What Is It? game 157



It's time for our giveaway collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Can you guess what this is a picture of?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

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

Update: Congratulations to commenter Just a guess who won for knowing these are for the ends of bulls horns -supposedly for decorations during a show, but common sense tells us they should be a safety feature as well. No one else came close by the time the What Is It? Blog announced the answer. Okkent wins for funniest guess when he said, "My wife requested this as her engagement bracelet. The attachment of my jewels was a condition of us getting married." Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!

It is a French device, invented around the turn of the 15th century, for dipping mens' "huevos" in gold. That was all the rage back then. The device is called a "Cincle de Boule"- Ball Dipper.
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Anti-barnacle weights. They were hung down just below the surface of the water and electrolysis kept barnacles from growing on the hull of a ship at anchor.

"I love pointless stories" T-shirt in XL.
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Any Harry Potter fans will recognise these as "The Clankers" used to make noise to trigger a pavlovian response in the dragon that guards the oldest vaults.

More Awesome Than A Double Rainbow, Large
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It is a French device, invented around the turn of the 15th century, for dipping mens' "huevos" in gold. That was all the rage back then. The device is called a "Cincle de Boule"- Ball Dipper.

I Heart Recycling...S forgot to put shirt. :)
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The coconuts from Monty Python's Holy Grail? They decided to cast 'em in bronze so future generations could always hold on to these special bronze 'nuts.

I like the i <3 scifi shirt :D
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We have a brass monkey decorating out landscape, and we found a pair of these under the monkey after an exceptionally cold Michigan night.
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