Oh, I remember that! It's the Inside-the-Brainpan Brain Scrambler, by Wrongco! Fun at parties! Confuse your friends!

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What a profound lesson for all of us who didn't because we "couldn't."

James Bond's martini olive extractor. And distress locator beacon. Also fires a single .32 round. And has a tiny diamond edge saw. But ostensibly it's just an olive extractor, thus the B.T.S. on the side (British Tavern Supply).

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It's a laboratory mouse strangler, for the researcher who has everything.
Except a conscience.

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You guys are tricky. I couldn't for the life of me figure this out. Then I looked at another view of it on the What Is It? blog -- idiot me! Of course! It's a travel melba toaster! I like how you didn't choose the obvious view here. But I get it... this is definitely the funniest view.

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It's the Pocket Panini!
By Ronco!

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Sisyphean abacus. It just doesn't add up.

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This is an old 1920s-era zoetrope type of device. When you look through the eyepiece and slide it along the track, you see a nice young flapper woman doing something just unthinkable. Geez, what was the world coming to?

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Bear with me here. You know those ramps they have at the bowling alley for kids and others who can't heft a bowling ball? Well, same thing here, but for people who can't use a cue stick on a pool table.
Okay, it may not be all that funny but I could be on to something here....

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It's a section of track from an old Hot Wheels Monorail set. Mattel quickly discontinued that product line as kids never really grasped the value of mass transit.

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A precision boomerang with adjustable weight, like they use at the Aboriginalympics.

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That's the FreeFall thrill ride at Six Flags Over Lilliput.

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This is a decorative nose cone from a medieval propeller helmet, an essential piece of traditional nerd armor.

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This is a characteristically uniform and tidy petrified dung heap from the ancient Neatosaurus.

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It is a French "ring for service" bell. The point on top was originally very sharp.

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