It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what these things are? Or maybe you can amuse us with an entertaining wild guess!
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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Update: Berhard was the first in and had the right answer, too! These are caulking chisels used on a ship, specifically "the Great Lakes schooner Mary A. Gregory, c. 1900." They are now in a museum display. The funniest answer came from Straight Flush, the first of several who mentioned Wolverine, who said "They are cancerous tissue growth removed from Wolverine’s thoracic cavity, not to mention adamantium tissues .. duh!" Both win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! See the answers to all the mystery items this week at the What Is It? blog.
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It's normally not a bad gig. The captain hunts down the whales, then they get harpooned and tied to the side of the ship, then we hop down and start cutting free all the blubber a flensing blade. There's a blade to cut the blubber into strips, and when it's being pulled back there's another blade to help remove it from the rest of the body. Both blades are on poles, because no one likes to kneel on de-blubbered whale.
Norman is one of about a dozen other flensers on the Pequod. Usually I try to give him a wide berth, as he's a serial prankster with a penchant for outdoing himself.
I should have known to watch it that day, especially after I kept getting glimpses of that idiotic grin he wears right before a prank.
Anyway, there I am, pulling cutting away on a slab of blubber, when I take a step backward, and suddenly, I'm up to my neck in the side of a whale. I craned my neck to just enough to see an X cut where I've slipped through into the body cavity of the whale. I wonder where... Oh no! Then the smell hits me and I start yelling. I'm sinking fast, and thinking that I thought they smelled bad on the outside. Pretty soon, the only thing keeping me from disappearing entirely, is my death-grip on my flensing blade.
I'll spare you the rest, though if you're a sick-puppy, you can probably guess at the rest, since I'm alive to tell it.
The best part of the story, which I'll save for another day, is my stinking revenge on Norman.
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