What is It? Game 20 - Neatorama

Our collaboration with What is It? Blog today is this object. Can you guess what it is? Check out What is It? for more clues ...

Place your guess in the comment section - post no URL, let others play, please. No prize this week (Congrats to SarahS, who won last week's game)

Update 4/20/07: The answer is:

Years ago some fences weren't made very well, and if you had an ornery bull or cow that kept getting out, they were made to wear an animal poke. It's difficult for them to climb or graze through a fence while wearing one of these around their neck. These are also used to stop horses from jumping over fences.

Lookd like no one got it right, although as usual Randall came up with a very creative answer!

Comments (19)

Shooting stick. You take it out with you, use it as a walking stick, and can sit on it to rest, (maybe).....

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It's a hands free crutch. Wrap the strap around your chest like a bandoleer and hobble around with your hands free to, you know, do hand stuff.

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For tying up your horse in the country. Stick it in the ground and use the loop for the reins?

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Whoops! It's 40 inches long:(
I take that back, find a tree!

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It's a pogo stick made by a company that went out of business very quickly.

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a wooden banana?

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It is a polo mallet. The loop is so you don't drop it.

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It's a jar opener. Put the lid in the loop, move the stick over the top until the "T" grabs the lid and turn with leverage.

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It is for planting seeds. You push down on the T-bar and then pull it out by the strap.

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It looks like an old sponge mop, and you pull the string band thing to squeeze the water out of it..

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Definitely some exotic variety of banana.

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maybe it's for prying up rocks?

you grab the handle and the strip and lever stuff up.

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A boot puller.

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It's fro washing the windows on tall buildings. The strap is there so you can't drop it.

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Its a Corbling mallet. In some New England states it was called a Blemble hammer, but they did this just to be obstinate. It was used to knock crimples off gnomp blocks and to bruise the exposed shimths. This work was so monotonus that machines invented to replace humans doing this work would rust away within a few months. The entire industry collapsed when it was found that shimth butter not only has no nutritional value but is mildly toxic.

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It's a combination Squeegee/slingshot. Homeless people can take it up to cars, asking "Can I clean your windows for a quarter?" If the driver refuses, the homeless guy just loads a rock into the slingshot portion and asks his question again. If he's refused a second time... Well, no one's cleaning that window now! Hah!

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Looks like some sort of S&M toy. Anyone want to play horse? ;P

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Pipe wrench! Grease the threads with shimth butter first.

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I have a tool nobody has ever been able to identify. Anyway I can post it to have you guys take a shot at it?

Thanks!!

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