What Is It? game 186



It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what the pictured item is? Can you make up something interesting?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. 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: The mystery object is an anti-theft pocket watch attachment! When pulled by the chain the spikes would catch in the fabric of the pocket. You can see an explanatory graphic from the patent application at the What Is It? blog. The first commenter to give us the correct answer was kremer333, so he wins a t-shirt! The funniest answer was from The Professor, who wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop with this poem:

On Neato a picture that shows
A thingy that nobody knows
But this handy device
While it looks not so nice
Is great for just cleaning your nose!

Comments (56)

It looks like somethingt to knot into a fishing line...

It could be a kind of angler's weights with deployable claws.. „claw sinker“ or „grip sinker“

(maybe it is only a concersion kit for converting a standard sinker to a claw sinker.)

it seems like the spikes could retract when pushing the upper ring down..

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It still looks like somethingt to knot to a fishing line...

It could be a kind of automatic treble hook (event though it is lacking barbs)

it seems like the spikes deploy upon applying tension at the upper ring.

Maybe it schould be retractable for safety reasons. Maybe the claws of the hook are retractable to simplify the removal of the hook from the fish (which could be an expanation for the lacking of barbs..)

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It still looks like somethingt to knot into a fishing line...

It could be a kind bait hook (maybe even bait release mechanism) wherien the upper ring is connected to the fisching line and the lower ring may be connected to the fisch hook...

it seems like the spikes could retract when reducing the tension between upper and lower ring, (however this would requrire that a spring inside the device would be broken... )

At least i hope it is not for connecting a living bait fish to a fish hook .

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It's a WWII German SquirrelSpikken tactical acorn. Towards the end of the war, with ever decreasing numbers of soldiers, Hitler decided to recruit squirrels, who could move easily behind enemy lines carrying the ersatz acorns, which were spring-loaded and carried miniature poison-tipped spikes. The "Nutsy party" as it came to be known, proved to be ineffective since all they did was bury the weapons for retrieval in the winter.

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It is the first Version of the shrimp-like probe, the "bug" that crawled in to Neo's bellybutton in the first one of the "Matrix" movies... in a "standby" state...

zombie eat flesch 2XL
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it is a small version of a moored contact mine ... the spikes serve as fuses are for detonating a small amount of explosive within the hollow body of the mine.

It serves for environmentally friendly dynamite fisching, wherein the mine is connected to a fisching line and dipped into the water.

When a fisch contacts the spikes a small detonation will only kill the single fish and not all fish in a large area... (therefore environmentally friendly)..

The jester xxl ladie's fit
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It's an old line snarl-saver for fishing. It ties into the line near the leader, with the spike end of the device facing the hook or lure. The spikes are soldered to the post in the center, and the acorn slides along the post. If a fish pulls the line away from the fisher, the spikes are out and the line will get caught in whatever is available at the bottom of the lake or stream. If the fisher pulls the line towards themselves, the acorn slides and covers the spikes. They don't work as well in practice as they do in theory. But I have a dozen of them in my tackle box.

Brainier than the average bear, XXXL.
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Obviously it's a prototype trap constructed by Fat Cat to snare Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers.

Look out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! Large, please.
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Rocky the Squirrel is not going to like this !!!

This older device was marketed as "Squirrel Bait" for hunting squirrels, The hunter ties a piece of string to the acorn and waits for the squirrel to take the bait and then pulls the string and hooks the Squirrel through the mouth. Pretty rough stuff back in the day...

I'm Irish - I only look sweet and innocent (small)
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It's a tea ball. Put tea in ball and place in hot water. The spikes are to hold lemons or something to flavor the tea.

Skull Rider, XL, any color
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It's the "Acorn of Misery".

Only one was ever made. Hitler hated squirrels. Nazis would catch a squirrel on Hitler's property and then give the hungry squirrel the "Acorn." The rodent would try to open it but the nails would pop out and jab their little paws.

Then the Nazis would laugh at them! hahaha!! jajaja!!! They were very cruel, no?

