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What Is It? Game 49

W00t! It's time for this week's collaboration with What is it? Blog. For this game, the first of the year 2008 (and because I missed most of last month's), let's make this extra fun: Guess what this strange contraption is for and win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt!

Two ways to win: 1) the first correct guess and 2) the funniest/most creative (but wrong) guess!

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment and please post no URL (let others play). You can submit as many guesses as you can think of. For more clues, check out What is it? Blog.

Good luck!

Update 1/4/08 - the answer is:

Phone booth key, it's one of the two keys used to get the money out of the phone.


Congratulations to AliBaba007, who got it right first, and to Carl from Santee, for the funniest/most creative (but wrong) guess:

It looks to me like a brass, face guard for a one-eyed, gladiator owl. It’s been flattened of course.

Is it for tightening braces, maybe a fixed expander (the sort of braces used on the top of a person's mouth to broaden their palette)?

If not, I suspect something to do with a musical instrument.
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I'll guess that it's a key for a watchtour system. A security guard would carry it around and have to use it in several devices along his route to prove he had been there when he was supposed to.
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It is a Fenk Key. This key isn't inserted into a clock to wind it but rather the clock is placed upon the key and rotated while holding the key between your knees. Only three Fenk clocks are known to exist in the hands of collectors, and they can't pass them off to any suckers because every horologist of any measure knows a Fenk and would dash it to the floor immediately.

Christine Fenk, the clock inventor and manufacturer converted his clockworks to manufacture firearms, but tragically died while test firing the first Fenk revolver.
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Well of course all of your guessers so far are either lucky or lying about not knowing what this is for. It is of course a syphallus clearing tool. The the paddle end is inserted and turned vigirously to do the clearing and the hole on the handle is used to guage if the opening is back to normal.This particular model is rather obviously the short version or the Kentucky correcter as it is generally known.Warning...do not try this at home folk. This should only be used by a registered professional.
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This is a pay phone "T" key. It is used in conjunction with the upper and lower lock and key sets to open and close the upper housing and the vault door on a pay phone. (It helps open the pay phone coin box.) Of course that's just a guess.
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It's a plumber's anti-crack tool when he's on a job. Simply insert it into the crack, and the 'teeth' keep it from slipping out. The hole does several functions:
1. For keeping it handy on a self winding key ring
2. copper/pvc pipe sizer
3. used to bend copper pipes
4. hammer
5. the key end is used to clear clogged pipes
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This belongs to a homeless person. The homeless person puts the coins he gets in the hole, just for fun. The other side is to swat flies.
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Is it a light switch key? (The janitor in my old High School used one to operate lights in the hallways; which were designed to stop tampering with the switches)
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Actually it is an object used by women to strenghten the muscles of their pelvic area.
They hold it tight between their lips with the little hook sticking outward.
Then they walk around while pressing their lips together so the object does not fall to the floor.
If the muscles grow stronger they hang increasing weights on the hook (like keys, or a towel, or anything they want)
As a man I can say: it's an object no woman should be without.
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I think ya'll have the scale wrong, each one of these is only a half inch across. This is one of many small bubble blower helicopters. a series of them are attached to a stick the size of a large emory board with the little part on the bottom being the attachment point (much like those tiny pieces for building model airplanes). You dunk the stick (with maybe a few dozen of these on it) into some bubble blowing solution and then you spin it really fast in your hand and all the little helicopters detach and fly outwards and the tiny hole makes bunches of microbubbles as the helicopters spin towards the ground. Fun for kids of all ages!
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