It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog, and this one is special: it's our 200th such contest! Can you guess what this 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 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 another picture, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!
Update: no one knew what the mystery item was (although quite a few came somewhat close). It's a saw oiler. Pulling the trigger released some oil to lubricate the saw. You can see the patent application sketch at the What Is It? blog. The funniest answer submitted was one of those close-but-no-cigar answers, from Randall.
It is a saw handle, useful for handling saws. Before its invention, using saws was very dangerous to the fingers, so people used trained beavers. This little invention put hundreds of beaver trainers out of work, and they congregated in Wisconson, drinking from dusk to midnight, then going out on 'Beaver-runs,' causing untold destruction. Finally, the Wisconson National Guard was called out and the hooliganism ended. Wisconsin is now known for its calmness and cheese.
So Randall wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop!
in case i won i would like „If You're Not Part of the Solution...“ S Ladies fit
Asif
T-shit -schrodinger Large male
med, navy, hippo potty mouth.
Med woman, navy, hippo potty mouth.
Office Guy Shirt and Tie, Small
Women's medium, Moebius Dick light blue
Brainier than the Average Bear, XXL.
large I heart You red
Med, women's, navy, hippo potty mouth.
carbon footprint 2xl black
pink freud mens large
Pointless Stories Are My Thing XL (Any Color)
Love Machine, Black, Large
When Worlds Collide, XXL
Busted! Size L, chocolate.
Here's Looking at Euclid
Run Ewok Run! T-shirt size male S Color Serene Green
R-2 Needs Love-2 T-shirt size male S Color Navy Blue
T-Shirt: Schroedinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Size: M (Men)
Spectroscopists Do It Until It Hertz - XL
Heart Attack! XL, Thanks
What happens at nana's xl blue.
What happens at nana's xl blue.
Love Machine, Large, Black
Twaggies XL
Unicorn poop, male xl
I believe it to be an Upholsterers tool.
" Two Neurons " XL
Pe@ce.
Heart Deco S
Tshirt, Green, XL half the people you know are below average.
"Come to the Dark Side . . . We Have Cookies" L Black
you can see the figure of an alien depicted at the section of the artefact that seems to be a kind of andle or grip.. The alien has two eyes no nose a mouth and a telekinetic organ in the middle of the forehead (and therefore needs no hands.)
The L-shaped ornament points to the home planet (or to the position of the orbiting mother ship), and the spaceship ornament on the left upper sind indicates the alien's spaceship withe the aureola of the alien spaceship pilot...
The only aspect still under examination is the alien spaceship registration number "105" at the radome of the spaceship ornament..
Or it is just Ford Prefect's "electronic thumb" from the "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy"...
I want to believe ... alien version 2XL.. Ladies fit
This isn't the life I ordered size M
t-shirt size XXL please.
When Life Gives you Mold, Make Penicillin
Ladies fit T-Shirt size small, please.