What Is It? game 238



Once again, it's time for our collaboration with the always fascinating What Is It? Blog. Do you know what this thing is? Or can you make an amusing wild guess?

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?

See more at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the pictured object is the first U.S. patented ice pick, number 15,483. The very first commenter, Galen, knew the answer, and wins a t-shirt! The funniest answer came from pismonque, who guessed it to be the original Shake Weight, quite popular in the 19th century until someone put his eye out (which barely beat out "binary abacus," also from pismonque). So pismonque wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Thanks to everyone who played this week. Find out the answers to all this week's mystery items at the What Is It? blog.


I think it's some sort of liquid gauge. Something to measure how much liquid is left in a container. The round thing looks like a floater.

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I believe this could be used to tie off the ends of a badmittin net when it is setup on the lawn for a Sunday afternoon game . or the string at a fair ground to mark the exhibit limits.

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This was the cast-iron ball-spear developed in the early part of the eighteenth century. The idea was to hunt by throwing the spear like throwing a ball. Christians in the west thought it would be the perfect alternative to guns. Stupid christians.

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