What Is It? game 171



It's time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is? Great guesses win prizes!

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: The first correct answer came from Blake. This is a truth window {wiki}, built into a wall of a house to show what the wall is made of (straw, in this case). Read more about them at the What Is It? blog. The funniest answer came from Iago, who said it was Rumpelstilskin's personal wall safe. Ha! Both winners get t-shirts from the NeatoShop. But you really should read all the comments because we had a ton of funny answers!

Easy, that's a verification window in a straw bail house. The structure is built of insulating hay bails and covered with adobe, the window proves it's a straw bail house and allows you to check the condition of the straw. Bloody Heart in Large please.
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Oops. I forgot my t-shirt selection. Do over!

It's a truth window in a hay bale house, used to prove you actually made your walls out of hay.

That Schrodinger's cat shirt is cool. Especially a large one.
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Only a rough guess:

An adjustable ventilation/maintenence hole for a house of straw for checking/removing e.g. moisture (insects or other unwanted conditions that may affect a straw building).

Wizard of OZ the short version, 2XL
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A wall shrine of the „straw people“. The most prominent is of the straw people is the Scarecrow from the wizard of OZ. Used to remember that live is straw...

Wizard of OZ the short version, 2XL
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Robin Hood’s Indoor archery target or butts/backstop for arrows.. As Robin was a exzellent archer he never missed his target and hence there are no holes in the wall..
Additionally, the target could be very small like a penny or so, as his usual Target (another arrow is even smaller)

Wizard of OZ the short version, 2XL
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kindling cabinet. a place to keep the kindling near a fire place or stove, but the door makes sure no stray sparks will light the rest.

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It's a drive thru window for horses. Unfortunately, McFeedbags never really got off the ground. Poor business model. Horses don't have opposable thumbs, therefore they don't have the ability to take out their wallets to pay at the first window. Horse wallets. It's on wiki. Look it up.
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A wall shrine of the „straw people“.
The most prominent is of the straw people is the Scarecrow from the wizard of OZ.It serves to remember that filthy lucre schould not be considerd as not worth a sraw, but that you can’t make bricks without straw, and that you should clutch life as the last straw...

Wizard of OZ the short version, 2XL
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One of the first and unsuccessful attempts to build a green house...

The first plants was grass or corn, but at the window area was too small and the there are no provisions for watering ... the grass withered

Wizard of OZ the short version, 2XL
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It is a reliquary for St. Strawman. You are seeing his thigh. Some debate the authenticity of the relic, but it is believed that when in possession of the piece you will burn brighter and quicker. Not sure why this would be good, but whatever.

Evolution of Gamers xl
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An ancient weather station, The straw filled hole in the wall extends to the outside, where it is exposed to the outside weather conditions... If the straw is warm and dry – fine weather... If the straw is moist .. presumably rainy weather ... If the straw is frozen (i.e. it is not possible to remove a single straw there are icy weather conditions.. )

Wizard of OZ the short version, 2XL
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I know this thing started life as a mantel clock, at some point had its clockworks ripped out and was mounted in a wall and stuffed with straw. That would make it an aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh.
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This window is the reason the first little pig fired his contractor and moved in with his brother in the house of sticks.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos - XL
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A niche in a wall from an old, probably de-sanctified, adobe & hay-bale church. The niche would be for the statue of a saint or Jesus, and the window was preserved during a recent rehabilitation. During the renovation of the church, the walls were filled with fresh hay.
Love-Hate in Medium
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It's a Truth Door, and it wasn't used to prove that the house was made of hay. It was used so that the owner could visually check the condition of the hay for rot, moisture, mold, insects and other vermin.
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After Dorothy made her escape back to Kansas with the Wizard of Oz in the hot air balloon, the Scarecrow had a hard time adjusting to not having her think for him. He fell in with a bad crowd of flying monkeys who convinced him to become a hardened criminal. He finally went rogue and killed the 'formerly' Cowardly Lion in an act of vengeance when the lion tried to 'make hay' with the Scarecrow's girlfriend. As punishment the Scarecrow was walled up inside of a house and left there to eventually die from lack of alfalfa sprouts. Fifty years later the denizens of OZ made a small opening into the blocked up wall to see what was there and all they found was this mass of straw. It's still there and on view today if you can get there from here.

"Oh, no! It was rocket science!" size large
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It's an emergency straw reserve. Guarantees a quiet night even after your donkey complained that his bed's not soft enough. Open up, reach in, bolster up donkey's bed, sleep well!

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The first little pig's house, all plastered and ready to get blown down by the wolf, except the first pig forgot to cut the straw out in the window.

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It's a "re-run flycatcher reserve of straws". When my mom and uncle were little they would catch flies and take a piece of straw and ram one end of the straw up into the back end of the fly and then release the fly. It would fly around with the straw hanging out of it's back-end and mom and uncle victor would grab the straw and yank on it. They would laugh hysterically and catch another fly and do it again until there were dozens of flies flying around trailing straw. Ah, fun times from long ago.

This picture is of a "re-run flycatcher repository" where you would keep your stash of straw for just such an occasion as the one I just described.

BTW, this part about my mom and uncle doing this to flies really happened. You don't want to know what they did to grasshoppers...

"Oh, no! It really was rocket science!" size large
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Either it's a truth window in a stawbale house, or an emergency food supply for horses in the event of a Victorian nuclear holocaust.

It's an original, highly valuable.

I want the arch enemy shirt by adam koford! Large, please.
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It is a truth window.

They were added to the construction of many early housing types especially during the middle ages on up. They are there to provide a view as the building materials that made up the building.
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