What Is It? game 319

It's Thursday, so you know what it means, Neatoramanauts: it's time for the What Is It? Game, brought to you by the always amusing What Is It? Blog.

What is this thing in the picture? Your guess can win you a free T-shirt of your choice from the NeatoShop! Here's how to play:

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, but you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. Post no URLs or weblinks.

You might know what it is, but if you want to win a t-shirt, you'll have to use your imagination, because we are going to select two winners who give us the funniest incorrect guesses. If you guess right, then good for ya - but you don't win anything, mmkay? So, it's up to you, funny people: you have twice the chance of winning that T-shirt.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize. We highly suggest you take a look at the NeatoShop's new selection of Funny T-shirts and Science T-Shirts.

Ready? Go for it! Visit the What Is It? Blog for more pictures of this object.

Update: the mystery object is a corn husker, according to patent number 27,638, "...it both strips off the husks and severs the ear from the stalk." We also had some funny alternate suggestions for its use. Jaguarfeather said, “New evidence has emerged that sea life evolved through its own Iron Age. A rare specimen fossil of the high-arched metallic dorsal Clampfish has recently been excavated near Iron Bay, BC.” That’s good for a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! And e6c has this to say, “It's my wife's nose hair tweezer... (for the love of God, I hope my wife doesn't see this post)” Well, you might be in trouble now, because that’s a winner! Thanks to everyone who played (all the answers were great), and thanks to the What Is It? blog!


In the 1700's and shortly after the first Haida met a Russian fur trapper on the West Coast of Canada, this representation of the traditional Raven image was wrought in iron forged from an old beaver trap.

Lesser of Two Weevils, XXL
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A Cricklesnapper. This tool was used for plucking feathers from the now extinct Gumma-by bird (Clangeo Langapus) found on the Isle of Contrite off the southern coast of New Zealand, which sank into the sea in 1832. These feathers were popular in the orient for purposes not quite understood, but beleived to be rather risque, perhaps obscene by western mores. The Czarina Maria Alexandrova was scandalized by unknowingly wearing one such feather in an easter hat, possibly placed there by a subversive from Trelnost. The dissapearence of the island, along with every living example of the Gumma Bye bird, was thought to be done in revenge for this slight. It is supposed that this small feather scandall eventually led to the downfall of the Romanovs, Germany's defeat in WW1, etc.

Good Marx, Bad Marx, XL Grey
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An antique tongue piercer. Because people were tougher back then. Now everything's stainless steel tools. Buncha crybabies...
Respect the science Men's Large
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Give the blade, the plier grippy bits, the spring in the handle and the locking function, it's got to be a tool for performing circumcisions (I can't write that without feeling very uncomfortable).

Look Out Schrodinger's Cat, It's a Trap! - Black Medium
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It's my wife's nose hair tweezer... (for the love of God, I hope my wife doesn't see this post)

Beakerful of Science, dark grey large
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New evidence has emerged that sea life evolved through its own Iron Age. A rare specimen fossil of the high-arched metallic dorsal Clampfish has recently been excavated near Iron Bay, BC.

[ The Dragon (Bywater): XL; Military Green ]
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It's a nipple crippler for people with restricted hand movement. Just grab the nipple between the pincers, flip the lever on the top and instant owies for the recipient. The wide body makes it easy to hold and even to twist no matter how limited your grip strength is.

Earth Tree L Navy
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It's a Mother's Helper. Whens a mother's sons become misbehaving, uncooperative teenagers, she just clamps it their ear and drags them to their rooms. Also, serves a dual purpose as a juicer for oranges, lemons, etc.
Pounce, Ladies XL, Ice Blue
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This is a medieval strawberry huller made for the most robust of crops. Proving, once and for all, that any dental damage was in fact due to their rock hard diet.

Best friends in S please
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This Hare-raising tool is a Happy Bunny Carrot Slicer. Every professional bunny breeder or rabbit rancher or warren warden, rodent roper, or whatever they're called has experience with rabbits with toothaches. There's nothing more heartbreaking than a bunny that can't dig into a nice crunchy carrot because their tooth is broken and they just don't have the incisors for the job. While waiting for the tooth to grow back in, this heavy duty but precise tool lets you thin-slice a carrot so the rabbit can gum it down.

Damn Fine Coffee, Small.
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