What Is It? Game 63 - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange contraption: do you know what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, you're playing for bragging rights and fun only! For more clues, check out What is it? blog. Good luck!

Update 5/23/08 - the answer is:

A barrel maker's hoop lifter, lever hook, or hoop dog, it was used for stretching or levering a hoop over the top of the staves.

No one got it right!

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A brick carrier.

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oh maan! This is an Internal Hard Drive remover. See, when the HD gets stuck into the never opened rusted cabinet of our systems, we would need to pull it out with this. Our ancestors have known what the world would be in the next 500 years, so they made this as a precaution. I have written a journal about this too.

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It's for manual extraction of walrus tusks. They call it the Googoogajoob.

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Looks like something you'd kill a seal with. Sure I've seen it in old footage, something like that.

Whatever, it's a nasty looking bit of.. Whatever the hell it is.

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a nail clipper

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So you can't yell "fire" in a theater, because it will cause panic, but you can yell "gun" which will cause panic? Got it.

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What kind of gun did the woman think the old man had - a water pistol filled with urine or something?

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"Obviously with the recent shootings going on, just the mention of the word gun, I find it strange how on edge people seem, and how easily it can turn into a situation when the SWAT team comes out," said Bartlett.

This makes no sense at all.

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Okay we know "the pen is mightier than the sword", but is the p***s most threatening than the gun?

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See, THIS is why I don't go to movie theaters. The spilled soda on the floors is bad enough, but this?

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What about the woman, was she arrested or even questioned?

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Well, the old guy did have a weapon in his hand.

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