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What Is It? game 169



Get your thinking caps on -it's time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you have any idea what this contraption is? Can you come up with an interesting guess?

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. Good luck!

Update: Once again, the very first comment had the correct answer! Berhard knew the device is a stanchion, to hold cattle still for milking or veterinary procedures. The funniest answer was from Stephen Bishop, who said it was an early prototype for a mammogram! However, he didn't select a t-shirt.

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It seems to be a model of a stanchion, the metal head bails in dairy barns that lock the cows in place while they are e.g. milked. Just look at wikipedia for „Stanchion“

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It's a locking headrail for livestock (cattle) - cattle would stick thier heads in the openings(usually with some bribing of grain/corn, etc) and you'd pull the lever at the end to lock them in.

You'd lock them in so you can work with them more safely
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While it is a stanchion, as others have suggested, this small one is for castrating baby pigs. It was made as a 4H project by Horace Merriweather of Pott's Creek, Kentucky, in 1982. Horace unfortunately was castrated himself while demonstrating the device at the Kentucky State Fair, when--not paying attention to his surroundings--he was struck from behind by a shovel that had been kicked by the ornery bull in the stall next door. Very sad.

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Aaaaa! I clicked the link expecting to see something exotic, unfamiliar, strange. Instead, a good chunk of my childhood boredom of tending cows came crashing back. The only thing that saved me from getting yanked back to mindless tedium and feeling my forehead slam into my keyboard as I instantly dozed off was the fact that those stanchions in the picture are so darned CLEAN. I thought they came with layers of grime and rust on them out of the factory. Learn something every day.
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It's from a line of dance instruction devices. Attach it to your feet and it teaches you the Mashed Potato. (The Charleston device includes a series of pulleys.)

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It's a stanchion (an upright bar or post, often providing support for some other object, commonly used to hold animals in place while milking) for milking goats.
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This is a contraceptive device for teenage girls. It is clamped onto the thighs and while allowing enough movement for normal daily activities, it prevents the legs from parting sufficiently for "pregnancy-causing activities." It is also promoted as an effective anti-rape device. Made from modern stainless steel, it can be worn in the shower and will not tarnish the girl's petticoats. Completely undetectable, it is truly "The friend of parents with teenage girls!" Needless to say, it was also designed by committee...

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