Hooray! It's time for our collaboration with the perpetually perplexing What is it? Blog - Yes, this tool above is a tong, but can you guess its specific use?
Two prizes: First person to guess correctly and the person who submitted the funniest yet ultimately incorrect guess will win T-shirts from the Neatorama Shop. You must submit your entries before the correct answer is revealed on the What is it? Blog (duh!). Contest rules are simple: Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Please post no URL or web links - doing so will forfeit your entry.
For more clues, don't forget to check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!
Update 12/14/09 - the answer is: These were marked "18th Century Brass Pipe Tongs", they were hung by the fireplace and used to pick up hot coals to light the old clay smoking pipes. Congrats to canem who got it right first and Fuzz for making me ROFLMAO with the guess of "royal log" remover.
Juste stand in the middle and be amazed by the golden awesomeness !
"Turn your head and cough while I move dees out the way"
Had one for years- but since my body stopped growing all those extra's every time I pulled them out, I finally sold mine on ebay a year ago or so.
Is used tweeze off or out all those third and fourth legs and arms and to tweeze out all those over-extra digits and eyes.
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Or tongs from a Absinthe kit for the sugar cubes.
I know what those are..
They used them on me..
NOT long ago those were used to Extricate a child during BIRTH..
LOL HE SAID NIPPLE
we actually played twinkle twinkle little star today with tuning forks for the last day of classes :D
The story started with an old man on a mountain. Every Wednesday and Saturday he would walk down to the river to get some more water. On Wednesdays, he would meet a snake, who would continually bother him until he got back in his home. The old man's home also got struck by lightning alot. He had long ago realized this issue, but had no idea what to do. One Saturday, he brought a metal object down to the river, and left it at a tree trunk. The next Wednesday, he picked it up, and went home with it. The snake saw, and asked what it was for, but the old man told him he had three shots to guess what it was, then he would show the snake.
"Tongs?"
"No."
"Dowsing rod?"
"Nope."
"Some sort of probe?"
"Not even close."
"What is it then?!"
The old man then proceeded to bludgeon the snake to death.
The End