What Is It? game 270 - Neatorama

Now it's time for our collaboration with the awesome What Is It? Blog! Do you know what this thing is? You can win even if you don't know!

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 more mystery items of the week. Good luck!

Update: the mystery item is a brewer's lamp. Ladybugs knew the correct answer, and wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer came from pismonque, who said "A gaff hook for landing narwhals with a built-in rotary tusk sharpener, used by Inuits in their groom-and-release program, an eco-friendly alternative to cultural whaling practices." So pismonque also wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop, too! Thanks to everyone who participated, and look for the next What Is It game coming soon to Neatorama! See the answers to all of this week's mysteries at the What Is It? blog.

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Captain Hook's fireplace poker attachment.

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It's a lamp attached to dead whales that were towed behind the whaling ship...muhahaha!

Resistance Begins at Ohm, 2xl, Grey

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That is disgusting; I thought this was a family friendly blog!

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Borg Queen birth control

Don't make me send out the flying monkeys! ~ XXL

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Captain Ahab's lighter.

Wizard of Oz, The Short Version, M, White

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It is a patented cylinder tooth wrench for tightening the square nuts that hold the replaceable teeth into a combine cylinder.

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Tight quarters wrench for getting to the back side of a beam flange (for the square nuts of the time) when there is no clearance for regular tools.

The Garage is Mine XL

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Man, those early self applied Kellog enemas were rough.

Brainier than the average bear XXL natural

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This device is used to give Pugs their characteristic flat nose

Thinking Man's Modern Dilemma XL

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The tool for the Burma-Shave signs

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I believe this crank opens the watering thingimajig for watering crops.

Geeks do it with gadgets – XL

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It's a reverse polish lug wrench. You have to crawl under the car to use it, but it makes left hand thread work in the normal manner.

Better idiot, med.

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Who cares what it is. The real question is where does one obtain an awesome rug like that. I absolutely need to get one for my apartment.

Bloody Heart, L

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Handcrank for deploying the cloaking device (version 1.0) for the Klingon Bird of Prey.

PB & jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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Yikes. A handle at one end, a socket for the attachment of your choice at the other... I believe this is called "50 Shades of Uncomfortable Seating". The $10 bill is just there to make you feel cheap.

nyuk, xl, Grey(of course)

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hence, the weird name, Im not trying to troll. Just really irritated today.

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why does everyone have some random/stupid/annoying signature, I cant even guess because of how irritated I am seeing XL in everyone's signature. SHOOT ME
Oh and another thing, I cant login because I forgot my password, YET when I try to retrieve a new password, It says my email user DOES NOT EXIST, but when I try to use this comment box with that email it says I need to sign in, thanks NEATORAMA!!! ;D

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toilet paper for the tin mans rich brother the platinum man, he wraps the 10 dollars around the nub, sticks it in his tailpipe and uses the handle to fully scrub clean!

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A bong and someone was courteous enough to leave some money lying out with it so you could buy a dime bag.

Discombobulate 2Xl

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Vintage Water Gate Valve Key

PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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It's a chunk of metal that the $10 bill is hiding behind because Alexander Hamilton was deathly afraid of carpets.

Discombobulate 2Xl

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I know what that is! I saw someone using one just the other day! That is one of those things that they use when they need to use one of those things! It only cost $10?

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it's a chunk of metal that costs $10 and keeps the floor from rolling up.

Discombobulate 2xl

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Handle to a prototype overhead ski lift.

Skull and swords XL Black

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Handcrank for opening the emergency doors of the International Space Station

PB & J, L, Serene Green

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Clearly, it is a device to straighten 10-dollar bills.

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The starting crank that goes on the front of old-timey cars.

Record Lover - XL

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Before shoelaces were invented, this device secured the bolthead closures to womens shoes and corsets. An overtightened corset could be fatal, but an undertightened corset could result in embarassment. Hence the term, 'loose' woman.

XL Tshirt, this is not a drill green.

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Woops, we forgot one, go back-go back-go back.
Neatoramabot L Red

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I believe this one is called a Cylinder Wrench, use to tighten nuts on a grain separator.

Neatoramabot L Red

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its a device to open turbine blades (air conditioning etc.)

unicorn poop XL

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It is a "go screw youself" device. Patented many years ago by Thomas Edison, who was patenting anything he could, he was told by George Westinghouse to go screw himself. Edison ever a quick thinker, and closet pervert, set his staff to the task of making a device so that he could screw himself. The picture above is what they came up with.

Discombobulate, 2Xl black.

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I believe it is a form of a plumbers Basin Wrench for tightening the bolts in boilers.

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Craig Clayton

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This device connects to the side of your banquet or sideboard. It is used to reverse someone else's plans. It is used to turn the tables.

Fauxbia: Afraid of Nothing - xl

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Could it be a canal lock key, used for opening the hatches that allow the water to flow in and fill the lock and raise the boat.

Just a thought.

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First version of ratchet later evolved to the version known form "rathet & clank"..

never grow up M ladie's fit navy

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Someone's getting the S&M experience of their life for just $10!

Geeks do it with gadgets - Medium

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Looks like a ten spot next to a propeller for a mini-(lead)zepplin.

type bike xl

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A device to open a man-hole cover?

Who What Why - Owls: Light blue M

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Looks like a device to open a manhole cover?

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OR - it is the tool used to screw a square peg into a round hole.

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A ratchet key or wrench for loosening screws/nuts opening valves at very inaccessible places?

but i have no idea in which technical field this tool could be useful...

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That would be a handcrank for an early car model.

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Looks like a Ratcheting wrench for a Semi tractor trailer trucks tandem wheels

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That, my friend, is a ten dollar bill.

Unicorn poop, large.

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