Comments on: What Is It? Game 49

By: brent

brent — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:51:07 +0000

how about the head of a putter? the hole in the face is weird but the cross part could go in a shaft.

By: spavis

spavis — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:20:59 +0000

I think ya’ll have the scale wrong, each one of these is only a half inch across. This is one of many small bubble blower helicopters. a series of them are attached to a stick the size of a large emory board with the little part on the bottom being the attachment point (much like those tiny pieces for building model airplanes). You dunk the stick (with maybe a few dozen of these on it) into some bubble blowing solution and then you spin it really fast in your hand and all the little helicopters detach and fly outwards and the tiny hole makes bunches of microbubbles as the helicopters spin towards the ground. Fun for kids of all ages!

By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:01:13 +0000

Maybe it’s a hacking or scraping (shaving?) tool with the handle missing.
The top looks like it could be sharp.
Maybe from ancient time?

By: null

null — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:56:16 +0000

Handcuff key

By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:38:32 +0000

Actually it is an object used by women to strenghten the muscles of their pelvic area.
They hold it tight between their lips with the little hook sticking outward.
Then they walk around while pressing their lips together so the object does not fall to the floor.
If the muscles grow stronger they hang increasing weights on the hook (like keys, or a towel, or anything they want)
As a man I can say: it’s an object no woman should be without.

By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:55:55 +0000

It’s a bellybutton-cleaner. With the little hooks you can take out lint and dust and little hairs. Very useful.

By: null

null — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:01:11 +0000

Old fashioned bottle opener

By: lewis

lewis — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:59:06 +0000

some sort of medival knuckle duster

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:13:32 +0000

This is a walnut opener…

By: pitaroller

pitaroller — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:17:22 +0000

is it an ice skate blade?..hmmmm….

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:41:03 +0000

Boomerang v0.1.3 (added the finger tabs for easier flinging).

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:21:02 +0000

its a sardine can opener key thingy

By: John Eacobacci

John Eacobacci — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:47:49 +0000

Clearly it is a bowling ball!

You can’t be any else but a neatoramaniac to see it!

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:17:58 +0000

Its a piano key

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:10:49 +0000

It’s a key for winding up old-fashioned mantle clocks.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:38:32 +0000

A clock key winder, a toy winder, a gas release valvturn thing (to make the gas for a fireplace turn on.)

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:11:02 +0000

a radiator key? you know, for radiators.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:03:21 +0000

Thingy for tuning piano strings?

By: Norman

Norman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:01:12 +0000

Is it a light switch key? (The janitor in my old High School used one to operate lights in the hallways; which were designed to stop tampering with the switches)

By: Karlin

Karlin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:45:01 +0000

Radiator key. (actually, more likely a sardines can key, but that’s been guessed already.

By: Chaely

Chaely — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:22:52 +0000

It’s one of those old-fangled clock winder-keys.

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:07:51 +0000

THE “RACK” KEY (torture)

Chasity Belt Key….????

By: k

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:07:44 +0000

This belongs to a homeless person. The homeless person puts the coins he gets in the hole, just for fun. The other side is to swat flies.

By: null

null — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:01:07 +0000

It’s a plumber’s anti-crack tool when he’s on a job. Simply insert it into the crack, and the ‘teeth’ keep it from slipping out. The hole does several functions:
1. For keeping it handy on a self winding key ring
2. copper/pvc pipe sizer
3. used to bend copper pipes
4. hammer
5. the key end is used to clear clogged pipes

By: Carl from Santee

Carl from Santee — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:47:26 +0000

It looks to me like a brass, face guard for a one-eyed, gladiator owl. It’s been flattened of course.

By: AaGnim

AaGnim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:47:54 +0000

It is a key for winding up a toy like the old days for a toy soldier or perhaps a clock…perhaps

By: Brad Carter

Brad Carter — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:42:21 +0000

This is a pay phone “T” key. It is used in conjunction with the upper and lower lock and key sets to open and close the upper housing and the vault door on a pay phone. (It helps open the pay phone coin box.) Of course that’s just a guess.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:34:27 +0000

It is a skate key.

By: Meghann

Meghann — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:27:13 +0000

Key to open a paper towel or toilet paper dispenser

By: Guyon

Guyon — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:12:38 +0000

You guessed it: It’s a banana

By: steve

steve — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:01:51 +0000

a spam key !

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:09:04 +0000

Or maybe a key for a sardine can.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:08:08 +0000

It is a key for winding a music box.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:49:20 +0000

It’s a part that goes into an instrument of torture.

By: John O'Donnell

John O'Donnell — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:45:13 +0000

Well of course all of your guessers so far are either lucky or lying about not knowing what this is for. It is of course a syphallus clearing tool. The the paddle end is inserted and turned vigirously to do the clearing and the hole on the handle is used to guage if the opening is back to normal.This particular model is rather obviously the short version or the Kentucky correcter as it is generally known.Warning…do not try this at home folk. This should only be used by a registered professional.

By: Someguy

Someguy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:22:52 +0000

It’s a 1-up.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:21:45 +0000

The key that operates the Pope’s big hat tensioner, used to increase or decrease the tightness according to wind conditions.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:15:33 +0000

It is a Fenk Key. This key isn’t inserted into a clock to wind it but rather the clock is placed upon the key and rotated while holding the key between your knees. Only three Fenk clocks are known to exist in the hands of collectors, and they can’t pass them off to any suckers because every horologist of any measure knows a Fenk and would dash it to the floor immediately.

Christine Fenk, the clock inventor and manufacturer converted his clockworks to manufacture firearms, but tragically died while test firing the first Fenk revolver.

By: jade_c

jade_c — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:06:09 +0000

a clock winder

By: mbvenom

mbvenom — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:56:09 +0000

its the key for cranking a wind up toy

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:44:53 +0000

a jewlery box key

By: Trismegistus

Trismegistus — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:26:00 +0000

Or the religious symbol of the Mount Ararat Eastern Orthodox diocese (i.e., it’s Noah’s ark upside down).

By: Trismegistus

Trismegistus — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:23:13 +0000

How about a watchman’s time clock key?

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:20:32 +0000

Good Job – Its a T-Key to open payphones

By: Rafa

Rafa — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:04:11 +0000

Some sort of acient pagan cross?

By: algonkin

algonkin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:50:19 +0000

No wait!!! it’s the Mother-in-law wind up key that I threw away years ago.

By: Milkman

Milkman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:46:38 +0000

sardine can opener

By: Algonkin

Algonkin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:44:06 +0000

A Grandfather Clock wind up key

BTW…I love the new comment edit tool. Good job Alex

By: Oomi

Oomi — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:43:45 +0000

Bob Dole says that’s Bob Dole’s wind-up key.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:35:34 +0000

tin can opener