What is It? Game 11.

Posted by Alex in What Is It on February 15, 2007 at 3:51 am


This week’s collaboration with What is It? blog brings us this object (5-1/2 5" tall). What is this mysterious object?

[No t-shirt for this round - congrats to Fodder, who won the last round.]

Update 2/16/07:

The answer is … match holder:

The box is hollow with a hole at the top and bottom, and the piece of wood sticking out the top is attached to the base at the other end. When filled with matches, the box is lifted up an inch or two and when lowered back down a match will be found resting on the top.

Seems like no one has gotten it right!



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36 comments to "What is It? Game 11."

  1. patrick
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:09 am

    definitely looks like something that goes on a fence.. not sure what could go inside though

  2. dadrox
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:26 am

    Looks like a shoeshine box to me.

  3. Sylvain
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:30 am

    It’s a shoe shine box. You can carry your wax and features in. Some “street” workers use it, put on the floor in front of a customer, you put your shoe on the box and then they clean and make your shoes shiny.

    (sorry for my english it’s not my native language)

  4. Christopher
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:30 am

    I say it’s an old ballot box

  5. jonno
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:31 am

    is it a banana?

  6. mike browne
    February 15th, 2007 at 6:04 am

    Christopher is right. It’s a ballot box.

  7. john
    February 15th, 2007 at 7:14 am

    shoeshine box

  8. Charles
    February 15th, 2007 at 7:23 am

    ballot box, the piece of wood inserted in the top is intended to push the ballot into the box ( at this point little trolls go to work)

  9. Bendy
    February 15th, 2007 at 7:32 am

    I think it is a bread box. Looks like there is a cutting board in the top.

  10. jonno
    February 15th, 2007 at 8:05 am

    ………. you are all so wrong,, its obviously a banana

  11. Jeremiah
    February 15th, 2007 at 8:24 am

    It stores lots of stop signs.

  12. Barbara Clayton
    February 15th, 2007 at 8:24 am

    Maybe the 1st BINGO tumbler the slot on the top is how you would catch the letter as it slid out

  13. Leigh
    February 15th, 2007 at 8:44 am

    Why would they have a 5″ ballot box.

  14. LLk
    February 15th, 2007 at 9:07 am

    For me, this is a tool box, made by a carpenter for the same one.

  15. howard
    February 15th, 2007 at 10:21 am

    Shoe shine box

  16. Tim Giachetti
    February 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am

    It’s grammas dildo storage box. Scarry thing is the dildo is made of wood too. (thank god the box is closed) sorta like grammas other box at her age.

  17. frank de paola
    February 15th, 2007 at 10:33 am

    The box is a sewing box containing thread, needles, etc.

  18. eskimo
    February 15th, 2007 at 10:38 am

    I agree with Jonno, it looks like a banana.

  19. redstripe
    February 15th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    If it’s not a ballot box, maybe it’s a suggestion box?

    Blow me up, dog.

  20. laura
    February 15th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    a tantalus?

  21. thomas
    February 15th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    i definitely think its a tool box. it looks like the entire octagonal shape comes off and then rolls out flat when undone so you can get at your tools. its either that or a banana.

  22. Amanda
    February 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    It’s a money box for a church. Folding money goes in as donation, or for the purchase of candles for prayer.

  23. Amanda
    February 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    Oh, request for a prayer goes in as well…with a donation.

  24. Alex
    February 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    Oh, this is a good one. Nope, not a ballot box. Not a toolbox either. And definitely not a banana!

    BTW, I was told that it’s not 5 1/2″ tall - it’s 5″ tall.

  25. Starstonight
    February 15th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

    Tim Giachetti Says: “It’s grammas ***** storage box. Scarry thing is the ***** is made of wood too. (thank god the box is closed) sorta like grammas other box at her age.”

    Dude so not ok, I was in the middle of a drink and now the computer and the keyboard are sticky and covered in Mt. Dew…A waste of Mt. Dew!

    Nearly died laughing. I am guessing it’s a ***** storage box for a banana! A wooden banana…Grammy was a rebel!

    *still laughing*

    Perhaps a mail box?

  26. Walky
    February 15th, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    A Pinhole camera, perhaps?

  27. Jeremiah
    February 15th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    It’s a mailbox missing the flag.

  28. rustylynx
    February 15th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    A cigarette dispenser. You fill the box with rolled ciggies from the side, then you pull the box up the wooden tongue. The tongue catches a smoke inside the box, then when you press the box back down, it presents it to you.

  29. jen
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

    It’s a BANANA, you tards! Geez.

  30. Brian
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    A box to crush spices

  31. Mr. Man
    February 15th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    definitely a banana

  32. Lara
    February 15th, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    Hmmm…I would have totally gone with a ballot box as well. It’s perfect for one…locked from the outside, with the ballot stuffer sitting in the ballot hole. But he says it’s not….

    Is it something with money?

  33. Jessica
    February 15th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    Tithe box (for collections in a church)

  34. Bendy
    February 15th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    So….when the hell do we find out what it is???? The suspense is killing me…

  35. brad
    February 16th, 2007 at 9:42 am

    I’m thinking it’s a plantain.

  36. jonno
    February 16th, 2007 at 11:04 pm

    thank you fellow believers, its a banana and if you cant see it, you are obviously and idiot ;o)


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