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.”
"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.
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.
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.
