What is this?
What is this thing?
I have taken many (many) pictures since I quit using film cameras, since electrons are so much less expensive than film stock. Some of those pictures have been interesting to look at, partly because they were unusual subjects, or extreme close ups, or had the context removed from the frame, any other reason. I'm sure you've all seen such pictures. I have fun looking at them and guessing what they are. Maybe you'll have fun guessing what these are.
Here's a repeat from a while back that neatly fits into this thread.
Big, I don't need to know what you and your wife do with that first thing. :D
The last one is some sort of sparkler?
Big, I don't need to know what you and your wife do with that first thing. :D
Ha.
You're close, though. One pumps and the other squeezes. Care to guess?
I bet xoB would know. busterb, zippyt and BrianR are other likely candidates. The picture is of my first time using the device.
The last one is some sort of sparkler?
No, but you're getting warm (!), because it *is* fire.
The first looks like a tripod or some type of catapult mechanism.
The second looks like the inside of a paper lantern.
The third looks like an actual paper lantern.
This is almost like a Rorschach test. :)
Is the last one a lit cigarette?
The first one, some kind of wood clamp for woodworking?
First one looks like old aircraft center console controls. Flaps, throttle, etc.
Good guesses all!
This is a steel strapping machine. Here are a couple more shots, the first from a different angle and the second of the finished product.
It works by taking a length of strap steel (like what a tape measure is made from, but flat) and running it around the bundle and through the machine. Then each movement of the handle ratchets the strap tighter and tighter. When it's tight enough, then a clip is placed onto a section of the straps where they overlap and the second machine with the opposing handles is placed over the clip and it's crimped into place. Then you slide the ratchet tightener out and your strapped bundle is complete. You may trim the excess strap past the crimp.
I should have figured that out. I read about a high-profile engineering firm that interviews applicants by presenting them with a briefcase full of various mechanical and electronic objects. The applicant has to guess what these things do, to the best of their ability, based on their experience and raw reasoning power. Wish I had a link, this was a print article. Pop Sci, or Discover, or Scientific American.
Anyway, please don't reveal the green thing. That one has stumped us for a good long while, now.
Are you serious about the green thing? It was posted before, and revealed too. I don't mind waiting, but it's more about the interesting pictures and conversation than it is about playing stump the chumps. Perhaps I should post the "answer" in invisible spoiler text or something.
Regardless, I'll wait a while. Anybody dying to know may pm me for the answer right away.
Plus, I'd love to see other's interesting and unusual pictures. I'll have more of my own posted soon. Keep guessing!
I never saw the answer.
"interesting and unusual pictures" ...I've been saving a few personal WTFs... on my drive at home.
That steel strapping has been replaced with the saran wrap looking stuff that only sticks to itself. The green button is easy but that red blob is too vague for anything but a wild guess. I'll guess a campfire.
I was going to guess #2 was the end of a CFL, but then it would be a spiral instead of concentric circles.
Is the last one a lit cigarette?
WELL?:eyebrow:
Fire, a handful of fire.
Here are a couple more shots taken very shortly after the one in post #4. In the first picture, you can see the silhouette of his fingers. In the second picture, the light is enough to see his profile and his hand and the ball of fuzz which contains the glowing ember.
Watch what happens on the next breath in the next post!
In the next breath, the ball of untwisted sisal rope bursts into flame! Now's a good time to get it away from your face, don't you think?!
These were started with flint and steel. The flint scrapes off a little sliver of steel and the energy of that scraping heats the minute sliver to incandescence, a spark. When this spark lands on a piece of charcloth, it glows like the coal on the end of a lit cigarette. The coal is enfolded in the nest of sisal fibers and blown into life, like you see here.
Was this last Sunday near Angora Ridge, California?
No sir. Last summer at camp, north of CA.
I was going to guess the first pic was a
governor of some kind.
I see the resemblance to Schwarzeneggar too.
What is this thing?
I have taken many (many) pictures since I quit using film cameras, since electrons are so much less expensive than film stock. Some of those pictures have been interesting to look at, partly because they were unusual subjects, or extreme close ups, or had the context removed from the frame, any other reason. I'm sure you've all seen such pictures. I have fun looking at them and guessing what they are. Maybe you'll have fun guessing what these are.
A reloading press?
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I have a straping deal in shop. No crimper. You bend it over and tap closed with hammer. But I really did know what it was. Bah.
But I really did know what it was. Bah.
Me too, but opened the thread too late for credit.
Correctumundo UT ,
Here is the bigger pic,
Peas, onions and catsup! damn
Oh I forgot to mention that the Onion is a Vidalia !!!
MMMMMMMMMMM :yum: !!!!!!!!!
I was gonna guess "your colonoscopy".
Peas, onions and catsup! damn
They call them peas down there, Buster?
Looks like some bacon in there, too...
Ketchup on a good helping of peas seems to be a bad idea, but to each his or her own...
Looks like some bacon in there, too...
Every thing is better with BACON !!!!!
The catchup is only there because there was no
Chow Chow on hand .
They call them peas down there, Buster?
I would have called them black-eyed peas, but they're definitely not beans.
I would have called them black-eyed peas, but they're definitely not beans.
They look like yellow eye beans to me.
Well Zip. What are they? Blk-eyes or what.
Purple hull peas from a friends garden
Ducky !!! You say that looks gross when you folks down under eat Vegamite ??????!!!!!!
Bippy, if you dont like Vegemite....you havent had it prepared properly. You have to have hot toast, with melted butter and a light smear of Vegemite.....Yummmo!!!
Or alternatively, fairly thick with cheese on toast.
I, personally, am happy to dip my finger into the jar then lick it off :)
Here's one. Shouldn't be too hard to say what it is, but... well what it is isn't the problem.
insulator that's been heated and dropped in water
insulator that's been heated and dropped in water
Right, it's an old glass insulator. I haven't been able to figure out what happened to it.
Heated, then rapidly cooled, you think? ...But why would somebody do that? ...???
Yea, insulator from an old telephone pole, we have a whole stretch of RR that has miles of them. Mostly green ones.
Maybe it got zapped by lightning?
I think I had these 2 back in the do-dad thread. My Dad told me that someone heated in oven then dropped in water. Why? Not a clue.
Anyway we used them for target pratice when kids along RR tracks.
Heated in oven then dropped in water. .
Yes, this is often done with marbles to get the crackled look. (My grandma had lots of these, and I asked her once)
Some people like the look of it, for using in crafts etc.
BTW, I tried this, and most of my marbles cracked, but fell apart. There is an art to getting just the right temp difference. --No cracks about losing my marbles etc. Too easy!
The clear one on the right got struck by lightening, which heated it/melted part, and the rain cooled it fast enough to get the crackles.
So, y'all think it was done purposefully, for artistic effect... I don't know.
I guess mine are more like "What's Wrong With This Picture?" ... or "What The Hell Happened Here?"
There be two creatures in that there pic that shouldnt be there.
Lizard of some description? after a crickety looking snack?
It's a wasp nest, that's why I took the picture. Only afterwards did I see the lizard. Noteworthy because I just opened the housing to remove that snipped gray wire, which the previous owners had Macgyver'd onto the outdoor floodlight fixture, to get electricity for a pond pump motor in the backyard. The front panel of that box had been screwed down, with enough space to let that gray wire run out the side. Yet... there's a fuckin' menagerie in the damn thing when I open it.
I wish I had pictures of me up on top of the 6" wide hand rail I was standing on, with a broom in one hand and a pokin' stick in the other, stirrin' up those wasps and then takin' swats at 'em, Kung Fu style; but my wife didn't see the humor and made me get down. Then she made some comment about "life insurance" or some such, as I recall...
Anyway... Here's one more I've been saving for The Cellar:
Reminds me of the retired guy across the street who bought a garage sale snowblower about three sizes bigger than his driveway. He was scrawny and not particularly big. The thing drug him around something awful, but once he had it going, everyone in the neighborhood got their driveways blown clear.
This guy looks like he's on a mission.
He better slow down in that school zone!
I recall seeing an episode of Cops, I think, where there was a dude riding his lawnmower down the street. Problem was that he was piss drunk. And apparently you can get a DUI on your John Deere.
Edit:
I love youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-UNSmYmBuILooks like he is either cruisin' on the sidewalk, pickin up the leaves or cuttin some really dead grass.
That's a lizard? The thing in the hanging off the nest? Looks like a scorpion or something. I'm so confused...I think the pic viewing part of my brain short-circuited or something.
The lizard is the thing on the right in the box. It looks like a rust stain.
Then, there are more than two critters in this pic?
Whatever it is it appears to have very big antennae.
The real question is: Were those bare black (hot) wires exposed all the time :worried: , or did Flint take a wire nut off when he opened the box?
It looks like no wasp i've ever seen
I know things are bigger in Texas, but that looks nothing like a wasp
.
Huh? It looks exactly like a wasp. You're looking at it from underneath.
Really???????
Still looks like a cricket or scorpion to me. Must be the camera angle.
Cricket to me, as well.
That was the second critter I was referring too.
It might not be Mom, it might be baby just crawled out and still drying off, too soft to fly and not yet adult colors. it would make a soft tasty snack at a time like this, which might explain the lizard. Lizards don't have jobs, so they can hang out and wait for events like hatching...
it's the molted shell of a cicada
it's the molted shell of a cicada
That's what I think it looks like - God knows we've got those stupid things all over the place
It's none of those things. It's a wasp. It's right next to a wasp nest. The guy who took the picture said it was a wasp. It looks like a wasp (look at the triangular shaped face, thin legs, and the long wings on its back.) It's a wasp.
(Glatt is very protective over wasps and their personal identities) :)
Sorry, looks more like a cricket than ever. ;)
I was just teasing the maintenance guy about how loud his walkie-talkie thingy is. I said there was someone in Cleveland who couldn't hear it. He said "don't you have something to do?" I bet you're wondering the same thing. :biggrin:
not all crickets are black. Ok then, it looks like any insect besides a wasp.
look at those long rear legs and the hair like antenna! Is that anything like Flint's picture? :p
Well, uh, no. :lol:
I know it's one of those things where if I could just see the wasp once I would totally get it. My brain isn't seeing it. I even have my reading glasses on. :)
Um, you guys are all wrong. It's just a bug, not a real insect of any particular sort. The CIA bugged Flint's place, that's all. :rolleyes:
Could be true, I mean we are talking about Flint, after all. ;)
I still don't see a wasp....I'm not trying to be awkward....hell I wanna see a wasp...I still don't see a wasp.
I know, DanaC, I know. Me too. I've tried. It's like a Magic Eye pic.
Um, you guys are all wrong. It's just a bug, not a real insect of any particular sort. The CIA bugged Flint's place, that's all. :rolleyes:
Bugging is so Clinton Administration, now they just kick in the door and drag you off to Azkaban, uh, Guantanamo.
You just don't have enough experience staring up in the air at wasps' asses. Come visit Texas sometime. I recognized it as a wasp before I even realized it was crawling on its own nest.
btw, still no suggestions for post #2? C'mon, people!
Looking out of the tube of an automatic pitching machine?
Thats the view into the big brother house:p
Okay, old #2 ....... It seems like looking through some sort of colored glass, but what, precisely? How about a glass Christmas tree ornament?
Guess #1 Traffic Light Lens
Guess #2 Power-On Light on a 1970ish piece of electronic equipment, possibly a stage amp.
btw, still no suggestions for post #2? C'mon, people!
That steel strapping has been replaced with the saran wrap looking stuff that only sticks to itself. The green button is easy but that red blob is too vague for anything but a wild guess. I'll guess a campfire.
Post #88 is the hole in the side of an empty above ground pool from the inside.
#88 is a glory hole into a bullpen
I seem to recall we were given the answer to the glowy green thing once before, and I didn't know what it was even after I was told...
Here's a repeat from a while back that neatly fits into this thread.
Here's the explanation for post #2:
Ok. Uncle it is.
Borelight.
That is a green led at the bottom of a muzzleloader barrel, four feet deep and half an inch across.
At camp this year, we got a chance to learn all about firing a muzzleloader, and part of that process was cleaning them. At the end of the cleaning procedure, before reassembly, the barrel was inspected with this tool. Since a muzzleloader's barrel is more like a cup than a tube (ok, a really long tall thin narrow cup with a tiny leak at the bottom...nevermind), the borelight had to be dropped in from the muzzle and when it slid to the bottom, we were able to inspect it with the light it cast on the inside of the barrel. This is a picture of what I saw.
How to roll your own.
#88 is a glory hole into a bullpen
No more callers, please. We have winner!
At Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners, there is a pub/bar in left field. It is right at field level. There's a low overhanging roof with a window out into left field, covered by a net. When you're sitting at the bar looking out this window onto left field, to your left is the visitor's bullpen. This picture, #88, is a little round window with glass (or lexan probably) about the size of a baseball. looking onto the bullpen from the catcher's perspective. There are several of these little windows.
Good call glatt!
It immediately made me think of being behind one of the old-fashioned scoreboards...
...but I couldn't figure out what part of a ball field would have two walls that close together.
Ooh! Ooh! I know I know! But I'll be subtle about it in case anyone wants to guess.
[COLOR="White"]It's multi-colored foam from a car wash! My car wash does the same thing, one color soap in each sprayer, so you're all rainbowed. But how did you get a picture of it? Did you drive out halfway through, or get out of the car mid-wash?[/COLOR]
Ooh! Ooh! I know I know! But I'll be subtle about it in case anyone wants to guess.
[COLOR="White"]It's multi-colored foam from a car wash! My car wash does the same thing, one color soap in each sprayer, so you're all rainbowed. But how did you get a picture of it? Did you drive out halfway through, or get out of the car mid-wash?[/COLOR]
Mine too.
:eek: All over the window?! Damn, somebody doesn't know to not shake a beer before opening. :p
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't give oral sex to the driver.
Trecno Colored Puke ?????
I've been to one of those places, so I recognized it too. There isn't one in my neighborhood, but my best friend goes well out of her way to go to one, because it amuses her and the children.
"Looks like you blew a seal."
Just fix the damn car and leave my personal life out of this. - Kip Adotta.
Ooh! Ooh! I know I know! But I'll be subtle about it in case anyone wants to guess.
[COLOR="White"]It's multi-colored foam from a car wash! My car wash does the same thing, one color soap in each sprayer, so you're all rainbowed. But how did you get a picture of it? Did you drive out halfway through, or get out of the car mid-wash?[/COLOR]
Congratulations! You're right! Wow, that "mystery" lasted all of three minutes. Anyway, that's from the car wash all right. They have a mode that is (I forget the real name) Super Triple Foamy Fruity Wash or some such nonsense. This car wash is the do it yourself variety, so I get to spray it on the car myself. I thought it looked cool, so I grabbed the camera before it all slid away and snapped the picture. Btw, it all three colors come out of the same nozzle/spray gun. I reckon there's some machinery in the pumphouse that cycles the colors. And it does smell like strawberries or guava or something. Entertainment factor +2, clean factor meh, it's soap.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't give oral sex to the driver.
If that's a result from oral sex - the driver must be a freakin alien.:alien:
OK, here's a silly little something so BigV and Flint can take a break. It will be, perhaps, all but impossible for anyone to get (unless they saw it on the same site where I found it), so I won't plan on waiting forever to give the answer. Still, it could be worth a few shots; and, no, it's not the obvious. :D ............. What is this:
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it almost looks like a gourd:right:
It is not a gourd, but you're sure closer than the others, jester.
Cheese is not correct, but is a bit closer (I think).
i know it's not this but i couldn't resist -
buns of steel?
jester, you're right - that's not it. :p
Yessiree, Bruce is right! This is some form of sausage, looking something like a salami.The following picture shows the whole thing, with the original close-up located towards the lower-left.
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What is this?
Joists for a deck that was replaced with a patio.
A dance floor at a trailer park wedding?
nope, nope. Here's a clue...
A picnic table for termites?
The world's largest (and easiest) 17 piece jigsaw puzzle?
[gallows humour]Minnesota bridge supports?[/gallows humour
[gallows humour]Minnesota bridge supports?[/gallows humour
:eek: :biglaugha :headshake
ok i'll bite - a split piece of wood
Yep, looks like planks to me.
I'm sure the little black tape marks are supposed to mean something... but who the hell knows what.
I've got it! It's some pieces of wood!
[COLOR="Silver"]Whatta ya want, "the wood I had around behind my shed that had spiders under it and then I built a treehouse out of it" ???[/COLOR]
It's some wood you had bundled up with your steel strapping machine, and then you unstrapped it and took a picture of it?
I'm sure the little black tape marks are supposed to mean something... but who the hell knows what.
Ahhh, it's a map to the solution. A la
The DaVinci Code.
I agree with Clodfobble. I think the tape should be the focus, and the 2x8 boards are distracting us.
Is it a layout for rafters?
Yeah, the marks have been irking me, too. It seems obvious enough they must be some sort of guide, but I can't really tell if they match the taper in the pieces of wood. That is the other thing to me; the second and third shots show splitting the boards into wedge shapes which form the arc visible in the first photo.
Well, BigV, are you making a really, really BigFan? :rolleyes:
He's building the boat that we will take to Ram Island!
A boat? Great!
Wait, uh, do we call him BigN[color=#66FFFF](oah)[/color] now?
...That is the other thing to me; the second and third shots show splitting the boards into wedge shapes which form the arc visible in the first photo.
I think that the boards are straight. The arc is an optional illusion.
At first I thought you were finally getting around to showing how you built your kayak, and this was just before ripping strips to form the hull & deck, but you wouldn't be doing big long taper cuts like that. So I have no idea.
Are you making a big circular picnic table?
I think that the boards are straight. The arc is an optical illusion.
You could be right (I originally dismissed the appearance in picture #1 as such), but the second and third photos do show trapezoidal pieces. They also seem to indicate a spread in the border of the marks on the patio.
I think that the boards are straight. The arc is an optional illusion.
Maybe in post 124 that's true, but post 127 is clearly tapered.
You could be right (I originally dismissed the appearance in picture #1 as such), but the second and third photos do show trapezoidal pieces. They also seem to indicate a spread in the border of the marks on the patio.
Not
optical illusion;
optional illusion. It's not for everyone.
And is it an Ark or an arc?
With the exception of the split board, I think that they are all straight 2x8 or 2x10s.
Hmmm, I just don't know about this one. However, I do have a mental image of BigV wringing his hands while chuckling evilly as we all go nuts trying to figure it out. :lol:
Not optical illusion; optional illusion. It's not for everyone.
And is it an Ark or an arc?
With the exception of the split board, I think that they are all straight 2x8 or 2x10s.
Fish eye lense camera. Straight boards. Looks like fencing. They all split like that when you pull them off to replace them. Who knows.
What is this?
Hopelessly ancient ex-roof decking?
Whatta ya want, "the wood I had around behind my shed that had spiders under it and then I built a treehouse out of it" ???
Stop stalking me.
That is exactly the right answer! Congratulations!
I have a triangular rim joist and some joists parallel to base of the triangle. The trunk of the tree extends through the rim joists at the apex of the triangle, and these boards, they are tapered, carefully tapered, cover the trapezoid that represents the "lower" 3/4 of the triangle. They are the deck, the floor of the treehouse.
The black marks on the patio are pieces of tape that I used to approximate the locations of the supporting members. It made laying out and cutting the deck boards much easier. I was standing on the ground, not on a ladder or in the air, you understand. By the way, there are not enough of them to finish the deck in these pictures. That's why you can see the lighter boards (2x4x8s) at the right. They're just there to fill things in visually for me. A placeholder for me to imagine how much more lumber I'll need to complete the deck.
Things are kind of on hold right now, but the next chance I have at a picture, I'll show you the details. The treehouse will likely be a whole thread, like the roof project.
Good call Flint!
Which makes this one, also interesting, not very mysterious. What is this?
I was going to say Ponderosa Pine, but the bark looks too thin, and I can't smell any vanilla.
Good close guess... you may be right. Two needles per bundle, semi circular in cross section so when pressed lightly together the show a round bundle, puzzle piece bark, very fast growing. There's a lovely Western Hemlock next door, and an amazing Western Red Cedar across the alley. It's a very green neighborhood.
I was going to say Ponderosa Pine...
I was going to say "sticky."
Good close guess... you may be right. Two needles per bundle, semi circular in cross section so when pressed lightly together the show a round bundle, puzzle piece bark, very fast growing. There's a lovely Western Hemlock next door, and an amazing Western Red Cedar across the alley. It's a very green neighborhood.
That sounds like Ponderosa Pine. The ones in Colorado have 2 or 3 needles per bundle and the needles are 3 to 6 inches long. The bark is thick and smells of vanilla. We have about 50 in our yard, along with a few Douglas-fir and about a dozen aspen.
Stop stalking me.
That is exactly the right answer! Congratulations!
...
Good call Flint!
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<They are the deck, the floor of the treehouse.
I was technically correct, even though Flint, & Elspode beat me to it!
That sounds like Ponderosa Pine. The ones in Colorado have 2 or 3 needles per bundle and the needles are 3 to 6 inches long. The bark is thick and smells of vanilla. We have about 50 in our yard, along with a few Douglas-fir and about a dozen aspen.
There are beautiful stands of Ponderosa east of the mountains.. Pics maybe later. The bark on this on is the right shape but definitely thinner. Everything else matches. It is very fast growing. We planted it in the yard when we moved in, now it's the biggest tree on the property.
That's the tree you're killing, in the course of building that platform, to see over the fence when the chick next door is sunbathing,
One end of your hammoc support ,
Yessiree, Bruce is right! This is some form of sausage, looking something like a salami.The following picture shows the whole thing, with the original close-up located towards the lower-left.
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And here I was going to guess "Labrat's sunburned ass":D
Hey, hey, hey!
There are some things that even we Cellarites don't joke about, RL... :mad2:
There are some things that even we Cellarites don't joke about
There are???
Can you identify this? Try to be specific.
One of the gears out of your
humongous watch?
Big-assed, insert tooth, saw blade.
One of the gears out of your humongous watch?
:lol2:
Shawnee made me snort orange juice on my keyboard. Thanks. :mad:
There are???
Labrat burning her ass would be like taking a blowtorch to the Mona Lisa. Just not funny.
Can you identify this? Try to be specific.
Hubcap off of James Bond's newest spy car? Frisbee for masochists? Decorative sunbonnet off of a Henry Moore sculpture?
Definately a saw blade. The picture looks a bit distorted which makes it appear convex. The tips are typical of that seen on a diamond tipped blade used for stone. May be from a rock quary because it looks huge.
Not stone, a sawmill. That dark staining, that's been mostly buffed off when it was reconditioned (teeth replaced), is from wood sap.
Thanks razz!
Hey, don't you hate it when someone uses one of your jokes for their own purposes and gives no credit? [/snide remark]
Yes, it's a blade from a sawmill. xoBruce wins it. Here's one with my foot for perspective:
Well hell, that's not actual size either, HLJ. Is your eye calibrated? Are you using "man-inches?" :lol:
Wingtips!... you corporate shill.
Well hell, that's not actual size either, HLJ. Is your eye calibrated? Are you using "man-inches?" :lol:
I had my lens on backward.
The picture was reflected off of a space mirror.
I have very tiny feet.
Man-inches?
Labrat burning her ass would be like taking a blowtorch to the Mona Lisa. Just not funny.
Don't worry, Labrat's ass is so hot it could start it's own fire. You can't burn something that hot.
Wingtips!... you corporate shill.
With white socks, from the look of it! :eek: geek alert. :p
Man-inches?
Let me put it this way: I have an idea for a restaurant. It's like Hooters only all the servers are men in g-strings. It's called Boners. The specialty is a foot long hot dog, but when it's served it's really only 3-4 inches. ;)
Those are FMWs!
Is that one of those acronyms from the singles section?
...With white socks, from the look of it! :eek: geek alert. :p
Oh, no. Those are grey silk.
The stupid thing was that I was touring a sawmill/plywood plant and powerplant in dress clothes and carrying my good camera. Everything was full of sawdust when I was finished. Everything. I can still taste it.
I might start a new thread in Quality Images called Industrial photos, if anyone else is interested.
