What is it? Game 123

By Alex in What Is It on Jan 14, 2010 at 8:59 am

Whoa, I turn around and it’s already time for our weekly collaboration with the always excellent What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange tool above is for?

Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you’d like. Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong guess will win T-shirts from the Neatorama Shop. You have until the answers are posted in the What is it? Blog.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Congrats to Doug Fallon who guessed correctly in the last What is it? Game 122, and to Declan ("the devastator"), Digma03 ("Iron Man’s Whisk"), and kminks ("Medieval Purple Nurple device") for the funniest guesses.

Update 1/16/09 – Congrats to wkb who got it right, and to Tim Giachetti who made me chuckle with his entry of … you’ll have to see it for yourself!


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  1. Skipweasel
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 9:24 am

    Item 1829 is an ultrasonic fogger. Immerse it in fresh water and it’ll produce a mist above it. The protruding bit above it is a safety device – it won’t function unless the sticky-up bit is submerged.

  2. wkb
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:08 am

    It’s a device used to pull back the string on a crossbow.

  3. noah
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:17 am

    it’s a prop from Saw V

  4. John the Third
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:19 am

    Its a shoe stretcher

  5. Miss Cellania
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:29 am

    noah is close. That’s an instrument of torture. You don’t want to know how they used it.

  6. Susano
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:47 am

    And here I thought it was a cocking device for a crossbow.

  7. Skipweasel
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:47 am

    Surely it’s for stretching the tails of minor devils who have ambitions beyond their means.

  8. Tim C
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:49 am

    It is either a device for making some sort of cord/rope or it is used for weighing souls like fish in the depths of Hades.

  9. Tim Giachetti
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 11:02 am

    It’s “Ma Smiths’ Rectal Wrecker” tm.

    She was one kinky Quaker.

  10. chthulhu
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 11:43 am

    wkb has it right: it’s a crank for cocking a crossbow.

  11. bestmid
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    Condom sizer. Like the thingy at the shoe store, but for..other…items…

  12. Christophe
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    it’s a back scratcher

  13. Dave_Dave
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    totally awesome, that’s what it is.

  14. John the Third
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 2:28 pm

    LOL Tim!!! Nice!

  15. DavidG
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    It is a 19th Century Penis Enlargement Device. Hence the term, “cranking one off.”

  16. Professor
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    IT is used by Fox News. They put facts in one end and broadcast whatever comes out the other side!

  17. lennyb
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    i dont know what it is.
    im scared.

  18. krmore
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    some sort antique ice climbing device

  19. janet aulino
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    I THINK YOU USE IT ON A FARM TO LIFT HAY BALES,OR COWS.

  20. pepsivanilla
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    Looks like one of those things they measure your foot with. You know, the things that are freezing cold and have had a million other people’s feet all over them.

  21. Lactose the Intolerant
    Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    It’s a Lego mill. In the earliest days of the Lego company, all Lego pieces were crafted by hand using these devices. You would insert a stick of Lego material, usually Bakelite in the early days of Legos, into one side, turn the crank, and it would cut out the posts on one half. Flip it over and run it through the other side, trim to size, and you would have a perfectly-formed Lego.

  22. marko
    Jan 15th, 2010 at 2:20 am

    this is a wolf trap for lazy hunters ;-)

  23. Big John
    Jan 15th, 2010 at 8:45 am

    a device used to winch corsets on rather plump women

  24. Jeremy
    Jan 15th, 2010 at 12:21 pm

    A terrible fishing pole prototype.

  25. BurgerChimp
    Jan 15th, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    It is a coach maker’s curlie-cue plane.

  26. BK
    Jan 15th, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    Its an old European piercing device developed by Prince Albert himself… ouch!


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