Today's collaboration with What is it? blog brings us this strange-looking object. Can you guess what it is for?
Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, you're playing for fame and glory only. Please post no URL to let others play.
Don't forget to check out What is it? blog for more clues!
Good luck!
Update 9/5/08 - the answer: A steak tenderizer, patent number 525,595, the plates pivot so that they can be cleaned, they can also be removed to sharpen the teeth. No one got it right!
When the great depression came people would go without eating lunches for a week rather than suffer the humiliation of having strangers snigger and say 'Getcha Rickle, yer butt's matted!' It is reported that some victims have resorted to suicide.
Remember kids, theft is the coolest crime there is.
...I would use it.