What Is It? Game 126

By Alex in What Is It on Feb 4, 2010 at 8:47 am

Well, whaddyaknow, it’s time for our weekly collaboaration with the always awesome What is it? Blog. Today’s mystery item is shown to the left: can you guess what it is used for?

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many as you’d like. Let others play, so post no URL or web links – doing so will forfeit your entry.

Two prizes as usual: a free T-shirt from the Neatorama Shop for the first person who guessed right and for the funniest albeit incorrect guess. You have until the correct answer is revealed at the What is it? Blog.

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

Update 2/5/10 – The answer is: A probe from a policeman’s Taser. Congratulations to chameloon who guessed right first and to pismonque who guessed “A sea monkey’s harpoon, used when they go shrimpin’.


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  1. Gido
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 8:54 am

    it’s a beacon for marine animals, so they can be found agian after some time

  2. chafporte
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 8:55 am

    it’s a shark tracker. (or other big marine animal)
    with rifle, you hook this on the shark skin.
    the it will broadcast it’s position till the battery is dead.

  3. chameloon
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 8:57 am

    Tazer gun’s “harpoon” ?

  4. Necronomic Recovery
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:02 am

    An ear wax remover?

  5. psychomar
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:03 am

    Steam-punk Toothpick?

  6. Colt Seaver
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:04 am

    Underwater pistol cartridge.

  7. pyrit
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:13 am

    Tranquilizer dart for Mel Gibson?

  8. Eskenasy
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:23 am

    It is a button hook to fix buttons

  9. dan semic
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:36 am

    it’s a harpoon head for fish

  10. Gauldar
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:37 am

    It’s the thing that was used by that guy… in that movie.

  11. Jefferson
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:42 am

    electronic tag for studying wildlife

  12. Professor
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:44 am

    It’s a harpoon for REALLY tiny little whales!

  13. Professor
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:48 am

    It’s the personification of Oscar Wilde’s wit

  14. zavatone
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:50 am

    An embeddable device for locating lost children or pets.

  15. Rach
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:50 am

    It’s the liliputins version of Ishmails harpoon. Thar she blows!!!

  16. mr weaver
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:50 am

    arrrrr, it be a marine GPS tracker tag a ma bob. Fired from me peg leg.

  17. sandyra
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:13 am

    It’s for extracting olives and pickled onions from jars.

  18. Jimmyjoe
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:17 am

    It’s a taser dart. I dig them out of people in the emergency department.

  19. Kristin
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:28 am

    It’s an artificial leech used in the 1800s for bloodletting

  20. Floundering
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:43 am

    Explosive-charged harpoon?

  21. pismonque
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:49 am

    A sea monkey’s harpoon, used when they go shrimpin’.

  22. ral
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 11:02 am

    It’s a Captain Ahab rifle cartridge.

  23. Zanuha
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 11:21 am

    An instrument of torture.

  24. Kristin
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 11:26 am

    electrical taser barb

  25. Asa
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 11:33 am

    Taser ECD barb

  26. topheavy
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    tampon from the future.

  27. fishead
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    It’s a spring loaded prosthetic leg for a marathon running Ibex

  28. rj472
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    That is one of the barbs from a Taser cartridge.

  29. dragon tryst
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    I will guess that it is some sort of fishing equipment, as it is weighted and is on some sort of line, along with the ever so sharp hook.

  30. if
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    An aroused fish hook.

  31. guyek
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    Bea Arthur’s penis?

  32. Katie O'Neal
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    Is it a stitch remover?

  33. Fuzz
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Captain Hook’s prosthetic penis.

    Can I say penis here?

  34. Skipweasel
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    At the risk of reopening old wounds, is it an anti-rape tampon?

  35. blacksheepfto
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    Clearly, this is a knitting needle for robots to make nano-carbon filament robot apparel. Specifically used for beanies and scarfs, it can also come in handy for more delicate, lady robot garments.

  36. brainybrandon
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    This is an artificial insemenator for pachyderms.

  37. SaskView
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    Tazer dart!

  38. Alecto
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    Taser prong that delivers 50,000 bolts of electricty used by law enforcement agencies

  39. veaux
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    It’s used to discipline the Gizmo skirt.

  40. jeff j
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    it’s a pogostick for masochists.

  41. spelunkingplato
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    Could it possibly be a type of larding needle?

  42. JOHN THE THIRD
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    Its a Mexican woh oh radio

  43. THAT GOOD LOOKING GUY OVER THERE
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    Clearly, it’s a medical-grade ear and nose hair trimmer for those stubborn hairs that just refuse to go away.

  44. localhost
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Locksmith tool.

  45. mike b.
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    taser barb

  46. Rob
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    It’s a miniature harpoon for shrimp fishing.

  47. Rob
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    A masochist’s nose picker.

  48. Josh Hancock
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    Taser barb/dart

  49. hedwig
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    lol the comments… esp liked the ‘discipline the gizmo skirt’ one.

    I say it’s a combination awl/punch (needle) for leather working

  50. hedwig
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    cough

    Ok- it’s a taser barb.

  51. Tony
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    This is, of course, Captain Ahab’s whale-hunting spear gun leg; far ahead of it’s time.

  52. pismonque
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    Laser pointer, from before they had lasers.

  53. matterer
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    a dildo for a masochistic midget

  54. Mila
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    Clearly, it’s the controller from a whaling themed video game. Better get one soon, it’s going to be big.

  55. just_arty
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    It’s a mini-harpoon, designed for small-sized folks, such as fairies, elves, dwarfs, and small people.

  56. Teddy
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    It’s the barb at the end of a taser. It’s shot out with the wires attached at the end so an electric current can be delivered to the recipient of this little present.

  57. Chaotic Karma
    Feb 4th, 2010 at 11:36 pm

    It’s the vibrator of a really kinky woman

  58. ilandrah
    Feb 5th, 2010 at 12:01 am

    It is part of the intimate personal grooming devises for vulcans. The device comes with several different heads allowing the discerning vulcan to shape his or her eyebrows in accordance with the latest fashions.
    Although the curling prongs were quickly relegated to the back shelf as being quite uncouth, this particular head speeds the process of defining the razor sharp arch and immaculately styled vulcan brow that we are most familiar with. See Spock for further information on this particularly fashionable and timeless look. Because ‘logic dictates you should always look your best’.

  59. Klaxon
    Feb 5th, 2010 at 3:46 am

    Tazer gun dart, i know Ive been hit by two in a class…

  60. pismonque
    Feb 5th, 2010 at 9:17 am

    007′s nickel-plated switchblade martini olive retriever.

  61. pyrit
    Feb 5th, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    NO idea! But that worm dancing seagull would like to borrow it.


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