What is It? Game 18 - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange metal object - for dimensions and another photo from a different angle, check out: What is It? Blog.

Guess what this strange object is and win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt! Place your guess in the comment section, but please, post no URL - let others play. The answer will be revealed tomorrow!

Update 4/6/07: The answer is ... nutcracker!

Nutcracker, placed on the knee when seated, a nut is set in the hole and then struck with a hammer. In the winter, these were warmed by the fire before using.

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Looks like Bill Clinton to me.

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wait a minute.where is your evidece, your expert museum person . where is the photo of another. Sorry ,it's a nutcracker is not enough. what kind of nut? acorn? brazil ,pecan how about a pistachio or a delious filbert i think maybe not

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The answer is ... nutcracker! No one got it, although Kev #13 was close in that he identified it was put on a knee.

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A welding mask for a giant cyclops?

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is it an iron nipple?

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I'm ~40 miles outside of Newark NJ, which is where it identified me; I'd say it did a pretty good job.

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I'm a native Chicagoan, and this tried placing me as being from New York or Boston.

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It put me either in Newark or eastern Florida...neither of which accurately represents, in any sense, where I actually live. XD (In fact, I live in the deep Southwest.)
That said, I moved around almost constantly as a kid, and went to school in Missouri, so I've been exposed to so many dialects that I can use 'sunshower' and 'sneakers' on one hand, and then turn around and use 'y'all'.

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It put me in Rochester NY. Not bad considering I'm from Syracuse. I think that folks who have moved a lot might get skewed results.

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I'm sittin' in Oklahoma City right now, just visitin' fer Chrissmiss, and sher enough, that dang ol' computer predicted that I'm around the Oklahoma City/Tulsa area. Guess that means I've binn here too long.

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I'm gob-smacked [closet Anglophile] the map located me between Fresno and Bakersfield [CA]. I always thought Californians didn't have accent/dialect.

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The quiz placed my speech from northwestern Georgia. That's reasonable.

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