What Is It? game 306

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?

See more pictures of this strange thing at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: it's an apple parer, corer, and slicer, patent number 122,553. Several people knew that, but we're looking for the funniest answers. Phil and Buster had a good one: "This, to me, looks like a bean extractor. The child is told the end-piece is a fragrant flower. Upon sniffing, the extractor is slowly inserted and rotated to acquire the bean. Once extracted, the child is usually left none the wiser." Once I realized he was talking about the child's nose instead of the ear, it made sense! Then marcintosh also had a great story about a prototype automobile that you need to go here to read. Both win T-shirts from the NeatoShop!

See all the answers for this week's What Is It? items at the What Is It? blog.

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Apple pealer corer but also pie shape cuts it.

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Beat me to it too.

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They haven't changed much, and work really well. http://www.preserveshop.co.uk/images/apple-peeler-and-corer.jpg

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Salvador Dali's belly button lint remover. (Currently in a private collection).

Indiana Mouse
large

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Mechanical representation of the essence of a lawyer.

fear vegas
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grey

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Spark plug.

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Broken.

National Sarcasm Society - Like We Need Your Support in XL.

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Ceramic Power Line Insulator (Broken)
Look Out Schrodinger's Cat, It's a Trap! (XL)

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Humpty Dumpty, after his great fall.
Neatorama Metal- M

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Bonomo Turkish Taffy power line insulator.

Lag Kills" Med. Black

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The rubber off my headphones or iphone charger cable... because that stuff comes off so easily.

Schrodinger (XL)

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.- -... .-. --- -.- . -. - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. .... .-.. .. -. . .. -. ... ..- .-.. .- - --- .-. ..--..

Don't Make Me Send Out The Flying Monkeys!
ladies fit 2xl black

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If you look carefully on the side you will see a small ( J ) this is one of the very common letters on Spark Plugs J4C. This fits lots of small engines like Briggs.

Seqret Cat XL

Craig Clayton

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Just a dirt road with some
porcelain roadkill...
Motivation 2XL dark grey, as suggested

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It looks like an insulator for overhead electrical wires, after falling off and shattering.

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Ninja rocks.

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Little known fact: The original McAdam (blacktop) road surfaces came in two styles. Creamy and Crunchy. This is a sample of the latter.

International Incident 2XL

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It's my hopes and dreams after 25 years of marriage and kids..

I Flunked Anger Management XXL

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It's my hopes and dreams after 25 years of marriage and kids.

I flunked anger management XXL

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Broken sparkplug-called "ninja rocks" supposedly thrown at a window to break it.
XL grey

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skull rider, size large

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My best friend, Herb the pig, once bet me that he could open a bottle of Rochefort with his brand new ceramic crown premolar. I accepted. He lost.

And the Rochefort was still delicious.

Koala, L, Kelly Green

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Explosive nuts from space program Scienct T XL

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The teeth that were swept up after a Rock 'em Sock 'em robot fight.
Never Grow Up -Large Black

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Dropped Flux Capacitor.

A.S.A.P.F. - Large

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What question isn't "What was it," it's "What is it?" 'What it is' would would be pieces of broken ceramic or ostrica, once used to ostracize people that the democracy of Athens felt were a danger to the state. Each citizen had one vote. They would write the name of their intended victim on such a shard of ceramic and place it in a voting box. The person with the most votes was ostracized. The most famous citizen of Athens to meet such a fate was General Themistocles who had saved Athens from the Persians just a few years before.

Unpredictable Swing Voter Ladies Med.

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Dandruff from hell.

A.S.A.P.F.

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This is what's left of my toilet-bowl after eating Taco Bell's new "Thunder Down Under Taco."
My T-shirt choice is... oooooooo noooooooo! Back in a minute!
... Animal Lover XL...
Help! I'm running out of toilet bowls!

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Ceramic from a spark plug that lost its spark and was beaten because of it.
I failed anger management XL
:-)

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The remnants of my grandmother's gravy boat, which I broke 20 years ago, but still hear about every-freakin-Thanksgiving when someone says, "Pass the gravy, please." At least that is what I think they are saying. I'm still at the kid's table.

Chilled Monkey Brains - XL

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That is the latest failed rocket test out of North Korea.

Schroedinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Mens M choc

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"ninja rock" very hard fragments of broken spark plug ceramic insulator, thrown at car windows to break them silently for burglary. Actually classified as burglary tools in some jurisdictions.

support cloning XL

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Something else to cry over.

motivation mens large

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Culturally, white is associated with holiness, goodness, purity and innocence.

I expect it to be a piece of modern art, expressing the end of innocence...

I Heart 8bit computer games... black size m Ladies fit

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Part of my broken glass/ceramic 20+ years collection to someday mosaic with. And yes, I've moved it to and from several houses and apartments over those 20+ years. No, I still do not know how to mosaic and I no longer care for the look.

National Sarcasm Society, 2X.

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So who won game 252?

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