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It's a tracking device. Arnold Schwarzenegger pulled one out of his nose in Total Recall.

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Who's Bringing The Chips? XXL
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An ancient Chinese device used to ensure chastity was retained in unwed females. The solution to the device (which was passed from the father to the new son-in-law) is similar in workings to the Chinese finger trap...... push, don't pull!!

-"I May Not Be Totally Perfect...", 2xl, natural
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A Victorian Husband Lure. Young ladies at a ball would cast one of these into a crowd of men hoping to snag a rich mate.

That's How I Roll, Serene Green, Ladies
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It's a garrucha interrogation device / 'confession facilitator' of the Spanish squirrel inquisiton. Used by the Order of the Jack Russell.

Love machine, men's large navy blue
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In case Bill's forgetting to include a shirt disqualifies him.....

This IS a pocket watch antitheft device.
Don't know about the 1925 patent, cause this one was around in the late 1800's.

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it is beyond doupbt a reusable suppository for long-term medication... the acorn shaped Body of the suppository can be unscrewd at the knurled section to fill it with medication. The filled reusable suppository is applied by a M.D. by inserting it in to the respective body cavity and to fix it to the intestines by deploying the spikes...
After a few weeks the M.D. may remove the reusable suppository by retracing the spikes into the acorn, remove it from a body cavity... Then it is ready to be cleand refilled to be reused..

The jester xxl ladie's fit
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One upon a time ago, there was an avocado farmer and his wife whishing nothing more than a child. One day the farmer's wife hrvested the avocados
when suddenly a big bug started to speak to her: "Your should be fulfilled, before you will give birth to a daughter." The prophecy became true.
The farmer's wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter. All avocado pickers where invited to the celebration of the babtism ceremony.
But unfortunately the farmer had 13 pickers but only 12 golden plates, so he decided to invite only 12 of the pickers.
But the 13th picker entered the church, very very angry, and said: the girl should prick herself on her 15th birthday and fall asleep for 100 years.
As time goes by the farmer forgot about the incidence and at the daughter´s 15th birthday he give her a necklace with a silver pendant showing an
advocado pit with 3 toothpicks in it, just how it is done to make the acocado pit sprout. On this pendant the daughter prick herself and fall asleep for
100 years. The item on the picture is the original pendant . It has been stolen by the Brothers Grimm and this Disney guy changing the story a little bit and called it
"Sleeping Beauty".

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This was used by "Secret Squirrel" ( cartoon character) to climb buildings,a rope was tied to one end and tossed over a ledge which it then became a grappling hook. The disguise enabled him to wear it a ring.
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A bead from an acorn rosary (https://rosarycard.net/RMSD132-Unique-Metal-Acorn-Bead-1-Decade-Rosary-p-16746.html). Twist the top, and the nails retract. But woe to the sinner!

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It's a Chatelaine piece, which is an object that hung on a broach (which is the actual "Chatelaine") onto which hung little accessories the lady of the house might need in her daily routine. This is a sewing needle holder.
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Pins used by cops to prick the bums of just caught convicts if found lying during interrogation.

Artist-Designed T-Shirts (Terminator Skull Blue) XL

Please ignore my previous entry as I had not put the T shirt preference.
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Its an acorn chastity belt. While the acorns are off fighting the squirrles, the chasity belt is the only defense against other maurading acorns.

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This is a "Frodilopitor"
These things were supposed to be classified !

Suffice to say, without one of these,
'Finnegans Wake' would never have been written.

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It is "Frank the Pug"'s (the smart-talking pug-like alien from men in Black 1/2) Emergency Space ship he wears at hit collar disguised as pet ID holder. He sliped a small inflatable emergency spaceship inside (similar to the Serleena's). Frank the Pug is a small alien contolling the Pug from inside the dog like earth-vehilce, wherein the four spikes are in fact the uninflated landing gear. if the locking pin at the upper side is pulled out the space shp starts to self-inflate...

I whisch i had one, too..

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