What is it? Game 88

That is a Katar. It was used to punch through armor I belive.

its very easy, a katar knife
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katar

It’s for opening oysters, the cool way.

Katar, yup, the only way i recognize it is because of Diablo 2.

Pfff… it’s not a Qatar (or whatever), it’s a Ritualistic Klingon Blade. It’s used to neuter pet Targs and it’s called a Hack’Ball.

in fact its a katar of slaying, which has 300% enhanced damage and adds +10 max damage… pretty cool!

specifically? i’d have to say it was for stabbing

+1 on the klingon blade entry

Honestly? When I first saw the picture and didn’t read the caption, I thought it was a pair of scissors

Voldo’s first weapons set.

Its a device used to open a capri sun pouch.

thats the assasins blade in diablo 2

Wow, you guys are good! lol… I would’ve guessed a broken off dial from a large clock lol.

A katar. Middle Eastern / Indian “punching dagger”. This looks like a fixed blade rather than a scissors blade (with scissors blades, you can squeeze the handles together and two hidden blades would open giving a forked, three pronged weapon shape). Scissors katars are effective for catching / parrying a foe’s blade, and for doing maximum damage upon landing a successful hit (open the katar when it’s inside your opponent).

Personally, I think a gun would be a wiser choice.

Initial design for one of them newfangled plastic package openers.

Yeah. Others already guessed it. It’s a punch dagger/push dagger, whichever name you prefer. Like brass knuckles on with a dagger. Causes a bit more damage but is harder to conceal.

“hithere
January 15th, 2009 at 10:46 am

Its a device used to open a capri sun pouch.”

Hahaha that one had me laughing to tears

KATAR

come on neatorama, i’ve never known a what is it before

i wonder how many ppl who visit this site have played diablo 2

(specifically the expansion pack)

diablo and mtg account for half of my vocabulary

This is a Jersey Kaufmann splitter. In the late 30′s the Banana split became all the rage and the speed and dexterity of the soda jerk who built the split made the soda fountain’s fame. Wendel Kaufmann of Kaufmann drugs, nephew of the owner, invented this specialized knife for splitting bananas in record time. Wendel could make a split in 22 seconds! Soon every soda fountain in the US eastern seaboard had to have a splitter, and Wendel grew prosperous, but lost it all in foreign investments because of WW2. Wendel died penniless and alone in 1962.

it’s a dummy (or pacifier in the US).

Yes it is.

Really.

It’s an old tool to shear sheeps. ciao, siete fantastici!

“Katar, yup, the only way i recognize it is because of Diablo 2.”

I was thinking the exact same thing.

OMG, scisors… KATAT, IS A KATAR, read wikipedia, coño

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katar

no, it’a mail opener

A katar.

I don’t know what the name is. It’s in the Jungle Book movies from the 90′s though. You stab it into a persons abdomen and then it opens releasing two outer blades to eviscerate the insides.

This is a jamadhar used in 14-19 century in India. It is often mistaken to be a Katar. According to a book i have a Katar is actually a dagger that is very common in India and what happened was when Akbar the Great(1542-1605) completed the Ain-e-Akbari(a encyclopedia of some sort) the picture was draw incorrectly, which lead to the invention of the Jamadhar! The Jamadhar also lead to the invention of the patta, which is similar to the jamadhar but longer and more sword-like such as a gautlet added to it.

its a blade used to skin anyone who agrees with PETA’s attempt to rename fish as “sea kittens” ..