What Is It? game 304

It's once again time for our collaboration with the wonderfully entertaining What Is It? Blog. Do you know what the pictured item is? Can you make up something totally wacky? That's what we're looking for: the funniest and most creative guesses. We will award t-shirts from the NeatoShop to two commenters who post the cleverest, funniest, or most outlandish use for this thing!

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. You have until Friday evening to come up with great guesses.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize. May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

See, you don't have to know the answer to win! And remember, there are more mystery items to figure out at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: this item is an automobile valve spring compressor, according to the What Is It? blog. Y'all had much funnier answers, and two of them won t-shirts. MEM said "It's a pogo-stick for fence-sitters. It's for those times when you just don't want to overcome your ambivalence." Ha! And Steven Vredenburgh had a great answer:

This is an example of the "I've got your nose" device. 1340's Germany tradition held that the nose of a ginger child could cure the black plague. The "I've got your nose" device, pictured above, was used to gather the noses of these unfortunate children. Though the practice of harvesting noses soon died out, the idea lingered in the "I've got your nose" game that adults still play with children as a reminder of the horrors of the black plague.

So they both win! Thanks for playing, everyone, and stay tuned for the next What Is It game from the What Is It? blog and Neatorama!


This is an example of the "I've got your nose" device. 1340's Germany tradition held that the nose of a ginger child could cure the black plague. The "I've got your nose" device, pictured above, was used to gather the noses of these unfortunate children. Though the practice of harvesting noses soon died out, the idea lingered in the "I've got your nose" game that adults still play with children as a reminder of the horrors of the black plague.
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After so many beatings, Scissors transformed himself into a device that abducted Paper in the dead of night and covered Rock whilst asleep.
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The world is full of reluctant fishermen (and fisherwomen) who would rather die than bait a hook. This device enables the squeamish to grasp a worm from a safe, non-icky distance and put the hook through the part of the worm stretched between the graspers. A larger version of the device is available to take the fish off the hook after it is caught.
Made in America with Irish Parts - Kelly Green Men's XXL
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It's a pogo-stick for fence-sitters. It's for those times when you just don't want to overcome your ambivalence.

Poke Me and I Kill You Small
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I do not know what this is. Since I am electrically challenged, I think it would make a wonderful tool for extracting a blown main buss fuse while keeping me a safe and sane distance from the panel. Where can I get one?

Darwin Award, medium, coward yellow
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Sneak attack titty-twister!!!

Yikes....not only will that leave a mark, but the culprit will never be caught. Hiding behind a bush like a cheetah stalking a gazelle....the sneak attack titty-twister will allow you to pounce on your prey with the precision and stealth needed for such a maneuver.

Battle damage (Mens - M)
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It's an early stereoscopic nose-picking device. With this handy contraption, you can pick both nostrils at the same time, while keeping your hands nice and clean.

Trophy Husband
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In the early 1900's, American inventors thought that they could improve upon the centuries-old design of chopsticks. This is one of their most famous prototypes.

MMmmmmm.... Pi (Black, XL)
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It's one of the very first prototype phone/long-distance audio messengers. (Since the phone isn't really the right term for it.) The two prongs are tuning forks (tuning not included) that are placed over the ears. The sound transmitted from the other side is stereo, and travels down the X's. Alexander Graham Bell managed to make the original telephone before this design could be improved to turn and go further. And a lucky thing it didn't!

LIFE Medium Black
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A second design on the original rake. It only had two prongs, but it was longer than the first. They didn't even bother adding prongs yet; they just spent all their time adding the steampunk additional 'X' design to it. I want one!

Idiot Proof, Black, Medium
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Before the industrial mass production of sport balls, this was used to check the size of a ball; if it didn't fit in-between the (adjustable) claws, it was rejected.

Out of My Mind...Back in Five Minutes, Black, Medium
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It's a kneeter-valve adjustment tool. Every mechanic knows that if you can see the kneeter-valves you can't reach them, and if you can reach them, you can't see them. The telescoping action allows for both situations.

Damn Fine Coffee Black, small
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This is an early version of the tool that Harley Quinn uses. This one was used to hold pies, a rubber clown face, and most famously, the boxing glove with the word POW printed on it.

Doctorama 2XL
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