The world is full of
sticky things:
food, bodily
secretions,
toothpaste,
glue. A
sticky idiot is a person whose
intelligence is below the minimum level needed to successfully navigate among these substances (the
sticky threshold). Consequently they are always sticky from their most recent
accident. Sticky idiots are typically covered with random garbage that gets stuck to them as they wander around:
newspapers,
houseplants, curious
insects, unlucky
travelers. When the rate at which a sticky idiot picks up material exceeds the rate at which it naturally sheds, a
sticky idiot snowball results. A sad sight, blindly wandering the streets, moaning incoherently (sticky idiots are not typically capable of language), helplessly bumping into freshly painted
walls and vats of
molasses. Eventually its weight forces the snowball to come to rest. The final result is a
sticky idiot mountain, melancholy monument to an abysmal intellect.
Also, the term is useful to reproach someone for having spilled juice all over the front of their shirt. Or just as a general-purpose insult, to tell someone, "You’re not just stupid, you’re below the sticky threshold!"