What Is It? game 237

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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This is the prototype of the manual sonic screwdriver, with thumb-actuated trigger. The internal workings have been removed for other prototypes; as this model was considered impractical, the design feature known as the 'round things' can be clearly seen in future incarnations of the "Tardis", The Doctor's infamous TT Type 40 Mark 3 Tesselecta database
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An antique whack-a-whiffle mallet originally found in Chuck-E-Cheese restaurants back in the 80's. It never really caught on because whiffle balls didn't have a good enough weight to them when you smacked them. They changed over to Whack-a-moles shortly after.
Vitruvian Bats Men's Large
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The K-Tel Fast Action Pizza Pop Roller. This model allows you to make 8 pops at a time. It looks like heavy metal, but it's actually that styro-foamesque as-seen-on-tv pseudo plastic.

Kodama Sake XL
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It's an ear-horn for elder GI Joe's returning from their last tour against the Cobras. Made infamous by the little known by very svelte Grampy Joe.

Kodama Sake XL
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It's a summer pegleg for pirates, properly ventilated to ensure adequate airflow and with a hose attachment for sprinkler fun during pirate downtime.

Asterisk - Black Small
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Mercenary moles mobilize this borer/flamethrower mechanism to make scarce miscreant mice from their tunnels and burrows.
Pounce, XL Ladies Fit, Ice Blue
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You know how your hands can get really sweaty when you're using a tool for a while? This is just one wrench from the set of a mechanic that suffers from hyperhydrosis.

Best Friends in S, please.
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What a rare find! This is an Ancient Greek, Hephaestus-forged penis-enlarging pump. They say it is blessed by Aphrodite herself. Fun fact, it was once used by Hercules to defeat the Nemean Lion; while most stories claim the lion was strangled, in truth it was beaten to death with Hercules' bless'ed erection.

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