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What Is It? Game 143

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Hooray! It's time to play our weekly guessing game in collaboration with the What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the strange (and menacing) tool above is used for?

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest albeit wrong one win T-shirts from the NeatoShop. Please do not post any URL or web link. You have until the answer is revealed sometime tomorrow.

IMPORTANT: Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't, then you forfeit the prize, mmkay? So head on over to the NeatoShop (may I suggest the Funny T-shirt and the Science T-shirt sections?)

For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update 7/6/10 - the answer is: A cork remover, patent number 1,213,452, which states:

By then imparting a gradual rotating movement of the bottle with respect to the extractor, or of the extractor with respect to the bottle, the stopper will be moved in a circular direction in the bottle neck and such rotation will readily free the stopper as the tendency of the latter is to move outwardly during such rotation.

Jonnathan got it right, but didn't choose a prize. Congratulations to Meg (the FLASH!) who needle felting during the Inquisition.

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Marquis De Sade's belly button lint remover.

"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure, and there is no greater joy in life than that of a clean belly button"

-Marquis De Sade

friend/enemy ambigram large please
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After the Big Friendly Giant fell asleep in China, he was awakened by a peculiar itch in his ear. Upon further investigation, it was found to be a panda.
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Once Bai Yun learned to read Sanskrit, it was all downhill from there. Due to the resultant orthopaedic issues, pandas at the San Diego Zoo will now have their literary pursuits limited to those of the more puritanical variety.
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Sick of being beholden to the ruling chimpanzee elite, pandas at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo formed a Nunjutsu clan. Here we see Huan Huan practicing the ancient art of concealment as he prepares to ambush Bobo the Terrible.
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After the controversy surrounding allegedly under-age Olympic gymnasts, Chinese trainers decided to shift their efforts to an entirely different species altogether...
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Once upon a time, Panda had white face. His mother, Xin Xin, told him many times, "Do not climb tree little Panda, for you will spoil your beautiful face." Still Panda insisted upon climbing trees, for it was his very favorite thing to do. One day, he found himself alone by the Great Tree while Xin Xin went to gather leaves for their dinner. Though he had climbed lesser trees, the Great Tree was heretofore unchallenged by any in the land. Despite the admonitions of his mother, Panda was overwhelmed by the thought of being the first to conquer such a fantastic height. He would be famous throughout the forest and would surely be revered for his greatness.

And that, children, is how Panda got his black eyes.
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