Is that one of those acronyms from the singles section?
Nahh, we girls call our really high-heeled shoes FMPs (f***-me pumps.) So those are f***-me wingtips! Tres sexy!
Nahh, we girls call our really high-heeled shoes FMPs (f***-me pumps.) So those are f***-me wingtips! Tres sexy!
So I was right: SWF with FMPs seeks SWM with FMWs.
I might start a new thread in Quality Images called Industrial photos, if anyone else is interested.
YES !!!
Let me put it this way: I have an idea for a restaurant. It's like Hooters only all the servers are men in g-strings. It's called Boners. The specialty is a foot long hot dog, but when it's served it's really only 3-4 inches. ;)
LOL! Do it.
I might start a new thread in Quality Images called Industrial photos, if anyone else is interested.
YES !!!
Yes, yes.
Let me put it this way: I have an idea for a restaurant. It's like Hooters only all the servers are men in g-strings. It's called Boners. The specialty is a foot long hot dog, but when it's served it's really only 3-4 inches. ;)
"Strange wang in the palm of my hand"...
Reference noted sir
Hey, you know how Red Lobster has Lobsterfest, you could have Sausage Fest...
I've started a thread called
Industrial Photos. Does anyone have a contribution?
Do you know?
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hmmm, interesting. A bubble popping in liquid?
A CAT scan of your kidney stone?
Uh, no!
Eww. Why, would you?
Wow. You da man. Here's a better picture - I know S123 will love it:) My little Charlotte left it for me.
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omg! A bladder full of creepy crawlies. EEEEK:mg:
glatt wins!
It is a close cropped close up of the right rear limb of a monitor lizard.
Pic 01 -- uncropped close up
Pic 02 -- wider shot of the whole animal
Damn. Glatt is super good at knowing what close up things are! There should be a game show.
Pic 01 -- SonofV posing along with Godzilla
Pic 02 -- This is my good side
Aw, shucks. 'Twernt nothin' really.
So what's this?
inside of a hot air balloon top?
Yeah! Shawnee! See, it's not so hard.
Except it's really a dog's anus. No. Wait. It's a hot air balloon.
It's a dog's anus and a hot air balloon!
omg that is way too funny!
Now, were they trying to simulate a dog's anus, or is that just the way the balloon design worked out?
I think they did it on purpose, but did it in a way so that they could say with a straight face that is was just the way it came out.
lol, i like these balloon makers already!
omg that is way too funny!
Now, were they trying to simulate a dog's anus, or is that just the way the balloon design worked out?
They needed something for the other balloon dogs to sniff.
Funny-er would be to rig a line on the inside to where the center point is to control a vent where the sewed shut circle is so it could be controlled from the gondola.
Sniff this!
No lighting them though.
Bad dog!They needed something for the other balloon dogs to sniff.
Good one!
Gives new meaning to "underdog"
This is a collection of ... ?
sorry for crappy cameraphone pic. This *is* the good pic, no better one exists, but I could return to the scene of the crime with a better camera, if required.
My first thought was that they look like the probes from an ultrasound machine, and I'll keep my next thought to myself.
Nope. Here's a clue: they're related to the previous picture.
Related to...a balloon...or a dog's ass? They go up your ass? They pump radiation into your prostate gland?
I'm giving you a clue, dammit, not the friggin answer.
I leave the rest as an exercise for the student.
No, not light bulbs.
Those are the anal probes the Alpha Centaurians use when they study the natives.
I'm giving you a clue, dammit, not the friggin answer.
reeeowr!
omg. it's the fourth sign of the apocalypse. glatt missed. we're doomed.
Artificial inseminators for dog-breeding?
I was also thinking they might be something for horny bitches.
They certainly look like medical devices. Although they could be ceramic. Which would be an insulator, or something to conduct heat. We're assuming they go inside something, but maybe they don't. Maybe they heat up and are used to shape the outside of another object. A sculpting tool of some kind. Or... they are decorative ceramic handles, knobs, or pulleys for vintage furniture, or appliances.
Heat sealer probes for the balloon seams, perhaps? Or hot "knives" for working with nylon?
maybe some type of "valve stem"?
You're all warm-ish. I feel certain you'll never guess the actual purpose of these objects. I'll give a couple more clues. They are ceramic. They are a set. They are functional, not decorative. Not medical.
Utensils to help make balloon animals?
We have a Bingo! Congratulations Spexxvet, you're a winner!
I am surprised, though I shouldn't be, having experienced the collective and eclectic wisdom down here in the cellar.
These are latex balloon molds. You dip them into the liquid latex and when the rubber has cured, peel the balloon off. Now you'll probably recognize some of the shapes, no?
Nice work Spexxvet!
Ah... the classic hot-dog bun, chess piece, and anal beads.
...
Nice work Spexxvet!
Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you veramuch.
Ah... the classic hot-dog bun, chess piece, and anal beads.
One is obviously the orange juicer balloon. I wanna know what the one dead center is - it's split in two at the top.
Bunny ears? Mickey Mouse?
edit:
Like these, p'raps?..Mickey Mouse?...
Probably Mickey.
Like these, p'raps?
So there's no artistry to these balloons, you just blow 'em up, and WYSIWYG
???Whether you deedle deedle or lalala is entirely up to you; it's a free country.
I think that this is an easy one. What is this, or what is it part of? You don't need to be too specific.
Looks like bonnet and lid hydraulics on a show car.
1955 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gullwings.
Okay, so it was only the lid hydraulics. What do I win?
Well, technically, they are the doors.
But I'll split it with you!
I'm giving Elspode 2 out of 5, and beauregaardhooligan 5/5.
I took these pictures when I was in Stuttgart last month. Here are two bigger views.
There was also a bare frame on display, and an explanation that the door design was due to the frame rail location. I don't know why the style was discontinued.
I don't know why the style was discontinued.
It's a very attractive car, and I'd love to have one.
I can't help wondering though, what it was like to climb in and out of one. You might be able to stretch your foot across that door frame and place it onto the floor and then slide in and sit down all in one motion to get into the car. Then pick up your outside foot and lift it up, over and in. Getting out has got to be a major pain. You could crawl out and exit hands first onto the ground. Or stand up on the seat, all hunched over so you don't hit the door above your head and hop out, or try to do the entrance move in reverse. I don't see any handles to pull yourself up as you try to get out. Basically, it looks like a real challenge to enter and exit this car. It's that very high and wide threshold, and the lack of head room space above the door that would make it such a challenge.
To be fair, I've never tried it, and am only guessing based on the pictures. Maybe it's really easy.
glatt - now I feel stupid for not trying that when I had the chance. I was standing right there and could have been in and out before the guards could do anything.
The doors seem like they'd be good for tight parking spaces. I don't think they'd need as much side clearance as regular doors.
Edit: This is from
Wikipedia:
The 300SL was best known for both its distinctive
gullwing or
butterfly wing doors and for being the first-ever
gasoline-powered car equipped with
fuel injection directly into the combustion chamber. The gullwing version was available from March 1955 to 1957. In Mercedes-Benz fashion, the "300" referred to the engine's cylinder displacement, in this case, three liters. The "SL", as applied to a roadster, stood for
"Sport Leicht" or "Sport Light."
...
The gullwing doors, hinged at the roof and so named because the open doors resembled a bird's outstretched wings, were implemented as such to accommodate for the car's tubular chassis, designed by DBAG's chief developing engineer, Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Part of the chassis passed through what would be the lower half of a standard door.
This tubular chassis was a necessity, as the original car was designed solely for racing and needed to be as light as possible due to the rather underpowered original, carbureted, engine, while still providing a high level of strength. This required the driver and any passengers to do some gymnastics to get in or out of the car, usually by sitting on and sliding across the wide door sill. A steering wheel with a tilt-away column made the process considerably easier.
Just hope to hell you don't end upside down, trapped in a burning wreck.
PIA at drive-thru's too...
PIA at drive-thru's too...
That's very perceptive of you. I can't tell if the windows open or not. It looks like they might be hinged.
I recognized it because my brother's MotherInLaw had one.
A very unique car. Here's a link to the site I got the pic from.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~rschild/mbgc.htmlNot my turn but , Whats this ????
My guesses run out after drawer pull and bow-tie for an electronic penguin.
See, I knew that. But I always liked Liar's Club.
nope its not one of them eather
I'm guessing is has something to do with boats and lines. Fishing weight sounds good. Or some sort of hardware used in rope rigging. Not terribly precise there huh?
One of those Klingon double-bladed weapons? A backpack for a robot?
Actually, I agree with the fishing weight. The line goes through the two slits, which you squeeze shut to hold it in place.
Or its a metal bone
Zip. I have not a clue, but while we're waiting, I'll pitch this in.
Bruce sent me something about old cars and such, is what brought this to mind.
Nope ,
Nope ,
Nope ,
Nope , but good guesses all .
Now how long should this go befor it reveal what it is ??
One final guess from me, and then I give up.
You are a scales guy, right?
I'm going to guess that it's some sort of standardized weight for calibrating scales. Only thing is it looks really small for doing truck scales. But that's still my guess.
The notches, and the curvature, seem to indicate some kind of flexible, connective function. It reminds me, somehow, of a u-joint.
Ok , the thingee is a thingee for your Ipod head phones to keep the cords un tangled ,
I initionaly thaough this was the view to use ,
then this view ,
but then I thought that a safer for work view was in order
NEXT
So we were all on the right track with the wrapping lines around it approach.
Good one, zippyt.
Buster, that looks like the grille of a piece of heavy equipment, like a dozer or something?
nope, but I'll not give you, Bruce any more clues. Because you know
Zip. I have not a clue, but while we're waiting, I'll pitch this in.
Bruce sent me something about old cars and such, is what brought this to mind.
Is it part of the windshield of a Florida school bus?
cover over a small engine with a pull cord... chainsaw?
The honeycomb-like part looks like an air-filter cover from a lawn mower, and old gaskets.
Ok. If you had a car, date, friends and a few bucks back in the late 50s, 60s or perhaps the 70s you might, or should have used one of these.
Is it a speaker for ordering food at a drive in?
If not that, it must be the speaker you put inside your window when watching the movie.
Or a drive-in movie speaker. To order movie watching to get in your ear.
To order movie watching to get in your ear.
Huh?
Let me try that language out:
"To buy ice cream eating to see cherry on top."
Hi, my name is glatt, and I'm a late editor.
You said it was a drive-in speaker "to order food" so I said, maybe it is to "order" something else: the movie. Or the watching of the movie. Well, not the actual watching of the movie, but to "order" a certain part of it. To get in your ear. To order movie watching to get in your ear. Shut up.
Drive-in move speaker. In ya ear.
Yes, sky; yes, clouds. You can do better.
and more like wth? plus where's waldo?
HLJ asked if I could see myself in the tuba.
Yep. Can you?
Yes, sky; yes, clouds. You can do better.
Someone's parachute failing to open?
and more like wth? plus where's waldo?
HLJ asked if I could see myself in the tuba.
Yep. Can you?
Are you the one in the red shirt?
Yes, sky; yes, clouds. You can do better.
Wind dummies dropped from a plane before a jump.
Wind dummies dropped from a plane before a jump.
Winnnnnnnnah!
Are you the one in the red shirt?
nope.
Which narrows it down A LOT!
Winnnnnnnnah!
I have jumped after them like this:
I love you man, but no fucking way.
Hell I'd do it if'n you held my Beer !!!
better plan: toss the beer out first!
Wind dummies dropped from a plane before a jump.
and here are the jumps!
how many parachutists do you see?
one formation is called biplane when they're stacked vertically. Looks suicidal to me. I wouldn't want to be close to the other fella's canopy nor he mine.
they came down straight down, then broke, then stuck the landing!
and more like wth? plus where's waldo?
HLJ asked if I could see myself in the tuba.
Yep. Can you?
White hat, end of row?
White hat, end of row?
It was the
camera that gave me away, wasn't it?
Correct!
Cool, I have done a number of jumps out of Black Hawks. I thought it was a bit scarier than jumping out of a AC moving at 125 knots. When the Helo stands still there is a HUGE delay in your shoot opening when jumping static line. It is only a few more seconds but it seems like it lasts forever.
did the guy with the flag get booed for letting it touch the ground when he landed?
Welcome to the Cellar, think-floyd.:D
thanks bruce :) I'm a long time reader of the Iotd, and lurker of the main cellar for a while now too. Was just waiting for the right moment to butt in :D
one formation is called biplane when they're stacked vertically. Looks suicidal to me. I wouldn't want to be close to the other fella's canopy nor he mine.
That's how they mate.
This is me, last fall. Where was I, or what was I doing?
IF you're going to make my stomach roll with your injuries (ICK!) at least have the courtesy to sneak your ballbag into to picture by taking the photo from below.
BTW, if that's not blood I apologise. The ballbag request stands though.
Extreme candied apple making?
Scratching your sac with a sharp object while riding in a buckboard up a mountain is never a good idea. Blood will be drawn every time.
You had just wrecked your bike...
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You had just wrecked your bike...
Well, that's what it's supposed to
look like. (There's a clue.)
Looks like you have a "boner" there.
Uh, Halloween costume?
Yes, exactly. I thought the ham bone would give it away. (This was taken at the end of the night and most of the wound and scab effects were by then ground into the carpet.)
But there is one real scar visible on my knee from a mountain biking accident.
You were a "patient" for a medical/emergency drill of some sort.
edit: Uh, never mind.
how did it get "ground" into the carpet. what exactly were you doing?
how did it get "ground" into the carpet. what exactly were you doing?
Unfortunately, I can't post the rest of the pictures.
confetti being dropped in front of the floodlights at a nighttime sporting event.
Unfair or not, I hold you to a somewhat higher standard glatt. I regret that I must reject your answer. You are partly correct, but missing an important element.
Please try again.
Hmmm
Hundreds of flash bulbs going off in the distant stands at a night time sporting event.
Edit: Nah, it's not that.
Must be: millions of moths mobbing the .... lights at a major sporting meet.
KA-billions of moths. Correct!
nice assist glatt. nice shot zengum.
Two more for context. The bats were out that night too. I like the second picture. Kinetic, frenetic. What is the appeal of the flame for the moth anyway?
Cool pictures! Especially the long exposure one.
Why do moths do that?
I've seen some prolonged debate on it, the leading theory seems to be that moths navigate by the moon, flying either straight toward it or at a fixed angle relative to it.
If it is straight toward, then as soon as a they see a light the buzz straight in. If they are trying to keep it at an angle, say, 30 degrees to starboard, they will start to pass the light and spiral in towards it. Either way they find the light pretty fast.
Ditto the long exposure one, that's cool.
How did you do that? They didn't let a tripod into the game, did they?
Thanks both of you for your kind remarks.
I love it too.
Technically, no tripod. Braced camera... on car outside stadium. Notice we're looking at the backs of the lights. I'm outside the stadium, on the way home. The swarming picture would have warranted a video, just .. wow. But all I got was the still, and it will have to do.
More to come.
CAFE?
It must be the Corporate Average Fuel Economy building.
My serious guess is that it's a Safeway supermarket that is being torn down or sold.
nope nope
clue one: it flows neatly from previous what is it.
SAFECO Field sign?
Correct!
Congratulations barefoot serpent! The picture was taken veeerrrrryyy close to the sign from the pavement. Looking practically straight up.
Good call!
your ring, with a light shining through your hand?
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My wedding ring, the ring of fire, the symbol of our covenant, the symbol of my burnin burnin love!
You are shining your maglight into your crotch.
Tell me, does the warmth turn you on?
Correct. And no.
The two most recent pictures were taken minutes apart. I did the one with the light in my hand first, dropped the light into my lap to review the image on the display of the camera, looked down and thought it made an interesting image. The highly saturated colors at opposite ends of the spectrum struck me as a very interesting contrast. Both pictures are unedited, save resizing.
By the way, it's not a Maglite. It's from
Inova the 2L model.
First the wedding ring, then a crotch shot.
You sir, are a tease.
:lol:
Wait till he shines that light through the skin of his balls!:elkgrin:
Wait till he shines that light through the skin of his balls!:elkgrin:
Those glow from within. ;-)
A "toy". Can't quite make out the model though....
Nope. :)
Hint: Doesn't take batteries.
Some kind of fishing lure?
gutter cleaner?
enema nozzle?
not a "toy"
not a fishing lure
not cribbage board
not a dildo
not a gutter cleaner
not an enema nozzle
It's a weird-ass plastic pickle with holes in it.
It's a Self Contained Underwater Pickle Apparatus (Scupa)
not a "toy"
not a fishing lure
not cribbage board
not a dildo
not a gutter cleaner
not an enema nozzle
not a pickle
not a "Scupa" and no diving involved.
I can see we need a better picture here.
Hope this doesn't give it away.
Edit: Hold on, let me redact that trade name. There. Done.
bannanna keeper
Yes!!
It's the
Banana GuardDamn! Wish I'd seen this sooner. I bought one for my friend's husband as a stocking filler.
Holy crap that would hurt, even if it *did* fit, which it wouldn't.
:shudder:
Does this mean small, cheap present aka stocking filler is purely a Brit term? :)
A banana cozy, then. I guess you would have to use a protractor at the market to make sure your bananas would fit.
I'm going to get one as long as the Chinese make it...
I'm going to lick it to see if I can get high.............
I'm going to get one as long as the Chinese make it...
I'm going to lick it to see if I can get high.............
Make sure to take a picture.
How did you get my photo glatt?
Cropped lightly, but otherwise unedited.
A Lynyrd Skynyrd concert.
Looks more like Barry Manilow
Yer a couple of showoffs! Since you're both right *and wrong*, I'll let you twist until you get the act right. For the record, I was holding up my Zippo. Old skool baby.
Time is *definitely* up on this one. The answer is:
The Doobie Brothers!
What is this?
Clue: I bet wolf knows.
You're close. Well, not really. Good guess.
The purpose for which it was first built is similar to that kind of building, but not the same. It has a different purpose now.
Pick me! Pick me!
I'm giving a hint of the old......it was originally the VA Hospital.
Yes! You're right! You can see why I was inclined to give buster partial credit.
You can edit your post with the answer, or post anew with the answer. If you want it to remain in play, highlight your answer and then change the color to white, so it's invisible. Like this:
[COLOR="White"]
This text is invisible.[/COLOR]
See? Easy peasy!
Well from my end. The VA is a nut house! :celebrat:
bump.
Tink, answer if you wish!
this?
Good guesses! Wrong, but good.
It's an Oldsmobile. Bwahahahahahaha!
What is this?
Clue: I bet wolf knows.
The answer, which Tink already knew, is:
Amazon.com World Headquartersit's snow (moulded by the tread of a shoe)
Correct!
Wow... that lasted five *whole* minutes.
But you have to admit, it **could** have been one of those aliens in
Space Invaders.I live in Michigan. nuff said
Nope, wrong. Guess again.
Negative. No fingers appear in this frame whatsoever.
Next caller, please.
Circumsizer Merc ??
V stop showing is your Butt cheeks !!!!
for opening classy screw top bottles of wine?
Merc, thats a cigar thingy!
A thingee for trimming the foil an wine bottles
V stop showing is your Butt cheeks !!!!
My first guess!:D
Monster, Classic, Zippy.... Nope.
A tourcher device ??
"Vee Haf WAYS uf makeing you talk !!!"
The Snow Invader made me think of this pic of an African fertility sculpture I photographed in the St Louis art gallery.
Hey, that's ME! There's my NSFW picture! :lol:
It looks like the
clitoris licking frog to me. Africa, you say? Wow, was he lost.
Any more guesses on the pics I put up?
something for stripping sugar cane
Nope, but you are closer, it has to do with food.
Merc, let me just say that you rock. This is the best "what is it?" yet. I'm completely stumped.
It doesn't look like it does anything to vegetables. The tolerances are too tight to adjust to the wide variety of sizes mother nature provides there.
Something with eggs? Maybe it cleanly cuts the tops off of egg shells for soft boiled eggs? I'm just guessing here, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. I'm guessing an egg shell opener.
Merc, let me just say that you rock. This is the best "what is it?" yet. I'm completely stumped.
It doesn't look like it does anything to vegetables. The tolerances are too tight to adjust to the wide variety of sizes mother nature provides there.
Something with eggs? Maybe it cleanly cuts the tops off of egg shells for soft boiled eggs? I'm just guessing here, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. I'm guessing an egg shell opener.
My friend you smoked it!
Yes it is for eggs.
It was a table tool for the time when people ate soft boiled egs from the shell when the whole egg was poached in boiling water and then placed up right pointed bit to the top, and the dinner would then cut the top of the egg off and eat the soft egg from the shell. Congrats!
:D
What WAS V's picture? Did I miss the answer?
So do you eat soft boiled eggs, Merc? I never had one. They seem too messy, hard to eat, and a bit yucky.
What WAS V's picture? Did I miss the answer?
What WAS V's picture? Did I miss the answer?
I know, I know. Whew....scared me a bit there too!:eek: I had to call and ask him. No....not butt cheeks. Sorry V!
Armpit. It's an armpit? On second thought...I don't know....
It is a very overexposed (sorry, forgot the flash was on) shot of the
median notch on the whale flukes sculpture in the
Neototems Children's Garden.
Good one mercy! I was stumped.
So do you eat soft boiled eggs, Merc? I never had one. They seem too messy, hard to eat, and a bit yucky.
No I did not eat them. But it came from my FIL's house, my MIL is dying and we have recently cleaned out the house of all the belongings. My wife had to explain it to me as she had watched him eat them for years.
Tree, wood, bark, etc all will not qualify. You'll have to tell me more. :p
what put the dent in you car
Yeah, I was going to say that's what it looked like when my mom sideswiped the tree in our driveway once.
A beam or trunk of wood surrounded by cement in a log structure.
That bark has been stripped...so...he's making aspirin...but it's not a willow...it's an oak...?...so he's tanning leather...?
...it's an oak...?...so he's tanning leather...?
Some kinda pine.
I'm with glatt.
Either a deer or an elk was scraping their antler on the tree.
a bug.
With an evil look in his eye. Just look at him.
Either a deer or an elk was scraping their antler on the tree.
If I'm wrong I'll put $111 in the tip jar.
With an evil look in his eye. Just look at him.
I
know! But I am pretty much anti-bug in the first place. I think they're
all evil.
But Flint! I'm...I'm...I'm SICK!
*cries a little, pouts, looks for attention and affirmation*
What you need is a good firm spanking.
Either a deer or an elk was scraping their antler on the tree.
I think you are probably right. You can see the scratch going down the sap wood perfectly centered within the scar of the missing bark.
What you need is a good firm spanking.
Ok. Can I call you "Daddy"?
You can call me professor! ha ha ha I'll wear my cardigan...
I think you are probably right. You can see the scratch going down the sap wood perfectly centered within the scar of the missing bark.
I hope so. I don't really have $111.
I think you are probably right. You can see the scratch going down the sap wood perfectly centered within the scar of the missing bark.
Animals are not that neat. The scratch appears to follow the grain of the wood.
I still say "lightning."
Anything would have a natural tendency to follow the grain of the wood. You'd have to try not to.
P.S. Your line sticks out farther...or is it further? Either way, I'd ban you for that shit, If I was the boss of these parts.
Anything would have a natural tendency to follow the grain of the wood. You'd have to try not to.
P.S. Your line sticks out farther...or is it further? Either way, I'd ban you for that shit, If I was the boss of these parts.
What do you mean my line sticks out further? (I'm just blessed that way!)
As for the scratch, I've seen a few deer scrapes, and they are not neat and usually more than just one. It takes a lot of force to peel of a big strip of bark like that.
What do you mean my line sticks out further?
It means your handle is longer than the rest of ours. That means you're a non-conformist and that leads us to believe you are a witch.
The fact that UnderFreud let you get away with it means he has a PRO-Witch
Agenda!!
Y'all been eating moldy rye bread again?
Don't make me touch you with my noodly appendage.
[jan bradyhooligan]HEY, why does beauregaard always get the longer line? beauregaard, beauregaard, beauregaard.[/jan bradyhooligan]
I still say "lightning."
