What Is It? Game 91

Posted by Alex in What Is It on February 19, 2009 at 7:06 am

W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with the ever-awesome What Is It? blog – this week’s mystery object is this gun: can you tell us what it is for? (It has a very specific function)

Place your guess in the comment section – the first to guess correctly will get a Free Neatorama T-Shirt. If no one got it, then the funniest guess will win. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many times as you wish.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog – good luck!

Update 2/20/09 – The answer is A Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 machine gun camera, used to train Japanese aviators in aerial gunnery. The first guess that’s specific enough was #15, by “Give the shirt to the funniest answer :) ” So, per that request, the free shirt goes to: Melphistopheles for his guess of early colonoscopy device!

Congrats Mel – and thank you to everybody for their awesome guesses. That was fun!

 
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The Farm Tools Quiz

Posted by Alex in What Is It on February 13, 2009 at 11:11 pm

Our pal What is it? Blog just put together a whatchamacallit quiz of farm tools. We’ve seen many of these strange tools before on our What is it? feature on Neatorama – but many are new (not to mention strange!)

If you like the Hammer Quiz, check this one out: Link – Thanks Rob!

 
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What is it? Game 89

Posted by Alex in What Is It on January 22, 2009 at 8:01 am

Hooray! It’s time for our collaboration with the ever-awesome What is it? Blog. This week brings us this strange lookin’ object. Can you guess what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section – no prize this week, so you’re playing for bragging rights only.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog! Good luck!

Update 1/24/09 – the answer is:

A tool used to remove carbon deposits from the gooves of a piston, patent number 1,768,692. Text on it reads: “Owatonna Tool Co. #840, Made in Owatonna, Minn. USA”.

 
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What is it? Game 86

Posted by Alex in What Is It on January 1, 2009 at 6:43 am

W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with What is it? Blog. This week’s mysterious object is pictured to the left: can you guess what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you can think of. Post no URLs, let others play. The first person who guesses right (or gives the funniest guess, if no one gets it right) wins a Free Neatorama T-Shirt.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 1/2/09 – here’s the answer: A BLU-26/B ball-type submunition of a cluster bomb, this inert practice piece has aerodynamic vanes and is made of solid metal, it’s also called a Guava Bomblet.

Congratulations to JKirchartz who got it right! And a big thank you and a free T-shirt to Coyote who corrected the missing picture error!

 
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