What is it? Game 103

By Alex in What Is It on Jul 2, 2009 at 7:12 am

This week’s collaboration with the What is it? Blog is super easy (maybe) – can you guess what the object above is used for?

Two prizes this week: a free Neatorama T-shirt for the first correct guess and another one for the funniest, but incorrect one. Place your guess in the comment section – one guess per comment, though you can enter as many as you can think of. Post no URLs or weblinks – let others play (if you do, you’ll forfeit the prize).

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog – Have fun and good luck!

Update 7/3/09 – the answer is: A golf ball marker, according to the patent:

The object of the invention is to provide an instrument for impressing a distinctive mark, as the initials of a person, upon golf balls and the like, whereby, the ownership of said balls will be indicated and said balls returned to their owners, if lost and later found.

The part with the black handle is used to apply the ink, patent number 1,281,063..

Congrats to the winners: Jared, who got it right first, and Sam Saturday, who got me crackin’ with “pocket mohel”!


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  1. Benji
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 am

    A device used for packing the bullet into the shell/casing.

  2. Jared
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 am

    Looks to me like a device for monogramming Golf Balls

  3. pat.21
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:36 am

    it’s a nutcracker.

  4. pat.21
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 am

    it’s a potato masher.

  5. quinnnchick
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 am

    it’s a bunghole plugger

  7. El Capitahn
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 am

    It looks like a piercing gun – for piercing ears or other body parts!

  8. osueanneh
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 am

    This helps to remove lids from jars.

  9. Nate
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 am

    I agree with Jared, golf ball monogrammer

  10. Jay
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:10 am

    An automatic circumcision device!

  11. Rob
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:13 am

    It’s a pipe cutter.

  12. PeteRepeat42
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:16 am

    I don’t know, but I bet I could use it to pry the bottle cap off a few cold ones.

  13. CheeseDuck
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:32 am

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  14. Miss Frenchy
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am

    It’s an elephant trunk trimmer. Duh!

  15. bashakat
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am

    Combination bottle opener, corkscrew and jar opener

  16. deadskin
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am

    Bottle Cap Crimper

  17. ms
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am

    all-in-one wine set (corkscrew, foil cutter, bottle stopper)

  18. Sam Saturday
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:43 am

    I saw this on TV. It’s a “Pocket Mohel”. Billy Mays hocked these in one of his infomercials (God rest his soul). I thought the skull cap he wore was a nice touch.

  19. Rob
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 am

    A 1922 Bop It.

  20. jdogg13
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am

    jar opener.

  21. Snakebite
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am

    It’s a penis torture device.

  22. monoclemonkey
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 am

    I gotta say Jared and Nate are onto something. The little black thing on the side is for the ink.

  23. Matías
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 am

    A Pipe cutter or a stuck jar opener…

  24. Hezzawezza
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 am

    A device for tamping your tobacco into your pipe.

  25. Carrie_Sue
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:13 am

    It looks like an apple corer to me.

  26. Gauldar
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:13 am

    Steampunk letter opener.

  28. JOHN SCALLORN
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 am

    IT IS FOR PUTTING THE WAX “SEAL” OR “STAMP” ON A BOTTLE OF WINE. EVEN HAS A HOLDER FOR THE DAUBER

  29. Pete
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I don’t know what it is…but if you give it to my wife, i’m pretty sure she will use it on me…you know…nut-craker things…

  30. Nic & Sophie
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:37 am

    It’s a corkscrew/bottle opener.

  31. ticouncouatl
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:43 am

    for me it looks like a golf ball marker, and the black thingy is used too put ink on the two letters at the bottom.

  32. cjscott
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Orange juicer

  33. xenylamine
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 am

    A cherry pitter?

  34. Craig
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 am

    Wow, so much for it being “super easy”! I have no idea what it is, but I’m sure you could torture someone with it.

  35. eamelt
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:37 am

    it could be a divice used to monogram a musical instrument like a flute or a clarinet??? just a thought….

  36. Idil
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:42 am

    I’m pretty sure it’s an angry panda

  37. fuzzyteeth
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:47 am

    a fingernail straightener

  38. Jac Hill
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 am

    Device to squeeze the pits out of olives.

