It's once again time for our collaboration with the fantastic What Is It? Blog! Can you guess what the thing in this picture 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: the mystery item is a miner's plummet, the lighted wick was sighted with a transit by surveyors when doing layout work in dark mine shafts. Steve Pauk knew that, and wins a t-shirt for his efforts! The prize for the funniest answer goes to pismonque for this quip: "Commemorative souvenir torch necklace from the 1928 Summer Olympics. Didn’t really catch on because it tended to catch on." And we also found that everyone loves to say (or type) the words "plumb bob." Thanks to all who played this week! Find out the answers to all this week's items at the What Is It? blog.
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Particle Physics Insult, Ash Grey, Medium
Large
December L. M. (any shirt XL)
Hello My Name is McLovin. TShirt XL
Schroedinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Mens Choc Med
Cleverly Disguised as a Responsible Adult, XL
Cleverly Disguised as a Responsible Adult, XL
Cleverly Disguised as a Responsible Adult, XL
Arch Enemy - XL
Makers do it with tools. XL (...dark color?)
Cleaver/Stupid (Ambigram) XL
Neato Bot walking, XL
Better idiot, med
Or a really clumsy ball point
I May Not Be Totally Perfect XXL
When Worlds Collide - XL
Brainier than ther average bear XXL natural
Brainier than the average bear XXL natural
any schrodinger cat shirt
large
The few details I have found out is that it centers around Wall-E and Eve having a baby and trying to raise it. BAD or Bio-Automaton-Delinquent like all kids doesn't like his parents and runs-away. Traveling across time and space Wall-E and Eve search for him to convince him to come home. One of the stops he makes is in 1963 San Fransisco where he is chained up at Alcatraz.
Bloody Heart L
Stop Me Before I Start Making Sense - Black/Large.
Consciousness- XX large
Resurrection explained men's large ash grey
as an aside
pendulum for the next da vinci code
wanted dead and or alive schrodinger's cat
large
chocolate
T-shirt, Black , 'I'm not tense..'
because in wayback time they were made of lead - known as "plumbum" back then - hence the atomic symbol for lead - Pb - howsaboutthtat!
Scientific mole, L
I heart robots- Mens large
Star Trek Command T, Medium
Discombobulate 2Xl black
unicorn poop xl
I (heart) robots t-shirt
PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green
PB & Jellyfish, L, Serene Green
pink freud mens LG
pink freud mens LG
Depending on the rotation/movement - clockwise/counter clockwise/still, etc. you 'mentally' program it for your answers. If you want clockwise spin to mean "yes" then it is. You want it to mean "no" then it's no. Psychics use these quite often although I am a skeptic over the results since people tend to move their hands to make the pendulum move toward the answer they want.
pink freud mens LG
Who What Why - Owls (M, Light Pink)
Biology - Multiplication and Division
Unisex small black
Hip Hip Array - size L
An elegant ignitable bottle stopper for fine Molotov cocktails. The perfect gift for the discerning rioter.
pirate bear, xl, white
No shirt please.
That will show those bike riding witches!
xl unicorn poop.
Schroendingers Bet
Craig Clayton
pirate bear, xl, white
Tshirt: "There's a Fine Line Between Genius and Insanity," size Mens 2XL
Skull and Crossbones, red, XL
Pirate Rehab XXL
I was abducted by aliens. xl mens
large black battle damage
Schroendingers Bet T shirt XL
Asif
Schroedinger's Cat Trap, size M.
Imaginary Friend xxl navy
Lag Kills" Med. Black
Lag Kills" Med. Black
Schroendingers Bet T shirt XL
Craig Clayton
I Love You For Your Brains! M Ladies fit
Schroendinger Bet T Shirt Xl