W00t! It's time for our collaboration with the always awesome What is it? Blog. This week's entry is this strange looking object to the left: can you guess what it is?
Two prizes this week: the first person to guess correctly and the funniest (but ultimately wrong) guess will win a T-shirt from the Neatorama Shop.
Contest rules are darned easy: place your guess in the comment below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URL or web links - let others play (doing so will forfeit your entry).
For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!
Update 11/6/09 - the answer is:An exercise club, the 1897 patent says it was "for the purpose of testing the strength of the wrist and forearm", additional weights could be attached to the bottom of it, patent number 578,230. Commonly known as Indian clubs, these can be found in a wide variety of sizes and weights.Congratulations to Mr. Weaver who got it right first and to huh? for the um, very funny entry that I won't repeat here. :)
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Looks like something used in the processing of raw leather.
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It's a bowling ball tester, obviously.
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An old fashion Tummy Flatner?
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This is a comblestobber, possibly the oddest musical and most dangerous instrument ever devised. When electricity was new it was put to many uses and making 'electric' music was a brief and often fatal fad. The 'combler', while suspended within a rolling ball like metal cage, which would by 'rolled' along a charged grid, would acheive various senthized notes by swinging the charged comblestobber in small curving arcs, without touching, but almost making contact with the cage. Surviving audience members described the experience and 'electrifying.'
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real "tongue twister"
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