W00t! It's time for another collaboration with the always-excellent What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this strange object is used for?
Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Please do not post any web link or URL - doing so will void your entry. You have until the answer is revealed on the What Is It? Blog tomorrow.
Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong one will win a T-Shirt from the NeatoShop.
IMPORTANT: Please write your prize selection alongside your guess, so visit the NeatoShop and take a look around. If you don't write your prize selection, then you don't get the prize. I think you'll like the selection of funny t-shirts and science t-shirts -or even t-shirts of your favorite blogs and websites.
For more clues, go to What Is It? Blog. Good luck!
Update: the mystery object is a 35mm film leader retriever, used to retrieve film that has been accidentally wound into the cassette. Berhard was the first with the correct answer, so he wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer came from The Professor, who said "This is a nitpicker, designed to extract tiny slivers of controversy from the finest cracks in logic." That's an answer that deserves a t-shirt! Thanks for playing, everyone. You can see the answers to all the mystery items of the week at the What Is It? blog.
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Inside every older person XL
Schroedinger's Cat: It's a Trap!, Ladies' Medium
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Powered by Caffeine XL
Keep calm and fly casual, XL Black
Out of Bubblegum XL blue
xl the dark side of that's no moon
Keep calm and fly casual, XL Black
Keep calm and fly casual, XXL Black
also provided with a footrest for a second kid taking a ride on the bicycle rack
Usually combined with a playing card reaching to the spokes..
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2xl suggested colour
11th quotes XXL
Vitruvian Bats Men's Large
-Here's Looking at Euclid / 2xl
Any tee: dealer's choice.
Pounce, XL Ladies Fit, Ice Blue
Best Friends in S please.
Kodama Sake XL
Kodama Sake XL
Kodama Sake XL
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ladie's fit size m suggested colour
Rising King xl
-- I Heart Science XL, Black
Replace your car's exhaust with this and sound like Scotland as you drive !
Refuse Tyranny Obey Cthulhu
Large
Powered by caffeine- medium please.
Asterisk - Black Small
Pounce, XL Ladies Fit, Ice Blue
xl/dealer's choice
4xl Kwisatz Haderach, brown
Best Friends in S, please.
Serenity Service and Repair Manual , lg,
You got the mask - XL
Made in America with Irish Parts (Ash Gray, XXL)
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Ladies Fit: M, Navy