What Is It? game 203



It's time to play a game in collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what this thing 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?

Check out the What Is It? Blog for an additional picture of this item, and more mystery items. Good luck!

Update: the object in question is indeed a set of manual hedge trimmers. Berhard was the first of many with the correct answer. The funniest answer cam from SisterMerryHellish, who declared this is a wookiee toenail clipper! Congratulations to both for winning t-shirts from the NeatoShop!

I think it is a human powered hedge/bush trimmer...

When in close my eyes i can nearly hear half the time the „sl-sl-sl-sl-sl-sl-sl-chrg-- sl-sl-sl-sl-sl-sl-sl-chrg“ sound code when used...

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It is definitely a bush trimmer. For Manscaping. Popular in the 70s for controlling one's "undergrowth". Obviously, great care needed to be taken in using it. Many a 70s rock band ended up with a male soprano as a lead singer thanks to this device.

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This is a keyboard adjuster for when the freaking spacebar sticks and won't come back up. Just slide the prongs in under the afflicted keys and slide the black handle, and up the come. I keep one on my desk at all times.

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It's a Couch Potato Tool. It can dislodge a couch potato from the most challenging vinyl furniture.

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this is an antique paper shredder, used circa 1890. the lever is pulled back and the paper is pushed under it. it is then pulled through the spikes underneath, shredding it into strips. It was based on a farm combine, feeding the paper into the blade, and shredding it, like a combine shreds separates the corm and stems
this was an inefficient system that might have taken several tries to get the paper actually shredded. this was a luxury item, as the poor and middle class then could often not even afford paper.
as the 1900's were hit the new hand cranked version of this device become a hit seller among the middle class and the upper class, because so many people bought this device that it became affordable.
Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric paper shredder, and the company that made these mechanical versions became bankrupt in 1921, and this device became obsolete.
this is one of only a few still around, and is probably worth a few hundred dollars if sold to a museum, would probably bring in the dough.
this was also the cause of many injuries to fingers as the sharp blade was left unguarded, and there were no plastic safety covers available, unless you wanted to buy a latex tree, which in order to get you would have to travel to the amazon rainforest
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Mustache trimmer for beginners, also known as the number one discount item at the end of Movember.

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This is a fish agitator. Farm bred sturgeon get so lazy they don't wave their tails and develop Narcolepsy and mislay their eggs. In the 60's my first job was to wag their tails for twenty minutes a day, 1,500 a day. I was paid in fish eggs, which were acceptable currancy in the small northwest town I lived in. It had no name that anyone could remember, but I ramble. Today, its done by machines that are remotely controlled by someone in Malaysia, who actually pay for the experience. I think the town(except the fish farm) closed last winter, the inhabitants either starving to death or moving.

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It's the blade part of a mechanical plow. It makes the shallow grooves in soil after initial plowing for planting seeds.

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