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What Is It? Game 117

By Alex in What Is It on Nov 25, 2009 at 9:15 am


W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with the always intriguing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what today’s mysterious object is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. The first correct guess and the funniest (but wrong) guess will win a Funny T-Shirt from the Neatorama Shop. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you’d like. Please let others play and post no URL or web links. Doing so will forfeit your entry.

For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update 11/27/09 – the answer is: A dust container for a compressed air duster, “used in spraying field and truck crops,” patent number 1,877,778. No one got it right (in time anyhow, there were correct answers posted after the What is it? Blog has posted the answer). Congratulations to two funny guesses who got the prizes instead:

Melphistopheles who said “Jar-Jar” and davisbg who said “Beginner’s Ship-in-a-bottle Kit”


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  1. Kevin McDonald
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:30 am

    Flux Capacitor (Early Version)

  2. artsnarf
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:35 am

    Why that is a redneck moonshine shotgun wedding jar

  3. artsnarf
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:37 am

    Or an early version of a power line insulator

  4. Edward
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:37 am

    Coffee grinder hopper.

  5. Gauldar
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:37 am

    Spark plug for a cold fusion powered car.

  6. Nate Greene
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Peanut butter jar

  7. Zanuha
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:48 am

    That's a dual-lid jar, used to get the last bit of jelly, or whatever you keep in it.

  8. John Riedel III
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:51 am

    a jar for fishing to hold earthworms the jar opens at both ends so you dont have to dig to the botom of the jar to get the worms !

  9. sgobbare
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Siamese Jar?

  10. Mike Smith
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:10 am

    U-238 Atomic Space Modulator

  11. A Noun
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:17 am

    I'm not certain, but I bet you can get every bit of peanut butter out of it.

  12. Dennis
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    It's a rock tumbler jar. Not for real rocks! It's used to make rock candy smooth and shiny.

  13. Danny
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:23 am

    A jelly/anything jar, so once you get to the bottom of the food you flip it around and get the rest from the other side for convenience!

  14. jared
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    old transformer. electrical, not the in disguise variety.

  15. John the Third
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:26 am

    ITS A BULB FOR A LIGHTED SIGN

  16. kiersonzpoint
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:27 am

    glass making jar. put sand in the jar, tie a kite on one end, rest of the electrically conductive line on the other. fly the kite in a thunderstorm. tie the line to a tall tree. when lightning strikes, the intense electromagnetic energy will fuse the sand particles to glass. use glass as jewelry or conversation starter.

  17. John the Third
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    A part of "Gerbil Discovery Center" by Mattell

  18. jj1910
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:40 am

    A jelly jar that let's you get to the remaining jelly at the bottom easily, because it has a lid on both ends.

  19. WT Mosley
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:42 am

    An entomologist's killing jar.

  20. Old Geezer
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Beta version of Princess Leia.

  21. mrweaver
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am

    salt shaker fail

  22. OddNumber
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    It is used to observe fluid flow in lines of tubing.

  23. OddNumber
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Device for teaching kids how to make ships in a bottle?

  24. Jaz_Allen
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:35 am

    A really big fuse (from which some scoundrel has stolen the fuse wire)

  25. Susan Meiman
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Sugar-water dispenser for beehive

  26. s3xt0y
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am

    It's an old fashion cock ring.

  27. Leonard Part Six
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Molasses jar.

  28. lame name
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:47 am

    it's a rolling pin. fill with a slurry of ice and water to keep the dough chilled.

  29. noah rodenbeek
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:52 am

    it's a glass jar with two lids

  30. lyleismo
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Sprouting Jar

  31. FranklinBluth
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    Pretty sure it's a peanut butter jar. Double-sided so you never have to "dig" for it.

  32. Rocky
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    Rolling pin

  33. Melphistopheles
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    Oh, please don't kill me for this one.

    It's a Jar-Jar.

    I'm so sorry, so very, very sorry.

  34. Benjamin Stürmer
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    Vacuum tube?

  35. sirdooder
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    A lightning bug death chamber.

  36. Pour Spellor
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    It's obviously an object of torture! Proper decorum prohibits me from explaining further!

  37. sybann
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    "It's the airlock, Hal."

  38. Christophe
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    LOL Melphistopheles!

  39. aaron
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    it is an old battery

  40. ZenBlue
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

    A urine sample jar

    (most likely used to test the urine of victims of Miss Celenia's medieval instruments of torture)

  41. pwscott
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Peanutbutter AND jelly jar.

  42. lgoode
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    it's part of a watering system for small animals such as chickens. the bottom half screwed down into a dispensing dish and the top was filled with water. the top lid kept dirt out of the water supply.

  43. c10udkicker
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    This is clearly a street lamp globe that is powered by lightning bugs.

  44. spence602
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    It's a stackable Mason jar.

  45. Gellner
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

    It's a peanut butter jar. Opens both ends so you can easily clean it out/get to the peanut butter at the bottom.

  46. davisbg
    Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Beginner's Ship-in-a-bottle Kit

  47. ErikaJohansson
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    it's a candy dispenser jar. the candy is transported in a double capped jar, one end is unstopped, and screwed into the machine.

  48. freddy
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 12:14 am

    Im noth sure what its called but i know whaty it does... you put this in a hole in wall. It has two holes so people can exchange small items like coins or tobacco for their pipes

  49. Luke S
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 1:21 am

    A fish catcher

  50. Dan Nguyen
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 1:25 am

    Large Hadron Collider.

  51. chris herbel
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 4:49 am

    what is it?

    its a jellyfish dressed as frankenstein for halloween!!

  52. BikerRay
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 7:18 am

    Rolling pin for making those square-shaped ravioli pasta

  53. Slippy
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 8:04 am

    Well. This is obviously Neatorama's latest attempt to try and give me a stroke and a coronary at the same time.

    I for one am not putting up with as they do not offer a bacon flavored health plan.

  54. dig head dummy
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 9:22 am

    where are the answers. ive seen the links to whatisit blog for ages. how do i find the answers?

  55. Yofi
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Is it for polishing rocks?

  56. Roga
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Obviously a fart catcher. First invented in 1764 by English inventor Bert Flatulence the 6th Earl of Methaneham (contemporary and cousin of inventor John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich) One would deposit the fart into one end and release it from the other. Magik was employed by the invisible unidirectional semi-permeable membrane easily spotted in the middle of the container. Bert would capture his farts only to torture his poor wife and children while they were sleeping always laughing out loud and saying "Farts are like fish it's simply unethical not to catch and release" No one liked Bert, he was a pompous annoying prick and really got on everyones nerves. When he died (in a freak accident while laughing so hard that he farted out his intestines) most agreed that they were glad to be rid of that blow-hard. Engraved on his tombstone they simply wrote he was "From hole to hole always an old-fart at heart"

  57. padieg
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Well, this is clearly a jar NOT for people of the sign of Gemini, as they are not always decided on which direction to go, hence this jar is not helpful in taking them to a clear decision on which way to open it. My wife is from Gemini and I know what I am talking about!

  58. Jenn the Hen
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    a Leyden jar?

  59. L-uno
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    This is a sediment filter

  60. Edward
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Dust container from a pneumatic duster.

  61. Abe Normal
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    its a dust container that gets used with a compressed air duster. used with crops

  62. Bria Grace
    Nov 27th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    A dust container for a compressed air duster that sprays crops.

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