Comments on: What is it? Game 62

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:56:12 +0000

You have found one of my grandmother’s peanut brittle cutters. Her brittle was anything but. This cutter helped score sheets of her igneous confections for cracking and could be turned on its side as a smashing implement when mood required.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:28:02 +0000

It’s a hand-held roller for making joints (seams) in pervious pavement (e.g., concrete sidewalks) and the like. You would think there would be a more complex tool to assure straight lines, but the folks who wield these tools are pros.

By: tripleX

tripleX — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:18:22 +0000

Or a measuring tool. If there is a mark on it, you can use it to measure length. Every rotation is a certain length.

By: tripleX

tripleX — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:13:37 +0000

Maybe a herbs-crusher, -cutter. Or for making kif.

By: Bart

Bart — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:27:03 +0000

This could be used much like a pizza cutter, but for softer materials, like dough or clay. That’s what the roll is for: to prevent the edges from rising while you cut.

By: Jen Worthington

Jen Worthington — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:30:28 +0000

I think it’s a paper scorer.

By: Jezebel

Jezebel — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:44:25 +0000

Pasta cutter or an edge trimmer, for taking the grass away from the edge of sidewalks? y’know? You roll it along the edge of the sidewalk and it cuts the grass.

By: Dragun

Dragun — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:25:35 +0000

Ah, I see. It was the link to the Cleft Chin Refiner for men President:
http:
//home.blarg.net/~dr_z/Movie/Posters/
Reproductions/Legend_Rep.jpg

(now just combine those together so you can see it)

By: Dragun

Dragun — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:22:21 +0000

I guess my verbose vernacular about the Cleft Chin Refiner (which is what this thing is btw) was too.. edgy? Um.. maybe it was the whole part about “The Chin of the Gods”… or how it will make people more pr!ckish. Odd. Well, maybe this time it will get posted.

By: Dragun

Dragun — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:18:26 +0000

Hey, my comment didnt get posted. Awesome.

By: Nord and Bert

Nord and Bert — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:54:35 +0000

All of the paint roller guesses were close. This is a holy relic from the earliest days of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This roller was used to paint His Noodly Appendage reaching out to mankind in Michelangelo’s masterpiece The Creation of Adam.

By: Ninja girl

Ninja girl — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:27:00 +0000

It’s a meat tenderizer.

By: Nord and Bert

Nord and Bert — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:38:46 +0000

It’s an ice scoring tool, sort of like a glass cutter. You take it to a frozen lake, walk out onto the ice, jab it in and mark a big “X.” Then you invite your wealthy uncle who has no surviving relatives, except for yourself, and help him pick the spot where he’ll plant his chair.

By: Nord and Bert

Nord and Bert — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:59:06 +0000

It’s a tool for separating Lego bricks, or smashing them if they refuse to yield.

By: Nord and Bert

Nord and Bert — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:50:20 +0000

It’s an alien can opener with the can still attached.

By: pseudointell

pseudointell — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:41:15 +0000

Steampunk Lilliputian TRON wheel assembly unit.

By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:55:36 +0000

Makes grooves on cardboard to fold it easier?

By: emily2187

emily2187 — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:36:52 +0000

it’s a butt crack extender

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:04:40 +0000

This is a Time saving twin flattener. Two strips of anything can be flattened side by side with a clear separation between them. This device saves time and helps create identical strips. A blessing before the assembly line technique came into being.

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:54:27 +0000

This is a territory marker. The user uses it like a scooter and runs with it in front. The heavy head makes grooves in the ground, and either party can construct a fence or start planting seeds for a hedge. This is especially useful for rectangular plots.

By: shimmy

shimmy — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:39:26 +0000

Is it a medieval paper cutter, line maker, thingamajig?

By: molly

molly — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:41:46 +0000

Want to piss off your neighbor? Roll this thing through some black paint (or if the house is black, make it something great like neon green) and leave a nice big wake up message for them on the sides of their house under cover of night. Due to the unique design of the extra extending arm for our spite-o-tronic writing instrument, you can reach nice and high, without a ladder, which always can leave unnecessary evidence behind. Works great with other mediums, such as syrup, pig blood, manure or even glitter glue.
Comes with a paint pan, but don’t leave it at the scene of crime. Our logo is on it.

