What is It? Game 34 - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange device - can you guess what it is? More clues at the What is it? blog.

Place your guess in the comment section, but please post no URLs - let others play! No prize this week, you’re playing for bragging rights only.

Update 8/24/07: It's a fish scaler - congrats to Eosha #1 who got it right, right away!

It's a fish scaler.

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Its a chess piece warmer. If you don't like having cold chess pieces, you simply insert them into this machine and put hot coals underneath it. Then your chess pieces will be toasty warm, perfect for winning with.

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The paddle from Hell?

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Drill bits holder?

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A bit set for metal stamping?

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A device to fine tune an instrument?

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Its a heated windshield ice scraper

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combo socket set + plastic putty/spackle knife

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Socket wrench bit holder

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I believe that must be an instrument of torture.

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Its a Poldyne tuner wrench master socket set. Although those small square things (Poldyne wrench socket heads)look similar, each is manufactured to a specific gravity and harmonic imbalance. Without a complete set you can never get your poldyne drive properly attenuated and then you'll be stuck on some desolate alien planet forever. Believe me.

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Itâ€™s a fish scaler.

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a key to an ancient Inca temple.

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A device for removing many lug nuts at the same time

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meat tenderizer.

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It sorta looks a bit like a very painful S&M toy. Brrr!

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It's a key for opening a complex lock.

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It's a screwdriver for opening the next-gen Xbox - Microsoft have given up on software DRM and have resorted to hardware security now.

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To me, it looks like it's a type of screwdriver for a proprietary screw with many inlets in the head instead of a slot- or cross-shape to fit into with a standard- or philips-type screwdriver.

Or, a fish scaler.

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It looks like a magnetic fishing game for boring people.

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It is definitely a combination of a spatula and a backscratcher, cause don't you just hate it when you're cooking, and have a spot you can't quite itch?

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A monkey?

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it's a fish descaler. I saw this thing floating around my restaurant for months before i inquired about it. Nasty funky lil thing it is

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It's not just your run of the mill fish scaler, it's a "Magic" fish scaler.

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It's a flower press (I GIVE UP!)

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a wrench for removing floor drain covers?

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I dunno what it is... but if does half the stuff everyone says it will... I'll take 8.

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Waffle maker + flipper

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