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What Is It? game 269

The question is: what is it? It's time for our collaboration with the fascinating What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is? You can win even if you don't know!

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 each win a 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?

Check out the What Is It? Blog for more clues and pictures of the mystery object. Good luck!

Update: the pictured tool is a spoke wrench, suitable for holding pieces of wire or as a spoke-grip for screwing up the spokes of suspension wheels, such as are used in bicycles and other light vehicles. Steve Pauk knew what it was, and wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer of the week was from Paul D., who said it was a Higgs Boson. We've been looking all over for that, haven't we? Paul also wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Thanks to all who participated, even if you just gave a heart. See the answers to all the mystery items of the week at the What is It? blog.


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Its the key that turns off the endless looping voices in my head begging me to nightly give myself a ben-gay enema. Only make that mistake once...

lederhosen tshirt xl
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It's an early gyroscope for boats. The little doodad in the middle is a level. If the bubble is on the right, everybody lean right. If the bubble is on the left, everybody lean left.

I Heart Science, Black, XL
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It's the only piece left after the famous burning of the libraries in Alexandria. It's a shelf bracket that was in a maintenance man's hand as he ran out of the building.

I Heart Science, Black, XL
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It's a caliper used in Roman times as they were practicing their famous shield-to-shield phalanx formation. The officers would measure the distance between each head using this tool.

I Heart Science, Black, XL
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It's a section of track from an old Hot Wheels Monorail set. Mattel quickly discontinued that product line as kids never really grasped the value of mass transit.

et tailwhip,xl
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It was a tool used to measure the "Angle of the Dangle". But it was rendered obsolete when it was discovered that the "Motion of the Ocean" was a more important unit of measure.

Dick and Bruce, Silver, 2XL
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Its a boomerang for an OCD Australian, or anyone else that uses a boomerang and has OCD, because even their throws have to be perfect and level.

When Worlds Collide, L
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The first Hotwheels ramp released in 1895. It includes a futuristic hovering horseless carriage from the year 2000. It was not popular upon release because it was too ahead of it's time.

Uncle Venkman, L
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This is a quality of life graphing instrument. One places the bubble at the top indicating ones current time. Then the bubble is released and its final location determines if ones quality of life increases or decreases over time.

Obey Gravity L
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This custom leveling unit is used by big bankers and other one-percenters to make certain they retain the advantage of an unlevel playing field.

[ Offworld Colonies, Black, XL ]
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Bear with me here. You know those ramps they have at the bowling alley for kids and others who can't heft a bowling ball? Well, same thing here, but for people who can't use a cue stick on a pool table.
Okay, it may not be all that funny but I could be on to something here....

et tailwhip,xl
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This is an old 1920s-era zoetrope type of device. When you look through the eyepiece and slide it along the track, you see a nice young flapper woman doing something just unthinkable. Geez, what was the world coming to?

et tailwhip,xl
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An early prototype of a future self propelled boomerang that ran on kinetic energy. Just vigorously run the slider on the track and then be amazed!

Another Castle, Navy xlg
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