Comments on: What Is It? Game 112

By: KnotRough

KnotRough — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:39:55 +0000

Well certainly looks like a doweling tool for making chair joints….leg to seat connection and chair back to seat joints.

By: Fair's fair

Fair's fair — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:10:08 +0000

Hmmn, ?s 36 and 52 surely deserve an honourable mention, for doing all the inventing that allowed ? 68 to quote the term originally made up by Gizmodo in 2004?

By: cdog

cdog — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:01:42 +0000

its a wanking machine

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:24:51 +0000

An early bicycle horn.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:45:48 +0000

It’s a hat-shaper.

By: oltimingman

oltimingman — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:16:51 +0000

Tittie-Twister comes to mind.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:16:47 +0000

Brainy Brandon: I believe you were referring to the RonCo “Bris-O-Matic,” which it does resemble.

By: Twilight

Twilight — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:01:56 +0000

grain mill

By: thedrunkenmonkey

thedrunkenmonkey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:16:25 +0000

It’s an antique “do-it-yourself” circumcision kit.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:14:09 +0000

Cantaloupe sharpener.

By: Joshua Cole

Joshua Cole — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:05:14 +0000

It’s half of a lathe.

By: Anon of Ibid

Anon of Ibid — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:54:22 +0000

You stick the end of a spit in it and use it to turn meat over the fire.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:31:41 +0000

A bottle/jar opener.

By: slim22

slim22 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:59:39 +0000

By gosh, everyone has already posted my thoughts. QUESTION? How do I find the real answer once the contest is over. Neatorama please advise.

By: Sherihelmers

Sherihelmers — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:24:20 +0000

Ok for realz… It’s a braider.. Weaver… Thread spooler

By: Sherihelmers

Sherihelmers — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:15:36 +0000

This fine contraption is called the ultimate hair pulley Well little boys use to use it to pull little girls hair with, they never got in trouble because they were not actually touching the little girl, however it backfired when the little girl got ahold of it and tortured the little boy… She got away with only a warning… Couldn’t prove anything.

By: Stanley

Stanley — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:39:53 +0000

For corn – for getting the dried kernels off of the cob.

By: therealblankman

therealblankman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:38:32 +0000

Post sharpener- puts a chamfered end on wooden posts.

By: Raja

Raja — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:26:45 +0000

Obviously, it’s a cucumber sharpener.

By: Cheezwhiz

Cheezwhiz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:55:10 +0000

It’s an old-fashioned stand mixer. All that’s missing is the whisk attachment.

By: jpnj238

jpnj238 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:44:57 +0000

I know! I know! It is a pitching machine from the early 1900′s!!! You see, the one side looks like a batter standing, and the other like the catcher! These people were geniuses back then! Awesome! Bring on the bacon!

By: pwscott

pwscott — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:13:30 +0000

It’s a juicer.

By: Brainy Brandon

Brainy Brandon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:25:32 +0000

Shame on you,Kate (No 33) on your unkosher answer. This is obviously the tool used by a Rabbi to perform a little operation when adult males convert to Judaism. It was called the “Brith Miller.”

By: pianoarthur

pianoarthur — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:42:41 +0000

Artichoke huller/peeler

By: Dr Action

Dr Action — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:34:46 +0000

Cthulhu’s tentacle twirler. Makes them nice and curly. So he can look good when he goes out on the town. To eat it’s population.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:16:19 +0000

Its a McGonnagle ball Honer, model 1 (or 2) Subsequent models came in steam or electric power. They were used to sharpen the edges of golf ball dimples. This enables the ball to not only fly farther, but have more traction (or bite) when it hits the green. Unfortunately, if the ball has any backspin, that can actually reverse the ball’s direction and cause it to retreat off the green. Honed balls were known to actually injure innocent bystanders. Such was the case at the XXI Haggis Open at the “Auld Course” in Bloodknock. A honed ball actually struck the Laird of McWillie. It took a team of surgeons several hours to remove the embedded ball from under his sporran. As a result, most golf courses have outlawed its use.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:07:58 +0000

This is a rare surving example of Fergusion’s silent smell-a-larm. During the Blitz deaf Londoners were to be warned of impending attack by grinding an extremely pungent aroma.

However, the practice was discontinued when it was discovered that hight raids on London were actually being guided by the smell to their targets.

Fergusan was shot as a traitor to the crown, but in 1974 Parliment recinded the ruling and in a bizarre twist of English law, he was unexecuted and restored to life.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:31:33 +0000

That’s definitely an instrument of torture.

By: JeffB

JeffB — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:28:48 +0000

One of those hand cranked things.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:27:46 +0000

It’s a penis grinder. Sure! Just stick it in and go to work!

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:26:28 +0000

A juicer?

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:04:27 +0000

Pencil Sharpener

By: Todd Winkler

Todd Winkler — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:55:48 +0000

It’s a time machine. Just spin the handle fast enough to break through the fabric of space and time, simple.

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:38:38 +0000

early hand -crank telephone!

By: clownbaby

clownbaby — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:31:24 +0000

Part to an old sewing machine

By: Bobo

Bobo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:22:24 +0000

it’s a riot police robot prototype, complete with baton and megaphone.

By: K2

K2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:16:46 +0000

It’s a post sharpener, for fences and the like.

By: fredthesecond

fredthesecond — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:16:32 +0000

It’s a tool for automatically smacking the bottoms of minor criminals in prison in the first decade of the 20th century. (It’s obviously missing the blades with the sharpened steel prongs and broken glass.)

By: finnikins

finnikins — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:07:57 +0000

It’s a rare automatic circumcision machine. Obviously, this machine was banned after the first use, when it was discovered that instead of performing a circumcision, it completely removed one’s manhood.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:55:36 +0000

Obviously, given the prize, it is a pig shaver. Simply place the pig firmly into the bladed cone, and twist! Voila! Produces 8 glorious strips of bacon at a time!

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:53:34 +0000

New Years eve party favor.

By: jgfish1111

jgfish1111 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:45:26 +0000

my guess would be some sort of hand wound siren

By: Howloverly

Howloverly — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:43:13 +0000

scalp massager…for little heads. Like…children, or cats.

By: P.H.

P.H. — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:33:58 +0000

The strands of used in making rope in fed in from the handle side. When the handle is turned it twists the stands together making a rope.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:32:49 +0000

Looks like a jar tumbler for jam or booze.

By: Lerm

Lerm — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:28:19 +0000

Rope maker! Old timey style…

By: chaserchap

chaserchap — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:22:34 +0000

It’s an ocean speaker. Put your ear up to the conical end and have someone turn the handle and you can hear the ocean! Be mindful of your hair!!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:21:40 +0000

a siren?

By: aggie98

aggie98 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:00:02 +0000

house jack…

By: kohjay

kohjay — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:59:36 +0000

It’s art!