What Is It? game 328 - Neatorama

Now it's time for our collaboration with the awesome What Is It? Blog! What is this thing? You don't have to know to win!

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. You might know the true answer, but we're going to select two winners who come up with the funniest, most outlandish guesses to win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop. However...

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 another picture of this thing at the What Is It? Blog. The let your imagination run wild! Good luck!

Update: This tool is a seed stripper for harvesting grass seed, according to the What Is It? blog. Y’all came up with much better answers, even if they aren’t right. One of the best came from xenu34, who said it was “a food trough for goats that are on a diet. When they get too fat, their stomachs get poked by the sharp spikes and discourage over-eating.” Great answer, but xenu34 did not select as shirt as a prize. The other funniest answer was from Jaguarfeather, who declared it “A fine folk art example of an Italian spaghetti harvester. Just run the serrated scoop through the spaghetti trees to remove the ripe pasta.” That reminds me of one of our favorite April Fool pranks. And it wins Jaguarfeather a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! Thanks to everyone who entered, and thanks to the What Is It? blog.

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Hagrid's salad fork pictured beside his garden/lunch

M.C. Heisenberg, XL, Black

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It's a lice comb for a wooly mammoth, very rare these days.

Princess Diana - Small

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Used to separate hobbit's toes when they get their hair cut...

Pulp Fiction: The Preacher
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One of the tools that is used to clean up after political debates.

Pulp Fiction: The Preacher
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A fine folk art example of an Italian spaghetti harvester. Just run the serrated scoop through the spaghetti trees to remove the ripe pasta.

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Offworld Colonies -- Black -- XL

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Young kids quite quickly pick up some of the basic aspects of things like graph theory, set theory, and even abstract algebra in the right contexts. I've seen multiple mathematicians speculate that teaching such topics more and at much younger ages could raise both kids interests in math and their long term prospects in pure math. The issue is that for 99% of people these math subjects have no direct practical use (still great mental exercises in multiple ways though), and some efforts to teach such subjects in the past did so at the expense of more practical arithmetic and applied math that people need in today's world. While I'm all for kids exploring topics for sake of interests or to help improve abstract thinking, the basics still need to be covered.

But with the way math is taught in most schools now, the closest most get to pure math is a proof-centric geometry course (which some like much more than a cookbook algebra course), and those that trying to go more heavily into math in university hit a wall with an abstract algebra course that weeds out a large number of people from math programs.

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