What’s That Wednesday
contests August 12th, 2009You would think What’s That? posts would be easy to do, but you’d be so wrong. I’ve been looking for something to feature for days and nixed a ton of stuff. Muh head hurts. After a long struggle, I found something that made the cut.
This item has the following characteristics:
1. It does something.
2. I used it once and hated it.
Crystal clear, yes?
How to play:
1. The photo shows a small portion of a larger object.
2. First person to guess the object it’s a part of wins a Junk Drawer magnet and a mystery prize.
Most likely a prize involving bacon, since people keep giving me novelty bacon items they find in their travels. My desk drawer at work looks like a deli. Apparently, everyone I know thinks of me when they see bacon. How did that happen?
Go!
What’s that?
UPDATE: It appears I need to give a hint since no one has guessed the object correctly.
Because my brain didn’t hurt enough coming up with this item, I decided to write a clue in the form of a limerick. Limericks are hard to write at 5AM. Just sayin’.
I actually wrote better ones, but they would totally give it away. So here you go. My vague limerick:
You use it not inside, but out.
And hold as you walk all about.
It would be really swell
If it caused you to yell
"I’ve got something here, I’ve no doubt!"
Stumble it!
August 13th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Is it the hole in a belt?
August 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Or an ignition hole for a round key?
August 13th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Is it one of those computer mouses that have a ball that you move around? This is tough!
August 13th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Is it an ashtray?
August 13th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
The button on a flat iron? From your pic, it looks like you have curly hair. Maybe you hated what your hair looked like straight or you burnt yourself with it.
Or maybe a real iron where the steam comes out? I hate ironing. Maybe you do, too.
The switch to a battery operated screwdriver? The gray part kind of looks like that kind of plastic.
I think we really need a hint.
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August 13th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I stared, and stared, and stared some more…
And then it hit me. How could I have missed it… Of Course!
It’s that thingy. You know. That thingy. The thing you got on that late night infomercial that you thought you couldn’t live without, but now you know you really can, but you paid good money for it and you don’t want to just throw it out, so now you’re storing it in the garage where it is gathering dust… you know… that THINGY!
Steve, the suddenly-its-clear trade show guru
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August 13th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
My last guess…is it an Oxo Good Grips Bag Clip??
August 14th, 2009 at 3:49 am
It’s that thing that’s going in your next garage sale!
Or…it looks like either a tealight, a drugstore “decorative” air freshener or — except for the cardboard insert — a table top patio “mini fireplace”.
I’m still gonna go with the garage sale thing though.
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August 14th, 2009 at 6:09 am
A pot of eyeshadow??
Sniffie and the Florida Furkids
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August 14th, 2009 at 6:50 am
ski pole?
August 14th, 2009 at 6:51 am
metal detector thingy you use on the beach
August 14th, 2009 at 6:55 am
I was going to also say metal detector, but now I will go with megaphone, or leaf blower.
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August 14th, 2009 at 7:34 am
I am going to say metal detector too, because of the limerick.
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August 14th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I’m going to say it’s one of those things you use to look at eclipses and such. The little box thingy, sometimes there’s mirrors inside to help you look without looking directly at the sun.
That or a cardboard periscope. >^-^<
August 14th, 2009 at 7:51 am
OK…the bottom of some sort of stand. Or a part to a desk.
August 14th, 2009 at 7:56 am
It the cover of a fishing reel looking in the hole where the fishing line comes out. You removed it and put it on a cement floor. Bou-ya!
.-= Jeff´s last blog ..still alive but… =-.
August 14th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Part of a weedeater?
.-= misspiggytoes´s last blog ..A Good Thriftstore is All I Need =-.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:13 am
i thought it was the underside of a snap/button on a jacket, but your poem makes me think it’s something else. *sigh*
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August 14th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Oh it must be a metal detector! Woohoo!
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August 14th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Is it a telescope looking at the moon?
August 14th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Your clue makes me think it’s part of a metal detector. Jeff’s guess about part of a fishing rod is good, too, though!
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August 14th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Hi Kathy,
Is it the eyelet of a shoe? You know, where you slip the shoelace through? Okay, not a great guess, but this is a terrific contest. -Mike.
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August 14th, 2009 at 10:44 am
hmmm,
now my head hurts…
from your earlier comment, the hole is the same size as the inkwell hole…
so I can’t see it being a fishing rod… and I’ve never seen a metal detector but I don’t know why it would have a hole in it…
I’ll stick with “that thingy” for now…
and maybe I’ll google “metal detector pictures”…
~ Steve, the thoroughly puzzled trade show guru
.-= steve, trade show guru´s last blog ..Trade Show Kinsella =-.
August 14th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Bada bing, bada bang, bada boom…
I’m back…
and a metal detector it is!
$100 at Walmart for the Bounty Hunter Pioneer EX Metal Detector
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=6372474
right? Steve, the googling trade show guru
.-= steve, trade show guru´s last blog ..Trade Show Kinsella =-.
August 14th, 2009 at 11:24 am
hmmm…i will guess that is is a part of a walking stick / hiking pole.
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August 14th, 2009 at 11:29 am
This is probably too simple an answer, but did anyone guess flashlight?
August 14th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I need to know the answer to this…as I’m going on vacation…so just e-mail me the answer and I won’t tell anyone!
August 14th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
It’s one of those devices that picks up pecans off the ground.
.-= Cats~Goats~Quotes´s last blog ..Happy Weekend ~ Jasmine =-.
August 14th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I have reduced myself to trying to see up into the corners of the picture the way I used to always try to see the Nanny’s face on the Muppett Babies.
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August 20th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I see a Round window, me looking at the moon…but I don’t know whether the moon is white or black…:-p
Tough to guess…so many comments, but none could succeed! What is that thing?