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What Is It? game 309

Hey look! It's time for our collaboration with the wonderful What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is? It doesn't really matter if you do, because we are looking for the funniest guesses. You can win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! But first, read the rules:

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 who submit funny and/or clever (albeit ultimately wrong) answers 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?

There are more pictures of this thing, and other mystery items of the week at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the object in question was never authoritatively identified, and even the What is It? blog doesn't know what it is. That doesn't keep us from awarding prizes, because we were looking for the funniest guesses! Rubinsky said it was a Peppermint Patty trap. "Down on the farm, those little choco-minty delights would be zipping around all over the place at blazing speed, and the only way to catch one was to use this device." Randall told a story about it:

Remember POGS? This is 'the' pog press. Remember how many of them there was, there were millions, they were everywhere. All of them came from this damn press. This is the only one. I worked the midnight to eight shift, 3.75 an hour. Seventeen months in Minot, North Dakota, pressing pogs. Damn Damn Damn.

So Rubinsky and Randall both win t-shirts from the Neatoshop! See the answers to the other mystery  items of the week at the What Is It? blog.


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Clearly it's an early model York Peppermint Pattie trap. Down on the farm, those little choco-minty delights would be zipping around all over the place at blazing speed, and the only way to catch one was to use this device.

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An incubator for butterfly eggs and chrysalis... On the shelf you may store the chrysalis, while the butterflies may hatch inside the glass cabinet. The glass cabinet may protect the butterflies from being disturbed or eaten by birds or laboratoy cats...

In the bowel on the left buterfly food may be stored to be able to feed the newly hatched butterflies with honey or nectar.

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This is cat liquor cabinet. Back before the pet prohibition amendment, you could drink alongside your pets. Small bottles of rum and scotch as well as mixers could be stored on the shelves with the "top shelf" stuff locked up in the right. The built in mixing/drinking bowl was an optional accessory to these cabinets.

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Home smoking pipe storage and refill station. English gents would hang the hat on the bamboo, tap pipe ashes into the bowl, attractively display the pipe on the rack, and refill from the humidor on the way to the autobus the next morning.
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Action Figure in the Cupboard Reeducation Camp. Select rebellious action figure or minifig from the display rack, place or hang inside the cabinet, lock door, wait for ensoulment. The figure can view reeducation videos or literature through the windows while inspirational recordings play through the four holed speaker. Threaten figures with a dip in the bowl of acetone if resistant. Drawer contains education materials and logbook.

Element of Surprise, XL
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This is a spatial sock retrieval device, for reclaiming your favorite stockings that were sent into oblivion by a washer. Simply put the required magical components (They're a secret!) into the bowl and crank the handle a few times. Your missing socks will appear hanging on the rack in a puff of rainbow-colored smoke that smells like bacon.

Look Out, Schroedinger's Cat! Its a Trap! Black, M
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Howard Hughes, one of the world's richest (and most inventive) hypochondriacs, was famous for building "The Spruce Goose" a huge wooden seaplane. He simply loved wood! Hughes did not want his vast array of (pretty much useless) meds touched by any non-organic matter, so it was a no-brainer that he ordered his carpenters to construct this gravity fed pill dispenser, tonic mixer and ointment distributor out of wood.

"I aim to misbehave" black ladies large or Men's medium
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An antique hotel honor bar. Easily accessible area presenting goodies to tempt the younglings and a secure area for adult beverages.

"That's No Moon", Medium, black
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