What is It? game 276

It's time for the latest edition of our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what this thing is? This week, You'll have to be pretty specific to win. Or if you don't know what it is, make up something funny!

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. Pease do not post 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 more pictures of this mystery object at the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: the pictured object is a rock, but despite many guesses, the What Is It? blog was never able to ascertain anything else about it, which means there is no correct answer this week. So… we decided to pick two of the funniest answers! StilesJM declared it to be C-3PO's kidney stone, which is certainly good for a t-shirt! And Anthony Zaragoza told a great story that's a winner:

A deadline was fast approaching for Clark Kent. But during his speed-typing, the IBM Selectric typewriter ball had a meltdown from the friction. The story that would have exposed the insidious 4-H organization was never published.

See the answers to the rest of the mystery items of the week at the What Is It? blog.


Looks like a "Ferrero Rocher" special edition "spherical metal sweet" for James Bond villain "Jaws"

Neatobot walking (3XL if possible) suggested colour
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A deadline was fast approaching for Clark Kent. But during his speed-typing, the IBM Selectric typewriter ball had a meltdown from the friction. The story that would have exposed the insidious 4-H organization was never published.
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A bunch of lead soldiers I got from my great uncle for Christmas and then crushed with my teeth because it was fun. Heat them with a lighter, roll them into a ball...I feel funny.

Neatorama Metal, Black, XL, Men's
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That would appear to be an early multisided die that Vikings used to play D&D with while they were out to sea. The number runes are faded, but they are definitely there.

Coffee Addict, white, mens large
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It's a rare 2188 sided die, for use by the most hardcore of table top game players, requires a special crystal magnifying glass to view each number on surface.

Any shirt, XL please :D
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I'm going to guess that's a bezoar from an animal which has swallowed a magnet. Possibly a cow as they're sometimes intentionally fed magnets to keep accidentally ingested steel out of their intestines. As steel is ground down in the stomach, the particles are still attracted to the magnet, hence the black accretion in between the shiny iron.

On the off chance that I'm right, surprise me with a men's medium.
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To be more specific than a previous entry:
A musketball that has been chewed on to make a more ragged wound as well as introduce the shooter's saliva into the wound and possibly cause infection.

Good Marx/Bad Marx, size XL
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It looks like a coal torpedo -- one of the fake lumps of coal that were used to sabotage trains and coal-fired boilers in the North during the Civil War; filled with explosives, they were added to the coal piles used for fuel, where they would explode in the heat when added to the fire, leaving no clues beyond the boiler explosion.
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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)
abducted cow,xl,royal
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This is a ball of tooth fillings and ash cleaned out of the bottom of a crematorium "oven" and made into a ball for display purposes. All it needs now is a nice sterling chain and you've got one HECK of a souvenir!

Battle Damage, ladies, XL
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