I’m Anton from lr2, please send me your email and I’ll get you an address for the shirt

Thanks!
Anton

ps Yay, I won something

Dave & DJ, I thought someone might check that, so I did scrub the pic. Maybe next time I’ll leave a clue here and there (or even the wrong clue, just to make it more interesting). Or maybe not.

Re: Object 1. It’s a wire twister (patent #338,659). You can look it up here. The closest answer is Ron’s (#25), so he’ll get a Neatorama T-shirt.

Re: Object 2. Deerhorn knives seem to be the most likely answer, but there are a couple of things that’s not right: the object is tubular, not flat like a real deerhorn knife. And the object is quite heavy, so it’s unlikely that it would that useful as a real weapon.

Nevertheless, Rob and I think that it’s close enough. So, congrats to Mongo (#8). Unfortunately for Sylvain (#3), it’s not called Chinese crankiness weapon and plus the rules did say “don’t post urls.”

Also, contrats to Link Right 2, just a handful of blogs that link to this post (and got a free t-shirt b/c of it!).

Yeah, I also checked for DCIM keywords and EXIF thumbnails. =)

You have to be careful of such things….

Ever hear what happened to Cat Scwartz on TechTV? From her Wikipedia article,

In June 2003 Schwartz became the subject of a stir in the Internet community when it was discovered that at least two cropped photographs of herself she had posted on her personal blog contained hidden Exif thumbnail images clearly showing her bared breasts, because the program she used to edit them did not create replacement thumbnails.

I wish I had a clue as to what either of those gadgets are — sure would like to have one of those T-shirts! — but haven’t a clue. I was thinking that #1 might be some kind of tool to straddle the top of a chimney or narrow well, and a chain link would slip through the slot in the middle to keep it and whatever is at the end from dropping down inside. Wild guess there.

Object #2 is a baseball

Have I mentioned I’m blind?

Object one appears to be a door stop – the kind that you place inside of the hinge (hinge key)

Object two looks very much like a sash buckle – a framwork to make a four pointed star/compass knot for your robe (or dare I say for your secret ninja outfit, the one that only comes out of the closet when evil comes out of its dark corners)

It could also be some sort of heavy duty nail remover, the slot being slipped under the head of the nail with the front two handles being grasped and the back two acting as the fulcrum.

The top spikes on the second item seem to be too short for impaling anything. It’s also a very different construction from the sword catchers linked. Is the surface of the top right spike worn?

No guess from me as to that though, I don’t have anything likely enough to try and find supporting evidence for.

#1: This device is used for operating on a male animals genitals, e.g.: the device is placed over the thin connecting tissue of the male (animal(s)) scrotum (i.e., sheep [cattle etc.] etc.), between the animal(s) testicals and lower under-body, so that an individual may operate (cut) the testicals (i.e., fix them etc).

#2: This device is used by forestry workers (high-tree climbers and cutters). It is hammered into the trunk or branch of a tree and is used to attach roping and climbing gear (in combination with pegging) and is used for hand-holds and climbing (on the wide trunk of a large tree). It is mainly used in large branched and trunked trees that are often too wide to tie a rope to (i.e., “rope-off too”, or “Branch-off too”.).

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#2: Looks like something you’d nail into something else and run a line through it. (It’s hard to pinpoint this one because there’s no sense of scale…)

#2 looks like something that helps you take your boots off (or scrape the mud off of them).

#2 hawser or some sort of tool to join two objects together so that they can be hung or dragged (logging, butchering)

proof : please see on that url
http://cgi.ebay.com/Chinese-steel-crankiness-Weapon_W0QQitemZ330018922 321QQihZ014QQcategoryZ3631QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting