What is It? Game 47

Hooray! It’s time to play this week’s game in collaboration with What is it? Blog. Can you tell me what this strange (and scary!) contraption is for?

Place your guess in the comment section - no prize, so you’re playing for fun and bragging rights. Please post no URL (let others play). For dimensions clue, check out What is it? Blog.

And Miss C - I know what your guess is already!

Update 11/30/07 - the answer is:

Egg shell cutter, or egg topper, used for cutting off the top of a soft boiled egg.

Congratulations to maquessimme #2 who got it right just 12 minutes after the picture was posted!

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November 29, 2007 at 3:45 am by Alex
Category: What Is It

58 Comments to "What is It? Game 47"

Peco
November 29th, 2007 at 3:52 am
A penis cutter
maquessimme
November 29th, 2007 at 3:57 am
This is probably the best way to open up a boiled egg!
Bembes
November 29th, 2007 at 3:59 am
Yes, it’s definitely a tool to chop the “head” of a boiled egg.
Ole
November 29th, 2007 at 4:16 am
I think my grandmother used to have one of those - and it is exactly for opening eggs.
Pol x
November 29th, 2007 at 4:24 am
It is a tool for opening boiled eggs.

I have used this exact model and can categorically say that it is rubbish.

I busts the shell into tiny bits which make your egg gritty.

Stick to a teaspoon.
Amuseal
November 29th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Well, so many upright variants and I don’t know what to suggest, but

1. Torture instrument (may be a penis cutter, or less terrible is a tongue cutter, hands cutter)
2. Strange pair of scissors
3. Baking cup LOL
Thorbjørn Kühl
November 29th, 2007 at 4:37 am
I know what it is, it’s a jar-opener, the spikes bore into the jar and gives you a better grip to open the jar.
Mr S
November 29th, 2007 at 5:18 am
You’re all way, way off. That is Mickey Mouse’s evil cousin.

I mean, his MORE evil cousin.
Eugenio Martínez Sierra
November 29th, 2007 at 5:36 am
It´s for open jars with the cap to thighten

Just like this

http://www.essential-depot.com/cgimage/JAR-GL-GALL.jpg
junctify
November 29th, 2007 at 5:42 am
My gran had one too for taking the tops of hard boiled eggs , my brother and I used to chase each other with it threatening to chop eachothers fingers off
jo
November 29th, 2007 at 5:52 am
yup take the top off hard boiled eggs
Kate
November 29th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Is it for slicing tomatoes?
Miss Cellania
November 29th, 2007 at 6:30 am
It looks like Mickey Mouse with teeth, but I’m going to go with … an instrument of torture.
kilkenny
November 29th, 2007 at 6:34 am
egg opener / jar opener / walnut opener
Kevin
November 29th, 2007 at 6:59 am
It’s a virginity keeper: the girl ties it around her waist using the loops on the device, and when a guy tries to get lucky on her, *chop* the penis is cut off.
Dan
November 29th, 2007 at 7:14 am
it’s a device used for making sausage. it pinches the sausage tightly in the casing, making links.
headsign
November 29th, 2007 at 7:29 am
It’s for removing the schmuck from the schlong.
Eventually, apart from that, also for removing the top from eggs.
Luis da conceicao
November 29th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Long ago when the tin can was first invented people thought it a great idea. however no one had yet invented a good way of opening the can. This contraption is one of the first attempts at a can opener before we arrived at the one we all know and love.
Jae
November 29th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Er…a bottle capper?
Dan
November 29th, 2007 at 8:00 am
carrot skinner?
Mihkel
November 29th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Hosnap! I found one of these in the kitchen drawers when i was little and it had to be my favorite “not-a-toy” anytime i could get my hands on it. But yes, other than working as an excelent monster mouth when chasing the little sister around, it can sometimes be used to cut the shell off the top off of a soft (or hard) boiled egg.
George McKree
November 29th, 2007 at 8:43 am
It’s a device that cuts off the top of an egg
Janet
November 29th, 2007 at 8:48 am
you put your corn cob in squeeze and pull down
instant corn OFF cob
A Noun (is a person place or thing)
November 29th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I’m sure it’s an egg topper, but the phrase “Lorena Bobbitt’s Yard Sale” keeps coming to mind…
Randall
November 29th, 2007 at 8:58 am
This is a perfect example of ‘Nefas-Fabrika-Legitimus’ or using the wrong thing in the right way. The device is a Crismus Freg, a handheld toll for primping a ruff collar. It works perfectly but no one wore ruff collars in 1923, when Mr. Rich Crismus invented it. After financing the manufacture of 10,000 of these, his backer hit upon a brilliant idea and put an ad in a local newspaper with a picture of the freg with the title ‘What is it?’ The correct guesser won $25. After several unlikely suggestions a use for this device was discovered and now one can be found in nearly every hard boiled egg eating household in America.
Mark M
November 29th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Looks like the tool the doc used when I was circumcised.

