What Is It? game 189

From the comment of Craig Clayton on July 7th, 2011: „...fire buckets have a round bottom so that they will always fall over and therefore are not useful as a regular bucket.“

i reason that this is a „fire bucket“.... placed upside down...

the relics of red color support my opinion...

now i can only hope to manage to be the first to comment...

the Jester 2xl ladie’s fit

It might be a blacksmither's bucket.

Radioactivity: It's as Easy as Alpha, Beta, Gamma - XL - Black

I think it's a bucket made for Weeble-Wobbles.

Radioactivity: It's as Easy as Alpha, Beta, Gamma - XL - Black

A prop from the low-budget prequel to Monty Python and the Holy Grail entitled "The Knights Who Say, 'Nmmph': A Blind Beginning."

Carbon Footprint, 2XL, Ash Grey

This is obviously a Dalek Bucket, for when they kick the bucket.

Resurrection Explained, XL, Ash Gray

This is a relic of the American Civil War. Occasionally, the Confederates would find themselves very low on cannon-balls so they would send out someone to taunt the Yankees into firing (probably someone in a Ronald McDonald's costume eating Southern-fried chicken... and enjoying it!)Once the Yankees fired, teams of people would run out to catch the cannon-balls in buckets. This particular bucket is proof the idea occasionally worked!

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Just an ordinary bucket used too long for catching red hot rivets on a steel/iron construction facility... the large amount of small rivet impacts deformed the bottom of the bucket into its presently round shape...

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Can I also have a T shirt as I knew that it was a fire bucket before it was posted. Berhard was the first to post and has commented on my post.

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Craig Clayton

I actually have to admit that without Craig`s comment i would never have recognized it as a fire bucket...

Looks like a bucket to hold a heated cannonball on a wooden sailing ship of yore.... No fires allowed anywhere except the kitchen. So, to heat a cabin, a hot cannonball was suspended in a metal bucket, radiating heat.

The round bottom identifies it as the bucket that always hits middle C when struck with a broom, so it can be used by Stomp to tune their other buckets.

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Thanks!

One of the many lost props for the perfect Tin Man hat!

Med...natural, cold hearted but I look sweet

Bender's "who turned the lights out" helmet.

Med, pink, the princess and the particle....

It's a helium/hydrogen collection bucket, as it only works upside down and can only collect things that are lighter than air.

Occam's Razor XXL grey

Craig, ...

I don't know....

Neatorama, found the right pictured item to your guess, maybe you owe Neatormama a t-shirt...

But hey, they did not include a selection, so they forfeit their prize?!?!

;-)

Monks used to this to break in new ones to the monastery to practice on shaving heads. Little fake hair was put on the round part and then they shaved it off. Before this they used stones. The red color cleary signifies this is eastern orthodox in nature. Everyone knows they use red.

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This is THE bucket that was used to dampen the first small-scale demonstration of a nuclear explosion. It kept everyone safe from debris, but as you can imagine its lack of protection from radiation left most of the scientists involved sterile. Not surprisingly, this event accounts for 100% of the nuclear physicists ever to have received Darwin awards....

Failed first prototype of Boba Fett's helmet...

Pink Freud, XL

I believe it's Chuck Norris's spitting bucket. Even his saliva packs a mean punch.

shoot, shirt = ROTFLSHMSFOAIDMT

Firemans bucket for a bucket brigeage
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Little-known fact: Dr. James Naismith invented the modern game of Basketball on his _second_ attempt -- the first attempt involved shot-put balls and these sturdy buckets in place of the peach baskets. The light-weigh bouncy ball was introduced when the teams wanted to play indoors on a rainy day, and the peach baskets looked sturdy enough for the lighter ball, and the rest is history...

Part of a set of molds for building sand castles.

Wizard of Oz, The Short Version Small

Badonka-Donk Buckett! Binary Solo please!

It's the Droid we're looking for!!

They say weebles woobles but don't fall down,
But poor old Jack, he broke his crown,
With a rounded bottom, this pail won't tip,
Still didn't keep poor Jack from taking that slip,
Down that hill did Old Jack tumble,
From overhead Jill did hear a rumble,
So there they sat at the bottom of the hill,
As the rain fell down and the lightning did peal,
With their roundbottomed bucket they did catch,
All that water they were sent to fetch.

If I only had...brains. Womens XL

It's a fire bucket. The purpose of the domed bottom is so that it really cannot be used for any other purpose than being hung from it's proper hanger and filled with its proper fire fighting medium.

I would love to have a 2x Unicorn Poop shirt if I am so lucky to win.

The larval form of a Dalek.

This is actually Einstein's eclectic, albiet thought provoking, thinking cap. This ill fated bucket was worn when Einstein had a relatively suden realization of relative theory. So sudden in fact that the impact of the thought shot his cranium into the thinking cap causing this dent. Thank goodness for his hair or else we would have had to wait for him to regain consciousness before trying to remember said thought and writing it down.