Oh, so do I. I can't change my answer now. It was the first answer to pop into my head, but now I'm not so sure. HLJ may be putting the tip jar over the top.
what put the dent in you car
LMAO! Funniest!
Either a deer or an elk was scraping their antler on the tree.
[foreshadowing]I got a bad feeling about this one...[/foreshadowing]
a bug.
wth? You're eyesight is either much better or much worse than mine.....
If I'm wrong I'll put $111 in the tip jar.
(psssst.. you should be reaching for your wallet about now...)
[Quote=glatt]
I think you are probably right. You can see the scratch going down the sap wood perfectly centered within the scar of the missing bark.
I hope so. I don't really have $111.[/quote]Yep. That's gonna hurt.
lightning strike
Winnah. Smart money doesn't bet against the glatt. glatt, were you the kind of kid who turned immediately to the Eyeball Benders puzzle in Games Magazine too? You're good. Real good.
Lightning strike is right. Technically, I reckon it struck somewhere higher then ran past the spot in the first photo *reallyfast* on its way to earth. Very cool. Killed the power in the house. Indescribably loud.
A couple more pics of the tree. The lightning hit the tree much farther up (of course) and followed the highly conductive (wet) path of least resistance to earth along this line. Under the bark, where the sap was instantly turned to steam, exploding this strip of bark right off the tree. Very very cool! It's Science!
Pic 01 -- Looking upward at the path of the strike.
Pic 02 -- The puddle of bark like an enormous woolly noodle.
:)
It seemed to miss a spot. A small stretch of bark is still intact.
How do we know it wasn't just a really big deer?
OK, I was wrong. I've paid the piper.
(P.S. On the paypal site, it says,
Your order is being shipped to
and it lists my home address. So I guess I now own the Cellar. I wonder how they'll ship it.)
you should dig around the base of the tree to see if there are any
fulgerites.:)
It seemed to miss a spot. A small stretch of bark is still intact.
I noticed that too. A drier spot? The bark was more tightly adhered there? The conductive path was deeper? A vent / crack in the bark we can't see that relieved the pressure? I don't know.
How do we know it wasn't just a really big deer?
OK, I was wrong. I've paid the piper.
(P.S. On the paypal site, it says,
Your order is being shipped to
and it lists my home address. So I guess I now own the Cellar. I wonder how they'll ship it.)
You, sir, are the man, and a helluva good sport too. I'll try to find some more pictures with deer strikes in them just for you. :)
What is this? A pretty easy one, I admit. The follow ups will be interesting.
Oh look the tip mug is full...! Well done gents, and thanks.
It's a circle of lights reflected in someone's eyeball... now, if you're looking for me to tell you what the lights are, you're out of luck.
Looks like warp speed captain! Beam me up Scotty.
How'd you get a pic of my last abduction by aliens?
My God, it's full of stars!
It looks a photograph of the video monitor displaying someone's eye. Those lights are like the lights of an LED light ring used in macro photography.
Didn't you post this picture a few years ago in a thread about Tink's lasik eye surgery?
Edit: So I went back and searched for that old thread,
and found it, but the pictures from back then are different. So it's not necessarily Tink's eye.
Yea, I'm with the thought that it is an eyeball close up too.
an pic of an eye as seen from a survalence cam ,
The new ones have a r ring of leds around the lense
Ok this is a Hard one ,
Man, for a minute there, I thought you were gonna post a pic of your wanger.
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sorry that's so obvious... it's much darker in my screen than jims :blush:
zippy, looks like a penny after being run over by something heavy or a knick out of a piece of copper wire or bar.
I have to agree with Merc. It looks like a nicked copper wire. If it was black around the area, I might say it was a spot on a wire where a short had occured, but it really looks more like a nick.
That is a cool picture of the hippo, though. All dark and mysterious.
Whoopi Goldberg?
Democratic national stratagist, lurking beneath the surface of Hitlery Clintons campaign.
Glatt and Merc are close enough ,
it is a pic of a rubbed hole in a copper hydrolic line , 2-3 other tech looked for 2 day for it , I found it in about 30 minuets ,
To show how small it is the ruler is a 6" scale 1/32' on top 1/64' on the bottom .
Something that floats across the surface of my eyeball...
Looks like a string of penii.
But man I hate those things.
I'd heard they were in the vitreous humor, which I do not find funny at all, but thought that was on the outside of the eyeball, not inner jelly.
So I guess spraying myself in the eyeball with a fire hose won't fix it.
zippy, I hope that was not on a aircraft!
Inside your eye, actually.
I have those :greenface
They're more clear and grey than the brownish color shown in the article's picture.
What is this? A pretty easy one, I admit. The follow ups will be interesting.
Sorry for the long delay.... Yes. This is a picture of a tv screen whose camera is pointed at my eye. SonofV and I went to the Pacific Science Center and one of the hands on displays had a tethered video microscope, with this ring of leds. I held it up to my eye, watched the image on the television, and snapped this picture. It was cooler in person, I must admit.
More (different subject) what is it tomorrow!
Resized only, otherwise unedited.
What is it?
Four minutes. glatt must be on a call.
HLJ, you're a winner!!!
I recently bought an underwater enclosure for my camera, a Canon Powershot A710IS, and this Saturday I had a chance to take some pictures at the pool. This was one of them.
It is some young girl's fake fingernail. The white stripe is on the underside, hidden in this view. Putting aside for a moment the kind of gross thoughts about what exactly I'm swimming in, like, say, detached (fake) fingernails, I do like the colors in this picture. It's better when resized smaller, like... 1/2 to 1/3 of the shot above. The overlapping layers of translucent blue seem to be additive in the bottom of the frame, and the hot pink is a nice contrast.
I may repost this one and some others in the
Underwater Photography thread for further discussion.
if i were you i would adjust the WB on that a little towards the cool. the blues end up more like grays on that one.
Srsly, no offence, V, but how is it not obvious that that is a false fingernail?
That roof you installed yourself... while taking LSD?
The inside bits of a photovoltaic cell?
The bottom of the swimming pool?
The scales on Picasso's pet fish.
You guys are all so funny!
Here are a couple slightly wider shots with dead giveaway clues. Then I'll tell.
You bet your bippy.
Numerous images here. This one is excellent.
I must also say, I found it very very difficult to photograph. The skin in this section is polished to a mirror finish, as you can see by the reflection of the top of the Space Needle in the third shot, but the pink/purple/orange sections where they reflect only the blue sky look grainy and dirty. They are not. And the colors are... well, impossible to capture. Evoke, perhaps. Communicate, maybe. But it is a poor facsimile. T'was much fun to visit, and lovely to see, and maddening to photograph.
1st one is the morning after camping in the rain, and the wet tarp is draped over the soggy camper's torso and legs.
2nd one is a flower blossom.
Nice work as usual, glatt.
Yes, the first one is me. But I'm not actually soggy. Dewy, yes, soggy, no. It was soooo hot and humid that despite the clear skies, the air was heavy with moisture. It was warm enough to sleep under the stars and I took that rare chance. I made the yellow groundcloth/tarp you see here out of 1.1 oz silicone impregnated ripstop nylon. Very light, and quite waterproof. But I didn't count on how slippery it was (it is *very* slippery) and it didn't stay on all night. So I got a little damp. My down bag, the red/black underneath was wet on the surface too, but dry inside.
The second picture is the base of a still-furled california poppy, taken on a walk to the grocery store the other day. The colors are incredible. Here's a complete uncropped shot.
I wasn't sure if the dampness on the tarp was on the outside or inside. I've had it rain inside a tent on a few occasions where my breath condensed on the inside of the tarp on a cool night and then dripped down.
Banding tools, the ratchet and the crimper.
tensegrity sphere type thing?
Correct!
Welcome to the cellar, Nagirroc. Curious... how did you know about those tools? I'm assuming you didn't just read through the thread...
It's a ball made out of guitar strings.
That roof you installed yourself... while taking LSD?
lol
ok i have a good one.
any takers?
That is a good one. My first thought is frog's eggs, but they are pretty jagged for that.
Looks like the stuff on the inside of one of those kid's kaleidoscopes.
If it's eggs, are the blue ones boys and the pink ones girls?
You'd think that, but to tell the sexes apart, you have to pull down their genes.
It's that damn glitter on greeting cards that gets all over you and invariably leaves a small speck of glitter just under your right eye and everyone looks at you like you're stupid. Or maybe that's just me.
Human cells of some kind.
mercenary is the closest so far...i think i'll let this keep going a bit longer.
I thought it had to do with sieve chromatography. They look like they are some kind of gelatin which is dyed.
when i get home from work today in 9 hours i will reveal exactly what it is
well fine...no ones guessing so i'll give a clue,
its from a female specimen
nope, buh.
its urine.
spun in a centrifuge, smeared on a slide then stained using the papanicolaou stain, the blue and pink cells are squamous cells, and the tiny blue/purple specks are bacteria. female specimens using have more squam's and bacteria because the urine comes in contact with more outside tissue than a male specimen
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You're both right, but UT got there first.
your fingers holding a hunk of ice with leaves in it.
well, it does seem a bit early for ice, so you just may be right.
Nope.
Yes, my fingers do appear in the shot. That's not enough, though, really.
OK, it's the leftovers from a crock pot roast that you dumped out of the tupperware container and into your hand. And it's mostly that congealed gel.
Hehehe... good guesses. Really wrong though.
How about a clue? Here it is as I found it, before I picked it up.
Alien larvae
Hehehe... good guesses. Really wrong though.
Whew, never been so glad to be wrong.
It's the Blob. Please store in freezer.
dead jellyfish
Jesus, glatt, you're out of shape. Two hours and forty minutes?! wtf?
This (these?) is (are?) the remains of a large Lion's Mane jellyfish I found on the beach at low tide while camping this weekend. It didn't smell strongly of anything, only slightly of seawater. It was quite heavy, a couple of pounds, easy. It held together solidly, like a big clear steak. But not
this big. :eek::eek:
Jesus, glatt, you're out of shape. Two hours and forty minutes?! wtf?
I need more practice.
Ok, here you go.
What is this?
It shoots pressurized air through that nozzle, into something that is latched down, until you release the mechanism by pulling that rope. It launches...something.
aw no fair Flint, you beat me to it.
It's a toy rocket launcher.
I was just guessing. But, cool! I want one.
Did I ever tell you guys about my acetylene torch powered PVC potato gun?
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiitt I knew that one too.
You're right!
It's a water rocket launcher. Fill a one liter plastic water bottle halfway, put the cork in the mouth of the bottle and lower it onto the latches. The red hose is connected to a bicycle pump. Pump it up to about 80 - 100 psi, then pull the string which releases the locking arms. Whooooooosh! My rocket sucked. Nobody likes an acrobatic rocket, but you do make the highlight reel. The best perfoming rocket had a hang time of about twelve seconds.
Its like one of those small red rockets kids used to play with way back when. Do they still make them?
This is the one - what a blast I had as a kid with my friends shooting them at each other.
Man, maybe my mind is in the gutter but I would never have guessed that thing on the bottom is supposed to be a kids' toy...
I was just guessing. But, cool! I want one.
Did I ever tell you guys about my acetylene torch powered PVC potato gun?
I've read about an oxy acetylene potato gun that shot a potato from 50 feet through a 1/2 sheet of CDX.
What is this?
Reflection of camera flash in Dracula's bloody eyeball.
a light source reflected in stretched red latex.
I've read about an oxy acetylene potato gun that shot a potato from 50 feet through a 1/2 sheet of CDX.
Nah, this wasn't oxygenated, just a regular copper-sweating tank. We were afraid to do anything but shoot it straight up in the air--didn't want to kill anybody!
@BigV: You've pitched a tent inside the house.
That is under the water in a pool shooting the sun.
What is this?
a ceramic bead?
big V- the sun reflected in/on ???
a pretty ceramic anal bead?
A Cardassian gonad?
Close ! Well not really! ;) It is a 500 year old 3 eyed Tibetan Dzi {Zee} bead.
tokestone - if its not, it should be. Pbbbllllt!
eh! If you've seen one 500 year old 3 eyed Tibetan Dzi {Zee} bead, you've seen 'em all.
eh! If you've seen one 500 year old 3 eyed Tibetan Dzi {Zee} bead, you've seen 'em all.
:right:
dZi beads of the Himalayas
The most desirable of all beads in Tibet and the Himalayan regions is the dZi (GZi, Ghzi, Zi, Tzi) stone. DZi (pronounced zee or in some regions zur) is the Tibetan word for this most unusual decorated bead. The word Dzi translates as 'brightly burnished', 'luminous' or 'splendor' and ancient beads readily command thousands of dollars in the marketplace. Some original beads are thought to be thousands of years old and are now extremely rare. These ancient beads have a rich history in Tibetan folklore and Himalayan legend. The Tibetan people believe that only a person with extremely good 'karma' will have the fortune of owning such a bead. Some Tibetans say they originated around 3000 BCE which would make some beads 5000 years old, however, it is unclear as to the exact place of origin, their time of manufacture, or even how long they have been in existence. The earliest known records of Dzi are thought to date back to the time of King Gesar of Ling. It is widely believed that he reigned a little over 1000 years ago between the 7th and 9th Centuries CE. However, some historians say he could have lived even earlier (4th Century CE). The fact that they are shrouded in so much mystery is perhaps why they have become one of the most valuable beads known to man.
Are they a gift from the realm of the Gods, or are they Man-made?
There are many myths and legends that follow Dzi. Probably the main Himalayan belief is that they are not of earthly origin. Some say that they are dropped from the heavens by Gods to benefit those who have the good karma to find them. Because Dzi are thought to have divine origin, they are considered to be a precious and powerful amulet. Dzi stones can often be seen in Tibetan Monasteries adorning the most revered statues and sacred relics. You will also see them worn throughout the Himalayan regions. They are thought to bring good luck, ward off evil, and protect the wearer from physical harm and illness. It has even been claimed by Tibetan refugees that they protect the wearer from knife and bullet attacks!
Another belief is that they are the precious droppings of the 'Garuda'. These droppings fall to the ground when he flies through the sky. The Garuda has special importance in the tantric teachings of Tibetan Buddhism where he is sometimes seen as a manifestation of Guru Rinpoche. In the Hindu legends, the Garuda is seen as the steed of Vishnu and is recognized throughout the Himalayas. One story doing the rounds on the net is that a Taiwanese businessman escaped from a plane crash where there were only two survivors. He claimed that this was thanks to the Dzi he had recently purchased for protection. As a result of this story hitting the media, Dzi stones in Taiwan have become extremely sought after. Taiwan is also the place where most 'new' Dzi are being made.
In the practice of Tibetan Medicine powdered Dzi stone is mixed with ground gold, silver and pearl to produce medicinal pills (Tib: ril bu) with potent healing properties. Dzi are sometimes used by Tibetan Thangka painters to apply gold leaf to important paintings. It is also said that those who own a pure dZi will receive blessings directly from the Dragon King Nagarijun. Protection from illness and disease is therefore bestowed. A pure Dzi may also bring longevity, fortune, wealth and power. Tibetan people do not readily part with their Dzi. In fact it is not considered favorable to sell a dZi that has been in the family for generations. This is another reason that authentic Dzi are so scarce.
Each bead is unique in its appearance. Physical evidence shows that beads were decorated with chemical treatments and not etched as previously believed. This practice has been used since at least 2500 BCE. It is believed that agate was made darker by soaking it in a sugar rich solution and then heated, this process will caramelize the sugar and turn the agate brown. Acid treatments will burn the sugar until it turns the bead black. The majority of ancient agate beads have had some kind of treatment, even natural looking beads may have been darkened.
When purchasing a Dzi it is the intricate and unique designs that are valued greater. They command high prices and are difficult to come by. Some universally recognized patterns are zig zags, diamonds, nets, circles, squares, waves, and stripes. Colors will mainly range from browns to blacks with the pattern usually being in ivory white. Having said this, Dzi beads can appear in different colors, shapes and sizes. The most valuable of all beads is thought to be the Nine-Eyed or 13 Eyed Dzi. Generally beads that have 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 or 13 eyes are the most sought after. Next, it is Dzi that have unusual designs, inclusions and colors. Following these are beads that display an even number of eyes. Two Eyed Dzi appear to be more available in the marketplace than other designs, so they are priced lower. Then we have striped Dzi called Chung, the tabular Dzi called Luk Mik and other Dzi known as Tasso (Horse Tooth) and Tiger Dzi that are prized and collected. Lastly we have the natural ancient agates that were traded from Southern and Western Asia. Some Tibetans also name the more common natural agates as Chung Dzi. This is because they are made from the same material as authentic Dzi So they have become and are known as a lesser quality Dzi. However, Tibetans do not value natural agates in the same way as genuine eyed beads and authentic striped Chung Dzi, so natural agates are very much seen as their own distinct type of collectible bead.
Why are people prepared to pay so much money for a stone bead?
Well the same thought can be applied to rare diamonds, other rare gems or collectible treasures. In the Himalayas, Dzi are never thought of as just beads. They are seen as the rarest of precious gems that have the power to protect and bestow immense spiritual blessing. Dzi beads have been purchased, traded and even found by generations of Tibetans and Himalayan peoples. Apparently a good place to find a Dzi was near to a rock pool or hot spring. Some legends state that Dzi beads were once insect type creatures that crawled like worms. The moment they were touched by human hands they would be petrified and turned into Dzi. Tibetans even claim that their cattle would mistakenly eat this creature whilst grazing and would soon give birth to a Dzi!!
There is a story that tells of a man who once saw one of these crawling creatures. He threw his hat over it in an attempt to catch it. When he removed the hat, the insect had miraculously turned into a beautiful Dzi. Another legend tells us that the Dzi originated from a sacred mountain in Tibet. In ancient times, a stream was said to flow down its slopes. One day an evil sorcerer cast a spell upon the mountain and the flow immediately stopped. Today, a wealth of designs are seen on some Dzi beads, like a mountain and stream frozen in place. Many designs are said to predate Buddhism and they speak of a time when Tibetans were deeply connected to the natural environment. Designs are often compared to natural elements like the water, earth and sky and some beads display characteristics of animals both mythical and real -- like the dragon or tiger.
BigV - the light reflected off the surface of a bowling ball?
What is this?
A light.
Reflection of camera flash in Dracula's bloody eyeball.
a light source reflected in stretched red latex.
@BigV: You've pitched a tent inside the house.
That is under the water in a pool shooting the sun.
*clears throat and taps foot*
This? (Classic made me remember this thing.)
huh? How the heck did I remind you of that?
This is the one - what a blast I had as a kid with my friends shooting them at each other.
Dude? Old toys?
Merlin and the bead kinda look like each other.... ish.
Dude? Old toys?
that was along time ago - Geez I was only a kid then!
From
imager.cc ... WTF is going on here?
home made rear screen projection
looks like three monitors, from the holes cut in the table. I knew you could connect two monitors to a pc, but didn't know about three.
Yes, yes, I get all that, I work on PACS systems that have three or four monitors; what I'm curious about is how the projection system works.
Well, the screen has curvature, so it's most likely made of a thin sheet of plexiglass from a hardware store. Something like tissue paper is on the back of the screen to be a surface that the image will focus upon.
Under the table are projectors that are bounced against the mirrows and onto the screen. Alignment of the three projectors into one seamless image seems like it would be a huge challenge, but they did a really good job.
With the mirrors as part of the optic system, the projectors would need to be set up to project a reverse image.
OMG. My dad had a MERLIN. I used to get in trouble for leaving it on. It kicked ass.
lol...I thought I was some technical goddess with that thing! I LOVED it.
What is this? I took this picture one week ago.
I had to look up what the material pictured is, and was somewhat surprised to see that it is polyurethane foam. I thought it was ceramic, but needed to double check.
Really? Phony concrete then.
Well, they were trying to save money.
Want any hints?
Nah, let it go awhile and see what guesses come up. :D
Park bench/table next to a wall.
Uh, a glider? (porch glider. outdoor couch with swinginess)
Nope. It glides through the air.
It's foam, but the foam is just the outer skin. It's metal underneath.
If it looks big, that's because it is big.
Good enough!
It's the flaps from the wing of the Enterprise space shuttle and the side of the tail. The Enterprise never flew in space, so it had no engines and the heat tiles were made only of foam. (I didn't know that.) But it flew several missions in the Earth's atmosphere, taken up onto the back of a 747 and gliding down.
See the yellow circle for the area of the shot.
Where did you see that? Did you get to see inside?
I think I need to hit the Air Force museum this summer.
I'm surprised the gaps between tiles are so pronounced.
Where did you see that? Did you get to see inside?
It's at the Air and Space Museum annex out by Dulles airport. It's relatively new. I had been meaning to get out there for a few years, but never did. The kids were never old enough for it to be worthwhile. Until now. And even then, they were kind of bored. It's a bit overwhelming, there are so many planes there, and very few interactive exhibits like kids love.
You couldn't look inside this shuttle, but you could get really close to it.
If you like aircraft, the museum's got
a lot of really cool ones. The official name is the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.Udvar-Hazy put up big bucks to get his name on that place. He's a very interesting guy.
What is this?
Sorry I am so late in addressing this one. I've been quite busy.
It is hard to explain what it is. This is a close up of a display at the Pacific Science Center. It is a sphere filled with a liquid that has a pearlescent aspect to it. The sphere is completely full of this liquid. It is pretty big, about a foot across. The sphere is encased in a transparent cylinder and the whole affair is attached to a turntable like a lazy susan.
The idea is that you can spin the apparatus around faster and faster and get the liquid going faster too, but lagging. And the equator moves faster than the poles. Then it's fun to stop the apparatus and watch the liquid swirl and eddy in confusion.
Here is a bigger picture of SonofV experimenting on a subsequent trip.
What is this?
frost/ice crystals on the edge of your car hood?
It is hard to explain what it is. This is a close up of a display at the Pacific Science Center. It is a sphere filled with a liquid that has a pearlescent aspect to it. The sphere is completely full of this liquid. It is pretty big, about a foot across. The sphere is encased in a transparent cylinder and the whole affair is attached to a turntable like a lazy susan.
The idea is that you can spin the apparatus around faster and faster and get the liquid going faster too, but lagging. And the equator moves faster than the poles. Then it's fun to stop the apparatus and watch the liquid swirl and eddy in confusion.
Sounds like a mini Jupiter. Cool.
frost/ice crystals on the edge of your car hood?
Correct. The roof of the car Monday morning was covered with frost. But this was quite unusual. Each little ice crystal was a little rod that stood up. The effect was like fur or velvet.
Another pic for context later.
Hoar.
Seems like I read sumthin' about each hoarfrost crystal grows under a speck of dirt or dust. I've seen it quite often early in the morning, it doesn't last long.
My turn.
Looks like a car radio?
Not audio but...
I guess I won't be giving much away by saying that it's a close up.
The face is probably an inch and a 1/4 across.
Oh, well if it's not audio it must be a super iodine laser aimed, charcoal boilered, ruby axel bearinged, Transmogrifier. :haha:
I have absolutely no idea what it is. Clearly, it's got an electronic component to it. But the rest looks rather strange. Reminds me of some sort of specialized lab equipment.
Edit: It looks like some sort of clear chamber containing a weird mixture of fluids that don't actually mix, with some sort of electronic sensor off to one side.
Nice, xoB. In about 18 minutes I'da been agreeing with you!
...Clearly, it's got an electronic component to it...
Edit: It looks like some sort of clear chamber...
Not a chamber, it's solid.
and light emits through the colors? I believe the lenses are missing from the image. . . Am I even close?
and light emits through the colors? I believe the lenses are missing from the image. . . Am I even close?
Ex*treme*ly close, classicman.
The colors you see are not relevant to the function.
Ex*treme*ly close, classicman.
The colors you see are not relevant to the function.
The worst part is.... I know I've seen that i the past and because of my misspent youth I cannot remember what it is. The memory is there, but I cannot grasp it firmly.
I have no recall left - just recognition. :eyebrow:
the thing to the far left looks a lot like a CCD. Is the clear (full of spots) hunk in the middle a prism? It almost looks like it has a diagonal seam in it for splitting a beam. If it works with lenses, it must be part of some sort of scanner, like a photocopier.
