What Is It? game 217 - Neatorama

It's time for our collaboration with the always fascinating What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is?

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 photo of the object (and more items to guess), check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the mystery device is a billiard cue trimmer and tip fastener. The first one to know the answer was Doug D, but unfortunately he did not select a shirt. The funniest answer came from The Professor, who called it a Genie Shovebackinner, you know, for getting the genie back into the bottle. That's worth a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! You can find out the answers to all the mystery items of the week at the What Is It? blog. Thanks to everyone who played, and we'll do this again soon!

Cable or wire stripper.

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For erections lasting longer than 4 hours, consult your physician. If you can't get a hold of your physician, use this device.

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A nutcracker! and by nuts ....I mean walnuts, chestnuts, and hazelnuts!

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This is a torture device, used to crush fingers or any extremities. :/.

Battle damage, small size, thanks.

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That there is a eunuch maker.

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It is a key for opening the bottom of the Stanley Cup in order to obtain the dental tools for repairing hockey players teeth

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It's called a Genie Shovebackinner and is used by adventurers if the genie turns out to be a hipster!

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Hmmm, is it used for smoothing the end of bones for amputees?

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Flower Bulb Planter/Tamper

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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Vintage nose picker.

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i think that this is an early version of the thumb screw, a medieval torture device

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Squirrel Nut Zipper.

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A tool used to flatten the tip of a pool cue ferrule, (traditionally made from ivory) prior to gluing on a pressed leather tip.

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A device for hollowing out pipe bowls.

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Crap. I forgot my shirt in previous message. Can I still play?

"Okay, I did not look at previous comments, sooooooo

It’s a speculum! Like in an onbgyn’s office. Not one I would ever visit, however ;)

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This item reminds me of marriage.

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Okay, I did not look at previous comments, sooooooo

It's a speculum! Like in an onbgyn's office. Not one I would ever visit, however ;)

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This is, without a doubt, a Babel Fish Inserter. Some people are quite squeamish about having a Babel Fish just dig its way into the inner ear so this helps by inserting them just a bit quicker. Babel Fish do not particularly enjoy this machine, but they realize that sometimes it must be done for the greater good.

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It is a device for inserting VERY large suppositories.

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(forgot size stuff on first comment)

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It is an orange juice extractor. simple like this.

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Original Prince Albert Piercing Device.

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Because of his odd shaped head, these forceps were used to remove Beaker the Muppet from the birth canal of his mumsie.

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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Never found your self with a bottle of wine, but no corkscrew to open it ?
Well with this one tool here, this would not be a problem !
As you see this is used to forced the cork, yes but very deep inside the bottle and let flow the delicious liquid out !
I'm guessing they stop production because people realized it was easier and cheaper to carry a corkscrew in their pocket ...

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Egg Breaker - you put an egg in the egg-shaped middle of the apparatus, then extend the telescoping center to crack the egg. The yolk and whites of the egg will then run down the channel into waiting receptcle.

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Express osmosis tool for when you just don't have time to sleep study the info in.

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Device used for holding tops of pool cues in place while glue sets.

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On a bar bet in 1957, Herman Zindlekress invented the 'ZindleKress Toothpaste Tube Repacker.' Days later his lifeless corpse was found floating in bay, an empty tube of a then popular toothpaste 'Pepson's tooth polish' clutched in his left hand.

The repacker device vanished, until now.

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I think it's a medical device for drilling into the head, say, for a lobotomy or trepination.

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I found a similiar object thrown out behind the vets office some years ago, it was used to sharpen the tails of house hold pussy cats. First you insert the tail,clamp down hard and turn the handle like when you sharpen a pencil.

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Craig Clayton

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It's a "Boring" tool.I'm yawning just looking at it!! Bazinga!!!

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I used to get spam for this thing all the time back in the early days of e-mail. It's a device for lengthening the male member.

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LOL! and the system bites me in the bottom!

Not to mention my Someheimer's! I can't even remember for five seconds what I said?

Next time!

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If this is a double post, I apologize, but I don't see my previous one.

It's specifically an Olive Pitter.

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It's a first attempt at a forced feeder for making foie gras. Unfortunately, this keeps the birds closed.

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Galen's close, but it's specifically an Cherry Pitter.

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One of Inspector Gadget's many tools of trickery. This one is for pinching your ear (or any other body part the wayward hand decides to trap) to make you squeal the secrets of Dr. Claw.

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Looks like a tool for hollowing out a wood dowel or stick, perhaps for making a flute.

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Flux Capacitor

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Dental filling compressor.

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It is a device for inserting VERY large suppositories.

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looks to me like a
Steampunk-ish Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (portal gun)

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an asparagus tip remover... very rare... for the foodie/cook that don’t like these soft and wobbly asparagus tips in his sauce hollandaise.. works only on un-cooked asparagus..

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This device could be used down on the farm for getting the attention of the young rams for holding on to their personal equipment if you know what I mean..T shirt Xl

Craig Clayton

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I'm guessing a more generic wine corker.
"Chicken is an Egg's Way to Produce More Eggs",XL

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Vintage safety closuere of a test tube, to open at a predetermined pressure that may be selected by turning the handle..

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Jawbreaker compression tester.

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It's for pushing the pit out of various fruits.

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I believe it is an old medical device to be mounted to a n operating table for the control of ether gas or other IV fluids

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Craig Clayton

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It's a champagne corker. (Not for removal, but for forcing the cork into the bottle the first time.)

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