Comments on: What is it? Game 93

By: bl0ss0m

bl0ss0m — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:49:41 +0000

Hey!A cannon ball is a spherical shot/shell! Ah well - next time I suppose...Congrats Anth!

By: alan

alan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:44:20 +0000

Well, I think you're both wrong.

It's Edison's first filament.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:09:59 +0000

Ooh, great guesses, guys - bl0ss0m #5 was close, but Anth #61 got it exactly right, so congrats!

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:39:10 +0000

In ancient times this device was used to bean errant husbands.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:05:56 +0000

It used to be used for holding a baby bottle of milk over a flame to be warmed.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:42:08 +0000

It's a tool for smashing ostrich eggs.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:38:24 +0000

For carrying a giant test tube full of urine from bathroom to lab.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:34:06 +0000

It's for carrying containers of hot molten metal.

By: xultar

xultar — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:40:41 +0000

I don't know what it is...but I do know that Madoff was fitted with one for prison yesterday.

By: Cameron Rudolph

Cameron Rudolph — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:10:42 +0000

It's used to hold test tubes
(over a flame) or to pick up test tubes like out of a boiling solution

By: Anth

Anth — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:46:43 +0000

It's a cannon ball sizer from the Revolutionary thru Civil War Era.

By: Scott-O

Scott-O — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:34:05 +0000

No! Wait! The cork from Ted Kennedy's first bottle!

By: Scott-O

Scott-O — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:28:40 +0000

It is the tool my ex-wife's lawyer used to rip out my soul.

By: Brainy Brandon

Brainy Brandon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:05:43 +0000

I'm taking another guess. Could this be a tennis ball sizer? If the ball fits through the hole it's no good for Wimbledon. The wooden handle could also be used to prod to check firmness.

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:48:49 +0000

Very early model fly-swatter...?

By: smiff

smiff — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:30:34 +0000

I don't know what its called, but I think it was used to size cannonballs.

By: Ajan

Ajan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:56:22 +0000

a big bubble blower or probably a big round brick maker

By: Dusto

Dusto — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:08:42 +0000

A pestle... part of a mortar and pestle...

It is easier to grind wheat to grain?

By: Dusto

Dusto — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:04:55 +0000

It's a ringer! You ring your clothes through it.

By: Prabal

Prabal — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:22:05 +0000

It's a kind of lock used for inter-locking two train wagons.

By: Dusto

Dusto — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:07:22 +0000

1st gen bubble blower.

By: Oomi

Oomi — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:40:25 +0000

Winding key

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:03:25 +0000

Looks like one of those carnival rings where you have to pass it over a winding piece of metal without touching it.

By: Occams Beard

Occams Beard — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:22:28 +0000

Crimper for castrating livestock.

By: LisaL

LisaL — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:34:32 +0000

Lol Craig.

Has anyone gotten it yet?
I'll guess again.... uuuhm...
Looks like maybe a shoe horn?
The wood looks kinda flat *shrugs*

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:43:22 +0000

It's a metal ring with a wooden handle.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:00:50 +0000

A medical device for really big boils or carbuncles

By: Shish

Shish — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:03:39 +0000

I'm with #13, passing token for single-track railway lines.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:39:32 +0000

Tool from one of those "don't touch the rotating spiral!" carnival games!

By: Wok

Wok — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:31:21 +0000

I say a rope-making implement.