A video projector.
DingDingDing!
We have a winner!
That view is of the business end of the heart of a 3LCD projector.
The corner of one of the LCDs is visible with the orange ribbon connector coming out the top.
Here is the full size photo.
glatt came close with the CCD and the diagonal seam.
It's actually two prisms joined to make a cube.
The color blotches are from the glue/epoxy used to attach the mount to the cube.
The angle of the shot accentuates that, but it does not interfere with the function.
Here are some shots of the stripped down cube.
It also has a di-chroic coating which makes for a really eye-catching bauble to put in a sunny window.
These shots are of the same cube at different angles.
In the second shot you can see a double reflection of my camera lens.
The company I work for installs and services audio/video equipment, and I took apart a dead projector to remove the circuit boards which are considered hazardous waste and can't be thrown in the trash.
There were also lots of lens, mirrors, and pieces of filtered/polarized glass in the "light tunnel assembly" as it's called.
A lamp sends light through the tunnel and probably a dozen lens/mirrors/filters before it is sent through the LCDs which actually form the image.
The image then comes out the open face of the cube before going through the focusing lens which projects it onto a screen/wall.
{Honorable mention to classicman, you almost had it!}
I call dibs one of those cube thingies if you ever get a chance to take another one apart!!
Cool!
I'm confused, did this one project in three directions?
I'm confused, did this one project in three directions?
Nope, other way around.
The light tunnel split the light beam into 3 sources with {I assume} different qualities, then through the LCDs.
The double prism cube joins the 3 image sources into one which comes out the open face viewed in the 1st shot.
LabRat, I'll let you know if one comes available.
I thought it had one diagonal seam, but it looks like it has two seams. It makes much more sense to me now, considering the paths the 3 light sources must take to combine onto the screen into one image.
Thanks, beauregaardhooligan, for a great "what is this."
Nice diagram, glatt.
As for the seam, I'm pretty sure there's just one.
You can see it pretty clearly in the 1st and last nekkid cube pix.
Ah, now I got it. I wonder if the first dichroic mirror is different from the second, or if red does indeed get twice the light of the other two colors?
Thanks, beauregaardhooligan, for a great "what is this."
Thank *you* sir, and everyone else, for riding theCellar.org amusement park.
Please keep all appendages in the car,
and feed the toad.
As for the seam, I'm pretty sure there's just one.
You can see it pretty clearly in the 1st and last nekkid cube pix.
I think there have to be two seams, otherwise one of the 3 colors won't make it onto the screen. One is very clear in the nekkid cube pictures, but there is a faint hint of another. Maybe I'm just imagining that I see it, but I'm 99% certain it has to be there, so I think it is.
Ah, now I got it. I wonder if the first dichroic mirror is different from the second, or if red does indeed get twice the light of the other two colors?
That is beyond my fathoming, xoB. I don't think the light is broken down by the R/G/B colors, but I dunno.
I *do* know that there are some polarized/tinted pieces between 2 of the LCDs and the cube, but most of the refracting/color separation occurs before the LCDs.
It's quite the wonder.
Now they're displaying projectors at the CES the size of an iPod!
DickTracy is right around the corner, folks.
Hold on to your data, it's gonna be a wild ride!
I think there have to be two seams, otherwise one of the 3 colors won't make it onto the screen. One is very clear in the nekkid cube pictures, but there is a faint hint of another. Maybe I'm just imagining that I see it, but I'm 99% certain it has to be there, so I think it is.
I'm guessing that is an internal reflection of the seam within the prism?
I'll look more closely when I get home.
I thought a dichroic mirror passed, and reflected, half the light... but not so.
A dichroic filter or thin-film filter is a very accurate color filter used to selectively pass light of a small range of colors while reflecting other colors. By comparison, Dichroic mirrors and dichroic reflectors tend to be characterized by the color(s) of light that they reflect, rather than the color(s) they pass.
Thanks for the edumacation, Beau. :D
Thanks, xoB!
I got a chance to ask our service tech, and he said that it *does* break the light down into RGB for the LCDs, and the prisms put it back together.
glatt, you were right, there *are* two seams.
The cube is made from 4 prisms.
Then I got to thinking about the dichroic coating and if it's just on the internal faces or all sides of the prisms.
{I think it's just internal}
...then I wondered which faces are tinted for which colors.
...then I tried to imagine assembling one and keeping the colors straight
,,,then I boggled at the tolerances required to make such a seam optically perfect.
...then my brain turned into a torus.
:confused: (oh a torus, not taurus.) :D
Thanks, xoB!
I got a chance to ask our service tech, and he said that it *does* break the light down into RGB for the LCDs, and the prisms put it back together.
glatt, you were right, there *are* two seams.
The cube is made from 4 prisms.
Then I got to thinking about the dichroic coating and if it's just on the internal faces or all sides of the prisms.
{I think it's just internal}
...then I wondered which faces are tinted for which colors.
...then I tried to imagine assembling one and keeping the colors straight
,,,then I boggled at the tolerances required to make such a seam optically perfect.
...then my brain turned into a torus.
I doubt the prisms have a Dichroic coating. They are recombining the three colors
But anyway, that's the coolest paperweight ever. :D
mmmmmmmm toruuuuusssssss.
But anyway, that's the coolest paperweight ever. :D
Absolutely! If I had one, I'd play around with it using a laser pointer. I think the laser would bounce through in some directions but not in others. Fun to try it out.
Laser pointer and a crystal chandelier. :thumb:
Beauregaardhooligan's cube is the new mirror ball. :D
glatt, I've got a laser pointer so I'm gonna try that!
I'll see if I can get a good .avi with my camera and try to post it.
ZenGum, keep your distance, you zombie.
You might want to wear sunglasses when experimenting with a laser pointer.
You might want to wear sunglasses when experimenting with a laser pointer.
Good point, HLJ, Thanks!
Maybe some welding glasses?
You might just do a test first. Hold the glasses in one hand and point the laser at them to see how much of the beam goes through. I think different colors of lasers require different types of glasses.
OOooo... xoB, nice signature!
I'm honored.
HLJ, I appreciate the input, that hadn't occurred to me.
I don't expect the light to come out through the top or bottom,
so I'm going to try to rig something up from pieces/parts to make it turn on a flat plane/turntable type of gizatchmo.
Then I'll stand above it with my shades to minimize exposure.
You could try it with a regular penlight also. See what happens with white light. ;)
Finally got something rigged up.
How can I post a .MOV file here?
[youtube]iA3ai8myDg4[/youtube]
Quote this post to see how it's written. ;)
I thought a dichroic mirror passed, and reflected, half the light... but not so.
Thanks for the edumacation, Beau. :D
And I am wondering under what conditions one would use these mirrors. Anyone know?
They separate colors by reflecting one and letting everything else pass through, but except for applications like the projector, I can't think of a use other than jewelry.
[youtube]iA3ai8myDg4[/youtube]
Quote this post to see how it's written. ;)
????
But I didn't even...
...and I never even...
...so how did you know where...
????
You *are* a wizard!
{I still don't know how to do it.}
They separate colors by reflecting one and letting everything else pass through, but except for applications like the projector, I can't think of a use other than jewelry.
Border security?
What is this?
To be fair, I have only resized this to dimensions more suitable for posting here. Yes, it *is* horribly overexposed. That's the only thing obscuring the obvious reality of the subject.
strawberry milk shake froth
I was thinking along the lines of Pico's guess.
Tongue?
Well no, but thanks for asking. :lol:
ice cream
human flavor... ..popular with wampires.
Worthy.
Oh, sorry, thought this was word association thread. My bad.
Worthy.
Thanks, I'm flattered!
It's corned beef. The first picture is blown out by the flash. What I was trying to do was capture the rainbow iridescence of the meat. I don't understand why this is this way. I sometimes see it in pork, but rarely in beef.
I smoked this brisket a couple weeks ago. It tasted great, and it was done, 165 in the center, but the meat could have continued cooking for another eight hours. It was not very tender.
Still, in this picture, you can make out the color difference in the muscle bundles. What makes it look that way?
What causes iridescent colors on meats?
Meat contains iron, fat, and other compounds. When light hits a slice of meat, it splits into colors like a rainbow. There are various pigments in meat compounds that can give it an iridescent or greenish cast when exposed to heat and processing. Wrapping the meat in airtight packages and storing it away from light will help prevent this situation. Iridescence does not represent decreased quality or safety of the meat.
but you knew that. :haha:
I didn't before but I do know.
Thank you, sir.
Iridescence does not represent decreased quality or safety of the meat.
Still, when I see glowing meat, I steer clear.
[SIZE="1"]disclaimer: this was not meant to be a double-entendre. Please refrain from the obvious joke. Thank you.[/SIZE]
She said steer - get it? steer? lol
Yeah, I meant that pun. Really. I did. ;)
Thanks for reminding me I'm clever even when I don't know it. :lol:
But but but, I love green eggs and ham. :D
You would, Sam. :lol:
Seriously, are we just assuming that the ham is green? The eggs must be, but are eggs and ham a collective or individual entities (in which case one must say green eggs and green ham?)
Anyway, I love Dr Masseuse!
Trivia - a green ham is one that has been cured but not smoked. I've had it. It's pretty good.
cd on a piece of glass with soapy water between them.
cd on a piece of glass with soapy water between them.
Teapot lid
You guy share credit for this on.
I put a cd over my cup of hot coffee as a lid to keep it warm while I was away from my desk. When I returned, this was what I saw.
Nice work guys.
The symetry of the bubbles is amazing. Ok, well not really but it is cool.
Trick question: What is this?
...I smoked this brisket a couple weeks ago...
Does it get you as high as smoking pot?
It looks like a lanyard where the pattern's been photoshopped into a larger image. (Though I only make the editing claim because you said it was a trick question. In general it just looks like a lanyard.)
No editing (in fact, this is the first pic that I took and uploaded directly to flickr from my new phone). Not a basket (though perhaps partial credit), and not a lanyard.
You can get a larger view by clicking the image, and then "All Sizes".
It looks like a lanyard where the pattern's been photoshopped into a larger image. (Though I only make the editing claim because you said it was a trick question. In general it just looks like a lanyard.)
Yeah.. made with
this stuff: gimp, lace, lanyard, craft strip...
A trivet? You set hot pots on them?
Does it get you as high as smoking pot?
Riiiiiight.
I'll pass, thanks.
OK [SIZE="6"]V[/SIZE][SIZE="2"]Just pass it over here.[/SIZE]
those look like soda bottle caps organized into a very pleasing pattern.
Glatt wins! It is the lids of my seltzer bottles (
previously). The trick in the trick question is that I'm not sure what the end result is going to be. It could be a trivet (partial credit to Gravdigr). I'm also thinking about making it into a box (BigV's partial credit).
That much seltzer would make me fart 24/7. :haha:
Well, that was quick!
No more callers, please, we have a winner. Congratulations zippyt!
R2-D2 pole dancing. Oh, darn. I'm too late.
R2-D2 pole dancing. Oh, darn. I'm too late.
BEST ANSWER!!!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah but she probably had help... from her patients. :nuts:
This one is kinda obvious, so let's be specific.
Just below the window, to the right of the back door?
*clap clap clap clap clap clap clap*
Very close LabRat, but I'll let you have it.
Same idea, but different bug.
Those are the tracks of the Emerald Ash Borer.
The Dutch Elm Disease was a fungus spread by a bug. I don't believe the EAB spreads a fungus, it just eats all the growth layer out from under the bark and the trees die. You can tell there is a big difference in the way the tracks run.
There are ash trees dieing in Ohio and other states also right now from these things. Many communities are having to take down huge numbers of trees in an effort to stop the spread, and it is illegal to cross some county lines with the firewood. A real disaster for a tree that was so widespread and instrumental in American history.
As a prize, LabRat, I've got a cube for you!
{I was gonna send you one anyway, but this seems appropriate.}
Send me a pm with an address and I'll UPS it to you.
SWEET!!!! Winnah winnah, chicken dinnah!
PM is on the way. Thank you in advance sir!
No ash trees left here... :(
OK, my turn: what in the heck is this?
velcro, the scratchy side, not the soft side, i believe...
velcro?
That is...
CORRECT!
velcro, the scratchy side, not the soft side, i believe...
That is... even
more CORRECT!
Martian pubic hair?
Holy crikey! That is
ALSO CORRECT!!
tw's thought process
Jeebus!!!
ANOTHER CORRECT ANSWER!!
Smart bunch, I tell ya.
So the moral of the story is that tw thinks like the scratchy side of martian pubic hair? there must be a cellar tagline in there somewhere.....
in related news, what's this, do ya think?
My first guess, a louse on a hair (plural is lice). Possibly a flea?
EWWWWW - Jim's got crabs!
yeah...head lice.
....on tw's martian pubic hair.
lol - thanks for that mental [COLOR="White"]midget [/COLOR]image.
.....I so don't want to know the answer to that question...
Thought I'd add something into the mix.
I always read this thread, but am hopeless at guessing, so never show myself up.
Now, I disprove that by asking.... ice in Guinness, V?
This is a cheat, because it will be immediately apparent to Brits, whereas Merkins might not even know when the answer is given. It relates to a recent news story.
BigV.... whatever that is you need to throw it out. Now.
What is this?
You're farting in the bathtub.
Sundae, yours are cookies, or maybe you call them biscuits.
BigV is marinating something....
It's a little
moon jelly. I picked it up at low tide, he looked pretty grim, no tentacles visible. The iridescence was beautiful. I set him free in deeper water after these two shots.
pic01 -- Less cropped
pic02 -- second shot
Mmmmmmm....
peanut butter and jelly sammich.
When I first read "moon jelly", I got a mental picture of someone's ass and then they...you know what, nevermind. Nevermind.:headshake
[COLOR="White"]Felch[/COLOR]
Oh that's so sweet!
(@ Sundae: I want. )
Want what?
Cookies?:eyebrow:
@Jinx: Brewery?
bellows , [COLOR="White"]it BLOWS
[/COLOR]
I want what Sundae posted.
But what is it, Dana?
@Jinx, air compressor.
Central air conditioner and duct
@ Jinx part of an olf iron foundry?
.....I GOT IT!
It's the Cellar test kitchen!
Close.
Turkey feather on a hat designed by Maurice Chapeau in Paris circa 1899.
Nope.
Hint: Bruce really was close. Very, very close.
Zippy got mine first.... its the bellows for an iron furnace circa 1771.
Tiki:
Down.
Sundae:
Some kind of treat. Still wrestling with it.
Enormous cat palace?
:rotflol:
I'll let you out of your misery.
They were Sherbert Fountains.
Causing ructions here because after years of coming in a cardboard tube with the licorice sticking out (like a firework) they are being repackaged. Because it's not sanitary.
From here:You're right!
I like how the colors resemble a life ring. It's a crap picture for accuracy but it still looks cool.
It's a great picture. It looks like a flower with flame petals.
sidewalk chalk?
Cool picture!
sidewalk chalk?
You got it!
Cell phone camera?
Was guess for beauregaardhooligan's now deleted post.
Cell phone camera?
Was guess for beauregaardhooligan's now deleted post.
You were probably looking at the reflection of my camera.
It's an IC of some kind, like an EPROM with a UV window or a small CPU sans heatsink.
Oh! Is it a CMOS sensor for a digital camera?
Kitsune is basically correct in that is an IC, but Bruce is actually closest.
It's from another type of projector, a DLP as opposed to the LCD I took apart last time.
That is a Digital Micromirror Device.
From Wikipedia...
"In DLP projectors, the image is created by microscopically small mirrors laid out in a matrix on a semiconductor chip, known as a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD). Each mirror represents one or more pixels in the projected image."
That little sucker has close to a million ittybitty mirrors that are physically moved electrostatically in an on/off fashion to represent each pixel of an image.
The scale on the ruler is inches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Micromirror_DeviceI just read that Wiki entry for DMDs. Bullshit... what they described is not possible. I mean, 16 micrometres across?... 1024 shades of gray?... SRAMs? C'mon, they just won't admit it's really magic, will they... not fooling me though, I know they've got pointy hats and dead black cats in the back room. :eyebrow:
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce...the black cats aren't much use if they're dead.
Well they weren't dead, until you had to go and open the door.
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce...the black cats aren't much use if they're dead.
Huck Finn had a litany of uses for them.
Well they weren't dead, until you had to go and open the door.
:haha:
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce...the black cats aren't much use if they're dead.
After constipation-from-hell and Thor's paperclip, I think it looks like a device used to hold railway lines onto the sleepers ("crossties" as you quaint bumpkins call them ;) ).
DING DING DING !!!!!
Zen got it !!
Next !!!
They're upgrading the rail lines I use on my daily commute, I've seen those things in piles. Kinda freaky shape.
What's holding everything together?
Looks pretty cool!
Is that 2200 bottle caps?
How are they attached?
1512 caps, by my calculation. (four sides that go to 12 caps, and the bottom goes to 11.)
Held together with the wire they use for artificial flowers.
Very pretty, HappyMonkey. You have an attention to detail and precision exceeds mine. It looks very fine.
Looks like a water wheel or a paddle wheel.
Then it must be a wagon wheel in front of a mirror.
Looks like something made of sawcut stone...decorative architectural amenity or something.
xoB, still wrong. Els, you used two words that apply, three if you count "something". :)
You are now oriented correctly, at least.
Inside of a slippery slide that runs spiraling down the outside of the tower?
Spiral stairs or ramp.
That's my guess too. Shot from below looking up. Glass treads. Clean ones too.
I'm changing my answer. Looking at the picture again this morning, there's clearly no glass there. What I thought was the edge of glass is actually a bit of flashing wrapped around the beams.
This is a concrete post with staggered beams going off to the sides of it. We're looking up toward the sky through the beams. I figured it was some sort of ramp in a parking garage. Then I saw you had been to Sitka. So you must have gone to an airport. I looked for instances of Seattle airport parking garage ramps, and found somebody somewhere commenting on crazy ramps at SeaTac.
So that's what this is. One of the spiral ramps at SeaTac airport in Seattle.
Please accept my apologies for my tardiness and my congratulations to xoB for his winning answer. *Of course* Columbo, sorry, glatt, was right-er, but xoB was fast-er and right enough.
glatt, you frighten me. I'm sure you know aaaaaallll about me, and I'm happy you're keeping it all to yourself. You're scary good.
So, how about another challenge?
What is this?
Vapor lock. You're brewing something.
Yes, you're right. It is a fermentation lock. I'm making a batch of mead. But that's another thread. *hic*
technically vapor lock is what happens when your fuel lines are filled with vapor rather than liquid fuel from being too hot.
Mead, huh? I've never had mead. I assume you like it?
I've had mead, pagan brewed even, it's very good...
good call glatt. your eastern timezone advantage applies here. bravo.
Ha! I was guessing either the hole from whence someone took an ice core sample, or a ice fishing hole.:p:
10 points for being quickest on the draw...
:)
I'd like to thank the Academy...
Think Boomhauer and the KingOfTheHill boys, in the alley, popping a cold one...
Like a Texas, you betcha. ;)
Oooooohhhh....like a New England 'ayuh'.
This one won't last long (in fact, it may have been done before). I don't have the bigger pic to go with it, so you'll have to take my word for what it is, if no one gets it (but someone will). Anyway...
What is this?
The camera on your phone.
A telescope, more precisely a shot of the mirror
Dingdingding! We have a winner! The mirror at the bottom of a three inch reflector telescope.
A shiny gold star and what's behind curtain number 2 for anyone that can guess what this is :D
It's either herbs drying on regular, old coathooks, or spare foliage for The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill segment from Creepshow.
Patio furniture flight dampeners (mint)
Ha! I didn't pay attention to the poster...I guess mint also...:)
Heather? I can't really see the tops of the plants.
Mentha piperita
First to guess was Squirell YAY! so here is your gold star and this is what's behind curtain number 2
link ;)
Did Clodfobble's Brain know what was behind Curtain Number 2?
...The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill segment from Creepshow.
I wouldn't pay 50 cents for a broken meteor!
Mentha piperita
First to guess was Squirell YAY! so here is your gold star and this is what's behind curtain number 2 link ;)
Wow! Awesome. I love curtain #2, but does it match the drapes?:D
Looks like Alfalfa.
I don't see the resemblence.
Yeah, if it looks like any of the Li'l Rascals, it'd be Buckwheat.
This is a scan of a pic that was under the clear plastic of an old Evertone phone dialer.
I just thought it was kinda cool and wondered where it was, or might be if it's even a real scene.
The original is very low rez and this is blown up considerably, but I think it might be from a famous painting.
Any ideas?
Sure, that's the castle upstairs, over the Cellar. :haha:
Looks like a castle from a German fairy tale - or the castle from Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang????
Is it the place that was in the "first ever photograph"?
No, that was a cityscape, no castle.
What is this? It's on a 3"x5" card:
One of those insects that looks like a leaf with nitrogen deficiency.
A scale from a tiny green dragon?
Holly leaf?
something turtle related. One of those segments of the shell. Like a soccer ball segment.
It does have a toothular[SIZE=1]®[/SIZE] appearance.
glatt correct!
The turtle's shell consists of these what they call "scutes", which shed away one piece at a time.
So is it OK that it's shedding, or is that some kind of disease or something?
Totally normal, it's like a snake shedding, except that the turtle doesn't need to shed everything at once. Once the scutes come loose, it means the shell underneath is hardened and ready to protect. This one was partly green only because algae grew on it.
This is a scan of a pic that was under the clear plastic of an old Evertone phone dialer.
I just thought it was kinda cool and wondered where it was, or might be if it's even a real scene.
The original is very low rez and this is blown up considerably, but I think it might be from a famous painting.
Any ideas?
Bruce got it :eyebrow: I guess it wasn't that hard or I am just a post whore and wanted to post my photo ;)
It's a nice picture. I almost went with a porch light and flora, but flipped a coin in my head and got lucky. :blush:
It's very Halloweeney.
I thought Nirvana was a woman.
And what made you think it was hollow?
Only for the twenty minutes after they were just emptied.
:D
What is it? Bonus! Side view and front view.
UT--*half* credit.
*sigh* I'm gonna start that DIY thread soon. This will be in it.
It's a collar alright....
...for a HUMAN!!!
Whassamatta Flint? glatt beat you to it?
Get used to it. Here's your prize, glatt:
Hell, who doesn't have a ppl-collar laying around?
That neck collar posted in the other thread.
mornin folks.
Not sunglasses. (heheh.. spexx sees glasses)
Not collar (btw, that was this thread, was it not?)
Please continue.
Heh... yes it was, just a couple posts up. Shows how much I'm paying attention.
Well, they're either legs or fingers. I'm going to guess they are fingers and assume the metal thing is an inch or two long. I'll guess it's a usb flash drive.
Elbow area of the forearm? And a purse strap. Or a buckle.
Oh, wait, I just looked at the dark "black" area of the image, and see a couple eyes and nostrils. We're looking up at someone's face in the dark area. But I don't know what that means. Could still be fingers or an arm. I like the buckle idea.
Hello again.
not usb drive, but points for specific guess. glatt, do you ever need all twenty guesses when you play mastermind? you don't strike me as a man with a siege mentality. you're all "one shot one kill" sniper-mind. and damn good too. but not this one. Keep playing. :)
Not purse strap, not buckle.
You're both right to have identified "flesh". Not much help, though.
Is it a pair of Elvis' sunglasses crammed in some chick's whowhodillie?
ETA: Is the original image SFW?
I wouldn't desecrate the holy of holies with The King's sunglasses.
and yes, that *is* the original image, so... yeah. sfw. not especially helpful, sorry. the image is sfw, the backstory... that might belong in another thread. "whowhodillie"... you crack me up man.
curious glatt, do you have xray vision? how did you manage to pick out the face in the dark area (you're correct, by the way).
curious glatt, do you have xray vision? how did you manage to pick out the face in the dark area (you're correct, by the way).
I broke out the photo editing program...after reading that.
Is it someone wearing one of those copper bracelets?
Or 3-D glasses?
I love these things.
curious glatt, do you have xray vision? how did you manage to pick out the face in the dark area (you're correct, by the way).
