Submitted by Willem Kossen
Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with the always excellent (and perplexing) What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange object above is for?
First correct guess will win this awesome Stickman Action Figure from Neatorama's Online Store. If no one got it right, then the funniest guess will win.
Contest rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of. Please post no URL or web links (you'll forfeit the prize if you do) - let others play.
For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!
Update 8/7/09 - The answer is: A heat sink from an old television. A lot of you guessed heat sink, but no one got it specifically for an old TV, so I picked the guess that got me ROFL-ing. Congrats to endgame47 for this guess: It is a bow tie for bad-asses.
Metal spikes on one side get shoved into foot, ensuring that it would not fall off, while the metal spikes on the other side were used to grip that slippery ice!
Later dismissed for being too darn painful to put on, and providing not enough grip on the foot if used more than once.