It is once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is for? You'll have to state a specific purpose for this one.
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: Robert McLaughlin was the first to correctly state it is a canary cage for a coal mine -here's an explanation. Among many humorous guesses, The Professor wins a t-shirt for "This is the server used by Facebook to keep users' private information secure!"
We the unwilling, SM
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I go commando 2 xl
I go commando 2 xl
I heart robots L
Oh mother...why? Why?! *sob*
There is a water/feeder cup on the right hand side of the cage.
It's a "layer cage" for hens that lay eggs. The left side is where the hen sits. The egg drops down the chute and rolls down to the edge of the cage where the person can retrieve the egg w/o disturbing the hen. There is a water/feeder cup on the right side of the cage.
"I go commando" size Large
Flying monkeys 2Xl
Request denied, XL, Crimson Red
skeleton glowinthedark L
Med, light Blue, when life gives you mold....
(love thy father - size L)
Surfin Tsugnome-L
Look out Schrodinger's Cat, It's a trap 2XL Dark Grey
XL- science-any.
Heart Jolly Roger, ladies fit, XL
ORLY Chocolate Large
caged heard (M)
The object in this photograph is a wood shop project constructed by Howard J. Cutter, and his fellow students, in the Redwood City High School graduating class of 1930. His instructor, Mr. Carver, also worked part time at the Redwood City Lumber Co. as the night time janitor. Each evening Mr. Carver swept up all of the refuse from the workings in the lumber mill during the day. Beginning in 1903 he was allowed by the owner of the lumber mill, Mr. Sawyer, to carry off any scraps of redwood for use by his students, for which Mr. Sawyer reported a very substantial "donation" and tax deduction to the IRS at the end of each fiscal year.
This practice continued for 27 years at which time the IRS, coincidentally, conducted an audit of the books of the lumber mill. It was revealed that Mr. Sawyer had falsely claimed accumulated deductions amounting to $123,459.38! Well, the IRS prosecuted the fellow, of course. As the lumber industry had declined severely over the intervening 27 years, Mr. Sawyer did not have the ready cash or assets to repay the sum. The judge presiding over the case, The Honorable R.T. Whitleman, declared that Mr. Sawyer should serve a term of imprisonment in a fashion suitable to the crime.
Therefore, the judge ordered that the students of the wood shop class construct a prison cell made of the wood remaining at the lumber mill in which Mr. Sawyer would be incarcerated for a period not less than 26 months. After the offending man had completed his term the cage was donated to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. as a tribute to the students of the wood shop class of Redwood City High School. The cage survives as a constant reminder to citizens of one simple, important fact: Don’t count scraps when you pay your tax.
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i rpn heart, xl, navy
Paddle Faster - I Hear Banjo Music
XL please.
Includes a very inebriated Lindsay Lohan Doll, A Rehab Staff Doll with broken wrist, and a secret stash of Alcohol!
Optional accessories also include two Cops with Police Cruiser and a very Irate Judge.
Tshirt: Look out Schroedinger cat, it's a trap. - Lrg - Blk
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I Heart Maths XL
Anybody got any spare crickets?
How else may I ignore you, ladies med.
I am a Large. (i.e. overweight/fat)
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t-shirt: "Paddle Faster" size "L"