As I scrolled up the page, the image got brighter and the face jumped out at me. At first I thought it was dirt on my monitor.
I'm really stumped with this one though.
Going once,
going twice......
ok.
let me think who among us *should* recognize this. It is not particularly unusual. I'll think about it and give you an answer in a few minutes.
thigh/back of calf... what the metallic item is, not sure.
I'll give you calf credit. :lol:
The other part goes great with heels.
I looked and looked but couldn't find a dwellar who I thought would *know* the other part for sure. Carruthers maybe, when you learn, it will be obvious.
oh and the metal thing is on her belly...
They come in pairs, they're sometimes found in pants (but not this kind...), and these happen to be english.
I was having a laugh with the model about the conversation here. This is her answer, verbatim:
"leg...stirrup..crotch...any questions?"
Thank you all for playing, (especially my model). I'll have another one up soon.
Suspenders?
ETA: Nevermind.
I was having a laugh with the model about the conversation here. This is her answer, verbatim:
"leg...stirrup..crotch...any questions?"
Thank you all for playing, (especially my model). I'll have another one up soon.
I still don't know what it is.:lol2:
I'm sure you can identify her leg. Her crotch is not in the frame, use your imagination. The silver metal object is a stirrup,
like these. They came with a junior jumping saddle I picked up second hand the other day, on a whim.
Ha! I thought those were hints! I was thinking something like a brass speculum or something...:3_eyes:
On a whim? Did she buy that story?
bwaaaahahahahhahaha
YES! she did. in fact, she was with me when I bought it. I sought her expertise as a horse lover. she confirmed that though the saddle was in pretty poor shape the price was unbeatable. Plus, I'll be able to use it for something, like costume parts for SakuraCon. The stirrups and stirrup leathers *just happened* to go nicely with a girth I've had for a long time.
It was a LOT of fun!
Watch out for the horsey set, they love to train geldings to serve them.:eek2:
!!
My interest in pony play has certain hard limits. We could talk about training and serving, but I don't have the balls for gelding--I'm just too attached to them.
Ah, but you do have the balls for gelding.;)
/searches around frantically....
where the f*ck did I put that safeword smiley?!
Safeword: "NOT MY BALLS!!!!!":speechls:
A couple Dwellars may know what this is, but, I haven't seen any posts to indicate that anyone would know for sure what it is. Instead of a tight macro shot, or just a crop, you get the whole thing right off the bat. I covered the area where the brand name was, as a simple Googling would pretty much give it away. If you need another angle, I might could accommodate.
There's nothing in the pic for scale, so I'll tell you the piece of wood it's mounted on is 9¾" x 5½" x ⅝". The piece of wood itself is not pertinent, it's just a base for stability.
So, what is this?
Never seen one before, but it's clearly a clamp/vise of some sort and the deer means it has to do with hunting. It's plastic, so I doubt it's strong enough to clamp a rifle. Could probably clamp an arrow. Maybe for working on the feathers or the razor tips? It's got an integrated ruler, which maybe you could use for lining up the feathers in the right spot? I don't know what it's called, but I'm going to guess it's a clamp for working on arrows.
Well, now. That didn't take long did it? It is a fletching jig. It is indeed used for holding the feathers while the glue is drying. This one is for straight fletching, as opposed to helical (slight spiral) left or right. Very good deducing, Glatt.
These pics pretty much show them in use.I can see I need to be quicker on my refresh.
"fletching jig" sounds kind of dirty.
an easy typo there gets your directly into nsfw territory.
Glatt is the master of this game.
mostly just bored at work.
What is this? No, really, what is it? Cuzz I don't know. In all my doings with computers, I've never heard it referred to, and I've never used it. What is it, and, what does it do?
While we're at it, what's the 'pause/break' key for?
I'm on my break. Garcon, may I have a menu please?
I'd hazard a guess that the first one is a planetarium.
As far as the second one goes, possibly horse tack. Martingale?
Carruthers
[SIZE="1"]Gaze upon my works ye mighty, and despair. Or something like that......[/SIZE]
Hey Carruthers--
First pic -- Nope.
Second pic -- half credit for horse tack, but that's a bit too easy given my recent clues about such shenanigans. I am looking for a much more specific answer. I actually didn't know until last night, and I was holding it in my hand. Not a martingale--those are much straighter. This has a definite twist / bend to it, illustrated by how I'm holding it.
Good evening/morning BigV.
(1) I'll have a stab at something in the nuclear industry.
(2)Part of the bridle? Cheek pieces possibly, your fingers representing the bit?
I only have experience of English tack, so I'm probably wide of the mark.
Guessing a radome in first pic...or something to do with water treatment?
Second pic - Do stirrups hang from these?
#1 looks like what an imax looks like without a theater around it, from the back end.
#2 ... two buckles is too many for that to be part of a bridle, the looped, unbroken ends make it not something to hold a bit, anyway. I'm wondering, though if they might be part of driving harness? something from near the back end, to guide the reins or something like that.
I want to say the first one is from somewhere in that Air & Space (?) museum in Seattle. Don't know why, but I immediately thought of it.
Salutations Carruthers--
1 -- Negative. Keep trying!
2 -- Sorry, not part of the bridle. Your experience with english tack should prove helpful here.
Not an IMAX theater? Hmmm...
A large pressure (or negative pressure) vessel? Decompression chamber?
(1) The laser dome at the Pacific Science Center
(2) some kind of leather strap, probably for pleasure
How can one use a leather strap for pleasure?
See, I don't know, because I'm not into that, but V has been posting this kinky stuff recently.
Not for the first time, I appear to have been labouring under a misapprehension.*
Are the two parts of the tack joined to one another where you are holding them, or are they two separate pieces?
Carruthers.
[SIZE="1"]*No longer an arrestable offence.[/SIZE]:dunce:
Way to go wolf!
You're right about picture 1. That is the outside of the IMAX theater at the Pacific Science Center. Which is, itself, inside the Pacific Science Center.
Picture 2. Still no one's identified it, so another clue. This is a very specific piece of gear, and only a PART of the actual piece of equipment. How it was separated from the other part (which would make the picture too obvious for this thread) is another mystery. I had to ask two horse experts because my google-image-fu was not strong enough. So, English tack (but a very specific application of English tack), and only part of a piece of equipment. Good luck!
Titty jigglers?
Ball floppers?
...
Junk slappers?
Flint -- You're a pervert. I like that about you. Nevertheless, your answers are wrong. Thanks for playing.
Gravdigr -- You're partly right. Now, the tough question. What *kind* of girth strap? For the record this set of buckles/straps is not part of my girth from the previous "What is this".
Be specific!
For a pack saddle? Back straps maybe?
Attachments for side reins.
But could you use them for junk slappers?
But could you use them for junk slappers?
I would comment on that suggestion, but I fear that there is a worrying Freudian dimension just below the surface waiting to bite me:eek:
So, just what the hell is this, anyway?
Hold the tail up.
Can't be it, I know it's not a crupper, which is a loop that attaches to the little ring at the back of the saddle, and keeps the saddle from sliding forward across the withers.
Who said anything about a saddle, we're talking kinky V here. :lol:
I am thinking we could adapt that to make some bondage gear. :lol:
It is the buckle end (only) of an
equalizer girth, often used for polo saddles. Note how in the attached image the large solid D rings pass through the layers of the straps. The only way I can imagine these are made is that the straps are sewn ONTO the D rings. Solid welded D rings. My straps are intact, all stitching is intact. Where did the D ring go? I don't know, I got the straps, attached to the saddle, just as you see them. No girth, only these equalizer straps.
As for junk slappers, and bondage gear... definitely yes. For those of you who say otherwise, I suggest you merely lack imagination. Or courage.:censored:
Damn! I looked at just about every kind and type of tack in about 50 different Google image searches....Did not think of
polo.:right:
I am thinking we could adapt that to make some bondage gear. :lol:
Yeah. A pair of buckles with a strap for each of her thighs, with the wide strap going around your ass.
That way she can't get away. They always try to get away...
Them bitches love to get away. :haha:
a leg off a tri-pod? notched at one end but not the other....hmmm
Nope.
Keep playing!
Not really a clue, but I like how in this picture it almost looks like it's floating.
how much does it weigh?
edit: rough guesstimate
a long ass handle for some sort of press.
good guess, wrong, but good.
... I think I'll hold off on the clues for the moment.
no, not a stump.
don't worry. in a few hours the sun will rise over the eastern seaboard, and glatt will tell us all.
lmao i wait to be *enlightened*
Not a pool cue, not even half.
Ok.. a clue
it's metal, and it is pretty heavy. I won't be using it for its designed purpose.. .since when did I ever do that anyhow?
But I *will* think of something.
actually... both you guys are good candidates for this one. The angle of the photo is somewhat deceptive, and... another clue.. this is not a whole _______, but just part of a ____________.
wow.. must be the bourbon talking, look at all these clues... shit. I got it just because it is an awesome piece of metal. The project, the purpose... that will come. It always does.
Yeah, so it's a metal bar that is part of some purpose you're not going to use it for. That narrows it down to roughly 41 zillion things it could have been. It could have been a contender.
Yeah, so it's a metal bar that is part of some purpose you're not going to use it for. That narrows it down to roughly 41 zillion things it could have been. It could have been a contender.
Yeah, so it's a metal bar that is part of some purpose you're not going to use it for. That narrows it down to roughly 41 zillion things it could have been. It could have been a contender.
Bruce, you are stuttering again.... :p
Is it tapered at the end on the floor? The knotches make it look like it should fit into something. It has an emblem on it which we cannot make out and would most likely give away its origin. A fork blank for a motorcycle front end?
If it tapers, it ain't much. It's notched to fit together with what he ain't got and doesn't want/need. The "emblem" looks like it could be a piece of masking tape. Might be a roller/paper guide off a large printer.
Yea, it was obviously a well machined bit of metal and if it is heavy then it is mostly solid. Not cheap.
I've got no idea.
Is it solid or hollow? I'm assuming solid, but the notched end looks like it's got something going on in there other than just a notch. But that could just be the lighting.
it is utterly solid, except for the well noted notch.
Not tapered.
mercy, you're right and wrong on the $$$.. retail, it is $$$, but I paid fractions of a cent on the dollar for it, part of why I was so stoked.
Not a roller from a printer, but that is a really good guess. not a fork blank
another clue, it is stainless steel.
Well, i will go with what I thought it was the moment I saw it, which is probably wrong, but it looks like a table leg.
another clue, it is stainless steel.
so it's for outside or wet applications? still no idea.
Or food service. It's a big rolling pin for rolling out the dough for frozen pizzas.
With it being refined to very specific tolerances I believe it has to be for some kind of industrial use.
Is it a giant punch of some sort? Or perhaps an axle/spindle situation? It doesn't look overly smooth, so I'm guessing it's not used in an exacting/close tolerance way...
Ooh, is it from an industrial food mixer?
gravdigr ... you're getting warmer..
I'm going to lunch.
I shall reveal when I return.
This is the simplest of objects. It is a 1 1/8"x22" keyed stainless steel shaft. I got it at the local second hand marine shop, Second Wave. I love this place. As you can see, I paid a small price for it. You may compare the price *per foot*
at this site for reference. It weighs a little over six pounds. I reckon it was.. hell. I don't know. It was cut short when I bought it. I wonder if it was a propshaft.... maybe not. (Steering) Wheel shaft, sure could be. There's a round shallow hole opposite the keyway where a setscrew would secure the hub of whatever the hell it was.
It is a lovely piece of metal.
A jerry-rigged doo-hickey.
(at the first image) I'm guessing this is just a piece of art?
A multi-speed Tinker-Toy buffing-wheel powered thru a child-proof-bottle-top clutch assembly.
aka: a Rube Goldberg polisher
Um.
*Technically*, you're right.
Fine, no one will provide the answer I want.
It is the base of a little Christmas Tree of Devil Duckies. I made it as a gift for a friend (her daughter actually). I learned that she likes Devil Duckies. .... I couldn't help myself, friends. You know me.
Wait, so the mystery object was :::drumroll::: a ƒucking METAL BAR, aka a you-don't-know-what-it-is-either [SIZE="3"]???[/SIZE]
Dude.
GET YOUR PITCHFORKS WE ARE GOING AFTER THIS MOTHERFVKCER
Wait, so the mystery object was :::drumroll::: a ƒucking METAL BAR, aka a you-don't-know-what-it-is-either [SIZE="3"]???[/SIZE]
Dude.
I seriously considered the "fucking" part, but while it transmuted the "hard as a steel bar" hyperbole into reality, I haven't found a willing partner (yet). The proportions are within the design tolerances, but it is cold. Plus, I don't have the milling tools or expertise to shape it into something less... industrial.
Dude.
I pick up stuff like this all the time, when I don't quite know what the ultimate use will be. But I do know that whatever it is that I produce that needs this shaft, nothing else would do. This isn't something I could improvise.
ok here ya go
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zippyt, on Flickr
beer butt chicken Beer can holder
The chicken would either have to have a really big ass, or be a turkey.
You've got it upside down. flip it over and it's an ice cream cone holder so the customer can deal with change and napkin distribution.
zip's: looking into solar-light duct up towards the attic.
zip's: Or, down into a water-filled sump in the basement :3_eyes:
It's several ƒucking METAL BARS.
Nope and nope
A clue
2 by
zippyt, on Flickr
beer butt chicken Beer can holder
winnah winnah chicken dinna!!
You, sir, are correct. A commercial one at that, bought at Safeway, and used for its express purpose. I tried to fool y'all. Fail.
That's a sloppy weld, Zip.
Nope
I cant wait
Its Daddy Long legs haveing a sip of a Drink
3 by
zippyt, on Flickr
True but Supriseing when you go to take a sip
peta says use a straw, so you won't traumatize the little fella.
Screw PETA nut jobs, eat the spider.
It's several ƒucking METAL BARS.
Here's a pretty easy one. I think.
That looks like a fairly stiff spring. Is it shown in it's normal operating orientation?
It's Twisty ƒucking METAL BAR.
That looks like a fairly stiff spring. Is it shown in it's normal operating orientation?
I thought that at first but since you can see the little hairs of Fabric(?) it looked like something in a bike seat.
It's a macro shot of a common item from an unusual angle. But it's in its normal configuration. Hasn't been taken apart.
I was thinking it might be one of those grip-strengthener things, but there are too many coils for that.
The spring in a curtain rod mechanism
Good work. I had convinced myself that those were vinyl pads.
Peanuts wrapped in wool ??
Legumes in a blanket? No.
Beads on a knitted string. Maybe a hat or fringe on a scarf.
Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?
It's a macro of a very common item. You have all had an item exactly like this one in your hand at some point.
A penis?
kidding.....
I have no frigging clue...
Oh damn it if that's it I'm pissed...:)
Or you're a loafer. :haha:
It's like... it's like a line of toothpicks with red thread weaving them together like a raft. That's what it's like.
The texture of the white looks natural rather than man made. It is tool small to be tool marks, and too organic looking. It does somewhat resemble the texture of clothes line, but it must be smaller. The red looks like wool, but single ply yarn and two wraps of it.
I can't imagine what might make that texture on the white stuff. Reminds me of those cactus trunks that they make rainmakers from.
Thinking.
It looks like it may be paper of some sort
That's the texture of sponge rubber.
Macro-er meaning bigger or smaller?
Is this a picture that you took yourself?
Smaller, more zoomed in. Took it myself right before posting it. It belongs to my son.
Baseball!
W00t for me!!111
Hey, I hope Jinx doesn't go to bed before she gives us an answer.
I'll bet you a chocolate chip cookie that it's a baseball.
Baseball!
W00t for me!!111
Is it a hair tie?
If so, I think he needs a hair cut.
That was a good one jinx.
I think it's food of some kind - maybe fish.
Fig?
no.
I think it's food of some kind - maybe fish.
yes and no
looks like a dead alien bug
Dont bother....
No.
Is it some sort of ƒucking CANDY BAR?
food porn
stuffed tomatillos
pizza
fruit turnover
flauta or taquito
nope, nope, nopety, nope, nope.
You have really raised the ƒucking BAR on this one. I *know* I've seen those textures before! But where??
You have really raised the ƒucking BAR on this one. I *know* I've seen those textures before! But where??
here ?
it was the primary test on the device used to freeze dry han solo!
A persimmon. Or a crabapple.
do you all need a hint?
folks were talking about it the other day.
If you eat enough of it unripe your teeth will loosen and eventually fall out.
It's a pineapple. Posted by Mr. Pineapple tool guy.
Yay!
But now I'm at work, with no camera to take more "what is it" shots. :(
Somebody else step up and post one.
Monster there's a Lotion for that !!!!
Bacon ??
If so, I think he needs a hair cut.
Lots of young'uns have longer hair. I think the fella does have hair that could be tie-able. I was sure I was right!
It's a pineapple. Posted by Mr. Pineapple tool guy.
Does this mean you've tried the kebabs, foot?
.
Bacon! Oh, zip guessed bacon.
Um...beef jerky?
Ix-nay on the kababs. We're in a cold snap right now. I'm thinking next week or the week after.
Monster's really looks like cooked meat or some kind. I'm going to assume she took it this morning after having some sausage. It's a sausage patty.
not bacon, jerky or sausage.
I have not had bacon, jerky or sausage this morning :(
[COLOR="PaleTurquoise"]Am I the only one with a filthy mind here?[/COLOR]
nope.
It is food. it's not meat.
pork ribs?
shawnee, where was the kabob recipe again? i want to cook that for dinner....
i still can't find it but lemme see if i remember, it was chicken, whatev veggies fresh pineapple and then one side dipped in chile powder and the other in brown sugar then grilled. right?
PLUS, wrap about a half slice of bacon around the chicken, after you've dipped in chili powder and brown sugar.
gummy bear or gummy worm or gummy phone or gummy cat: something in the whole gummy realm?
HE FORGOT THE BACON! Burn him!
no, nothing gummy. Quite the opposite. Is it driving you nuts yet?
HE FORGOT THE BACON! Burn him!....
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! :smack:
ty shaw!
you're getting closer, shaw.
it has no hair.
:bolt:
some sort of crustacean or fish flesh
I would think of fish as a type of meat.
I'm sure it's a nut. A nut with a brazilian would be hairless, no?
And the nickname for such nuts, I think, were clued in earlier...albeit obscurely. Oh please let me be right.
Though I can't take a picture.
A brazil nut?
ding ding ding.
:jig:
Sorry, can't contribute. Anyone else?
I broke the thread. :(
Come on, someone post something. I'll grab something off google if you don't!
that's awesome. I'm going with cucumber, but I doubt that's it.
You are all in the right kingdom, monster is closest but still w/o a cigar.
that's awesome. I'm going with cucumber, but I doubt that's it.
the spines are too regular for a cuke.
celery
Uhh, where do you do your grocery shopping?
I never saw no celery at 54 billion magnification, how would I know? It's green.
Snot! It's SNOT!
the bottom part looks like a pumpkin vine and the top part the bastard offspring of a plucked puffer fish and an argyle sock. Is it edible?
Hmmm, it's made of rubber maybe? A "personal massager"?
Hmmm, it's made of rubber maybe? A "personal massager"?
Uhh, where do you do your dildo shopping?
:lol:
Right next to where I do my snot shopping!
Right next to where I do my snot shopping!
mmmm lovely
Hmmm, it's made of rubber maybe? A "personal massager"?
Shawnee WINS! not.
the bottom part looks like a pumpkin vine and the top part the bastard offspring of a plucked puffer fish and an argyle sock. Is it edible?
It's interesting how unoriginal Mom Nature is. She's constantly cribbing from herself, stealing entire story lines, plots and dialogues and then just changing the location from San Francisco to Detroit.
[SIZE=3]
Return of the Argyle Puffer Fish II:[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]
this time it's personal[/SIZE]
But sadly, you are getting colder. and parts of it are edible, not the part you are looking at.
It's interesting how unoriginal Mom Nature is. She's constantly cribbing from herself, stealing entire story lines, plots and dialogues and then just changing the location from San Francisco to Detroit.
[SIZE=3]Return of the Argyle Puffer Fish II:[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]this time it's personal[/SIZE]
Are you trying to tell me someone's used the argyle puffer fish line before in SF? When? Where? they must've cribbed my notes, i'll sue....
you don't eat enough vegetables, young lady
Those I do eat, I tend not to look at through a microscope.
OK: it's some ugly damn gross smelly green vegetable I wouldn't eat to save my life.
hmmmph
I really have no idea, but I'm going to say green leaf lettuce.
Speaking of which, my wife got a new cook book for Christmas, and we had these awesome lettuce wraps last night. Some sort of sweet and sour ground chicken with lime juice and red bell peppers and scallions all wrapped up in a big lettuce leaf. So freaking good. Rice on the side.
I hope that joins the rotation. Light and crispy and delicious. I had three, but could have eaten ten.
That sounds awesome. I will put that in my rotation.
Do you guys cry uncle yet?
you want us to call you uncle? do you have a puppy dog in your car?
I'm an art lover...
(too obscure?)
prolly.
cry uncle is uniquely american btw.
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ha, yes that was too obscure for me
I was on track. Echinacea
There are too many flowers in the world.
I was on track. Echinacea
I know, Ms. Defensive. I was saying (you are now) back on track.
Decaf for you or a glass of wine.
no no no I neeed more caffeine............
Dandelion was next on my agenda. But I didn't get it, so I'm spared taking a pic.... :lol:
I dont know, dandelion is just a teeny sunflower. I think you won.
you want us to call you uncle? do you have a puppy dog in your car?
I bet he has candy in his van, too.
Ok, Foot3, looks like you go again... hit us.
I'll jump in here.
This shouldn't be too hard.
Some crushed stone underwater. But I don't know what that horizontal thing is.
Bottom of fish tank with air line.
@Pete, nope.
btw, I *love* that tag line! There's an acoustic duo called theMadTeaParty, check'em out.
Some kind of cable, for cable-type purposi.
No cable or purposi involved.
;)
The pointy thing at the front of the boat, the Titanic maybe.
This is NOT the Python(tm) aquarium water siphon system?
This is NOT the droids you are looking for
Is it the shallow grave of a dead hobo?
Is it the shallow grave of a dead hobo?
The shallow watery grave of a dead hobo?
[I dunno. It just seemed to sound right.]
Gravedigger is on the right track;
and UT, monster, and Shawnee123 are right, it's NOT.
Actually, it's a crop from a pic of the fountain in front of theClevelandClinic.
Isn't it amazing what can be done now with industrial strength glass !
Some glass walls and enclosures at zoo's and aquariums are scary.
I took a pic of my G-daughter when she was about 4yrs, standing by a polar bear
with only a few inches of clear glass between her and it's nose.
Pretty cool fountain thingy.
I'll have a go....
Probably won't take too long, but, What Is This?
Nope. I thought one of you might get it first try. I consider this a success.
looks automotive. like a cam sensor (flashbacks!) shaft or something.
Cupholder with baby's earring stuck in the bottom
What crazy parent would put earrings on a baby?
gravdigr... I don't know. it looks familiar, a pinion gear for some purpose. not a starter motor. not a drive pinion for a little electric vehicle. not the base of your blender... I don't know.
dammit.
so I will answer your question with a question.
You are all wrong so far. Nobody is warm. Excellent guesses though...
Big V, watch band?
Hiya gravdigr
Nope.
clue: Flint's gonna be *so* pissed.
Since most of the usual suspects have weighed in, I'll go ahead and give this one up.
It's the top of the fuel valve on a butane lighter.
Thanks for playing, tune in again next time for more "What Is It?".
clue: Flint's gonna be *so* pissed.
Is it a butt-fuck-somebody-in-the-mouth machine?
good pic you! I would not have guessed that one. thank you for showing mercy.
your second answer, no. not even flint is that tightassed.
Well, I can see that, clearly, it's several ƒucking metal bars...
There must be a hundred ƒucking metal bars in V's latest.
Come to think of it, that's my guess. a hundred ƒucking metal bars.
It's the top of the fuel valve on a butane lighter.
Excellent!
What crazy parent would put earrings on a baby?
