What Is It? game 308

Now it's time for our collaboration with the awesome What Is It? Blog! What is this thing? You don't have to know to win!

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. You might know the true answer, but we're going to select two winners who come up with the funniest, most outlandish guesses to win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop. However...

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 more pictures of this thing at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: this turned out to be a Type K D.C. Relay that was made by the General Railway Signal Company. We had a lot of funnier guesses. Trillian guessed it was an emergency jumpstarter for Frankenstein's monster. That's good for a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Another great guess came from azog, who said it was "an early prototype of a defibrillator. Unfortunately it tended to blow off the patients thumbs." That paints a picture, alright, and it's good for a t-shirt as well! Find out the identifications of all the mystery items of the week at the What Is It? blog.


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It's an electric eel generator. In the days before chemical batteries portable power was very hard to come by. However, by placing several electric eels in the fish tank below and connecting appliances to the nodes above, one could power multiple appliances whilst on the move!

Call Daddy, Black-Large
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It used to be part of the Barbie Torture Chamber Play Set. Not pictured are the color-coordinated tools and outfit for the doll.

Consulting Detective (by Tom Trager) S
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I can't look at any of these things without trying to imagine how it could be used to torture someone. Seriously, though, "saddle rack" makes sense. You can tell by the placement of that hook and those three holes that it's meant to be mounted to a wall. But I think a creative medieval dungeon master or Inquisitor could come up with a way to turn it into a torture device.
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Aw, I should've checked earlier. Everybody beat me to it. I have a 6 of these on my workshop wall (in black). Yes, of course it's a saddle rack. Specifically, it's an English saddle rack, being curved the way it is; a Western saddle rack is straighter, longer, and generally looks a little more heavy duty.
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Saddle rack, with the hook for the bridle. Alas, I'm not the only one that knows what it is... *pout*

Either that, or it's a device used in a veterinary proctology practice. Bleagh.

--TwoDragons
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It's a tongue replacement/upgrade. If you don't like your tongue (or are missing one), you attach this thing to the back of your throat (note screw-holes at the flat end). You can get various sleeves for it that will mimic the actual tongue's surface, or you can get creative and make your own. This could be a different color, have tentacles or even be forked - the sky is the limit!
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It's a Duck Bill Enlarger for ducks foolish enough to fall for those spam emails selling Bill Enlargers. Of course it doesn't work, but tell that to all the small-billed mallards out there.
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A Pondlejink stand. After a bracing ride across the foofens on a hairy legged wobbletusk, you should always thouroughly dry your Pondlejink (and change your trousers)lest you get the collywobbles and prake the wootlehatch.
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it is a giant condom maker, u put a bin bag over the top, get some hair spray or somethin similar, spray that over it, leave for a few hours, and hey presto, theres ur giant condom ready for use!!!
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