What Is It? game 314

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

Update: the item pictured above is really a can opener. Our readers had many more imaginative ideas! Sandyra said it a “an antique sundial pizza cutter, because it's always time for pizza!” That’s good for a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! And so is Drew 2’s answer, “Undeniable proof that Trekkies existed as far back as the dark ages.” Congratulations to both! Get the answers to all the mystery objects of the week at The What Is It? blog.


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What we have here is one of the earliest iterations of the drafter’s compass. Due to its ability to produce only circles of one size, its use was quickly discontinued.

Pocket spare parts in S
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It's part of a psychiatric test for the criminally insane. The psychiatrist asks whether the patient sees an item that resembles a duck or a rabbit, notes the answer and then asks the patient to move the beak/ears until it no longer resembles said animal. The patient is determined to be psychotic if he tries to beat the doctor to death with the tool.

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yeah right!!!

?o you actually own eyes?? or are you just thrashing blindly at the keyboard with your finger mouths and the sicked up that load of twaddle!!

evil knievel’s goggles!

Ridiculous.....
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It is a piece of barding (armor for horses); specifically called a Champron. (The strap that goes from corner to corner is the one that goes behind the horse's ears).

A head-butt from a horse wearing that is going to hurt something awful.

-adam
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phhuu... how do i describe it in english! this thing is binded on top of the nose of a calf! when the calf starts to drink milk from the mother cow it pikes her and the calf can't drink milk! this is exactely the target! the calf has to stop suckling the dug!
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I'm not a horse-geek directly. But I am married to one. That just makes me poor. :)

Oh, and 'calf weaners' are clipped onto a calf's nose so they droop over their mouth. When they go to nurse the spikes (which are *much* shorter) hit the utter causing mom to shoo them away. Having spikes around the eyes, especially of that magnitude, is not going to be that effective at anything other than bodily harm.

(and no, I didnt know that before. All hail the Great Goog!)

-adam
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Its a purkle, used for spagulation of fromus gallopers. Remember the line from your grade school poetry class:

'Vembly gaithers the corker's purkle,
Tween Gallopers fast alight
Bravely kiffles the grumish gurgle
Twixt afterthought's first light'
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I don't know the exact name of it, but its purpose is to keep a calf from getting milk from its mother. I believe this was to ween the calf, which was perhaps destined to become veal. My mom has a bunch of old farm equipment on her walls, and one of these is on there.
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This item is used for weaning an animal. Once strapped to the nose of a calf or foal it can no longer nurse, because the mother will be jabbed, and will kick the baby away.
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you put it on a young cow or foal. when it tries to get milk from it's mom, the mom gets poked and kicks the young one away. thereby weaning the young one. hence it's name, a metal weiner...(ok, i made that last part up)
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it is so obvious.

it is their first attempt to make a mask for hannibal lector. The only issue was he would still try to bite people and end up sending a spike right to their throaght. That is why they decided to change the design to something more suitable
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Rats! Keith beat me to it! It's a calf weaner. The calf wears it around its neck. It pokes the mother when it tries to nurse, and the cow then nudges the calf away.
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It is a device to help you quit smoking. You bind it around your neck with the spikes up.
Smaller versions exist for your wrists.
It can also be used to eat less, but people can throw food in their mouth, so it's less effective.
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It is a shoulderpiece for a warrior. With the spikes up. It protects the shoulder as well as the head from a swinging sword.
Every warrior should have at least one, even if it's not made for that purpose originally.
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addition to comment 75:
If you have a fourth one laying around, place it over the ashtray. You can't have too many spikes if you want to quit smoking.

Actually there are stories of catholic schools that used the wristmodels to keep young boys (and girls) from scratching themselves under the covers.
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