What Is It? game 194



Once again, it's time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is?

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 each win a 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 are several additional pictures at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the mystery object is a corn sheller. There's more information about it at the What Is It? Blog. Berhard was the first in with the correct answer. The funniest answer came from sandyra, who said:
It's an Amish 'electric' razor for taking off the moustaches on the men (and some women, if you know what I mean). Since the Amish don't use 'electricity' they get it to rotate by hooking it up to a giant waterwheel.

*note: The older versions tended to rip off the upper lip. This 'newer' model has a wood safety bar to prevent such mishaps."
Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!

A device for making "applesauce", just turn the disc clockwise and insert apples ..... and you will see lots of applesauce...

If Evolution Really Works ... 2xl ladie's fit...
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This is a closed Disney World ride.

Unveiled in August of 1967, mutilated riders were somehow able to see past its playful misnomer "The Tickler", and the FCC (Fredrick Community College) ordered the ride dismantled a mere hour after its grand opening.
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That looks like a large music box wheel - the pins which play as they strike the knobs on the wheel are probably hidden under the arm that supports it.

(I like the Schroedinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive in 2xl)
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It's an Adam smasher, so called because it is used for smashing and breaking down buildings and was invented by Adam Ehnt (he insisted that this was true).
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Berhard's tally wheel where he counts the free shirts he has won in his bid to clothe the homeless in free Neat-o-rama gear. At least I hope his rlentless persuit of free stuff isn't completely selfish. I think this is supposed to be fun for everyone, not an additional source revenue.
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It's an Amish 'electric' razor for taking off the moustaches on the men (and some women, if you know what I mean). Since the Amish don't use 'electricity' they get it to rotate by hooking it up to a giant waterwheel.

*note: The older versions tended to rip off the upper lip. This 'newer' model has a wood safety bar to prevent such mishaps.

"Dark side-we have cookies" men's large
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It is the original "beta" version of the music CD using player-piano type technology. I haven't seen one for some time, but it looks like it is probably Stephen Foster's first album.

Schrodinger's cat dead and/or alive - black XL
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Since BERHARD is always the FIRST to guess at the object, and the fact that he orders 2XL, maybe he should shove away from the computer and get a little exercise. I would rather see the contest be one guess per person. If the first brainstorn is wrong, thats the way it goes.
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Harrison's Corn Sheller
"Corn Sheller. A corn sheller is one of the most convenient and labor-saving implements that the practical farmer has in use. Various machines for this purpose have been invented. The most improved and best adapted for common use are those of Harrison, with the patent vertical wheel. It can be employed in all cases for large or small size ears. It is very simple in its construction and durable in its operation, and no way liable to get out of order. One man can work it to good advantage, though a man to turn and a boy to feed it works better than one alone. In this way it will shell ten to twelve bushels per hour. They are so light and portable as to be easily removed from place to place, and one machine will serve for several families, or even the inhabitants of a small town."
Something Somewhere Went Terribly Wrong 2XL
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Galen is half-right, but it isn't Bernard's tally wheel, it's actually my tally wheel. Half of my income is neatorama shirt-based. I haven't discovered what the other half is...it certainly isn't getting the "correct" answer. Wrong answers are more fun.

And I although I do not use my surplus of shirts to clothes the homeless, I do pass them on to my fashion-backwards friends. I tend to give them as impromptu "I won this for you" gifts. It makes them suspicious, and I like that.

I love this game.
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My earlier comment was moderated. Hehehe. I love when I get moderated. I feel edgey and scandalous. Maybe I should have said it's my moderated post announcement tally wheel? If I get enough moderated posts it plays "Nacht Musick."
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I also agree with Cristal, Galen, and Question Contest?.
Maybe only registered users ?
Maybe only 2 entries, (1 for "real", and 1 funny) ?

(If this is a winning entry, any random shirt, large, heh heh !)

p.s. no unicorns please.
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I believe it's a kebab meat slicer designed so wenches could quickly feed troops returning from their drunken post-pillaging celebrations.

Unicorn poop, royal blue, XL
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A prehistoric LP (or Compact Disk 1.0, for all you whippersnappers under the age of 35, who don't know what an LP was.)
Judging by the bumps, this one plays the Inagadda Davida drum solo. Now you know why it's called Heavy Metal.

"Bad Chewie" T-shirt.
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That is Conan O'Brian's forehead sander. Without it the glare from Conan's head could harm any on looking audience members. This is the one under contract from NBC and has not been used in years.

-- "It's Beer Thirty" T-shirt, Chocolate, L
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I'm thinking- a mill needs a corresponding stone to grind on *snicker*. A corn de-husker would work like this thing-one would rub the corn on it as it spun and let the sharp bumps pull off the husk; perhaps to make pig or cow feed when the corn is all dried to hell so as to not risk puncturing the juicy corn capsules people like to nom on.

But no. My answer is of course, this is a Ped Egg. Before TV, QVC and CVS peddled it as an option this early version took the horns, corns and flaking, dying skin off the work worn feet of farm women everywhere (sometimes as stated above a whole village). Too poor to afford shoes? Husband kicking you out of bed for calloused scratchy feet? Embarrassed to show your feet at the watering hole? This prehistoric Ped Egg to the rescue.
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