To think how I let this harmless, nut-crunching character with a room-temperature IQ terrify me!
1996, Edward Hibbert, "Star chow", The Advocate, 10 December 1996:
There's more than a soupcon of camp percolating through the recipes in this collection, as any reader with more than a room-temperature IQ will be able to appreciate.
2000, J. J. Luna, How to Be Invisible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Your Assets, Your Identity, and Your Life, Thomas Dunne Books (2000), →ISBN, page 124:
“The guy's got a room-temperature IQ. He dropped out of grade school. To him, DNA is probably just three letters.”
2006, William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Little Good, The Penguin Press (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
The colonizers, displaying a room-temperature IQ about the locals, didn't know how to deal with the many non-chief societies in Africa.
2006, Jay MacLarty, Live Wire, Pocket Books (2006), →ISBN, page 5:
That the President would assume it was “an excellent idea” only confirmed what Tucker now knew to be true: in addition to being an avaricious profiteer, the man had a room-temperature IQ—and the sooner he was gone, the safer the country would be.
2006, Frater Nyarlathotep & Jesse Lindsay, Ardeth: The Made Vampire, Lulu Enterprises, Inc. (2006), →ISBN, page 18:
Anyone with more than a room-temperature IQ and a few years of life experience knows that civilization offers no social compact, no humane mutuality, no justice except for those at the top.
2009, Steven "Kelly" Grayson, En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between, Kaplan Publishing (2009), →ISBN, page 80:
Careful, Kelly. It's not his fault he has a room-temperature IQ. If you tell him how fucking stupid he is, he'll just go into a sulk and be of no use to you.
“Sara? I need you to call Home Depot, see if you can get someone on the phone with at least a room-temperature IQ . . .”
2012, David Fessenden, Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles, Krause Publications (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Anyone with a half a room-temperature IQ could have routinely figured out that breaking a couple of them, while on the range, would not put them in any great peril.