What is It? Game 13 - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us these two strange springs (6" tall). Leave a guess in the comment section (no URL, please - let others play). First correct guess will win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt!

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Update 3/1/07: The answer is ...

Springs for making a regular chair into a rocking chair, they mount onto the bottom of the front legs.

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Springs from a bicycle seat.

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yes i know i wrote obvious twice there, my bad, i was watching tv at the time and im gonna say obvious another obviously obvious time, just to make it obvious.

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once again, obviously no one can see the obvious ............. banana .... LOOK!!

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Ah, this is a good one - no one got it. The answer is: Springs for making a regular chair into a rocking chair, they mount onto the bottom of the front legs.

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Now that I think about it...they may actually be those springs used for those playground springy horse rides.

The ones that are insanely crazy to be riding on when drunk at night and it's raining. >_>

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Talk about something to be exploited. Couldn't you create a "Manchurian Candidate" candidate with something like this?

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The discussion at Metafilter referred to the "Stay Puft effect" meaning you might mistakenly think of pleasant things when you're supposed to bring up the bad memories, and therefore the good memories would be erased, too.

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Give me your pain.

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This makes absolutely no sense to me, unless you are the type of person who remembers one thing and only one thing at a time. I might remember burning myself as a child, which might be nice to forget. But, with that forgetting, will I also lose the memories of mom taking care of me, my best friend walking me home, siblings concerns, and all else associated and intertwined with that memory?
In short, this sounds like a tidy little basis for fiction, but maybe not so great otherwise.

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