"Baby" is the term Grav uses for his main squeeze, his honey. ;)
corrugated card for packing curved ƒucking metal bars
Well, I can see that, clearly, it's several ƒucking metal bars...
There must be a hundred ƒucking metal bars in V's latest.
Come to think of it, that's my guess. a hundred ƒucking metal bars.
Partial credit to both of you--427 metal bars to be precise. Can you be more specific?
The Metal Bar thingy? Burnished Stainless Steel Wolfgang Puck Signature Sushi Roller. ($49.95 at Macy's, and way better than that bamboo thing you struggle with making at-home sushi. This one includes a magic freezy liquid in the bars. Pop it in the freezer while you're preparing your sticky rice, and it will be the perfect temperature to keep your raw squid from getting too warm and growing botulism).
oooooo wolf! that answer is so good I'm gonna go get one just so your answer is right. but until then, your answer is, sadly, wrong. HM would probably know....
Enough pegs for 106.75 bunk beds?
It is several hundred f*cking metal bar rare earth magnets. These are polarized along the long axis so that if you looked at the cylinder from the end and imposed an imaginary clock face on the surface, 9-3 would be North and 3-9 would be South. They're a lot of fun to doodle around with. They're strong but very tiny, maybe 3/8" long and less than 1/16" diameter. I think they'd be good in a project. Just don't know what project yet.
What crazy parent would put earrings on a baby?
Really?
You've never seen this?
Admittedly I've probably only seen them from about a year old, but I'm pretty sure that there are parents who pierce their daughters' ears younger.
I hope this isn't too easy ;)
9 animal butts in a snow storm. The tails look pretty wide, are they rhinos?
I knew it was too easy! :)
9 animal butts in a snow storm. The tails look pretty w-i-d-e, are they beavers?
ftfy
Admittedly I've probably only seen them from about a year old, but I'm pretty sure that there are parents who pierce their daughters' ears younger.
There are many Hispanic families around here that get it done as early as 6 weeks old.
There are many Hispanic families around here that get it done as early as 6 weeks old.
i second that!
gawd. another 10 weeks in the cellar shitter!
It is several hundred f*cking metal bar rare earth magnets. ... They're a lot of fun to doodle around with. They're strong but very tiny, maybe 3/8" long and less than 1/16" diameter. I think they'd be good in a project. Just don't know what project yet.
Mount them on the end of a power drill. CRT monitor scrambler/de-scramblers. You probably already did that...
ƒlint could be my new name. 143 posts ago.
Really?
You've never seen this?
Admittedly I've probably only seen them from about a year old, but I'm pretty sure that there are parents who pierce their daughters' ears younger.
I've seen Hispanic babies just old enough for their first trip outside into the world with ear piercings. I don't get it.
I've also seen it on twins, easier for telling them apart than marking the bottom of one foot with a Sharpie.
Cupholder with baby's earring stuck in the bottom
"Baby" is the term Grav uses for his main squeeze, his honey. ;)
Gasp! You
do listen!! I bet you care about my fiber, too.
:p:
Here's another quickie. Prolly an easy one.
What is this?
does it have Any thing to do with Fucking Metal Bars ??
toaster, bread, piece of a rainbow?
Sunbeam is a brand of appliances and cookware. I think that's the indentation in a baked product made by the tiny logo on the bottom of the baking surface.
It's some kind of paper. You can see the upper edge was torn off with one of those metal knives embedded in the side of a box. It looks too dark to be parchment paper, which would be the obvious guess, unless it's burnt. Kraft paper?
It's definitely the logo of the appliance company, not the bread company. It looks like a water mark or a very old version of the logo.
does it have Any thing to do with Fucking Metal Bars ??
no
toaster, bread, piece of a rainbow?
no, no, "piece of a rainbow" :lol2: no
Sunbeam is a brand of appliances and cookware. I think that's the indentation in a baked product made by the tiny logo on the bottom of the baking surface.
Right direction, kinda. And, no.
It's some kind of paper. You can see the upper edge was torn off with one of those metal knives embedded in the side of a box. It looks too dark to be parchment paper, which would be the obvious guess, unless it's burnt. Kraft paper?
no
It looks like a water mark or a very old version of the logo.
No, and no.
You might be over-thinking this one, folks.
Some of you brighter Dwellars need to enlighten some of the dim bulbs. Any ideas?the logo from an authorized sunbeam appliance repair shop?
It's a sunbeam logo branding iron for making a sunbeam logo on your toast or BigV's butt.
I'll give you til sometime tomorrow...(I'm pretty surprised, I thought someone was gonna get it there for a minute.)
Oh and plt and foot: no.
To be clear: It is a Sunbeam logo...(I know that helps;))
A tattoo! j/k
It's odd because it looks painted like the pattern on old wallpaper.
The version of the logo that somebody drew to give to the graphic designers to make a prettier one.
Written on a pancake, with syrup.
Someone designer-bleached their asshole so it has the Sunbeam logo....
Someone designer-bleached their asshole so it has the Sunbeam logo....
Cross-thread humor, I like!
'Asshole' is so crass, I prefer the term 'starfish'.
And the winner is: Nobody.
Thanks for playing, we'll see ya next time on "What Is This?"
Nope.
It's one of two parts.
Anatomical measuring device?
This is the other part:
You slide those little brackets together, the scratches leading up are on the same side on both ends. I thought this was the ceiling but I can't figure out a use for the piece with holes in it...which looks like a skandia-type shelf upright...which would mean this is the intersection of two walls and the orientation of the photo is rotated. Don't recognize the little z-shaped pegs...or can think of a reason why they would be inside the two pieces... If they were on the outside and this was the ceiling they would fall out... If the holes run through and this is on the wall, then... . . .
Bracket for mounting a sex swing?
For hanging pots/kitchen utensils?
Oh...the white stripe on the inside of the first photo is the finished edge, in other words the z-shaped pegs are inside the two pieces and the long part of them goes across the slot which is an opening on the bottom of the bottom piece, when the pieces are connected.
You set the spacing of the, let's call them "hangers" on the inside, and slide the brackets together.
Why are they z-shaped, why not u-shaped and go in the holes on both sides? Well if you had one facing in from each direction, something hung across both would have some wiggle room, but only until the point where it caught on the upwards-facing side of the z. And you can't go over the top of that because it is inside the two pieces. Although not enough that the upwards facing points have ever scratched the bottom of the top piece.
Flint's got the geometry right.
I just made it last week.
So I cheated, and clicked through to the big pictures on flickr and I still got nothin'.
What are those little spools of mono filament line? Is this a hanger for tape art? I kind of doubt it, because it's so elaborate, and you could just hang them from a curtain rod or something.
I kind of doubt it, because it's so elaborate, and you could just hang them from a curtain rod or something.
I think
elaborate is a pretty accurate word to describe Happy Monkey, though. :) I suspect that it is indeed a gadget for effectively stringing many tape ornaments across the middle of the room.
It is a hanger for tape art! Not many ornaments across a room, but one big one in front of a wall:
Ha! Well, OK then.
It looks very nice. Almost like crown molding or something. And the tape art looks great.
Oh, the hooks and fishing line are hidden inside. I hadn't understood that part. It looks nice! It's not hanging in the middle though, that would bug me if it were in my house.
It's not hanging in the middle though, that would bug me if it were in my house.
You're evil. :)
It's like at my last eye exam, my doctor asked me if all the floaters in my eyes bugged me. Well, they hadn't, but now that you mention it...
It was hanging in the middle, but due to some architectural issues (that duct, or beam, or whatever in the top right), the spot where I "centered" the hanger, did not line up with where the sculpture would look most centered. I may move the hanger at some point, but it's fine for now.
Well, if it looks centered in the room as a whole, that's more important. Now you should install some little gallery lights to point at it!
i'm at a loss...this is a real good one.....
oh ffs. maybe i oughta look at the last page..
off work got my drunk on.....sue me, lol
oh ffs. maybe i oughta look at the last page..
off work got my drunk on.....sue me, lol
My attorney, Mr Cohen, will be contacting you shortly.
;)
My attorney, Mr Cohen, will be contacting you shortly.
;)
i;ll have a go at this. sorry it;s a little blurry. new phone has probs up close...
looks like a catch on a suitcase or camera
too damn easy i knew it. your close 3foot
looks very camera-ish. German. 1950-1970
except I don't like the look of the oval head philips screw. That doesn't seem right.
Kind of reminds me of an old shutter release timer on an SLR camera, so it's probably an interior latch from a suitcase.
I know this one. I have this camera.
It's the shutter release on a Kodak Duaflex II camera, but your model is slightly different from this one I found online. It has small decorative ridges in the metal.
ding ding ding! well done glatt
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is it acoustically transparent?
Is it a whosa-whatsit? No.
Plastic pad put on the carpet , you guys Moved the coffee table or some such , its octagonal, or septaWhositz
Nope, nope.
Well it involves the concept of a template.
It's berber carpet, obviously!
Covered by... something.
Breadboard for electronic circuitry?
Something with a drum. A template for laying out a band name logo to put on one of your drums.
These are all good tries, but you're not getting it yet.
A built-in indoor trampoline?
A landing pad for alien spaceships?
Can you give a hint, because this one is driving me bonkers.
It certainly looks like a drum head. Why all the markings?
So that you can customize it, artistically?
Nope, nope, nope.
Think about the materials...how it was made, and why.
I see paper, tape (double stick?), and small markings at regular spacing, maybe every inch?
Are they for plotting some sort of graph or enlarging or reducing a drawing that then gets transferred to something like a drum head? Are you going to Peartify your drums?
Is it something to do with some kind of satellite dish?
Is it a template for making drum heads?
it's for cross stitching. hehe...just kidding...:p:
is it a template for putting a design on a drum head?
Please, allow me to relieve you of the misapprehension that this has anything to do with drums, drum heads etc. It doesn't.
What kind of head is it for?
So, does it have something to do with drums?
A base for a pop-up tent?
Is it a template for a sumo robot battle ring?
If those are 1 inch spaces it is ~20" dia.
What is the material? Paper? Why the tape at the circumference?
You're making an air gladiator ring
If those are 1 inch spaces it is ~20" dia.
What is the material? Paper? Why the tape at the circumference?
So, a pup tent?
I see paper, tape (double stick?), and small markings at regular spacing, maybe every inch?
If those are 1 inch spaces it is ~20" dia.
What is the material? Paper? Why the tape at the circumference?
Yes, double-stick tape, markings at 1" increments. The question is: why?
If those are 1 inch spaces it is ~20" dia.
What is the material? Paper? Why the tape at the circumference?
I measured it with my ruler - the marks at the bottom/left are farther apart than the marks at the top/right.
Drum kit layout for road gigs.
Ooh! A template for laying out the design for a drum stool.
I measured it with my ruler - the marks at the bottom/left are farther apart than the marks at the top/right.
don't start, next you'll say it's elliptical.
Drum kit layout for road gigs.
Ooh! A template for laying out the design for a drum stool.
Looks like you guys think you're a couple of jokers here, huh? We'll just see how funny it is when... well I guess I can't really do anything about it.
Yes, double-stick tape, markings at 1" increments. The question is: why?
well markings like that are often used to plot points on an xy graph for lots of applications, transferring or scaling drawings is one type of application, depicting data is another. Why a circle? What is circular besides drum heads and cymbals? (and besides, scaling and transferring drawings this way is terribly retro) Windows can be circular, game boards could be circular.
But why the tape? why does this need to be carefully taped/registered in place?
Something to do with checking the area of rectangles or other shapes? Some type of measuring device?
A drummer's stool strainer?
A drummer's stool strainer?
Do drummers typically have chunky stools?
Flint is working on the design of his doomsday bunker.
It's to stick on the top of an uplighting floor lamp. You'll prick holes in it to recreate the night sky on your family room ceiling.
It's a for a pizza pan.
But why the tape? why does this need to be carefully taped/registered in place?
Double-sided tape.
I know it's double sided, am I looking through something clear at the paper below? Is this some sort of erasable plotting device that uses a china marker to write on glass or plastic?
looking closer at the tape I can see where the tape isn't in contact with the glass or plastic, so we are looking through onto the paper, or what ever it is, Still no idea of the function.
So could you describe to me exactly what configuration of the materials you think you're looking at?
I know it's double sided, am I looking through something clear at the paper below? Is this some sort of erasable plotting device that uses a china marker to write on glass or plastic?
Sorry, missed this post. This is what it is, although I use dry-erase markers. Any ideas why I would need a 1" grid?
I use this for a very specific activity that I'm waiting for somebody to think of.
I use this for a very specific activity that I'm waiting for somebody to think of.
Flint is working on the design of his doomsday bunker.
Are you re-caning a chair?
Are you preparing to custom wrap dice?
Are you preparing a display for your remarkable bullion cube collection?
does it involve scoring a game or keeping track of changing data?
Is it used for plotting points?
Is the circular shape critical to its function?
making a pocketbook.
playing battleship
making a stencil for checkerboard pants
guide for ass hairplugs
ƒucking metal bar holder
I've ceased to care. :p:
What is it, already?
It's a sheet of Ghostlines poster board, with 1" grid marked off, double-sided taped to the bottom of a 20" diameter piece of table glass. The glass is round because that is what I had on hand. I would have prefered a larger, rectangular piece of table glass.
I draw on the glass surface with dry erase markers; the grid serves as a guide/measure for the dimensions of the drawing.
What is it?
It is used in a game. The game is played on a 1" grid. Any ideas? It's not Battleship.
Dungeons and Dragons?
Yes, it is a homemade "battlemat" for staging Dungeons & Drangons encounters. Glatt wins again.
I've been going on Saturday nights to a D&D group at an old, dear friend of mine's house. We bring the kids (he and his wife have similar-aged kids) and they have a movie watching slumber party while the adults relive our nerdy youths around the dining room table. Our awesome, nerdy wives play with D&D with us. We play the new 4e (4th Edition) D&D, which incidentally is not produced TSR anymore, but Wizards of the Coast, who is now owned by Hasbro.
I suppose this is akin to some earlier generation's playing of Bridge or some such activity.
That's so awesome that your wives play too.
I occasionally play a game I invented called "Captain Justice" with my kids. It's a very loosely run role playing game where we just talk about what we do. We're superheros and it's a lot of work coming up with new missions and bad guys to fight, so I get sick of playing it, but my kids love it.
That's awesome to hear glatt, because I realized I could play D&D with my kids on this homemade board. With some exciting drawings, fun miniatures, and lowering the burden of "rules" while raising the ability of "imagination" to create, as you say, a very loosely run RPG. Glad to hear you've tried this and it works!
They love the imagination part of it.
One of their favorite parts is where I get lazy and say we have to do some sort of Olympic competition against a rival good super hero league. It's a lot easier than thinking up a mission. Usually the competitions are silly ones. Like you have to harvest the honey from a hive of honey bees. Your character has the power of flight and speed and x-ray vision, and your opponent is the Hulk. You calmly harvest the honey, fighting your urge to go fast, and wearing the beekeeper suit and using the smoke. Meanwhile, the Hulk gets stung a few times, gets really pissed off, and smashes his hive. You win.
I'm thinking of ways to make it more of a puzzle-solving RPG (less violent), although my wife points out correctly that the kids do need to learn strategic thinking. We could pepper the game with suggestions from Machiavelli and Sun Tzu.
This is M&Ms being sold in bulk.
This is M&Ms being sold in bulk.
Bingo! At the M&M store near Times Square.
They looked so tiny I was not thinking M's at all!
ƒucking metal bar holder
So full of
WIN!, it's overflowing.
Yes, it is a homemade "battlemat" for staging Dungeons & Drangons encounters. Glatt wins again.
+10 bonus for Cool.
Yes, it is a homemade "battlemat" for staging Dungeons & Drangons encounters. Glatt wins again.
I never would have guessed that.
What's Dungeons & Dragons?
What's Dungeons & Dragons?
Medieval role playing game. Those who know more about it can provide more detail/correct any misconceptions.
;) If it weren't for sarcasm I wouldn't have any casm at all.
Wiki article.
ETA: Nevermind.
While we're talking about D & D, this is the perfect time to check out:
Tripod's Hot Girl in the Comic Shop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7O4izi1fQE
(the image quality isn't that great on this one and there was also a clip from a live performance, but I didn't like what they'd done with the riffs, so this one, it is)
There was a, hot girl in the comic shop
and I didn't know what to do.
There was a, hot girl in the comic shop
She was lookin' at Doctor Who.
There was an actual girl in the comic shop
What am i meant to say?
I had to check to make sure that she wasn't just
a human sized cardboard display.
My competition was a kid with pimples and a guy in a wheelchair,
so i knew i had to act fast
So many questions in my mind
What would be a good pick-up line?
Why had a hot girl just walked in?
If the Hulk fought Spiderman, who would win?
Good question...
I guess that Spiderman's advantage would be his web
and his manual dexterity
But then again the Hulk's endurance is limitless
and he's much stronger than spidey would be.
There was a,
hot girl in the comic shop,
just a minute ago.
There was a,
hot girl in the comic shop,
did anyone see her go?
Had she come to the comic shop lookin' for love?
Guess i'll never know
I think the above is why my ex-husband (who owned a comic shop) started pursuing me.
Except I was lookin' at Vertigo comics, not Doctor Who.
I think the above is why my ex-husband (who owned a comic shop) started pursuing me.
Except I was lookin' at Vertigo comics, not Doctor Who.
Was he easily distracted with theoretical discussions of the kind mentioned in the song?
Actually he was smarter than that.
Actually he was smarter than that.
:)
What's Dungeons & Dragons?
about $20 a book
Heres a good one
DSCF7122 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Printed circuit board what been 'tinned'?
Hmmm, looks like solder...a shiny 60/40 or something and a gritty sn10 or something.
thinset mortar, spread out with a notched trowel?
Nope , not his ass eather
looks like a weld or an electron microscope shot of something. Maybe it is a picture of water and sand in the sunlight.
Yeah, was thinking of electron scope of something that has 'tinning' or solder...not even close, eh?
I think it's something spread out with a v-notched trowel. Maybe not thin set mortar. Maybe vinyl floor adhesive. Something like that.
This is a tough one. I like.
nope
Here is a Hint
Its Bigger than a bread box
But smaller than a Bus
Nope
Dude check yer Spex :)
yes it is steel ,
Cut at some point ,
And yes Fucking Metal bars are associated with it
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! NOT ANOTHER JAIL CELL! FLASHBAAAAAAACKS! :bolt:
I'm going to guess it's steel that was accidentally scored in that fashion. Metal bars dragging across some surface where no metal bars were ever intended to drag.
Enough guesses ,
Its a Gear , a BFG ( Big F**king Gear )
DSCF7120 by
zippyt, on Flickr
This is what its Supposed to look like ,
DSCF7125 by
zippyt, on Flickr
The Lube pump failed and No body cought it untill the gears Died HARD ,
See why Oil changes in yer car are SOOOOOO Important !!!!
Good round , Whos Next ??
is the pic b&w or is that the true color?
true color, with a flash even
some sort of fiberboard or something like that. pressed and glued together perhaps.....
Enough guesses ,
Its a Gear , a BFG ( Big F**king Gear )
Excellent one Zippy. I initially was thinking gear, but it was so worn, I didn't see a single flat surface on it anywhere. I thought no way was it a gear. Well done!
The grass from under the tarp you FINALLY moved.
This is a bin of Thai [strike]lemon grass[/strike] sprouts waiting to be ordered and served.
It's a close up of your merkin.
dandelion petals
[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Yellow"]Correct! [/COLOR][/SIZE]
Color me impressed! And yellow. I was asked "What's that on your face? You look... jaundiced". Apparently I'd scratched my nose, rubbed my face, whatever. My fingertips were definitely yellow. When I sifted them through my fingers they felt a little like down, but cooler and heavier. Lovely.
Care to answer the bonus question "What is it gonna be?"?
Dandelion wine
Send me a bottle for my prize.
Dandelion wine
Send me a bottle for my prize.
Correct again. Color me unsurprised. I will send you a bottle, but please be aware that the recipes all say that it's 6 months minimum before it's sufficiently ripe, and that maturing for a year greatly improves it. Which, honestly, is just too damn far over the time horizon to be a useful part of the feedback loop for me. For me. Here's the recipe I'm using,
#2.OK If I get to making elderberry wine again this year I'll swap with you. and I did wait a year, and it was worth it.
The grey thing on the right reminds me of an uncooked turkey or chicken thigh. You can see the pores from the plucked feathers. What the red liquid is, must be some sort of bloody liquid.
Edit: grey thing on the left looks like an ice cube. Put it all together, and it doesn't make sense to me.
Chilling the freshly slaughtered bird
Cool. I have no idea how to slaughter something properly. I guess you chill it right away as quickly as possible. I've hear fishing boats flash freeze their catch. I guess this is trying to get as close to that as is feasible on a small scale.
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! NOT ANOTHER JAIL CELL! FLASHBAAAAAAACKS! :bolt:
A period cup?
:lol2:
Cool. I have no idea how to slaughter something properly. I guess you chill it right away as quickly as possible. I've hear fishing boats flash freeze their catch. I guess this is trying to get as close to that as is feasible on a small scale.
maybe I will post a series of photos with a description as a how to.
I would be interested in such a thread.
Here are some pics of the same gear from above ,
Photo012 by
zippyt, on Flickr
This is the gear it was running against ,
Photo013 by
zippyt, on Flickr
This is What they are supposed to look like ,
Photo014 by
zippyt, on Flickr
damn that is some fucked up shit. It must have sounded like the hammers of hell. Awesome coffee table base. Just get a glass top.
this geas is about 2.5 feet wide , and weighs a few hundred lbs ,
I agree it would make a Cool coffie table ,
Carol Prolly wouldnt though ,
Hell she wouldnt even let me make a fountain from an Old Toilet
this geas is about 2.5 feet wide , and weighs a few hundred lbs ,
I agree it would make a Cool coffie table ,
Carol Prolly wouldnt though ,
Hell she wouldnt even let me make a fountain from an Old Toilet
That may be a good thing...
Here's an EASY One ,
Photo018 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Those gears-- son of a mother ƒucker!
Groove on a vinyl record.
looks like a roll of sheet metal
DING DING !!! Feetz Nailed it
Photo017 by
zippyt, on Flickr
See I told ya it was easy
Next
ok here's something that may be easy and hard. You see some version of this everyday. Practically everyone does.
Groove on a vinyl record.
groove is in the heart
The cool kids use presses now.
The really cool kids don't drink that shit.
Chilling the freshly slaughtered bird
That probably made it feel better.
What is this? I think it's easy, but you never know. Sorry it's out of focus.
kayakkety yak
Don't paddle back
Yeah, I knew it would be easy. It's the interior of a kayak, close relative of the canoe.
This specimen was found at the Native American Museum on my lunch hour. It's the boat on the upper left in this picture.
I've heard the term baidarka used for that construction style. I don't see the classic split bow treatment I've seen on the other baidarkas. Here are a couple pics from the last one I saw in person.
They're *very* lightweight, and they flex. These are good qualities, but I think it would be scary to paddle. I feel like I'd put my foot right through it.
OK toughness, what's this?
that's the new wallpaper on my desktop
Cadbury's flake bar (chocolate)
And Boom Jim nails it !!
That's true of anything Jim can get his hands on, from what I've heard.
Don't let him near Jesus!
Yeah, he's always hanging around. Makes me cross.
then he deserves to get got
Yo Soy compadre, Jesus!
[YOUTUBE]ABGHJsRR1bQ[/YOUTUBE]
I don't know what it is, but that texture gives me the willies. :worried:
It reminds me of a fungus. But I have no idea what it is.
Is it a picture you took yourself?
Is it a picture you took of yourself?
What, like serious athlete's feetfeetfeet?
Is it a picture you took yourself?
by myself, not of myself.
It reminds me of a fungus. But I have no idea what it is.
Not a fungus, not even remotely related.
by myself, not of myself.
I think I was incorrectly using the reflexive pronoun.
So, it's not leather...:eyebrow:
Macro pic of yer wifes left pinky toenail
I think I was incorrectly using the reflexive pronoun.
