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It's once again time for our collaboration with the always interesting What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is? Or can you make up something amusing?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. 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 another picture from a different angle, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the object in question is a Holmes Steering Gear Clamp for towing automobiles (an antique). Aaron Rosen was the first commenter who knew what it was for, but he did not select a shirt. TDM had the funniest answer: A clothespin for chain-mail! For that, TDM wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop. You'll find the answers to all this week's mystery items posted at the What Is It? blog.

Clamps from Futurama is missing one of his hands and it ended up here.

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/CharacterBios/clamps.dhtml

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a clamp for securing / stabilizing debris after an accident for rescue / cleanup efforts... would be safer with a closed eylet..

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The object is a part of a robotic crocodile built for Peter the Great by an expatriate French blacksmith. The iron crocodile was to be the villain's assistant. Unfortunately the full text of the play was lost in the Great Fire.

Office guy, extra large, gigantic you got it.
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Wheel clamp used by parking wardens to put on toddler tricycles at expired parking meters in front of the local Gymboree.

MMM.....Pi, Serene Green, Ladies L
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If you look carefully you can see the Cisco logo on the side of the jaws: this was their very first "router" ever sold. You could route your telegraph wires through the jaws, turn 90 degrees up, cross the road at a convenient point, then route the wires back down the other side, all without crossing wires. Cisco still makes routers today but they aren't cast out of iron any more. They just don't build them to last like they used to...

If selected, a donation to your local humane society would be superb. :)
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"That's my great grand-daddy's left clamp! Oh if I ever get my clamps on whoever took it I will give 'em such a clamping!" ~Clamps from Futurama

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This is a device used by linemen long ago to pull wire. It would be clamped to the top of a pole beam,and the wire laid thru the slot and pulled down to the next pole. These were temporary and would be removed after the line was secured to the insulator.
protect your nuts,2xl
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This was the first of the avon products for ladies to style their hair. It would be heated on the stove and the hair placed into the zig-zag section to make "crimped" hair styles. It quickly fell out of favor to the "flat iron" hairstyle look.
protect your nuts,2 xl
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This is a device used by the IRS to hang a person by their toes(or anything else) to get payment for taxes owed. (I don't get it, this is not an antique, it's still in use today).
protect your nuts,2xl
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The "Definitely Not a Multi-Purpose Tool". And if you keep posting pics of it, it will magically become an essential item in many hipster's daily carry bag.

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That is an artifact that was uncovered in New York. It is one of Clamps' clamp. Thus proving that Futurama not only is true, but instead happened in the past and that time and space just repeats itself.

What happens at Grandma's Large/blue
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Its a paperclip that meets government design specs. It costs 289.47 and a special license to own and operate. We have boxes of these around my office, and only a few of us know what they are.

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