What Is It? Game 107

By Alex in What Is It on Aug 6, 2009 at 7:15 am


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.


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  1. rpg
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:20 am

    it’s a heatsink for a power transistor, like a 3052 or similar

  2. nolly
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:25 am

    An early Play-doh toy prototype. It was rejected after market testing revealed that it was unsafe for those under the age of 3.

  3. glen
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:35 am

    A broken piece of Megatron salvaged by scavengers after a battle with Optimus Prime.

  4. endgame47
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:46 am

    It is a bow tie for bad-asses

  5. Another David
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:55 am

    a heat sink for something mechanical.

  6. qsogirl
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:56 am

    floral frog (for flower arrangements)

  7. Philly Phil
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:58 am

    Crayon sorter/liner-upper for Crayola’s big box of crayons.

  8. Melphistopheles
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:04 am

    It’s a proto-Lego. The first attempt at many things fails, sometimes miserably. This prototype for LEGOs failed on three fronts. First, the spikes are quite sharp, second, there are two down sides to the block, no up side, and third, it’s made of LEAD, which, I’m pretty sure is frowned upon when used as a children’s toy.

  9. Jared
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:07 am

    It’s a medievil Stickle Brick, from before they started making them out of plastic

  10. Lasse
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:08 am

    The Klingons TIE-fighter design proposal (eventually rejected by the Empire)

  11. Jim Nutt
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:10 am

    Heat sink for a power transistor in a TO-3 package.

  12. aging hipster
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am

    Snow Shoe?

  13. erkline
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:25 am

    key hanger with two faces.. :)

  14. Rik Davis
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    this is the rare, but often referenced, Iron Butterfly.

  15. covertautodude
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 9:21 am

    Its a mastadon comb. For those tough wooly mammoth tangles.

  16. Silver
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 9:21 am

    Cooling system for electronic appliances?

  17. mweivoda
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 9:26 am

    His and hers bed of nails . . . the spot in between is a built in end table.

  18. Terry Weigand
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 9:34 am

    It is a heatsink for the final output transistor on a
    mobile transmitter, perhaps a C.B.

  19. Eekster
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    The tip of the patented Industrial Spaghetti Twirling Fork. Designed so the twirles bolus of pasta does not slide off the end, staining ties and shirts.

  20. zander
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 9:46 am

    button mould

  21. Moliver
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 10:01 am

    an aerator of some sort

  22. hobomacjones
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Obviously a heat sink. Too bad I didn’t get here first!

  23. Miss Cellania
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    It’s a bed of nails. It’s for torturing people.

    I love the stick man! I went to read about it at the store. You have some really neat stuff in there… I didn’t know you had the racing grannies!

  24. Roland Higginbotham
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    It’s a Giant Lego Maker . I’m sure of that !

  25. Donovan
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am

    It looks like a heat sink from a Slot A CPU

  26. jack schommer
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    it’s a heatsink, but I don’t know what component it helps cool.

  27. John Carter
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    It’s a heatsink for a round (TO36) power transistor. The MIL Spec is MIL-S-19500-122C, which should be easy to find in a Google search.

  28. helen a c
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    It’s the operational middle insert for twinkie filling…you know that white creamy stuff that’s better than crack? Somehow the middle of the food that has a shelf life that mocks humanity has to be extracted so the nectar of the gods or at least the nectar of those drooling can be inserted.

  29. DanoftheNorth
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    It’s a snapshot of my ex — you can tell because it’s cold, hard and prickly.

  30. Josh B
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    Looks like an internal antenna

  31. Daveness
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    It’s a tool for making tromp l’oeil textures. You drag it through a wet coat of paint to make a wood grain or marble effect.

  32. DaydreamBlvr
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    It’s a heat sink that goes either between the carburetor and intake manifold or between the carburetor and air cleaner for a small gas engine, perhaps a weed wacker or leaf blower.. maybe even a small hobby engine.

  33. o0st0ned0o
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    It crushes fruit to make wine.

  34. Maggers
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    Hair brush for twins.

  35. John65
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    An inverted waffle iron for those who prefer smooth waffles.

  36. John65
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    It’s the special golf club head they use to put the dimples in golf balls.

    You have to hit the ball juuuuuust right…

  37. slim22
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    It’s the since banned, old age version of a Flow-Bee. OUCH!! but hair be gone.

  38. Craig
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    High Tension wire mount/spacer?

  39. dddad47
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    a hair brush for jessie jackson or al sharpton.

  40. Poopy
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Looks like some sort of old mulching/tilling blade.

  41. CB
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    Heatsink for a transistor

  42. Fernando
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    It is junk.

  43. Bill
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Chuck Norris’s mustache brush

  44. lennyb
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    looks like a lint filter from an old washing machine.
    the water would flow over this and all the fluffy stuff and tissue paper would gather on it.

  45. dantoor
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    its part of a combine to pick cotton

  46. Maxxx
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    It’s a wire coathanger bender.

  47. revcrab
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    it’s a heat sink for a vacuum tube

  48. Christophe
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    It’s the game where you have to drop a ping pong ball on top of the spikes and try to catch it at the bottom.

  49. Adragontattoo
    Aug 6th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Anyone say that it’s a heat sink yet?

    I have seen it but cant remember what it was on.

  50. Larfin Jackarse
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 4:07 am

    It is part of the machine that makes the dimples in sao bikkies.

  51. Cheezwhiz
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 4:20 am

    It’s a very old-fashioned cheese grater. Perhaps more effective than today’s?

  52. Maurizio A.
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Is is a metal structural joint to connect two wooden beams (the pins go into the flat surfaces of the beams’ ends).

  53. D Bozko
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 9:12 am

    @ Lasse. Klingons in STAR WARS? That’s not canon.

    To all that said it was a heat sink, you’re wrong! This thing can’t hold water. It’s a yarn loom for ambidextrous people.

  54. Randall
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    This is a Honkle-Flemer. It is a tool used for stimulating pherome genisis in woolly yaks. The yak pheromes are instrumaental in making toothpaste, and is in every brand on the market. No kidding. If you knew what else was in toothpaste, you’d brush your teeth with dirt. Really.

  55. Craig Clayton
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    I believe it is a fluid power compensator

  56. seekshelter
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    oh…thats really a painted donkey…

  57. Alasdair
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    Early prototype of the Ice Climbers Snow Shoe (TM).

    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.

  58. KC
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    It’s a steam punk maxi-pad.

  59. humbelmj
    Aug 7th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    HAHAHA – thats the one I laughed the hardest at

  60. konaha
    Aug 8th, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    The heat sink can be converted to a tool of torture.. scary..

  61. tami secret
    Aug 10th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    Its a crayon tip maker?


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