...or it could just be a rubber band ball that went through the dryer.

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Damn, I thought I'd seen the last of that thing...

That's a moon I originally acquired in 1988. It revolved around my head until 1996 -- a huge annoyance -- until a particularly violent sneeze gave it a gravitational slingshot and I never saw it again. Until now.

(props to piraro)
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Despite the ominous appearance, this is actually just a device for locating the coin slots on mini globe banks. It takes much more precision than you'd think.

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Close, ladybugs, but the leashes attached to this wrist collar were for children, not dogs. The wrist collar was often worn by the parent or, for a less taxing herding experience,was sometimes attached to the oldest/most responsible/slowest kid.

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Restraint muzzle mask for Cthulhu Lecter.

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How about a satellite trainer for baby planets?

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Or maybe a design mock-up of an ankle bracelet in K-Mart's new LohanChic line of jewelry.

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Or generally a hobble for restricting animal movement, but yeah.

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Hello Kitty Polka Dot Plates

Grisly crime scene photo of the Little Copper Cylinder People Massacre of '83.

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Slice-and-bake pennies

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A 1950's-era caliper commonly used by nuns at Catholic School dances to maintain the proper space between heaven and hell.

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A gaff hook for landing narwhals with a built-in rotary tusk sharpener, used by Inuits in their groom-and-release program, an eco-friendly alternative to cultural whaling practices.

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A gag mustache-and-soul-patch tongue piercing.

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These are Victorian-era bustle stays, which prevented the embarrassing "sidecar effect" of an inadvertently rotated bustle. The device clamped onto the midline of the bustle, with the fin keying into the wearer's conveniently placed natural cleft, thus preventing lateral bustle drift.

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