What Is It? Game 142


From Bob Roger's Collection

W00t! It's time for another collaboration with the always-excellent What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this strange object is used for?

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Please do not post any web link or URL - doing so will void your entry. You have until the answer is revealed on the What Is It? Blog tomorrow.

Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong one will win a T-Shirt from the NeatoShop. IMPORTANT: Please write your prize selection alongside your guess, so visit the NeatoShop and take a look around. If you don't write your prize selection, then you don't get the prize.

For more clues, go to What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update 6/25/10 - Time's up! The answer is: An ice cube crusher, the patent states:

...it is proposed to arrange the containers telescopically relative to each other and to provide a plurality of pointed elements mounted on the top and base wall of the containers and directed towards each other for cracking a piece of ice placed within the containers when they are forced together.

Patent number 2,147,394

No one got it exactly right, but Clarence would've gotten it if he had just followed the instruction and selected a prize. The second prize goes to e7c who suggested scarification tool for Sneeches (complete with rhymes that would make Dr. Seuss proud!)

It's a monkey vase, you put thick-stemmed flowers on the spikes and keep a shallow amount of water inside. Flowers last quite a while this way.
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"Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong one will win a T-Shirt from the NeatoShop"

Whats with everyone picking things that aren't tshirts :o
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It's what the inquisition used to force citrus fruits to confess their alliance with satan.

Citrus is so sour because it is in league with the devil. And grapefruits are required by their pact to squirt you in the eye whenever possible. EVIL!

Thesaurus T shirt, XL.
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Vietnamese poop traps. Put 'em in the bottom of a pit, poop in them, cover the pit with leaves and twigs and watch those bumbling Americans fall in. Poop infects the wounds. No prize for me please, just a good kick in the pants to set me straight.
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Yeah, definitely for grinding marijuana, Ritalin, etc.
With the marijuana, the reason for grinding would be to further isolate the THC, providing a more pure and pleasant high. From grinding the marijuana, Hash can be made, and there you have practically pure THC... Also, if you add the ground marijuana to oil, and boil covered, there you have a great ingredient for Brownies.
But, yes, it can be used for grinding most things, I guess.
Or, a smurf time machine.... You see, it's about the size of smurfs in my opinion, though the actual size of height of a smurf is unknown, and so when chased by Gargamal, instead of however they escape to New York in the new movie, the whole gang piles in, and once one of the vessels is full to capacity, ZOOM! off to the Garden of Eden! The spikes serve to keep the Smurfs their respective quarters, where the more open spaces are for Smurfette and her victim... the other open space would be a free for all.
The Wizard of Oz, the short version
please
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definitely a grinder, usually used for a certain recreational (or medical) drug but probably could be used for coffee beans...

support bacteria shirt ftw
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Cobblestock Rimblepans. These are used in the aeration of cheese spoogeroos. However, since the Ardvark protection act of 1974, Canada has only been able to produce cheese spungleplat, and thousands of these magnificent tools have been relegated to antique shops where they are used for the 'leave a penny-take a penny trays. No one takes a penny though!
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Having a tattooed star wasn't enough for some of the Sneeches, so they decided to scarification was the way to go. So these are Star-scar-a-fiers for Sneeches.

Stars upon yars?
Tattoos just wont do!
If you want to go far,
Then what you need is a scar!

Clever/Stupid shirt, large please.
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it is not a weed grinder cuz the spikes are not long enough to actually grind the weed, the weed would jut roll around in between the spikes.
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Princess Leia hair twirlers. On each side, insert end of long tress into center, hooked around central point, push can(gently) against sides of head, and rotate (clockwise on one side, CCW on other. Additional spikes create the cinnamon-bun lines as the hair is swirled into place. When hair slack is gone, STOP ROTATING, pull straight back, and secure with hair pin, spray, or lots of buckyballs.

Save the Ales shirt for me!
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Is it those things they use in the bottom of vases where they stick cut flowers onto them for better water circulation and to hold up the flowers? I've seen similar items in Japan.
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I'd say they are roller derby rollerskate wheel wreckers.

Like this'll win, but if it does,

I would like a medium black glow-in-the-dark skeleton shirt
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I think it is spikes that are placed at the bottom of vessels that you stab flowers into to make them stand up. In short: flower-arranger-mabobs.

I would like the NetoFrog size M. KTnxBai
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