Hello Neatoramanauts! It's time for yet another game with the always awesome What Is It? Blog. This week's game brings us the strange object to the left: do you know what it is for?
Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Two prizes as usual: the first correct guess and the funniest (judged by yours truly) but ultimately wrong guess will win free T-shirt from the NeatoShop.
Please write your choice of T-shirt alongside your entry. If you don't, you forfeit the prize, okay? So head on over to the NeatoShop (may we suggest the Science T-shirt and Funny T-shirts sections?) and take a looksie.
Post no URL or web links, doing so will get you disqualified. You have until the answer is revealed at our partner blog. For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!
Update 7/9/10 - the answer is: From the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA, text at this display reads:Pain Bullets
Frequently called "hospital bullets," these lead bullets were given to patients in anticipation of pain during surgery. "Bite the bullet" soon became a common expression. These bullets, complete with teeth marks, were found near a hospital site after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Although some people think "biting a bullet" is pure Hollywood and TV mythology.
Congratulations to Edward who got it right first and to DCMikeRotch who guessed "Bullet Bill fossil"
It's a chewed on eraser, that I used to erase that apostrophe in ^ "cat's" ^.
Ack.
-velociraptor T, black, large.