What is It? Game 18

Alex

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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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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I SO needed this for my cat Husie growing up. We kept track for 1 year of how many animals she brought home. It was over 230, and those were just the ones she showed us! The next people to own our land will think we were devil worshippers with the amount of bones in our compost pile out back. ;)
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*cat roams neighborhood*
*cat gets in fight with dog*
*dog scratches cats face*
*dog chases cat back to house*
*door doesn't recognize cat's face*
*cat runs smack into door*
*dog eats cat*

Poor kitty! :'(
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Im guessing Guyon didn't actually look to see how this worked. 'cause a scratch wouldn't change the cats profile silloutte enough. Perhaps if the dog bit off part of its face, but at that point, something tells me the cat wouldn't have made it back to the house anyhow.

No, i think the kitties will be fine.
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You have to understand the mind of a geek.

I mentioned this story to a friend of mine a few years ago. He is a scientist with Dynetics Corp. (worked on the M.O.A.B project, he was very stressed during those 3 months) and was currently working on an independent target acquisition system for individual bomblets.

His immediate response was to consider what system he would use to tackle the problem. I was certain I would see a new dog door next time I visited his house.
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