It's time for our giveaway collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Can you tell us what this object is?
Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop!
Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?
For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Have fun and good luck!
Update: the scary-looking item is a "A corn husk shredder, it was used for making mattresses" It took 72 guesses before Julia Ross gave us the correct answer! The funniest answer selected was from D.Spencer, who said "It was attached to the inside wall of the outhouse and used to hold the sears and roebuck catalogue so that it wouldn't blow out when the door was opened on windy days." Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop!
Lesser of two weevils, m.
Large Bad Chewie
Flying Monkeys 2XL
(Of course, this one would only be used for really bad crimes, like... throwing cows or killing the bride's father on a wedding or illegal possession of a Holy Handgrenade of Antioch.)
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I Survived The Large Hadron Collider, Girls Fit S, please
yeeah just any shirt because i don't think i'm anywhere near the right answer
I can still remember the visit to the Cooperstown Farmer's Museum 35 years ago, and the pain of the fibers under my fingernails...
If I win, I'd like the MMMmmm.. Pi t-shirt...
Those were the days... :>
"Pointless Stories Are My Thing" in black XL
Clear Conscience Sign of Bad Memory: Size XL
ORLY Large Chocolate
abducted by aliens
large
navy
come to the dark side 2 xl
come to the dark side
(artist t)
Skull and Swords 2XL
come to the dark side 2 xl
The holes were used to attach the board to a stick or log that was placed so that the board would pivot. It was then placed in a hole and concealed. When you stepped on the part of the board closest to the camera, the thing would rotate, and stab you with the pointy bits. Wouldn't surprise me to find out that it was from the Viet Nam war.
Look Out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! 2XL dark grey
come to the dark side 2 xl
come to the dark side 2 xl
duh.
light blue, med., when life gives you mold.
Pillage First (2XL)
Often left out of historical descriptions, these were inserted near the feet in order to adjust for subjects of different heights.
Great Vocab Didn't Save The Thesaurus From...
I heart maths XL
Pointless stories... XL
For New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax and Phormium cookianum,)
i rpn heart, navy, xl
Neatoramabot XL grey Thank You
Get one and start making your kids learn things super-fast today!
If It Weren't For Physics and Law Enforcement, I'd be Unstoppable, 2XL, black. Please.
If I Only Had Some ... Braaains! shirt in 2xl in grey please.
Lawn Gegnome Project Large
O RLY? XL
Come to the dark side t-shirt size large
Also a possible cause for those pesky infant mortality rates.
(Caged heart, M)
*a Milton Bradley game
Strike A Pose, Navy, 2XL
How can I ignore you today? (ladies-m-grey)
neatoramabot women's M
Hip Hip Array, 2XL
Thesaurus T-shirt XL, please.
I'd Hit That (Golf) T-shirt L - please
Pirate Bear, Large, Ash Grey
Where the wood is somewhat charred they sometimes put candles.