W00t! It's time for our collaboration with What is it? Blog. This week's mysterious object is pictured to the left: can you guess what it is for?
Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of. Post no URLs, let others play. The first person who guesses right (or gives the funniest guess, if no one gets it right) wins a Free Neatorama T-Shirt.
For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!
Update 1/2/09 - here's the answer: A BLU-26/B ball-type submunition of a cluster bomb, this inert practice piece has aerodynamic vanes and is made of solid metal, it's also called a Guava Bomblet.Congratulations to JKirchartz who got it right! And a big thank you and a free T-shirt to Coyote who corrected the missing picture error!
here's the actual picture;
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-12/what-is-it-game-86.jpg
Or something.
I can tell right away that this is an instrument of torture.
Thanks to Coyote who diagnosed the problem and Miss C who fixed the post!
Oh how I wish we had a mechanical orange peeler of some form.
The blue paint indicates it was part of an inert training bomb.
Curse you "PNYHD" Post-New Years Hangover Disorder!
Okay, I made that up, but it *is* original.