Cut that out.
So, it's not leather...:eyebrow:
right again, it's not leather.
Macro pic of yer wifes left pinky toenail
No
Rust?
No
Rust Never Sleeps...
rock and roll will never die
no one accused you of being rusty, dusty.
OK, it's a close-up of some kind of cake?
It looks like leaves, layered, then all trimmed together. Like I'd do to a bunch of collard greens, but I don't know any brown leaves. Tobacco comes to mind, but this doesn't seem right. It looks like a very tight crop given the distortion and the bluish pixels (I temporarily forget the name for this phenomenon). Something organic, perhaps the gills of a mushroom.
yeah... could be a cigar?
perhaps the gills of a mushroom.
That's exactly what I was thinking too, but he said no fungus. Not even close.
I'm drawing a blank. Cross section of a cigar sounds good, but I think there are too many layers, and not enough curvature. I like Monster's candy bar comment, but I don't think it's that either.
I'm really stumped with this one.
Isn't it too up-closey to be a cigar? I mean, with the naked eye I would think tobaccy, like the end of a cig, but it looks really really close up so I think it's something that looks kind of smooth to the naked eye.
Hee Hee She said Naked !!!! [/ Bevis]
A scrotum or the surface of a boiling ocean of chocolate milk, being blown by cinnamon winds.
mammatus clouds at dusk or dawn?
I'd also like a hint, please.
Now, the lore of the 1900s would indicate that the seventh house of the egret whose skin is, indeed, grey [or grey] but would be held forth from the lasting dogma of the indigent people of Katmandu. Therefore, theoretically of course and unequivocally at best then must one be sure of the hypothermic reaction of the calculation of the scene.
Anon! It must be a toboggan.
I think we'll need to buy a vowel.
WALE, you's just not as smart as so many of these folk, is ya?
;)
HINT foot!
It is not a close-up; it is about as big as a volkswagen bug.
You ordinarily would never see this.
The noise/blue pixels are irrelevant to the ID of the object. crappy camera.
Crud, now I'm really stumped.
A redwood stump?
I'm tired of scrolling back, so I'm re-posting foot's picture.
never -- shawnee, not glatt
OK. I'm looking at it differently now, and I'm imagining a long exposure time and glowing things are leaving streaks. But whatever they are, they are going in the same direction. They don't cross each other much. Like embers shooting up into the night sky, but slower and in a more lazy way.
Edit: It's not camera shake though, because each path is different. It reminds me a lot of BigV's picture of moths in the stadium lights.
well its Obviously Layers of some thing , so is it a filter ??
Big ass seal ??
and thinking about it all wrong. It was 1/60 of a sec or shorter. There was no movement involved.
The insulating material between the body and interior of a car?
well its Obviously Layers of some thing , so is it a filter ??
Big ass seal ??
Actually, not layers. Not a filter or seal.
You would probably never see one of these in daily life.
The insulating material between the body and interior of a car?
not even once.
inside of a generator ???
am i warm or cold ???
Have I seen this pattern before in relation to audio?
This is tough.
yes
inside of a generator ???
am i warm or cold ???
your guess is cold. if you were looking at this you would be cold too, but it's not ice
Have I seen this pattern before in relation to audio?
Depends on if you were tripping, but probably no.
again, you would not see this in your lines of work.
cooling coils inside a Commercial reefer
getting farther away, zip.
sea sponge in a giant aquarium?
he said it's the size of a VW bug.
It is the wall of a root cellar?
ok not a seal ,filter , prolly not Boiler
is water involved ??
he said it's the size of a VW bug.
It is the wall of a root cellar?
No.
ok not a seal ,filter , prolly not Boiler
is water involved ??
Yes.
Is it a sandbox or a pile of mud?
Is it a sandbox or a pile of mud?
no and no
We have a winner!
But here's another hint.
this took a long time to make
no. but you're on the right road that leads to the right ballpark.
I have seen this--it looks familiar. The crumbly edges, it reminds me of ... bark? I can't place it. Thanks for the clues, I will let this percolate a while... be back later after my epiphany.
the underside of some sod/turf?
I have seen this--it looks familiar. The crumbly edges, it reminds me of ... bark? I can't place it. Thanks for the clues, I will let this percolate a while... be back later after my epiphany.
Not bark, nor crumbly, but you are getting much closer. very close.
You're so negative. I think you need more "yes" in your life.
Tell us what the fuck it is already. I had the pic up as I was selling scrip this afternoon at school and no-one had a fucking clue. They were also rather perturbed that I spoke of people I'd never met as if they were close friends... but hey....
Yeah What the Hellz is it All ready ???
alright. It is a mineral deposit from millions of years of dissolved limestone dripping onto the floor of a cave. Hence "percolate for a while"
I did a shoot there a few years ago.
Dammit! I was totally going to guess a cave wall, but I had to read through 6 pages of thread to get to the end... and then you answered it. That's what I get for not keeping up with my new posts.
offs I really was going to post (after the clues) "underground river bed" which woulda been pretty close... and then I thought stalactites and stalagmites, but they're smooth.... but I thought f3 liveth not underground.....
great pics :D
alright. It is a mineral deposit from millions of years of dissolved limestone dripping onto the floor of a cave.
Shucks.
I was totally going to guess T. Rex poo.
!
very good. you're right. care to expand on your guess?
alright. It is a mineral deposit from millions of years of dissolved limestone dripping onto the floor of a cave. Hence "percolate for a while"
I did a shoot there a few years ago.
Wait, you're
Werner Herzog? ;)
That thing there, it looks like the top of a 'mater.
!
very good. you're right. care to expand on your guess?
Jalapeño!
not a 'mater...
and not a jalepeno
will reveal at 7:30 pm pacific.
Wait, you're Werner Herzog? ;)
I was just talking about that movie with my wife. What a great interview. I can't wait to see it.
I can't wait to see the interview of your wife either!
pepper picture is of an orange bell pepper. I cut the top off and this time I cut a little high, keeping some of the stem. it was pretty, so (naturally!) I took a pitchur.
I reach inside and take out the seed section then slice the remaining pepper for whatever I'm making... pizza in this instance.
Is this a stealth bomber? A friend took this today in Missouri I thought someone would know exactly what this is, Sarge, Plthijinx?
yep! the B-1 stealth bomber
I was going to guess a jalapeno with the top cut off.
yep! the B-1 stealth bomber
Wrong.
That's Australia's new combat boomerang. Can be hand thrown up to 500 metres and will slice through kevlar, ceramic and steel. I saw a guy slice the tracks of an Abrams tank with one.
Why 12? Get one, it comes back...
catching it is a problem, though...
yep! the B-1 stealth bomber
B-2 but who's counting? ;)
Wow, that's pretty neat, 'vana.
It's the mother ship picking up pensive pam
B-2 but who's counting? ;)
Yep.
B-2 Spirit.B-2 but who's counting? ;)
Point.
Dungeons and Dragons?
Yes, it is a homemade "battlemat" for staging Dungeons & Drangons encounters. Glatt wins again.
I was DM (Dungeon Master) in a few encounters, which means I was in charge of the environment and the enemies. Here is a cave with various outlets of questionable use. The cave is spotted with a flamable fungus, identified as such using a "Knowledge Check" of the "Nature" skill--that is, our best "Nature" oriented character rolled a twenty-sided die, added their "Nature" modifier, and compared the resulting sum to a table of difficulties. By meeting the required difficulty of the Knowledge Check, they were able to warn the other party members: that stuff is flammable! Good to know when a Fire Bat was swooping at you, and the ghost of a Goblin who died in a volcanic vent is trying to possess you and force you into it.
Is drowning in flood of memories--gah!!
*rolls 1d20 for swimming success*
ok this isn't so much as a what is this but more like what's the significance?? taken last week on my way from job 1 to job 2.....
Because the truck's license plate says LUMBR J1 (almost "lumberjim?")
Dude, fix your windshield.
[SIZE="1"]Or at least wash it.[/SIZE]
:D
knew it would be easy but didn't really know where to post it. g1 clod...
grav - if i wash my truck it will fall apart!
knew it would be easy but didn't really know where to post it. g1 clod...
There's a thread just for this type of thing,
here. :D
grav - if i wash my truck it will fall apart!
:lol2: Saw a
really dirty truck once, someone had written on it, in the grime, "Gov't Test Dirt Do Not Wash".
That windshield isn't too bad. At least the crack isn't in your direct line of sight.
say no to crack!
yeah that's the only place it's cracked like that so it's not bothersome...
gov't test dirt. now that's funny right there!
OK What is this? The little clumps, not the fine strands. Looking for expert opinions.
Most states have a law that says if you have greater than 6 inches of crack showing you can be pulled over. So unless yer ho has more than 5 inches of crack, don't show the PoPo. Both those pics are showing more than 6 inches of crack, and you are going to jail!
PooP , Ya Scart the PooP out of it !!!
BEAR: "Hey rabbit, do you have a problem with shit sticking to your fur?"
dander. funk. coagulated crystallized body oil, scraped/combed off as it went past.
I'll get it out of the way first:
A fucking wooden bar?
I'll get it out of the way first:
A fucking wooden bar?
HOF.
:haha:
you're all so damn funny.
That is a widowmaker. The top third of that tree fell over and hung up in the branches of its neighbor. I spent some time last weekend disarming it. I tried first to use a weight on a fishing line over the base of the horizontal part as a leader for a heavier line. Too weak. In my frustration, I wound up putting a potato sized rock in my garden glove and tying it to the line. I heaved the line (a extension cord, if you must know) over the base, eeeeaaaaased it down until I had both ends in hand and then walked the ends as far away as I could. When I was out of line I pulled it off that tall, tall stump.
It worked (it worked my way that is, no widows were made). In fact I dropped it exactly where I wanted it, on the vacant lot side of the fence, and nobody got hurt.
you're all so damn funny.
Dude, please, give us a break. It is not that big of a deal.
WHOOPS!
forgot my sarcasm/eye rolling flag. forgive me, please.
I'll get it out of the way first:
A fucking wooden bar?
:notworthy
It worked
Well done. That's all that matters, that nobody got hurt and nothing got damaged.
I took down a small widow maker one time. It was basically a pole with one limb leaning out. Not too huge. Maybe 8 inches in diameter at the trunk. As I was cutting it, the vibrations made the limb break off, and it landed on a nearby roof. The vertical part shuddered when the limb came off, and it just sort of collapsed and fell straight down right next to me. Just missed me. Nobody got hurt and the roof wasn't even damaged. It scared me though and I'm MUCH more careful when I try to do anything with a dead tree, which is rare. I was young and stupid.
It looks like a piece of packing foam to me.
It looks like a piece of packing foam to me.
Nope.
The curve looks like it matches the curve of an eyeglasses lens. The notch is all black and marked, like it fits into something like a vise.
So I'm going to guess that it's some sort of jig for holding or grinding eyeglass lenses.
I don't know, but seriously, it looks familiar. The material.
Hints?
The curve looks like it matches the curve of an eyeglasses lens. The notch is all black and marked, like it fits into something like a vise.
So I'm going to guess that it's some sort of jig for holding or grinding eyeglass lenses.
In the right area.
A tensioning block of some sort. For a chain perhaps?
Teflon-type plastic? A brush-holder from an electric motor?
I don't think it's made of teflon
Not like on a frying pan, mind you. :)
I'm guessing it's made of nylon, some kind of bushing.
chop stick rest?
It protects the finish of a metal frame when using these pliers to bend it.
That's where I remember seeing that material. I worked in manufacturing/QA for years and I remember tools having that material. Weird that I could almost feel it again, when I saw the "texture." Those types were used for bending wire so it didn't expose base copper.
I believe that material is nylon.
Ok, what is this? (no points for saying dirty thumbnail)
a carabiner that failed. What's the story?
a carabiner that failed. What's the story?
glatt beat me to it. I was going to say carabiner that failed the safety check.
But I'm guessing that's too obvious.
a carabiner that failed. What's the story?
glatt beat me to it. I was going to say carabiner that failed the safety check.
But I'm guessing that's too obvious.
You're both right. Of course this one was incredibly easy to guess.
Here's the story.Termites? Gnats, maybe?
Ooh, ooh I just looked at the reflections. It's rice.
It's rice.
Yeah, at a wedding
yes to the rice
yes to the wedding
there's a lot more. you have managed less than half credit so far. *what wedding*?
spoiler/hint
[COLOR="White"]
they're not reflections.[/COLOR]
Bonnie and Clyde, being married by a soccer referee in Algiers, 1957. Close? 1/4 credit?:p:
negative.
Many people witnessed this wedding, you included, I'm sure.
AHA! It's real rice, being thrown in front of a showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
You win Clodfobble!!!!
A couple more from the show:
At the end of the Time Warp scene and during the big dance number near the end (can't remember the name of the scene).
eta: The performance was by the members of the
Vicarious Theater Company. They run the show at the Admiral Theater on the first Saturday of the month. This month's theme was Beach Party. We'll be going to the next one too, it was a *ton* of fun!
yes that's water. can you tell me more about the picture?
no I am right and I wanna stay there.
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ok - condensation on something... perhaps from a camping trip....
somebody with long hair dangled it down onto the condensation of a car hood and made those marks.
classic's right! glatt gets the consolation prize for "hair".
It is condensation. When we went camping this weekend, she had her sunglasses propped on top of her head. OOOOOOoohhh shiny!, so, I took a picture. I like the pattern her hair made on the underside of the lenses.
Camping with a "she".
Niiiiice.
:cool:
Camping with a "she".
Niiiiice.
:cool:
You've no idea... well, you might. But then you need to multiply it by about twelve.
I have no idea. At first glace it looks like an electrical box for home wiring, but then when you look at it closer, you see nothing to back that theory up other than the color and general shape.
I'm imagining a spring wound spool in the center with two strings or cables coming off of it, and a lever action button on top to release/lock the spool. It looks like the two strings/cables would come out where those notches on the bottom are. But they are fully retracted right now.
What is it? I have no idea. What retracts? Some sort of double action retractable clothes line?
Edit: Actually if I go with my clothes line theory, the the cables make a 90 degree turn and come out the front.
Fire extinguisher.
Or maybe a door bell.
Wall mounted kitchen scales?
I have no idea. At first glace it looks like an electrical box for home wiring, but then when you look at it closer, you see nothing to back that theory up other than the color and general shape.
I'm imagining a spring wound spool in the center with two strings or cables coming off of it, and a lever action button on top to release/lock the spool. It looks like the two strings/cables would come out where those notches on the bottom are. But they are fully retracted right now.
What is it? I have no idea. What retracts? Some sort of double action retractable clothes line?
dwellars take note:
this is how glatt thinks.
"I have no idea"
This is a good start and fair because I deliberately presented a good puzzle of a picture. It's not obvious.
"an electrical box?"
An idea at last (or at first). You have to start somewhere. But...
"just the color and shape suggest this, nothing else"
So, no electrical box.
"I imagine a spring wound spool in the center..."
I've gone back to this picture after reading that phrase and I don't see what suggests spring wound spool, but no biggie, we're just thinking out loud here...
"two strings/cables coming off of it, and a lever action button on top to release/lock the spool"
You *can* see a lever at the top and for the observant (and imaginative) there is the suggestion of a latch of some kind where the sides of the end of the lever are not parallel. *spoiler* it's a knob action lever to release the spool, but we're getting ahead of ourselves
"with the strings coming out of the notches on the bottom"
well, um. yeah. right.
"but they are fully retracted right now"
see above. with your freakin x-ray vision.
"What is it? I have no idea. What retracts? Some sort of double action retractable clothes line? "
Here is glatt's only mistake. No, not mistake, but he misspeaks. "I have no idea" Like hell he doesn't we've just walked through his idea. Then, naturally, he names it.
It is a double action retractable clothesline.
Here's the front.
Sorry, no more callers, please. We already have a winner.
The little clothesline came with the house, actually. It's mounted on one of the main supporting posts in the basement and the line pulls out and hooks over a couple cup hooks on the next post about eight feet away. The knob/lever locks the spool from unwinding any further under the weight of the wet clothes and when they're dry and taken away, you twist the knob and the lever lifts up and the spring winds the string back in zzZZZZZIIIIIIPPPP! This fun was done at fullspeed too many times and eventually caused a snarl on the takeup reel. I unmounted the unit and took it apart, unsnarled the line, rewound it and reassembled it. While it was in my hand, I thought of this little thread.
glatt is the winner again!!
Can you post a picture of the top? It really looks like there is a big flat "button" that's actually a lever. The front looks little like I imagined.
But I'll take it. :)
Ok.
As you look at the front, the spool unwinds clockwise. The line extends as the top edge of the disc where the pawl engages moves left to right. If you look at the pawl, it has a side (the left side) that is vertical-ish, it makes a connection with the teeth on the spool that keeps it from rotating clockwise. This is what keeps the line taut when under load. When you want to release it and retract it, you have to put a little slack in it and then it can clickclickclick counter clockwise under spring power and the pawl/lever goes kdunkkdunkkdunk over each tooth until the line's all wound back in.
See?
Thanks for posting that top picture. That lever is exactly what I pictured, but I had no idea what the front looked like.
In fact, I started doing a frantic Google image search after I posted my guess in the hopes I would find something that would look like the image in my head. I found nothing, but I guess that's because this thing is now decades old.
I really enjoyed this installment of the game. It was a challenge. Thank you, sir.
You're most welcome! I like this game too. Man... .you're good.
Seriously, as far as I knew, that thing didn't even exist before glatt nailed it.
Once in a hotel, I saw a round chrome hockey puck thing attached to the bathroom wall. There was a little button thing in the center. I wondered what the hell it was, so I pulled on the button, and this long line came out. It stretched all the way across to the opposite wall where there was a bracket to accept the button. Instant clothes line. I was impressed and remembered that. I've seen them in some hotels since then. So I knew such a thing existed, but never saw one like BigV's
I have that exact thing (glatt's picture, not BigV's) in my laundry room. Less than $10 off Amazon. Works great for that occasional thing that can't go in the dryer.
So I knew such a thing existed, but never saw one like BigV's
Heh, heh...that's what
she said!
I thought I was all clever because I noticed the strings. Puh. One of these days...
What is this? (may be sort of a repeat, maybe)
Prolly won't take too long...
... that needs cleaning ...
At first it looked like something Happy Monkey had made.
business end of a blow dryer
Looks like a car's tail light or turn signal.
A honeycomb after a nuclear attack.
Catalytic converter from a muffler?
A Cataclysmic Diverter
Duh! It's a Cadillac Converter. EVERYONE knows that.
Well now, here's a shocker. Glatt wins. Again. It's a turn signal/parking light. I figured the hexagonal pattern might throw some of you off.
I had two pics to use for this, this is the one I didn't use.
God job Glatt.
Some of you cracked me up.
do you know what those are called, those shapes there in that top shot (well, both shots) Those are
retroreflectors. (ooo cataphote... cool, I learned a new word today!)
Cataphote---now if I could just pronounce it.
Use it in a sentence:
Help me, I cantaphote and I'm going to dwown!
Use it in a sentence:
Help, help! I'm bein' oppressed! I cantaphote. /monty python
Cataphote---now if I could just pronounce it.
It must be like "cantalope", but you drop the "n" and change the "l" to "ph" and ....
No, wait, don't tell me...
It's like "cataract", where you change the "r" to "ph" and ...
No, that's a "cataphract"
Never mind.
Cantaphote tonight, dad has the car.
I'm going with
kuh-TOFF-o-tee
That pronunciation sounds like the ever-pretentious Alex Trebek.
cataphote. Would you like a rheuuummmmm?
Ha! Your cat afoot, eet ees aswollen, ees eet not?
I cantaphote, I forgot to phote the last couple of years.
I cantaphote because it's so hard to find fresh ones in the winter.
Sinue for the bow string on the Horn and exotic wood bow you have crafted
Tell us more. How are you making it?
Dude, you makin' a bow? I'm fascinated. Tell, tell...
Making a bow, or taking a bow?
OK, will start a thread shortly, but there is a pic of the mm with her bow somewhere on here.
BOOM !!!!!
Nailed it !!!
I cant just see you telling yer Doc " the Spoke Shave is good Therapy for my shoulder "
You know, it sure isn't. I was feeling pretty good so I thoght I'd do a bit of spoke shaving and then I got into the zone and was in the shop for about two hours feeling like I had a tailwind.
The next day I thought I was paralyzed and I had no idea why. My doc played 20 questions with me until the lightbulb went on.
Duh.
You need to learn to do it with your feets.
You know, it sure isn't. I was feeling pretty good so I thoght I'd do a bit of spoke shaving and then I got into the zone and was in the shop for about two hours feeling like I had a tailwind.
The next day I thought I was paralyzed and I had no idea why. My doc played 20 questions with me until the lightbulb went on.
Duh.
LOL at your lightbulb, not your paralysis.
I was feeling pretty good so I thoght I'd do a bit of spoke shaving and then I got into the zone...
Boy I hate when that happens. There ya are uh, (ahem) "
shaving your spoke", and ya look up, and the afternoon's just gone.
Sinue for the bow string on the Horn and exotic wood bow you have crafted
Beat me to it. I was going to say "looks like it used to be a bowstring."
Iguana. Iguana be a bowstring when it's done. Sinew has 400,000psi tensile strength.
Here's an Easy one
Photo085 by
zippyt, on Flickr
See That way Easy
Photo087 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Ok heres a harder one ,
and yes I Know they are Big Fucking Metal Bars ,
But What will they become ????
BFMB1 by
zippyt, on Flickr
These look like steel bars used in building construction to reinforce a concrete structure.
Zippyt, don't you have something to do with large (weighing) scales ?
Maybe there in a new huge scale in your future.
Oh they get weighed. but No its Not a Scale
... and yes I Know they are Big Fucking Metal Bars ...
I love that you guys still say this. I don't discriminate between "laughing with" and "laughing at" --I'll take either one.
Some propeller shafts maybe?
They are huge, so the obvious answer is a drive shaft for something big. Like a ship. But they could also be for some sort of manuffacturing. Like maybe the shaft for a roller in a carpet factory.
(a) are you getting enough dietary fibre, Zippy?
(b) axle for the missing (second-to-) back axle of that truck.
(c) I doubt drive shafts, beacuse (c.1) I can't see any attachment points at the end and (c.2) There is a big pile of these things in the background. Too darn many for drive shafts.
So, despite (c.1) I'm going for ... dunno what they are called ... when they're drilling for oil or whatever, and they've got the drill bit into the earth, they need to keep putting extension bars on it to keep going deeper. Probably wrong, 'cause I think the drill thingies should be hollow, but oh well.
Does this help ??
BFMB2 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Definitely not drilling thingies, then.
Reverting to what I was originally going to guess ... rollers for an industrial size conveyor belt / roller-slide thingy.
My vocab sucks at this stuff.
I'm puzzled by the trucks. They're obviously not limited by space, so it must be by weight. If they had chosen trucks with a third back axle, they could carry more weight, which means more of these tube thingies per trip, and save costs. yet they didn't.
Is this a red herring?
How about now ??
BFMB3 by
zippyt, on Flickr
They are Rail car Axles ,
Photo070 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Whoah, are those big suckers on the truck blanks that get cut down on a lathe or something?
How about now ??
No, because they are looking less and less like torpedoes.
pic 1 is blanks , pic 2 is hammer Milled Blanks , Pic 3 is finished Axle , pic 4 is lame , but the best I have for a rail axle
This is kinda wild. A few days ago I was sitting, waiting for a freight train to go by, and I thought "Those three bolts on the ends of the axles would make a good What Is It? picture."
What's with the one short guy at the front of pic 3 ?
Different rail car type , I suspect a Smallish Coal Car ???
maybe its for one of these. :)
That would be fun , the tricky part is the Steering
but it rides like it's on rails.
alright i might just have one here. here goes....
That's a shock absorber for the new mini mini mini cooper.
lmao! close but not so close!
shock absorber for a radio controlled car/copter/plane
the spring from a cabinet closer thingee , this holds the Door open ,
so I guess it would be a Cabinet Hold Open thingee
dunno, but it is Ribbed For Her Pleasure.
nope nope and nope. zip? really? think inside the box!