  39. Torley
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 am

    One of a pair of handcuffs with key ring attachment and medicine injection mod.

  40. jason d. covington
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 am

    My guess is that it’s a ticket puncher/marker of some sort.

    Or a Mega-Trangoshan Trans-dimensional, Hyperspatial Planetary Tattoo Gun – widely used in the galactic advertising trade.

  41. Sam G
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 am

    A device to put a stamp on paper scrolls.

  42. nenen
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Obviously something to hold your grenade in

  43. owlintherain
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am

    I have no idea, but I think “Pocket Mohel” or “angry panda” should win for funniest wrong answer.

  44. thelandlord
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 am

    I think it’s for forming the finger-holes in the ‘pink oboe’…

  45. I Said
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 am

    Its a wine bottle opener. just hold the lever and swing at the glass untill it breaks. TaDAA

  47. Rena
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    Medical instrument used for vasectomies, preferably on cheating husbands. This is the housewife model.

  48. Cashew
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    On my eeePC it’s an extremely tiny wine press (one grape at a time, we’ll get there eventually) the black thing o the side to to scrape the smushed grape off…

    On my Mac laptop, its probably some sort of ball marker, but too small to be a golf ball marker.. (use your imagination, fidelity for the win)

  49. Absent
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 pm

    Something to do with booze.

  51. Miss Cellania
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    I believe this is an instrument of torture.

  52. Kristin
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Archaic sexual fetish device.

  53. DrAction
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    A nipple piercer for gorillas.

  54. o0st0ned0o
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    It connects rubber tubing to Pipes..

  55. Christophe
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    You guys are mistaken about its size : it’s a 1852 trepanation device.

  56. sarff
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    Old school keg tap?

  58. joe
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Clearly a Prince Albert Applicator.

  59. willymac
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    it’s a male chastity belt

  60. Alisha
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    It crushes! It squishes! It’s the Emasculator!

  61. slim22
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    It looks like a keg tap.

  62. Michael L
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    Going with the popular theory and saying it’s used to monogram golf balls.

    My other guess is that it’s either used to put a wax seal on wine bottles, or put a cap on a bottle of beer / alcohol

  63. Guy
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    ..is it a Penis Crusher? Penis Crusher?! Penis Crusher?! it looks like a Penis Crusher, is it a Penis Crusher?

  64. Matthew
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    i think its a champagne bottle opener!

  65. wei
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    a fancy wine bottle opener

  66. labjim
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    It is a monogram maker for golf balls.

    Of course, I could be mixing it up with the golf ball divet maker from way back when.

  67. dennis miller
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    It’s used to engrave or “imprint” golfballs.
    Dennis

  68. mci209
    Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    It is a device to mark your balls…………..GOLF balls. Geeesch, what a bunch of perverts!

  69. lanz vil frago
    Jul 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 am

    cherry pitter… haha.. :D

  70. PaulVI
    Jul 3rd, 2009 at 9:14 am

    It is a device to mark your balls… yes, THOSE balls.

    Or a p3n!s monogramming device.

  71. Tim Giachetti
    Jul 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 am

    Ball monogrammer

    My balls are monogrammed, with my DNA.

  72. Kappsule
    Jul 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Used to applying a wax seal on a rolled up piece of paper.
    Like one seals used on letters in the old days to identify the sender, and verify that the letter has not been opened.

  73. Paul D.
    Jul 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Obviously a Stevenson Staple Sucker, a staple remover designed and crafted before the invention of the staple. The inventor had to be very imaginative since nobody knew what a staple was going to be shaped like, or be used for. Since it was ~42 more years before staples were invented, it explains why this device was such a commercial failure and therefore somewhat rare. A few have found their way, after being heavily modified, into the collections of gullible golf gear gatherers. Golf ball marker, really.

    BTW I don’t think identifying the Stevenson Staple Sucker is “easy” for the average “staple ignorant” population. Also, Stevenson later went on to change the name of his company to ACME and was very successful, especially due to an excellent product delivery system.


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