rebuses

Apparently, constitutional law is taught with rebuses and frenzied pantomime.

Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE] 2010

The astrolabe and chess pieces, for example, offered rebuses for memory training and metaphors of prudent governance in addition to their more familiar applications in astronomical observation and gentlemanly gamesmanship.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Apparently, constitutional law is taught with rebuses and frenzied pantomime.

Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE] 2010

We shall gather all of these rebuses together and bind them in a cover, with some really nice calligraphy.

What Should Simon Singh Do Next? Jack of Kent 2009

I am even now sponsoring both infant and primary schools to create water-coloured rebuses that express my apology for all of the meanings that I did not intend.

What Should Simon Singh Do Next? Jack of Kent 2009

Addendum: Speaking of math geek rebuses, if you do want to pick up a math nerd, try telling them:

Implied Animation 2005

He, the seeker after numerical combinations, the solver of amusing problems, the answerer of charades, rebuses, logogryphs, and such things, was at last in his true element.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

A large number of rebuses ending in "ton" are based upon a tun or barrel; such are the _lup_ on a _ton_ of Robert Lupton, Provost of Eton

A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild

The first part of _The Merry-Thought_ alone contains seven rebuses from

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 George R. [Commentator] Guffey

I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses, and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her.

Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895