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What Is It? game 222



Once again, it's time for our collaboration with the always fascinating What Is It? Blog. Do you know what this thing is? Or can you make an amusing wild guess?

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: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win 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?

See another picture of this item at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the mystery item is a surveyor's cross (explained here). It was used to align right angles and stuff when surveying land. Anker was the first to know that, and so wins a t-shirt! The funniest answer comes from Carey, who said, "Known as a “slotted and wired hollow brass wooden handled cylinder,” this ingenious hand-tool was used in the early 1900s to illicit inquiries regarding its function and purpose. It fell out of use due to rising production costs and decreasing levels of curiosity." That is a long-winded way of saying it's an "idiot attractor," but it's good for a t-shirt! See what all this week's mystery objects are at the What Is It? blog. Thanks for playing, everyone!

This is a sample of the maracas designed by early German engineers. They were made of heavy brass and filled with steel ball-bearings that made the sound. These instruments were also believed to be the source of the first recorded "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" in a Third Reich mariachi band musician. Tsk.

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It's a Baton Lock. If you need to put your baton down and don't want someone to steal it, you put on your trusty Baton Lock and, voila! No body will steal it.

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Isn't that a plug from a WW1 steam-powered aeroplane? They weren't supposed to be removable. If the steam hadn't cooked the pilot and crew, it was hoped that the steam would lift the plane into the air.

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Its a toilet paper lock or TPL.

Back during WWII when paper was expensive and especially toilet paper people needed a way to keep it safe hence the toilet paper lock. They were made to fit over any sized roll and included a special twist-locking mechanism that rationed TP. Anyone who didn't know the combo had to find another way to wipe.

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It is the base for a combination sextant / compass. Held vertically with the handle at the bottom, a compass would be inside the circle at the octagon end and the sextant mounted above it.

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It's a "training bell" for church hand-bell groups. Wave this thing around for ten minutes each day and you'll eventually have the arm strength and stamina to perform with regular bells through all three services every week.
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Known as a "slotted and wired hollow brass wooden handled cylinder," this ingenious hand-tool was used in the early 1900s to illicit inquiries regarding its function and purpose. It fell out of use due to rising production costs and decreasing levels of curiosity.

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Its a tool for adjusting tower clocks. As a young man I had to climb a fifty foot ladder carrying three of these (there are different sizes) to correct the town clock every saturday night. One night the ladder fell over and I was trapped in the clock tower for four days! I survived on pigeon and rain water and may never have gotten down except for the brilliant Idea of making the clock run backwards! No one noticed but after four more days the ladder fell up to the tower and I was able to climb down safely.
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Whoops, I totally forgot my T-shirt.
Here it goes again -
It’s a device designed to help cut someone for a good ol’ bloodletting.
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This amazing piece of Beatles' memorabilia was a key source of inspiration to Paul McCartney until he finally realized that "Maxwell's Bloody Great Noggin Obliterator" didn't quite fit...

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