR FROM BRILLIANT, JUST PLAIN EASY! |
shawneeo
Jul 31, 2007
| no way.
But, really, it was good! But I just have to agree with the others above. I never would've gotten it without the hint, because "call" pronounced "kawl" or almost like "coal", isn't the same as "caw" that rhymes with "paw". I would've expected it to be caw/knee if it was "colonies", so without the hint I never would've guessed that.
It's a great idea though. In my obviously humble, , opinion, (is he kidding? humble? ) (shaddup), I think if you changed the "call" to "caw", the teaseer would still be just as hard, but would also be PERFECT! It IS a BRILLIANT idea, it really is! Thanks for the teaser, Leaf!
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leftclick
Jul 31, 2007
| Really, I think shows how hard it is to write these kinds of teasers because accents are different everywhere! ...and it's hard to explain pronunciation using text |
Dreamchaser
Jul 31, 2007
| groaaaaan great one leaf |
Jamerican_Gurl
Jul 31, 2007
| good one |
siskiu
Aug 03, 2007
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(user deleted)
Aug 10, 2007
| the 13 colonies. really really fu(copyright symbol)king obvious. |
Barticus
Oct 30, 2007
| In most US dialects "call-on-knee" and "colony" are very close in pronunciation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot-caught_merger
Historical nit: The term "thirteen colonies" is a retronym. At the first Continental Congress there was no attempt to count them, because some colonies contained others. By the time of the second Continental Congress (Declaration of Independence) it was the "the thirteen united States of America". |
Jimbo
Nov 19, 2008
| I think that ":e :e :e :e..." etcetera would have been a much better way of representing this. Even so, this is an example of one of those many US style teasers on Braingle where if you are not an American you have little chance of recogniSing the "common phrase". |
