It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is? Or can you make up something interesting?
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?
See all this week's mystery objects at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!
Update: these strange-looking goggles are Masonic Hoodwink Goggles, they were used as a blindfold in rituals of initiation. Edward K knew that, and wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Pismonque came up with a great funny answer: "These are Fear Goggles, the companion to Beer Goggles. When you wake up mostly sober at 5 AM and stumble to the loo, they act as blinders against the horror of discovering your newest intimate acquaintance. The flip-down lids protect against the increasing light of morning and prolong the denial." That wins a t-shirt! Find out the answers for all the mystery items at the What Is It? Blog.
goggles. ( spelling Goggles is harder now that google is around)
Science t shirt "if evolution really works" L
"Exterminate Me" - L
Brainier than the Average Bear, XXL.
Does the pessimist or the optimist flip the blinds down?
Are you tired of sunglasses flying off your head every time your eyeballs pop out of their sockets?
Fear not pervy beach goers, for Acme sunglasses with eye popper tops are now available!
Keep on bloggin' - lrg - ash grey
When Worlds Collide, Navy, XL
battle damage, navy, xl
Beer goggles just didn't work there.
Unpredictable Swing Voter (small, natural)
They were once worn by the prosaic Belgium explorer Monsieur Connerie, The Blackout Goggles from his 1834 interplanetary flight to Venus.
They were needed to allow the eyes to rest, as at that distance from the sun, they found the light to be quite bright.
Although not designed for sleeping, he found the sunlight could penetrate eyelids, even when sleeping, which is why he added, whilst in flight, the extra-wide 'side-'valance'.
It is a joy and lovely to see such an antique from mans first Interplanetary expedition, one that sadly has been hidden and suppressed for all these years.
Yours Truly
Richard K
p.s. Science - Schroedinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive XL.
'Geeks Forever' in XL
Neatoramanaut, size L.
“Battle Damage” XXL
Unpredictable Swing Voter, (natural, small)
Office Guy Shirt & Tie S
- Biology: Multiplication & Division, Women's large
Pink Freud (L)
These goggles are similar but were used to train Jedi pilots for their FFR (Force Flight Rules) certification: take off as usual, flip down the blinders and practice flying by The Force, but free to flip them back up again to handle tricky situations.
Schrodinger's cat wanted dead and or alive
Large
Chocolate
1970s Tuxedo Shirt - mens M
Typically an additional reign ran back to the jockey from one of the two levers with the other lever being connected to a remote kill switch that track officials can use to stop the horse if a dangerous situation occurred.
A smaller set was originally tried on the nostrils to throttle incoming air, but these were quickly made illegal after a series of runoff events generated the colloquial term "kill switch".
T-shirt -- surprise me (men's M)
M/XL
scientific mole, M ladies's fit
Love Bug, ladies M
PB & Jellyfish, Ladies L, Serene Green
Its a pair of free mason peek-a-boo goggles. Created around the time the free masons went co-ed. The newly instated free mason females requested day care for their children, as it would be imprudent to participate in masonic rituals and global domination while making sure Jr. was taken care of. So these goggles were developed to keep jr occupied for hours on end. Based on the marking in the top right hand corner, these may be the very goggles used to entertain Chalsey Clinton, while her parents plotted the over throw of a number of small nation states.
Glow-in-the-Dark Skeleton L black
(Thank you Douglas Adams)
*Soundproof earplugs sold seperately.
PB & Jellyfish, Ladies L, Serene Green
unicorn poop mens xl
Brainier than the average bear XXL natural
PB & Jellyfish, Ladies L, Serene Green
brainer than the average bear, xl
battle damage, xl, navy
T shirt, XL voices in my head
"Battle Damage" XXL
Womens...large...navy, Hippo Potty Mouth
I'm Into Hydrogen Bondage, M
"Forced Choked for Sure" XL
The Holy Occular Armament for Substatiative Divine Spark Detection (No acronym! Acronyms are the devil's shortcut!) was created to see into the darkness of parishoner's souls. If there were any detectable spark of the divine in their hideously guilty souls they would be burnt at the stake and sent to their maker. If, on the other hand, there was nothing but darkness (or if they were a woman, someone who could read, or were heavier than a duck) they would be burnt at the stake and sent to their maker.
It is remarkable that, although the use of The Holy Occular Armament for Substatiative Divine Spark Detection was quite popular among inquisitors, no one ever expected them.
"Internet Advice for Writers," Men's, Natural, Large
Shirt: Neatobot Walking, Large
Heartbreaker xlarge
Walk (on the Sidewalk) Like an Egyptian
Chocolate, XL
What happens at grandma's L blue.
Gnome of the free, large.
Artist-Designed T-Shirt - medium
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
first version.. (hand operated)
"Grains ... grains!!" - Vegan Zombie 2x
Heart Attack, Med Black
T shirt M large
Craig Clayton