Comments on: What is It? Game 24.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:44:50 +0000

Wow, guessed right in just 4 comments - congrats to Chief Ten Bear who got it right. Also to Randall, with the most creative answer (although I do like LA Payne’s rhino flosser very much!)

By: Trey

Trey — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:10:44 +0000

The first rotor ruder

By: Howard Garner

Howard Garner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:31:42 +0000

Number 4 and 12 have it right - used to pass up orders from the agent to the crew on the railroads. This is an older design.

By: everywordmeans

everywordmeans — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:57:58 +0000

This is a lassoo for harnessing “them goddamn dirty apes” from ‘The Planet of the Apes’.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:11:06 +0000

It’s the recently excavated skeleton of an ancient breed of giant killer frogs — this one was in its tadpole stage when it died.

By: Trey

Trey — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:02:22 +0000

Its a Dinosore rideing crop !

By: Jezebel Whitehall

Jezebel Whitehall — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:59:06 +0000

*squints at it*

It’s obviously two free Neatorama T-shirts.

*Really would love a Neatorama T-Shirt, as she only visits the site RELIGIOUSLY on the hour*

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:51:59 +0000

It’s a carpet beater!

Used to beat the dust out of rugs

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:25:13 +0000

Is it a stick?

By: Willy Volk

Willy Volk — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:15:07 +0000

A tool to catch fish. The net is missing.

By: L.A.Payne

L.A.Payne — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:21:09 +0000

This simple yet highly effective device is a rhino tooth/tuck flosser. Simply place loop over desired tooth to de-tartar, wiggle against base of tooth and quickly pull up. Warning: watch for flying tooth/food debries!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:35:28 +0000

Totally a Catch Pole.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:20:54 +0000

its used in the traditional swedish sport, zebra wrangling.

By: Horacio

Horacio — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:15:54 +0000

It’s used to kill some chickens?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:34:56 +0000

Wife Shutter-Upper?

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:34:35 +0000

Baby leash

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:33:35 +0000

The world’s first weed whacker?

By: Bill Rigby

Bill Rigby — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:08:57 +0000

I concur that this is for passing train orders to moving trains. However, it was held high by the station agent and the trainman on board would put his arm through the loop.

By: Mr Pudifoot

Mr Pudifoot — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:52:55 +0000

is it exercise equipment or a sex toy?

By: Trey

Trey — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:41 +0000

Its used to get apples down from a tree ?

By: warmworm

warmworm — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:27:12 +0000

This is a prototype Skip-Itâ„¢ toy.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:22:19 +0000

It is a Souple Weaver. In the little known religous sect of Wemblism, started by Charley (Chas) Wemble, it is held that all things are interrelated and that all of mankinds sufferings are a form of disease. To realign all elements of the temporal world and cure said disease, the afflicted is passed through the loop of the souple weaver, be it a person, a broken pencil, or a newspaper article about a disaster. The Wembleists disbanded in 1934 when their leader, Chas, went to prison for forgery.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:38:20 +0000

It is a Dowsing Rod used to locate things through paranormal means.

One of the most commonly known uses for dowsing is to locate water.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:36:03 +0000

I think it’s an instrument of torture.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:35:24 +0000

it’s a whip

By: Chief-Ten-Bears

Chief-Ten-Bears — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:05:17 +0000

It looks very similiar to an antique CNR ‘message conveyance’ stick I saw a while ago at an antique store here in Whistler BC (they wanted $225 for the damn thing). Paper notes were held in the clip and placed stratigically beside the rails at a height where railway employees would reach over and grab by the loop (or drop off) while aboard a moving train. These sticks quickly travelled back and forth across Canada, making a free and efficient national inter-office memo system of sorts.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:14:01 +0000

Some kind of noose used to subdue animals; maybe some kind of medium sized mammal or reptile.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:13:52 +0000

some type of neck container to catch animals?

By: eNe

eNe — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:28:21 +0000

Soap Bubbles!!!