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What is it? Game 87

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Our weekly collaboration with the What is it? Blog brings us this mysterious object - can you guess what it is for?

Place your guess in the comment section. No prize this week, so you're playing for fame and glory only. Please don't post any URL - let others play.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog.

Update 1/9/09 - the answer: An Honor Box or English Tavern Tobacco Box from the mid 1800's, it could have been found in a bar where a patron would insert a coin and push the button to open the lid and, on his honor, take out just enough tobacco to fill his pipe.

Congrats to Shrike who guessed right!

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Randall IS the greatest! A few of these really made me chuckle (magic finger, disappointment/amusement box). Bwahahaha!

Congrats to Shrike who guessed right, though he posted a URL since there's no prize I guess it really doesn't matter ... ;)

Good of Admiral Ackbar to make an appearance!
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Reminds me of my childhood where we would pretend we were fighting aliens in the playground and use a string and cups as our HQ intercoms. Ah, good times. I think this is a great idea and it will sure as heck make the telephone company fix it.
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Why do you assume it was vandalism? The phone companies have been removing payphones like crazy over the last few years. This is how false information gets started going around... see your commenter says the phone company will fix it, so apparently is taking you at your word that it was vandalism. Journalists have an obligation to the truth...
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"Vandalism" is increasingly being used to describe interventionist art such as this - and as such the line between the two is being blurred, in favour of art; the more that efforts like this are described as vandalism, the less that future ones will be seen as *destructive* - and all will gain greater acceptance as a result.
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