By: molly

molly — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:39:59 +0000

Want to piss off your neighbor? Roll this thing through some black paint (or if the house is black, make it something great like neon green) and leave a nice big wake up message for them on the sides of their house under cover of night. Due to the unique design of this writing instrument, you can reach nice and high, without a ladder, which always can leave unnecessary evidence behind. Works great with other mediums, such as syrup, pig blood, manure or even glitter glue.
Comes with a paint pan, but don’t leave it at the scene of crime. Our logo is on it.

By: Dogamule

Dogamule — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:34:54 +0000

A Board Spacer or a Floor Board spacer.

You roll in the grooves of the floor and the sound tells you if you’re hitting bare floor.

Something with Woodcrafting/Woodwork.

Liked the Pasta guess and the door crack sealant. Seems like good guesses.

By: venkat

venkat — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:28:21 +0000

that is one of the king’s sons playing toy …. with which the kid used to roll that in the garden…

By: jilly

jilly — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:11:25 +0000

egde cutter for lawns. with a real short handle. for short people.

By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:44:12 +0000

Whatever it’s used for, it looks ‘groovy’!

By: nick

nick — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:43:31 +0000

pasta cutter

By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:32:13 +0000

Or you make a groove with it to guide your sawing.

By: tripleX

tripleX — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:25:40 +0000

With this tool you can push material, like textiles, in a groove.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:04:23 +0000

Ah, these are actually known as pathing wheels, a replacement part for standard office chars. Originally, advertisers were pushing for “More productive employees, rolling around the office faster, able to create their own groove paths in the floor.”

The basic idea was that if you rolled back and forth to a spot really quick, then you’d make a nice grove to quickly and directly move to your location. However, when many employees started doing figure-eight paths, many would fall out of their chairs, resulting in lawsuits. It’s a real shame, because I could definitely use these to carve myself a path to the cafeteria right now.

By: George

George — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:44 +0000

A material (cloth) pattern cutter.

By: Schwa

Schwa — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:52:56 +0000

Could it be an idea for roller-skating that never succeeded? Sorry, I’m half-asleep

By: Jeff M.

Jeff M. — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:06:31 +0000

This device brings back many memories! The nuns at my school use to use this. They would tell all of us children to line up in a row-barefooted. This was rolled along at our feet to ensure that we were in a perfect row. I miss the tip of my big toe every day.

By: The Slapster

The Slapster — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:37:11 +0000

A Hand-scoring tool for creasing paper.

By: ruby

ruby — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:14:56 +0000

A carpet seamer? You know… when they lay carpet and join two pieces together…

By: Jerse

Jerse — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:59:40 +0000

That is the tool my rabbi used to steal my foreskin…

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:48:25 +0000

Ceremonial blessed and magical scepter from Dermatofibroma dungeon.

By: nathan odle

nathan odle — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:57:53 +0000

A sheet metal tool.

By: karmalite

karmalite — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:48:35 +0000

BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!!!!!

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:53:59 +0000

It’s a wallpaper seam tool.

By: Russ Higgins

Russ Higgins — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:39:49 +0000

This looks like a tool to install stripping on windows, screens, etc…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:12:12 +0000

Could also be for cutting pastry

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:05:04 +0000

Candymaker’s fudge cutter. Like a pizza cutter, but it flattens out the area around the cut as it goes.

By: cardo

cardo — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:43:02 +0000

Its a sod cutter. The serfs used to use them in the 1500′s.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:42:47 +0000

Its Crundel Veloker. It seperates heets of crundel prior to amalganization for better seepage control. Without this handy little gadget, bigfoot’s UFO wouldn’t have that nice glow as it delivers kipper to all the stranded sea monsters around the world.

By: ::mwah::

::mwah:: — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:42:46 +0000

It creases paper for folding

By: shaggrocks

shaggrocks — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:39:38 +0000

It’s a Pizza cutter from the 1880s. Looks like an early version of the 1890s pizza cutter.

By: Sedgewick

Sedgewick — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:30:26 +0000

Every so often a baby is born without a buttcrack. As there is a briefest window of opportunity, during which a baby’s flesh is still pliable, this tool is kept on hand in hospital delivery rooms to give these poor souls a working, respectable buttcrack.

By: Bree

Bree — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:27:49 +0000

I think it is used to put the expansion lines in concrete.