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What Is It? Game 50

Today's collaboration with What is it? Blog is special: it's the 50th game we've posted! To celebrate this milestone, we're giving away a Free Neatorama T-shirt to two winners: the first correct guess on what the object is for correctly, and the funniest (but wrong) guess!

Place your guess in the comment. One guess per comment, but you can place as many guesses as you'd like. Please post no URL, let others play. For more clues, check out What is it? blog.

Good luck!

Update 1/12/08 - here's the answer:

"Lok-un-lok" tool, it was used by the driver of a large car or truck to reach over and lock or unlock the passenger door.


Though no one got it right, I like Andy #19's creative guess - so congrats for winning the Neatorama t-shirt, Andy!

This is a non-sparking Porduk taphammer for adjusting wire spokes on zeppelin landing gear. Prior to landing the 2nd under-porter would inspect the wheels for trueness while suspended in a harrison rig. In 1925 a suspended under-porter became alarmed by a closely passing church steeple and dropped his taphammer from a height of 144 feet, killing a mule.

After this a new landing system was devised which exposed the aircraft to unknown hazards.
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its a failed champagne bottle opener design. you slide the open end under the cork and yank down on the other end. it makes it easier to open and keeps you a safe distance away from supersonic corks! :P
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Obviously it's used to harvest eggs from under hens. The hammer taps the egg out of the nest, while the hook part keeps the hen's legs out of the way.
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It is a stick to make sure that your man follows you wherever you want him to. Just hook it onto his nose, and , literally, lead him around but the nose.

His head won't be turning to look at any other girls anymore.
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It looks like an old tobacco pipe. They were made out of ceramic, and they were long like that so that after one person smoked from it, another could break of the end and keep smoking.
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Interesting observation - this was used (and useful) at a time when the locking studs on cars all had a knob at the end to make it easy to grab. Unfortunately, that knob also made it easy to grab with a wire forced through the window. At some later time, all locking studs were tapered to prevent that. (Anyonw know when?)
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