Ouch, it still hurts.
Skipweasel
November 29th, 2007 at 9:07 am
It’s a thing for getting Boy Scouts out of Girl Guide tents.
yayo
November 29th, 2007 at 9:15 am
This tool cuts the top of the egg (little or big endian ^^)
Jerse
November 29th, 2007 at 9:21 am
It looks like a cigar cutter…
Patrick
November 29th, 2007 at 9:37 am
I’ve seen these before and they are used to cut the end of a cigar to prep it for smoking. A well made cigar often has sealed ends and needs to be cut so that they can be properly lit.
Robert
November 29th, 2007 at 9:37 am
It’s a jar or lid opener.
Anton
November 29th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Its the Tin Man’s anus.
Kevin
November 29th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Anton….Funny
pumpkinpie
November 29th, 2007 at 10:43 am
I think it is a plastic bottle opener.
farty
November 29th, 2007 at 11:44 am
keep away from lorena bobbitt!!!
samantha
November 29th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
it’s a candlestick holder
sgobbare
November 29th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
It is used to cut the tops off of soft boiled eggs and I’ve been looking for one of these for ever. Where did you find it? Williams-Sonoma doesn’t sell them anymore.
I like a 4&1/4 minute soft boiled egg.
CDC
November 29th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Foil cutter for a wine bottle
josh
November 29th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
i think it’s a wire stripper for some specific, super thick wire
algonkin
November 29th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Looks like a circumcision tool
Tressa
November 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
It looks like a cigar trimmer. ??
Drew
November 29th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
It’s for opening bananas.
kid icarus
November 29th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
foreskin removal device version 1.5
Rosi
November 29th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
OH I actually know this one! It’s for taking the tops off boiled eggs!
But this looks like it’s mated with a pair of scissors and had horrible mutant offspring… maybe the one I have is just crippled (its got no handles, just two buttons you squeeze together)
Blomp
November 29th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
A beer bottle cap crimper.
Ali S.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
It looks like one of those wine bottle openers where you cut the foil and pull.
Laurel
November 29th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
It’s a jar opener…… like the kind Grams used to use to open up them canned peaches!
nick
November 29th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
its to open tins of chewing tobacco
Evan
November 29th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
It’s a screwcap wine opener.
teed
November 29th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
for corn cobs getting the kernels off
Mitch
November 29th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
I’m going to say a crimper, too, but for the caps of
milk bottles, not beer bottles.
jonn
November 29th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
3 words:

Ergonomic Penis Remover.
Kanone
November 30th, 2007 at 2:46 am
It is used to remove teh signet or sock from a winebottle.
chimp
November 30th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Its used for circumcision. Used to nip of our little foreskins…
Mark Murray
November 30th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Looks like a bottle cap crimper
Maynhak
November 30th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
it’s a cigar cutter
Rhiannon_chan
November 30th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
We had one of these when I was growing up. We named it Henry. It opens boiled eggs.
Alex
November 30th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Hahahaha @ Anton #32! Rob of What is it? Blog and I thought yours is the funniest.

Guessed right in just 12 minutes by maquessimme #2 - it’s an egg topper.

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