It is once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Do you know what this thing is? Can you give us a wild guess?
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?
There's a second picture of this object posted at the What Is It? Blog. Take deep breath, do your best, and good luck!
Update: Stephen was the first to peg this item as a show business prop but also a real weight from a old-fashioned strongman show. It belonged to Warren Lincoln Travis, who indeed lifted this with his hips by a chain running through the hole in the middle, as Stephen said in his entry. It weighed between 1650 and 3750 pounds, depending on how much sand he filled it with. There's even more information about it at the What Is It? blog.
The funniest answer was from samuel, who gave us a Super Mario answer:
Conjoined Bomb-omb twins. They're waiting anxiously out outside of Dr. Goomba's office to see if a surgery is possible. It's been over a year now since the castle guards pulled them out of that koopley's famous freak show on a case of child abuse. They look so happy in this picture, even though they're nervous.
Good luck Bomb-ombs, I hope the answer will come soon!
Both win t-shirt from the NeatoShop!
(got all esssited by my guess)
Wizard of Oz, The Short Version 2XL
Request Denied XL (Ladies Fit T-shirt)
Alcohol Tabac Firearms who brings the chips 2X
The Sub-bass instrument uses the ball-shaped resonace bodys as ohterwise the resonance pipes for the sub-bass frequnecy band would be to long and bulky...
In contrast to conventional flutes the tone is selected by turning the star shaped hand wheels on the sides... while blowing over the embouchure hole located in the red painted center...
The depeicted model used two independently tunable resonance bodies as it was one of the firste stereo instruments, capable of simultaneously generating at two different siedes two different tones for ...
The bulky design and the heavy weight was the main reason this formidalbe instrument nearly has fallen in oblivion... Additinally an average Virtuoso of this instrument required exceptional lung volumes, wich also contributed to the vanishinf of thius instrument..
Witchy xl (Ladies Fit T-shirt)
med, light blue when life gives you mold....
MED, LIGHT BLUE, WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU MOLD
Request Denied XL (Ladies Fit T-shirt)
med, light blue, when life gives you mold.
MED, LIGHT BLUE WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU MOLD
If I only had some brains
Black 2xl
Love is a Biohazard shirt L.
Request Denied XL (Ladies Fit T-shirt)
Good luck Bomb-ombs, I hope the answer will come soon!
"Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe" Dark Grey design size L
Math Puns are the First Sine of Madness (L)
Imaginary-Friend (royal blue xxl if possible [and in case i win])
Underneath is hidden Obama's birth certificate.
Large Mens - Pluto: Proof That Size Matters
Wizard of Oz, The Short Version 2XL
Did I get it right, or did I miss it by 'that much.'
XL T 'Pointless stories are my thing' Black
comic skull and crossbones size m
(I am so sorry for that)
Probaly won't need this but the stop me before I make sense shirt in XL.. :P
If Chuck Noris' needs a set of auxiliary testicals... he cant`be so cool as this implicitly means that he cant take care of his original ones... (or that the original ones wherent powerful enough... ) ;-)
XL Unicorn Poop shirt
Surprise with the shirt i like surprises. XL
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Resistance begins at Ohm size large
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I Heart the Intertubes XL
Thesaurus grey xl
Something somewhere went terribly wrong, black, xl
"Godzilla`s Dumbbell" or "largest dumbbell in the world"
will be considered as first correct hit...
Great Vocab Didn't Save The Thesaurus , Size L