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What is it? Game 123

Alex •

Whoa, I turn around and it's already time for our weekly collaboration with the always excellent What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange tool above is for?

Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong guess will win T-shirts from the Neatorama Shop. You have until the answers are posted in the What is it? Blog.

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

Congrats to Doug Fallon who guessed correctly in the last What is it? Game 122, and to Declan ("the devastator"), Digma03 ("Iron Man's Whisk"), and kminks ("Medieval Purple Nurple device") for the funniest guesses.

Update 1/16/09 - Congrats to wkb who got it right, and to Tim Giachetti who made me chuckle with his entry of ... you'll have to see it for yourself!

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Neat concept, but confusing purpose. I know there's a lot of vending machines to blend in with, but wouldn't it be better to just run than to stand around setting that up?
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Heh heh heh, I heard about this on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" a few weeks back. It's a serious invention, MikeG, made for easily frightened women (the inventor invented it for herself first). The Japanese are just weird.
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I too heard this on Wait Wait, and simultaneously could and could not believe it. I liked the remark, "supposedly a would-be attacker would walk right by and not notice her... unless he was thirsty."
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Yeah, I could've sworn I've this on Neatorama before. Or maybe it was mental_floss...

Either way, I guess inventions like this will have to do 'till we can invent invisibility cloaks.
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If a woman can temporarily out-distance a mugger while wearing that skirt, and still have time to find a place to stand and set herself up as a faux soda machine, why even bother with this?
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"While British women might prefer to take self-defence classes, Ms Tsukioka said: "It is just easier for Japanese to hide. Making a scene would be too embarrassing."

Wow.
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@Katey: Yeah, running for your life is embarrassing! If I don't have a giant cola costume at hand, I just break into an interpretive tree dance and then start squawking out Morse code for "Help, Police" like a deranged parrot. Embarrassment crisis averted.
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ROFL violet. I could totally imagine someone doing that while the would-be mugger stands by looking confused ehehehehehehehe... cracking me up......
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