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.
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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 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..
zombie eat flesch 2XL
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..)
the Jester 2XL ladie’s fit
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 .
zombie eat flesch 2XL
Skull and Swords T-Shirt 2XL
zombie eat flesch 2XL
A thingy that nobody knows
But this handy device
While it looks not so nice
Is great for just cleaning your nose!
Narcoleptic Bee S
No smoking advice for a caterpillar, S
I'd like Zombie: Eat Flesh if I'm right, please.
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
Brainier than the average bear, XXXL.
What happens at Grandma's Stays.... XL blue.
Look out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! Large, please.
(Archaeologists Do it in the Dirt size M)
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)
Skull Rider, XL, any color
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?
Pirate's favorite amino acid size L
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Who's Bringing The Chips? XXL
-"I May Not Be Totally Perfect...", 2xl, natural
can't choose, luv em all, so anything in a XXL would be cool
Neatoramabot ash grey large
That's How I Roll, Serene Green, Ladies
s morningstar.
Hip, Hip Array, 2XL, Navy
Love machine, men's large navy blue
This IS a pocket watch antitheft device.
Don't know about the 1925 patent, cause this one was around in the late 1800's.
abducted by aliens
large
navy
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
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
What happens at Grandma's Stays.... XL blue.
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".
Come To The Dark Side - We Have Cookies XXL ladie's mfit
protect your nuts 2 xl
shirt: Pink Freud size xl
paddle faster XL
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
The Original Keyboard Cat - Ash Gray - L
2XL
Artist-Designed T-Shirts (Terminator Skull Blue) XL
Please ignore my previous entry as I had not put the T shirt preference.
Family Smamily L
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
These things were supposed to be classified !
Suffice to say, without one of these,
'Finnegans Wake' would never have been written.
Schrodinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large
I whisch i had one, too..
May the Fork Be With You xxl ladie's fit