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What Is It? game 182



It is once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Do you know what this object (not the quarter) is? Can you take a wild 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 each win a 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?

Check out the What Is It? Blog for more pictures of this object. Let your imagination run wild, and good luck!

Update: the object in question is a salt pulverizer, for breaking up salt in a shaker. You can see the patent sketches for it at the What Is It? blog. Strangely, no one guessed the correct answer. But a t-shirt from the NeatoShop goes to theoneoneandonly, who posited that this was for hurting parents' bare feet before Lego bricks were produced for the same purpose.

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I think it could be a device for storing fischerman`s hooks and or leaders ... (even thoug i can not see any wear aused by a fishing line)

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A stand for placing freshly painted or enameled goods for drying...

(even thoug i can not see any paint or enamel on the device)

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This is the original form of a tool now made of plastic that you place in the center of a pizza in preparation for delivery. Because pizza boxes have a wide surface area, there is a risk of something crushing the box down onto the pizza which can damage the enjoyment of eating it. Delivering mushed pizzas can also hurt the pizza companies image. I believe this dates back to the latter half of the 19th century.
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Around the turn of the century, a strange attraction was popular for an extremely short time: Mouse Circuses. These were created because of the flea shortage of 1908. Small circus acts were taught to mice. Mice arialists, high wire and slack wire walkers, diving mice, mice shot out of a tiny cannon, and most popular, the mouse strong man act. This is the barbell from that act, without the weights attached. Surprisingly, the demise of the mouse circus was not due to the arrival of cheap foreign fleas starting in 1910, but because of the "mouse doping" scandal of 1909, where it was discovered that many of the mice were using steroids. Every word is true. Except the ones that aren't.
"Oh no, it was Rocket Science" L, please
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It's a key for replacing cleats in sport shoes, i.e. golf cleats. The replaceable cleats have two or four 'female' notches to receive the prongs from the key and they are screwed into place.

"Shave/Rock" (M) chocolate
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Albert Einstein's hair curlers... unfortunately they tended to make his hair more messy than stylishly curled.

Geometry is for Squares, Light Blue, L
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It is a well used 'Plunge-Fork' for eating live eels. Its a bit of a acquired taste, but in Mibelsten Wisconson they still hold the 'Ael festivel' with four metric tonnes of eels being consumed by local and visitors. Mibelsten is also famous for being the setting for several urban legends about insane townsfolk killing travelers and satanic rituals. It doesn't appear on maps, but you can find it by asking around.

'Pointless Stories are my thing' XL Black
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I thik it could be the doohickey to be layed on the floor, for hurting parents stepping on it, before they invented these colorful interlocking plastic LEGO bricks...

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It's a victorian ear stud. Now naturally one would have to keep such radical appearance secret so they would tuck it under their powdered wigs when going out in public or to a fancy occassion.

Look out shroedingers cat - lrg - blk
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Back in the day, when there were no watches,they had portable Sun Dial. The Sun dial was crafted so you can balance it on the palm of your hand; it incorporates cardinal directions(little studs on the side),numbers that are located beneath the top part, and little metal legs that cast a perfect shadow on your hand.
Don't want to be late for the party !!!

Run Ewok Run!, M , Serene Green
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It's a type of knitting jig for knitting small tubes, especially the fingers of gloves.

Look Out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! in 2xl if I'm right. A large air of nothingness if I am wrong. :D
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