Comments on: What is It? Game 56

By: Karthik

Karthik — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:33:07 +0000

I Think its a Tooth brush Holder

By: elmer

elmer — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:52:56 +0000

Not sure what it is but, I’ll give you a dollar for it.

By: Uncle Rico

Uncle Rico — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:14:08 +0000

Too obvious…bear hand prothesis

By: B3ta

B3ta — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:19:59 +0000

Its quite obviously a metallic Goatse device.

By: bollocks

bollocks — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:21:08 +0000

it’s a genital scratcher… for someone else…

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:16:55 +0000

Oh, you guys are awesome! I <3 Neatorama readers! Congrats to Steve #21 who got it right (coal scoop), though I have to say I had wished that it was a medieval pooper scooper.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:12:46 +0000

Grandfather’s angry denture teeth…when he just had enough of those darn kids.

By: Carl from Santee

Carl from Santee — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:10:10 +0000

dinosaur
Dinosaur dentures! I saw them in a museum once.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:20:31 +0000

It’s to train zookeepers, park rangers, and circus performers how to get used to getting a hug from a bear.

By: Geoduck

Geoduck — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:46:54 +0000

I would have said strawberry huller as well, but according to the What Is It website, it’s six inches long, which is too big. Maybe used on some larger fruit?

By: gnoble

gnoble — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:16:10 +0000

yup, totally a strawberry huller. used one before just like it.

By: Shelby

Shelby — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:53:08 +0000

It’s Client No. 10.

By: Cori

Cori — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:34:38 +0000

That is definitely an iron venus fly trap (ferrum flyeateris). They’re native to volcanic vents and feed upon young children.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:45:19 +0000

A bear trap

(made from real bear claws)

By: yayo

yayo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:21:07 +0000

it’s a shove to make holes for posts

By: kenna

kenna — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:59:02 +0000

bear castanets. duh.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:33:31 +0000

It’s a little contraption to pick off the green tops of strawberries.

By: puddleblog

puddleblog — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:11:41 +0000

mechanical claw from a steampunk’d version of the old arcade game where you control said claw with a joystick & try to snag a stuffed animal for yer girlfriend

By: joanne

joanne — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:47:18 +0000

A badger tickler, of course.

By: Ryan G

Ryan G — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:16:18 +0000

It’s a burr / tick remover for dogs.

By: ajt167

ajt167 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:08:09 +0000

is it some sort or gouging apparatus?

By: oakling

oakling — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:49:24 +0000

No, it’s a BEAR trap. See, it confuses the bears because they think it’s just, like, a fellow bear’s hand sticking out of the ground, and when they try to pull it out it snaps shut and they get caught! It’s sad, really.

By: gl3nk

gl3nk — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:47:04 +0000

I agree with steve… Coal scoop.

By: Lu Allen

Lu Allen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:05:40 +0000

Its a ice claw lifter from the olden days (and still sometimes in the country) when they used to cut ice from the lake and then store it in a hut with sawdust. You’d lift a (big) cube of ice out, rinse it then put it in the ice box or cooler.

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:31:04 +0000

Ye olde Nit Picker to remove head lice from those pesky kids. Back in the olden days they were a lot BIGGER (the lice, not the heads).

By: jenjen

jenjen — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:19:54 +0000

It is missing its paint, but it is not for picking flowers. It is a pickle picker, for daintily picking up pickles out of pickle dishes. You put it over your thumb and forefinger.

By: PJ

PJ — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:16:56 +0000

The invention is mine, however, I need my lawyer present to explain it’s full function.
Thank you, that is all.

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:10:17 +0000

medieval venus fly-trap armor from the crusades

By: Cassie

Cassie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:22:38 +0000

its a pooper scooper!

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:11:27 +0000

I agree with LTB – obviously a strawberry huller, but photographed to look really big.

By: Pat J

Pat J — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:30:27 +0000

Oven mitts for a bread-baking bear.

By: Cubro

Cubro — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:29:55 +0000

Apple Picker.

By: Ulysys

Ulysys — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:53:46 +0000

They go over a pair of boots for either traveling across ice, like a glacier or something, or they are worn by lumber jacks for climbing trees.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:47:00 +0000

I think it might be something like oven mitts to remove hot pottery from a kiln. Or perhaps a device a blacksmith would use to handle hot steel

By: Oscar Zoroaster

Oscar Zoroaster — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:44:18 +0000

gynecological forceps

By: Rotten Jimmy

Rotten Jimmy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:36:29 +0000

I’m pretty sure these are the “genital cuffs” that are mentioned in the movie “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”…

By: amanderpanderer

amanderpanderer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:30:09 +0000

Sock Grips.
Or tiny tiny steampunk bear gloves for a tiny tiny bear.

Or Pre-cambrian salad tongs.

By: Tanner

Tanner — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:19:02 +0000

It’s a venus fly trap from the future.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:18:04 +0000

It’s a Governor extractor!

By: jess

jess — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:05:40 +0000

Its sugar cube tongs from the house of lord and lady bearclaws.

By: rand

rand — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:54:13 +0000

Looks like a device for carrying ice blocks.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:42:33 +0000

It’s a panda trap

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:41:56 +0000

This is OBVIOUSLY an instrument of torture.

By: definitelyme

definitelyme — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:30:06 +0000

Maybe. A medieval flower hole digger.

By: Thespian24601

Thespian24601 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:25:30 +0000

Yeah, I’m going to go with my second answer. A flower hole digger.

By: Thespian24601

Thespian24601 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:24:27 +0000

I think it’s some sort of hole digger, like either a fencepost hole digger or if it’s smaller one used in a garden before planting flowers.

By: definitelyme

definitelyme — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:20:10 +0000

i know what this is actually. it’s an industrial sized medeival device for picking up spaghetti. these days they have handles.

By: Joe H

Joe H — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:18:37 +0000

It’s a staple remover!

By: S'what?

S'what? — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:18:17 +0000

You’re all thinking too big… this is acutally a little clasp used to keep stockings up.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:53:15 +0000

Well, it looks pretty gruesome because all the bright paint has worn away, but this is ‘ Meeraflu’, a flower gethering device from Belgium. In the deft hands of a country girl a basket of perfect blooms can be gathered without bruising a petal, all while gently singing the Belgian national anthem. In WW2 the Nazi gathered all these (the Meerflus, not the country girls) and melted them down to make tanks. Nowadays, they just rip the flowers out of the ground and stuff ‘em in tow sacks.