And since I cannot read an entire post before getting excited and posting an answer, I will once again select the Unicorn Poop in a doubly extra large size. If you so deem my answer to be the most giggle inducing.

It's a 1930s jello mold (with tasty lead soldering). This one was designed to work exclusively with jello brand gelatin as is evidenced by the red paint. It was important to distinguish between one's dessert gelatin mold and one's formal savory aspic molds. No one wanted their Tongue in Aspic tainted by disgusting berry flavors.

Because I know you want it, here's the recipe for Tongue in Aspic, courtesy of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896), by Fannie Merritt Farmer via chestofbooks.com

Tongue In Aspic
Cook a tongue according to directions on page 210. After removing skin and roots, run a skewer through tip of tongue and fleshy part, thus keeping tongue in shape. When cool, remove skewer. Put a round pan in ice-water, cover bottom with brown aspic, and when firm decorate with cooked carrot, turnip, beet cut in fancy shapes, and parsley. Cover with aspic jelly mixture, adding it by spoonfuls so as not to disarrange vegetables. When this layer of mixture is firm, put in tongue, adding gradually remaining mixture as in Tomatoes in Aspic.

I don't want a t-shirt, I just want to share the love. Remember to cook your tongue according to directions.

Its a slightly used Dalek codpiece.

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Who's Bringing the Chips?
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Paw Kettle's bowling "bag".

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Quite possibly the only remnant of the 1890's robot-human war. ...er, I mean troupe of actors dressed as robots getting booed off stage. The idea wasn't very advanced back then, and I imagine the lack of eyeholes made the show ten times more interesting.

Electro Man Surge Protector

A prototype from Bozo the Clown's "Grand Prize Game" where the kids had the throw 50 pound medicine balls in an effort to motivate the kids to build muscle in the event that we had to go to war with communist Russia and so the amount of prizes awarded would be significantly lower.

"Run Ewok Run!", 2XL in military green...please?

Obviously a can that needs to be opened

Unicorn poop(men) xl

Cyberman head from the Sylvester McCoy years when the BBC just didn't have a budget for costumes anymore.

If I only had brains, 2XL black

Fire bucket, should be filled with sand, hung on the wall,have three in my back yard with flowers in them.

This is "the" bucket for folks that can't carry a tune in a bucket.

Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly's solution to his helmet always sliding around on his head.

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Old-fashioned paint stirrer. Just put the old paint in and give the bucket a push to make it rotate, thereby stirring the paint.

May the Fork Be With You (ladies' size M)

This is a prototype instrument for the first steel drum band. The second development was the use of a drum rather than a bucket, permitting the instrument to play more than four notes. However, the greatest breakthrough came when someone accidentally domed the bottom inward. This allowed the drum to be played at waist level instead of hanging overhead! Parallel parked in a diagonal universe, med.

Ooohh so cute its a baby Dalek.

Easy. It's a condom for a well-endowed robot.

Let's try again.... still thinking it's a condom for a well-endowed robot...

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Third time's a charm? Still thinking it's a robot condom.

Shirt size XL

Obviously, an 18th century bowling bag.
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This goes back to England in the middle 16th century,when it was considered a sign of wealth and status to have a catapault at your castle for defense and entertainment. To keep the catapault team in combat readyness, they practiced firing with bowling balls ( which did not have finger holes in them, those came much later) as regular stones were too expensive and frequently broke on impact let alone exhibited undesirable flight characteristics from the imperfect shape (caused them to dart off one way or another) it also came to happen that the bowling balls were used on more than one occasion against invading maruaders (after all the stones were used) and the owners of the castle liked the way the round bowling balls would knock down the groups of men charging the castle-this observation is what later led to the game of bowling and the invention of the ball return mechanism as the castle owners had to send a servant out to retrieve the ball. Anyway, the local peasants would notice all the dimple marks on the grounds outside the castle ( from the bowling balls) and decided that the way to be like the higher class was to invent a bucket such as pictured above and use it to make dimples in the ground around their own meager abodes-here again because bowling balls were only afforded by the upper class. Initially blacksmiths made the round bottom buckets but they came into commercial manufacturing and were even offered by Sears and Roebuck untill the early 1900's for milking cows.
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It's a sculpture of the world's smallest lampshade...or is it the world's largest light bulb?

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A ceremonial fez-yarmulka, traditionally worn by Jewish Shriners.

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This bucket probably had filled with rainwater and then the water froze and the expansion pushed out the bottom of the bucket.

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it's a bucket from a fire set

(Velociraptor, M, black)

or hand-made tam-tam (Velociraptor, M, black)

Fire bucket for sand. The bottom is round so it cannot be used for any other purpose.

Look out Schroedinger's cat, its a trap.

ladies, size medium, please

It's a fire buck... oh. dang... oh, well