What is it? Game 82

Forsooth, tis a House Jack

On with the Comedy Suggestions

Screw jack has a nice hint of innuendo…

If ya click on my name, it links to a picture of one of these bad boys in action, primarily used for lifting houses from their foundations.

It’s the lower part of a broken drum throne- it’s missing the cushion!

The answers are partially correct when it’s called a house jack. It is also known as a railroad jack used to replace derailed cars on the track.

It’s a jack stand.

That’s definitely a turn of the century steampunk megaphone.

I think that instead of “What is it?” this feature should be called “Could this be used for torture?”

a bottle opener

it’s a Champagne opener

Victorian era “Fleshlight”?
If you dn’t get the reference, do a search, but be warned, it’s very NSFW.

That’s what I was going to guess, a screw jack. I was thinking more along the lines of an automotive context however.

It’s a medieval medical instrument. Used primarily in conjunction with leaches, a barber (the medical practitioners of the medieval) would use this instrument to attempt to dislodge trolls that may have become lodged in the intestines or bowels, thereby causing a significant imbalance in the humors. After treatment, the patient was instructed to eat one live canary whole to scare the dislodged troll, and to sleep on their side on top of a pile of wheat husks for the next two three nights or until they crossed paths with a tall man carrying a caged yellow cat, in which case the treatment was declared a success and the patient would spend the next two weeks suspended upside down in the town square to re-balance their humors.

It’s called a Bottle Jack.

in old timey barber shops its how they lifted the chair the person was sitting in.

Its a Chestnut Cracker for those REALLY hard ones to open. You put it inside the cone, put a weight on the top and screw it down. Then BAM! You have very little to eat for a lot of work!

(This might be part of a new diet plan!!!!!!)

A jack stand. My dad has one just like that.

Firemans house jack.

Something to smash olives.

its a skrew jack used for supporting machinery, structural moving, general maintenance and applications construction.

a pic!
http://www.chicagojack.com/pics/mechanical_screw-jack.jpg

It’s a house jack, for jacking up a house to move it.

Rock jack. Seriously. You would find them in a(n old) quarry. Splitting rocks, that’s what they’re good for.

In many countries and professions they need too many men to screw in a light-bulb. With this device two men can do the job. A wonderful piece of engineering.

Unfortunaly mostly everyone is right. Its an old screw jack. I have 6 of them in the shed. Some of my grandfathers things.

A blow horn for Shrek.