What Is It? Game 57

befor lego was made with plastic injection. they used to hit sheets of plastic really hard....with great acuracty......thousands of times over

this is one such LEGO punch

cookie

no, it's used to make hot cross buns :)

Its a hammer used to make impressions on objects, like hard plastic etc...

It's clearly an 16th century relic of the Catholic Church, which was used to mark all members of the church so they would be assured entry into the pearly gates. It was frequently called "God's Hall Pass" by critics.

Having waded through little Timmy's exam paper for over an hour and failed to find /any/ correct answers, Mrs Williams reached for the correct-o-tron 2000 and decided to save herself time by just marking him as wrong.

It's used for extreme games of tic-tac-toe.

It is used by cowboys to brand their cattle

Van Hellsings first cross weapon against Vlad Dracul... which failed... but still a nice kittchen tool for extraordinary cookies... of course with a lot of garlic flavor... ( this was his second weapon hehe )

I have several of those. I use them to crush the living shit out of the kids who won't stay off my lawn.

It is used to mark where the treasure is, silly!

As an instrument of torture, that would leave a mark!

Device for marking a pat of butter?

It's the lesser-known Philip's head sledgehammer.

Something a shoemaker would use perhaps.

Or

It's a little known fact that Bedrock was located in Florida and that's Fred Flintstone's voting hammer. No hanging chad-rocks.

Thor joins the X-Men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the tool that pirates use to mark where their treasure is buried on maps...

It's a lumber marking hammer. Struck into the end of a log it ensures that the proper people get paid for the wood. I have an antique one that is the letter D for the last name of my family.

THAR BE ME TREASURE! (thwomp)

Uh! The mighty wafflemaker!

Two words:

Crucifiction pancakes.

It's a shoe branding hammer

Leather tooling?

For those of you old enough to remember Old School Sesame Street, it's the thing that "Cowboy X" used in the cartoon of the same name, marking everything in town, until a young boy asked him to stop. Then he said "From now on, I'll be known as cowboy O", and marked everything with an O. The punchline, which sticks with me is:

So the people of the town lived happily ever after....
because they really weren't very smart.

It's a hammer for marking trees. The mark indicates that the tree is owned by someone, and sometimes it means the tree is to be felled.

it is for bankers checks to be cancelled

it's the early x-box shaper prototype

When used this hammer perforates a check indicating that it has been paid by the drawee bank and cannot be renegotiated. It's a canceled check stamp otherwise known as a bankers check canceling hammer.

it's a fancy meat tenderizer.

extreme tic tac toe

It's used to mark those little crosses on communion wafers.

It's a screwdriver for very large screws.

Three Words:

Tic Tac PWNED!!

A simpler version of the boredom killer "maze pens."

Its not a hammer at all. This is a Frengle bitsetter for use in the delicate art of goat crossfertilization. I can only explain its use as 'coercive nudging.'

Goats are complex animals.

The very first Home Pregnancy Test. The other side has a minus sign.

Branding iron

It my professors "X" (wrong answer) marker. He first dips it in sheeps blood and then invoking the powers of the Gods he then slams it down with such force on my papers that I feel the vibrations from the other side of the campus. :(

Lumber/log marking hammer as Cin city Paul says, though i'm not sure about the payment part. I think it has to do with the quality of the lumber rather than the ownership.

Easy. You super-heat metal until it's liquid, then you press the hammer-thingy into the liquid metal, and voila! A screw driver!

It was used for Indian women's forehead caste-marking ("tika"), until they noticed the population drop off from using this device, when the modern vewrmillion dot was employed.

The initial way Charles Xavier accepted mutants into the X-men.

@ Howard: You rock, man.

It was clear to me the very moment I ran across the picture:

It's the meanest cookie cutter ever.

I've no clue but LOL @ empty-minded's guess ;)

It's a swage or hot set, used for dressing a forge welded crosspiece. It is not a hammer, but is struck with a sledge or hammer. The forge welded crosspiece is placed under the X, and the other side of the swage is struck with a hammer. This shapes and "cleans up" the crossed bar appearance.

It's a finish carpenter's hammer to mark the wood and then use chisels to remove the excess wood.

I think it may be a stonemason tool to mark out an area.

Hammering out pieces of a fence.

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I bet it's to set the spaces between lines of type in old printing presses. Kerning and leading. Just a guess. (probably won't be checking the thread to see how wrong I am, though...lol)

It's a butting tool for making wooden cross pieces.

You can make patterns on leather by hitting on the other end.

David Larsen, I have a cousin David in Florida, is that you?

This is a hammer for marking trees to be logged. Still used now, but flashes with a hatchet or paint marks are increasingly used.

The funniest set of guesses, EVAR! You guys are awesome :)

Congrats to ad, who got it right first: it's a banker's hammer to mark canceled checks.