What Is It? Game 57

Yay! It's time for our collaboration with What is it? blog: can you guess what this strange hammer is for?

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Update 4/11/08 - the answer is:

A banker's check canceling hammer, used to mark checks after they've been cashed.
ad who won the Free T-shirt!

befor lego was made with plastic injection. they used to hit sheets of plastic really hard....with great acuracty......thousands of times over

this is one such LEGO punch

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It's clearly an 16th century relic of the Catholic Church, which was used to mark all members of the church so they would be assured entry into the pearly gates. It was frequently called "God's Hall Pass" by critics.
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Having waded through little Timmy's exam paper for over an hour and failed to find /any/ correct answers, Mrs Williams reached for the correct-o-tron 2000 and decided to save herself time by just marking him as wrong.
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Van Hellsings first cross weapon against Vlad Dracul... which failed... but still a nice kittchen tool for extraordinary cookies... of course with a lot of garlic flavor... ( this was his second weapon hehe )
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Something a shoemaker would use perhaps.

Or

It's a little known fact that Bedrock was located in Florida and that's Fred Flintstone's voting hammer. No hanging chad-rocks.
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For those of you old enough to remember Old School Sesame Street, it's the thing that "Cowboy X" used in the cartoon of the same name, marking everything in town, until a young boy asked him to stop. Then he said "From now on, I'll be known as cowboy O", and marked everything with an O. The punchline, which sticks with me is:

So the people of the town lived happily ever after....
because they really weren't very smart.
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When used this hammer perforates a check indicating that it has been paid by the drawee bank and cannot be renegotiated. It's a canceled check stamp otherwise known as a bankers check canceling hammer.
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Its not a hammer at all. This is a Frengle bitsetter for use in the delicate art of goat crossfertilization. I can only explain its use as 'coercive nudging.'

Goats are complex animals.
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It my professors "X" (wrong answer) marker. He first dips it in sheeps blood and then invoking the powers of the Gods he then slams it down with such force on my papers that I feel the vibrations from the other side of the campus. :(
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Lumber/log marking hammer as Cin city Paul says, though i'm not sure about the payment part. I think it has to do with the quality of the lumber rather than the ownership.
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It was used for Indian women's forehead caste-marking ("tika"), until they noticed the population drop off from using this device, when the modern vewrmillion dot was employed.
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It's a swage or hot set, used for dressing a forge welded crosspiece. It is not a hammer, but is struck with a sledge or hammer. The forge welded crosspiece is placed under the X, and the other side of the swage is struck with a hammer. This shapes and "cleans up" the crossed bar appearance.
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