Comments on: What Is It? Game 115

By: deb

deb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:34:59 +0000

coffee

By: BScane

BScane — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:56:57 +0000

It’s a early model of the Bailey “Far-Tometer” used to measure the weight and speed of gasses.

By: Terry H

Terry H — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:31:20 +0000

Easy.

Egg candler and scale.

By: stu

stu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:22:59 +0000

Its a penis enlarger

By: Mamba

Mamba — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:20:48 +0000

In the shakespearean era, many people wished to correctly measure their eggs while they “watched” a show, so at the end, they can save the best eggs for the worst actor.
As an added bonus, the king never figured it out. Kept him busy.

By: stu

stu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:08:45 +0000

It’s for developing photographs

By: Jeep

Jeep — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:49:15 +0000

Looks like a steampunked fleshlight.

By: David59

David59 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:20:15 +0000

an old fashioned calorimter

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:46:45 +0000

it weighs pickles!

By: Cheezwhiz

Cheezwhiz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:28:09 +0000

Also, WordPress 2.8.5 is available! Alex, now would be a great time to update.

By: Cheezwhiz

Cheezwhiz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:07 +0000

It’s used to measure ground coffee beans. Or tea leaves. As an added bonus, you can make your coffee/tea with this scale thing, by putting water and your measured beans/leaves in the circular thing on the right, and then sticking a candle of something under it.

Right?

By: nnebeel

nnebeel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:42:34 +0000

Antique proton pack (predecessor to ghostbuster apparatus). After attracting the phantasm into the hole, the ghost is trapped in a white tube. The armature is attracted to the concentrated protons at the base of the tube, forcing the scale down to show how much proton energy is remaining. (It is unloaded, which is why the scale reads 0.)

By: nnebeel

nnebeel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:35:48 +0000

Ping pong impact meter.

By: pwscott

pwscott — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:46:47 +0000

Unkown to most of you fairy dust is made from fairies. For the proper amount weigh the fairy and place it in the grinder.Fairies are brittle so it only takes a few turns. 3/4 fairy dust, 1/4 vermouth, lemon zest = 3 wishes.

By: Srashmun

Srashmun — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:18:13 +0000

it’s fleshlight’s new design. The thing on the right is where you have your fun and there is a removable cup at the bottom that can can be used with the scale to measure the ejaculate for those who are interested. best of all it is disguised as antique from the 1700′s so you can keep it out as decoration!

By: c10udkicker

c10udkicker — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:12:55 +0000

This is clearly an awesome indicator. You stick your finger in the hole and the scale measures how awesome you are.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:17:23 +0000

Tim – And where’s the fun in that?

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:28:37 +0000

Edward got it right off.

Good work Ed. My Nana (Italian Granny) had on almost identical.

By: Sandy Kalau

Sandy Kalau — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:23:51 +0000

Grain moisture tester.

By: Chauss513

Chauss513 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:10:55 +0000

This was designed and built by the writers of ‘South Park’ and MIT scientists for ending quarrels about daily fecal mass totals by accurately measuring and reporting in Courics.

The added cylinder on the side is a slide gauge to estimate dry girth and peanut content.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:52 +0000

This is a US Navy Strawberry De-seeder. Someone convinced the navy that eating strawberry seeds led to homosexual urges, so every ship and boat’s galley in the US Navy has one of these. Unfortuately, no instructions were included and no one knows haw it’s supposed to work. Despite the theory of straw-berry seed-homosexuality being debunked twenty minutes ofter it was uttered, the navy still has a contract to buy 300 of these every year, to the tune of $6,500 each.

The russians conversly use a copy of it to add seeds to their strawberrys.

By: Lnothing7

Lnothing7 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:55:26 +0000

I agree with buzz its a “member” ometer “member” as in schlong it even compensates for the curve

By: Srashmun

Srashmun — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:33:08 +0000

It is an alcohol mixer with a built in shotglass holder that measures the volume of alcohol in the glass.

By: John the Third

John the Third — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:01:02 +0000

It must be a methane measurement device. A person would kneel near the lamp and pass gas. The resulting explosion would move the scale and measure how potent the gas was.

Science isn’t always pretty folks.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:54:23 +0000

Any fool can see that this is an instrument of torture.

By: huh?

huh? — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:53:02 +0000

going for broke here.

This here is a gun powder scale, and bullet press.

obviously when you’re using a bullet, you don’t want it to explode in your face instead of your enemies, so having just enough gun powder but not too much is really important.

Hence the use of a scale and press.

By: irene

irene — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:41:12 +0000

something used by a cobbler to make shoes

By: mr weaver

mr weaver — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:37:50 +0000

bottle scale, neck of bottle goes into plunger tube where it is tipped over and filled to proper weight

By: Jeffos

Jeffos — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:32:47 +0000

I saw this one Antiques Road Show.

It’s a cocktail holder/ashtray, specially designed for Frank Sinatra.

You place your cocktail glass in the holder in the middle. As the weight of the glass drops, the needle moves to the left, signaling a waitress or flunkie it’s time for a refill — chop chop, baby!

The ashtray on the right is designed so it can be rotated to dump the ashes.

One-of-a-kind. Valued at $12,000, at auction it sold for $23,750.

By: Jeffos

Jeffos — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:26:15 +0000

It’s the Veruca Salt game produced as a tie-in with the 1971 “Willy Wonka” movie.

Players take turns moving around a board towards the goal of winning Wonka’s factory. Opponents can land on a challenge space and make you place your “egg” on the scale. If the meter says you’re a bad egg, your piece gets launched into the incinerator and you lose the game.

By: flagler

flagler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:23:24 +0000

At the risk of ending up with egg on my face, I’m going to take a “shot in the dark” and go with: a blacksmith’s scale that was used to weigh hollow cannonball grenade projectiles. This tiny, rare ammunition was used in the Revolutionary War. They had to be between 16 and 40 ounces to be used (?)

By: Jeffos

Jeffos — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:19:00 +0000

A medieval version of Mousetrap, originally produced by the Papal Office for the Defense of the Faith.

You put a little heretic on the pointed end, then keep adding counterweights until he catapults into the flames on the right. The scale measures his time in purgatory.

It was very popular in Spain.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:14:53 +0000

Very small witches. The witch is compared against a very small duck which paddles in the water held in the cylindrical object to the right.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:09:58 +0000

Wow that was fast , I had the same thought, Good Job Edward. A family of farmers was good for something.

By: Ken Turner

Ken Turner — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:06:51 +0000

I think that this is a scale for gunpowder in sticks of dynamite/TNT.

By: Fuzz

Fuzz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:57:50 +0000

It’s for measuring the length of a porn stars “unit”. The tube thing on the right rotates and the “actor” inserts his unit. Then the claw thing err, gently grabs hold and stretches the appendage leftwards, and the length is read of the scale bar. The metal box is to collect any blood that may be drawn by the claw.

By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:55:37 +0000

Egg scale.

By: trey Riedel III

trey Riedel III — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:24:47 +0000

its a egg cannon you weigh the egg so you can get the trajectory corect !

By: trey Riedel III

trey Riedel III — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:23:27 +0000

its a egg scale and inspection light

By: Zanuha

Zanuha — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:06:06 +0000

That’s an instrument of torture.

By: Lostfiniel

Lostfiniel — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:30:14 +0000

Egg scale

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:14:39 +0000

Egg candler and scale. Eggs are sold by weight per dozen, so the scale is 12 times the actual weight.