Oh Duuh , its a Muffler bearing !!
A spring from the inside of a (very large) pen? :D
Part of a slide from an M1911?
It's one of those springs that you slip over a thin walled pipe so you can bend the pipe without getting a kink in it.
It's the palm of your hand. The other thing might be the barrel from a BB gun.
Part of a slide from an M1911?
very close
Yeah, I thought it looked like the spring from a pump shotgun tube magazine.
or a firing pin spring
firing pin and spring for a winchester model 70. southpaw edition.
I call BS , its Clearly a Right handed version , the spring on the Lefty winds the Other way !!! ;)
lmao! don't laugh too hard there zip. ya might hurt that shoulder!
Thanks , but it Hurts Any way
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What is this?
It broke off from this orrery
.
it part of a Broad head tip for deer hunting ,
if any body would like to see what happens when you make a bad shot with one these let me know, a Coworker asked if i could grab some pics off his Phone and send them to him
it part of a Broad head tip for deer hunting ,
if any body would like to see what happens when you make a bad shot with one these let me know, a Coworker asked if i could grab some pics off his Phone and send them to him
You don't have to ask, zippy. OF COURSE we wanna see! Hell, we've seen goatse and tubgirl
It's the mechanism that holds up an umbrella
No, it's an arrowhead, one of the retractable kind.
Glatt for the win, if you can imagine such a thing!
It is a mechanical/expanding broadhead, used in bowhunting.
BTW, you could use them on a crossbow bolt.
Glatt for the Win MY ASS !!!
tip NO
Cutting Blade yes
Here is what they can do
Photo026 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Nice Deer ,
Photo029 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Photo025 by
zippyt, on Flickr
[MichaelWaddell]That deer right there looks like he wants a ride in the back of my truck![/MichaelWaddell]
Hey Feetz said he wanted to see
If you don't like that, never watch sausages being made.
If you don't like that, never watch sausages being made.
Word.
BTW, you could use them on a crossbow bolt.
I have them on my crossbow. Very effective.
Glatt for the Win MY ASS !!!
tip NO
Cutting Blade yes
Here is what they can do
Doesn't look like an arrow shot to me.
it is according to the guy that shot it
Just saying, IMHexperience, it does not look like that. But hell, ask bigv, I am just another MoFo with an opinion, he is the resident expert here.
Purely theoretical, no experience, but ...
Maybe that's what happened when he pulled the arrow out. Like the bayonet rule, thrust, turn, withdraw - and it's the withdraw that really does the damage.
Or the deer was really upset and needed to spill his guts.
Purely theoretical, no experience, but ...
Maybe that's what happened when he pulled the arrow out. Like the bayonet rule, thrust, turn, withdraw - and it's the withdraw that really does the damage.
Ummm, no, it does not work like that.
Or the deer was really upset and needed to spill his guts.
:lol:
Ummm, no, it does not work like that.
Bayonets don't, or these arrowheads don't? Or both?
I thought it was from one of those explosive arrow heads that Rambo uses.
I thought it was from one of those explosive arrow heads that Rambo uses.
Rambo is a puss. Chuck Norris has an explosive penis head.
Mine has a pressure-release valve.
Somewhat different this time around. This time you get the entire picture (almost), instead of a crop or close-up. The blacked out area is a name that would give away the answer.
So, what is this?
Cray XMP.
Do you know why it has that circular shape?
[COLOR="LemonChiffon"]
To make the connections between the multiple processors as short and uniform as possible, so they could communicate faster and with the minimum difference among the processors.[/COLOR]
testing lab at Consumer Reports
Dayum! That lasted all of four minutes. Good job, Big V!
XMP I don't know from, but, yes, it is a vintage Cray superputer.
thanks man! I knew that one on sight. If I'd refreshed sooner, I'd've posted the answer sooner.
The blue and white things behind the two figures... what are they?
Kobalt beer fridges from Lowe's?
Printers with built-in document shredders, for homeland security.
I'd say Control Data units from their look.
I wonder what that computer would compare to in today's market.
Hard drives?
Washing machines. heh... yes, hard drives.
washing machine /n./
1. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs -- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'. The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also walking drives. The thick channel cables connecting these were called `bit hoses' (see hose, sense 3). 2. [CMU] A machine used exclusively for washing software. CMU has clusters of these.
I wonder what that computer would compare to in today's market.
[thread-drifting]
An article at Newscientist (
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228341.600-they-said-it-couldnt-be-done-7-impossible-inventions.html) which is no longer easily available discussed how much it would take to build the functional equivalent of an iphone using 1980s technology.
The answer is roughly that you'd be pushing around a well-loaded wheelbarrow, with the battery pack on a wagon behind.
A wagon has a behind? Junk in the trunk?
Isn't it round for most efficient use of the liquid nitrogen cooling tower?
(I was late into the discussion, but I immediately said "Cray." And got a little excited. Old school geekishness. I asked the boss for one for Christmas one year. I didn't get it. Not only was it a mite overpowered for our computing needs, she was Jewish. I didn't get one for Chanukah, either.)
I used to have a picture of myself standing inside one of those.
I sat on one before. They had a model that incorporated a bench.
Isn't it round for most efficient use of the liquid nitrogen cooling tower?
I thought it was for shorter wire paths.
I think it was to confuse polocks?
Cray XMP.
Do you know why it has that circular shape?
[COLOR="red"]
To make the connections between the multiple processors as short and uniform as possible, so they could communicate faster and with the minimum difference among the processors.[/COLOR]
I thought it was for shorter wire paths.
winnah!!
The caption said this was a close up of a Lamprey mouth. But, that don't match up with a
Google Image Search.
I ask you, Teh Cellah, what the hell is this? Cuz, I don't know.
That's the thing that lives in Sundae's dreams.
It's what hatches from stones with faces painted on them.
it's a photoshop job. that is not a creature. well, not all of it and not just one creature. I call bullshit.
Is it a cute li'l slug?
It ain't a "cute little" anything...:headshake
I truly don't know just what it is.
it's a photoshop job. that is not a creature. well, not all of it and not just one creature. I call bullshit.
and by bullshit, I mean get that fucking thing away from me!!!
your picture, *sir*."... also known as the snot eel..." :lol:
Seriously, divine creator, did you have to?
'Til it opens its mouth, it looks like some kind of freaky sex toy. Guess it supplies its own lube.
and by bullshit, I mean get that fucking thing away from me!!!
your picture, *sir*.
:lol2:
Alrighty then. What Is This?, asked and answered style:
What is this?
[ATTACH]35652[/ATTACH]
[COLOR="Red"]Answer:-->[/COLOR][COLOR="LemonChiffon"]Flooded car lot in Thailand.[/COLOR][COLOR="Red"]<--highlight to see the answer.[/COLOR]
I was close, I was thinking Japan. Different disaster.
Rental car lot in NOLA post Katrina is my guess.
Uhh, guys, he's put the answer in the post...
Yeah, I know.
I see it answers the question nicely, but it is something of a thread ender. "Hey, look. Got it? Ok. Move on." meh. It was a creative idea. I was trying to continue the conversation.
The threads! You're ruining them!
(This is an inside joke. My vet's old front desk lady...now long gone, had made a hand made sign: Keep your animals off the seats. The cushions! You're ruining them!) :lol:
A drill to bore holes in pipes ?
Yes! A chain drill. They are very beautiful and effective tools. You put the chain around the back of the pipe and slide it into the slot on the other side of the drill. Then when you use a brace to twist this thing, the threading in that central shaft pulls the bit slowly and steadily into the metal. It really makes drilling very easy and effective. With a chain drill like this, you can drill holes in metal by hand about as fast as with a modern electric drill.
This one might be more difficult.
What are these things?
Early swimming flippers
Ha!
Great minds, spexx, great minds.
Horse skis?
Are those like Huskies? Or Russkies?
Trucks in mountainous areas carry "emergency drop chains" for icy roads and runaway trailers.
Are they some sort of "emergency drop skids" for railroad freight cars ?
I'm not sure about all of it, but one of those things is a dollar bill.
(preens smugly)
Trucks in mountainous areas carry "emergency drop chains" for icy roads and runaway trailers.
Are they some sort of "emergency drop skids" for railroad freight cars ?
You're really close. Close enough that I'd say you have it.
They are called skid shoes, and heavy wagons going down hills used them to slow the wagon and also keep the brakes from wearing out and the metal tires on the wheels getting a flat spot worn into them as the wagon skids down a hill.
These would hang by chains on the side of the wagons, and you would stick them under the wheels at the top of a hill, and just skid down the hill on them.
It seems like it would be hard to steer. Maybe the roads were straighter then.
They might have only used them on the rear wheels.
Here are two measuring tools I find absolutely fascinating.
The first image is the "old" version,
the second and third images are the "new" versions.
The question is, what are they measuring ?
.
Cool! I've never seen anything like that.
Is it some sort of estimating device for estimating the board feet of lumber in a tree?
Cool! I've never seen anything like that.
Is it some sort of estimating device for estimating the board feet of lumber in a tree?
Yes, but going beyond that
It somehow measures basal area in a forest? How crowded the forest is?
[/Google searching]
I'm intrigued. Not finding anything by googling. Let's see if glatt's mad googling skillz comes up with it.
The bottom two are prisms. The deviation is a function of the distance from the object.
Basal area gauge. But I don't really understand completely how it works. And especially don't understand the modern ones.
OK, so I guess you count the number of fat trees in the woods. And you use the metal gauge to see how fat the trees are so you know whether to count them or not based on how much each tree fills the window. I'm guessing the prisms work by either completely splitting the image of the trunk if the tree is too small to be counted, or else leaving a little bit attached if the tree is fat enough to be counted.
Interesting! I learned something new today.
The end goal is to determine the board feet of lumber in a given plot of land.
The timber cruiser stands at the center of a plot of trees,
The prism (wedge) gauge is probably easier to understand.
It basically is used to count the trees inside and outside a certain distance.
By looking thru the prism, and rotating 360 degrees,
the cruiser counts the number of trees inside (pic 2)
and outside (pic 3).
By measuring the diameter of the trees inside the plot,
the timber inventory (total number of board ft of the plot) can be calculated.
This "sample" from the center of the plot can represent a much larger area.
The width-steps of the other gauge (pic 1) select
for trees of a maximum given diameter.
The chain is used to fix the distance from the gauge to the eye.
Both of Glatt's tools above and the old gauge here show that our
forefathers were not dummies.
I'm beginning to think that Glatt has somehow eaten Clodfobble's brain and thereby derived its powers.
This is like a creepy "One Step Beyond" episode
Maybe you just forgot how awesome glatt is in his own right.
;)
OK time for a relatively easy one ...
Glatt you are penalized one hour from responding to even things up.
The rest of you .... GO!
OMG, it's the fabled Chocolate Pudding Cave and Amphitheater.
I don't know, but the texture totally creeps me out.
A drain pipe that has experienced industrial strength "drano" in it's past.
nope, nope (agreed) and nope
Both of Glatt's tools above and the old gauge here show that our
forefathers were not dummies.
On my bedside table I have the
Dictionary of American Hand Tools. I freaking love it. I've read it cover to cover twice, and just about every night, I open it up at random and just start reading. Before I got it, I knew about 70% of the tools in there, and after reading it a few times, I now know about 95% of the tools in there. But I keep finding new things that I hadn't noticed before. I'm surprise the basal area gauge is not in there. I'll have to check again tonight.
looks like the underside of a wheel well...
...after some offroad driving in the mud.
Your glottis?
Epic-glottis!
On my bedside table I have the Dictionary of American Hand Tools. I freaking love it.
Noted as potential Christmas gift. Thanks!
I'm interested in that too.
I think my dad would like it, and I could look at it when I'm over there.
Amazon only has 10 copies in stock right now. And it's the Christmas rush soon. If you want a copy, you should consider placing the order (by clicking through on one of the Amazon ads on
Clodfobble's home page) today.
What's this? It's a tool in the dictionary I mentioned.
Something for leather work?
No. It doesn't work leather.
glatt - you violated the one hour head start ;)
Yours is a cork drill bit sharpener, I actually own one.
Well done, classic! Do you have a cork cutter too? Do you keep it sharp?
Yep! Gotta be sharp or they don't work worth squat!
I have a whole set of cork drills that get used very infrequently so I sharpen them before each use.
This is not a cork cutter but looks very much like one.
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And this is how you would use the sharpener to sharpen the cork cutter.
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Sweet! Do you bottle your own wine?
Sweet! Do you bottle your own wine?
I have not .. .. .. yet.
Do you soak the cork?
I have mostly used mine on rubber corks. They obviously need no soaking.
The last time I used them on real cork was about 20 years ago when I made my own fishing rod with real cork grips.
That was a major PITA. I think it was pre-soaked or something cuz it wasn't dry. But I honestly don't remember.
So you're not a cork soaker.
My mom has thought on an off over the years about getting cork flooring. But I don't think little circles are ever involved.
So you're not a cork soaker.
:D
In cider?
My Mum told me if you get a thorn in your hand you should always soak it.
Uhh, guys, he's put the answer in the post...
Yeah, I know.
I see it answers the question nicely, but it is something of a thread ender. "Hey, look. Got it? Ok. Move on." meh. It was a creative idea. I was trying to continue the conversation.
I didn't know when I might get back to it, so, I went ahead and provided the answer.
Is it the Hana Lava Tube?
Yes sir it is. I figured you went while there. We had a great time.
Uhh, guys, he's put the answer in the post...
But he was wrong, it's the flooded Honda plant.
How can ya tell? TinEye don't find it for me.
But he was wrong, it's the flooded Honda plant.
Is it a flooded Honda plant,
in Thailand, perhaps?
Yes, it's the Honda plant in Thailand.
If ya never used one of these, ya might not know...
What is this?
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It ain't a pizza cutter.
It's a fabric cutter for quilting, isn't it?
Its a Spline roller for replacing screens in windows or doors..
Classic for the win!
It rolls the screen into that little groove on your screen door.
It's a fabric cutter for quilting, isn't it?
Good guess though. Looks just like the one Momdigr has.
Alrighty then...This one might be impossible. [COLOR="LemonChiffon"]Unless you have a south-facing door.[/COLOR]
What is this?
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Object on your camera lens, either dust or droplet, out of focus.
what zen said only it's the moon
So, it's not dust, it's not a droplet, it's not on the camera lens, but it is an object and it is out of focus, but apart from that, I was right? :right: :D
It's not really an object in that you can touch it. You might could feel it, maybe. But there would be no tactile sensation.
ETA: There is a vague hint in the original post also.
ETA Again: As far as focus goes, that's a fairly accurate representation of how it actually appears to the eye.
the extremity of an optic fiber ?
A solar eclipse reflecting from light going through a pin hole.
So, it's not dust, it's not a droplet, it's not on the camera lens, but it is an object and it is out of focus, but apart from that, I was right? :right: :D
:lol2:
I thought the same thing.
Sorry, plt, that was funny. ;)
the extremity of an optic fiber ?
A solar eclipse reflecting from light going through a pin hole.
You are both very close. Kinda sorta.
The vague hint I referred to is the almost invisible "Unless you have a south-facing door." part.
Ima go ahead and give it to Lamp for "through a pin hole".
What it is is: Sunlight exiting the peephole in my (south-facing) front door, projecting on the wall on the opposite side of the living room.
It only happens in the winter months. That's when the sunlight's angle is low enough to make it all the way through the peephole.
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A shoe horn for masochists?
hahahahahhahahahha
I'm thinking some kind of tool for use in upholstery work, for pulling. Not really happy with this choice, but I can't think of one better. that jagged piece looks like a picture hanger piece.
a slicer, a corner rounder, edge rounder for .. food, like cheese or
a cucumber cutter for decorative food art
Big V with the win!!
It's a happy little corn cutter. It's for cutting corn off the cob.
woooot! I was getting there, was searching food garnish tools, found a julienne cutter, was looking for this doodad... didn't find *THAT* one. Cool! Nice find!
What is this, ahem, erection?
The gravel path that goes right through the construction is in a little river valley. The small/medium sized river is just out of sight to the right of the picture and if you look closely next to the left of 'our' building you can see another tiny stream which is actually a feeder, taken from the river, with its own little tunnels and aqueducts to top up the Union Canal.
No, it isn't a bridge. The footpath, river and canal feed run parallel.
Those rafters are over sized for that light weight roof. Clearly there is a winch up in the rafters so you can pull the engine block out of your car and work on it.
The circle of stones in the path might make it a mill of some sort
Its a safety zone from falling coconuts.
When it gets windy, everyone runs there for cover.
My first thought was Lich gate, but I think it would be fancier and not so long and there would be a wall.
Correct!!
Well, there are no coconuts here, but Classicman has it!
The path goes under an old, disused railway viaduct with a slightly crumbly exterior.
The roof is stronger than it looks, made of logs sawn in half.
Pic in a second when I find it....!
From the other side first.
way to go classic!
I wonder if any engineering went into designing that roof, or if they just decided to go with the heaviest timbers they happened to have available. Like how do they know how massive the chunks will be that happen to fall down? There's enough weight up there to flatten this structure like a pancake if it all comes down at once. So they are making an assumption that it will come down in pieces a little at a time. How did they decide that the pieces would be a certain size?
I was sort of kidding. (lot more than a little)
We were directed to a couple of those when in Hawaii.
I think the viaduct itself is pretty secure as a structure (I walk over it fairly regularly and it hasn't collaped under my weight!) and there doesn't seem to be any big chunks missing, just some crumbly bits here and there.
Perhaps, they were worried about lumps of coal falling from the railway.
Or spitters.
Or rocks from the railbed, and maybe ice in winter.
nuts, bolts, spikes, and plates.
Rhianne that's a gorgeous photo!
Maybe in case it starts
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Rhianne that's a gorgeous photo!
It was taken last August - it's a lot less green there right now!
I think Bruce might be right (about the rocks rather than the ice). Although the actual rails are long gone the bed is still there, albeit overgrown with weeds, and the sides of the bridge where the metal fence/rail sits is only a couple of inches high.
Neat.
I was gonna guess an historic replica of a an early toll booth.
I was gonna guess an historic replica of an early troll booth.
I was gonna guess an historic replica of an early troll booth.
The replica was actually stolen, and was replaced with an exact replica. Uncanny.
The replica was actually stolen, and was replaced with an exact replica. Uncanny.
Twice.Where one hides from trolls?
Troll hunter- Good movie.
Is that the one that's like a Norwegian Blair Witch?
Love the review at the top...
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well, sure.
I give you a point for trying. *courtesy clapping*
#2 Pool Ball with a hole drilled in it to be threaded or glued onto a stick shift. Or maybe a cane.
One-finger bowling ball.
"That's oay, that's not my finger!"
The blackish part on the left side has me thinking something with electronics involved.
#2 Pool Ball with a hole drilled in it to be threaded or glued onto a stick shift. Or maybe a cane.
I can't do any better than this. It looks like a pool ball to me too.
It's a condom applicator.
Its an electronic something with a keyed top... Maybe a battery charger or something.
#2 Pool Ball with a hole drilled in it to be threaded or glued onto a stick shift. Or maybe a cane.
Winner!!!I've played pool a time or two ... ;) :shark:
There were giveaways ... colors, the baseline of the two, and the fact that the white wasn't just surface.
I've played pool a time or two ... ;) :shark:
There were giveaways ... colors, the baseline of the two, and the fact that the white wasn't just surface.
Congratulations!
*pssst-not a 2 ball*
Where one hides from trolls?
Watched this last night.
More... Cloverfield than Blair Witch. I gave it three Netflix stars.
Congratulations!
*pssst-not a 2 ball*
Realize that
now, but the photo looked really blue and not at all purple on my monitor.
Cool project idea. Nice gift.
Ima tell you right off, I don't know what it is. Having said that...
WTF is the thing hanging on the side of the post with the pipes coming in and out of it, with the nozzle-looking thing?
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I'm guessing you don't have a better picture of it? Right now it looks like something handy to hang the ball rack off of.
Soda siphon, maybe?
Beer tap, repurposed as decoraration?
I agree with wolf and Happy Monkey.
I'm guessing you don't have a better picture of it? Right now it looks like something handy to hang the ball rack off of.
Soda siphon, maybe?
Damn! That's exactly what it is now that I know what it is!
I thought about that thing all night last night.
A nine ball rack, hanging off what does indeed appear to be a tap.
Thank you. As you were.
I think you need to get out more.
This was about the nine ball rack and not the spigot?
I think you need to get out more.
If ya want a bigger chuckle...
I thought the nine ball rack looked like the bed from a little red wagon.
My sense of scale was, well, non-existant.
:p:
I thought it was some sort of triangular tin container...like to provide some kind of liquid or to catch it or do something to it, like aerate. It was part of the spigot.
I didn't see it was a nine ball rack at all...until I saw it. So don't feel badly Grav, I was perplexed too. :lol:
What is this?
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Gold fillings from the dead hobos?
buckshot
(I'm not even sure what buckshot is, but it sounded good.)
I see tiny bits of leather that looks like it was punched out. Though other stuff looks like slag or amalgam fillings, I'm guessing it's swarf.
Hmmm, I think it's a marfloogle, or a compopart, or maybe a snigola.
I see tiny bits of leather that looks like it was punched out. Though other stuff looks like slag or amalgam fillings, I'm guessing it's swarf.
And I bet there's a story to go with it.
Gonzolala! There is always a story about the peerble rectolators.
Now I get it.
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I see tiny bits of leather that looks like it was punched out. Though other stuff looks like slag or amalgam fillings, I'm guessing it's swarf.
And I bet there's a story to go with it.
footfootfoot wins!
You get a gold star. The minus one point for imagining leather bits is offset by teaching me the right word for the dark sparkly bits, "swarf". Although, after checking, I believe these bits are welding/cutting torch spatter, and not strictly swarf from a rotary cutting tool.
glatt gets a cookie for the story guess. Here's your cookie! Wait, the cookie's not ready yet. Sorry, still cookin!
The minus one point for imagining leather bits
Then what is that blue stuff? Denim?
Now I get it.
Yeah, that dude said exactly what I said! :eek:
Then what is that blue stuff? Denim?
neoprene.
The story's done, I'm posting your cookie now.
Hmmm, I think it's a marfloogle, or a compopart, or maybe a snigola.
This is hindsight, but I knew it wasn't snigola. It's too .... jibouly to be snigola.
This is hindsight, but I knew it wasn't snigola. It's too .... jibouly to be snigola.
I thought maybe it was under a temperate temperature of 40 degrees. The properties of snigola can indeed become very jibouly under those conditions. Not to mention the change in elastarmity. Snigola is an enigma.
footfootfoot wins!
You get a gold star. The minus one point for imagining leather bits is offset by teaching me the right word for the dark sparkly bits, "swarf". Although, after checking, I believe these bits are welding/cutting torch spatter, and not strictly swarf from a rotary cutting tool.
glatt gets a cookie for the story guess. Here's your cookie! Wait, the cookie's not ready yet. Sorry, still cookin!
So, it's weld spatter?
I though it was shavings off a ƒucking metal bar, but someone beat me to the correct answer, so I can't properly be the wiseass.
So, it's weld spatter?
so, it's whatever is inside these ankle weights.
for, like, weight, y'know? you've seen what I've seen. it is magnetic. but I didn't think welding splattered like this . to me, it seems like cutting torch spatter. doesn't weld spatter stick to what is being welded? I don't know. I don't speak metal as fluently as I speak wood or other media.
What is this?
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so, it's whatever is inside these ankle weights.
for, like, weight, y'know? you've seen what I've seen. it is magnetic. but I didn't think welding splattered like this . to me, it seems like cutting torch spatter. doesn't weld spatter stick to what is being welded? I don't know. I don't speak metal as fluently as I speak wood or other media.
Depleted Uranium, probably. Do your ankles glow?
Not used that way, so don't know.
But the handle for the roses (the brown rootstock, if you will) does feel warm in my hand.
Not used that way, so don't know.
But the handle for the roses (the brown rootstock, if you will) does feel warm in my hand.
Ice it and wait until the swelling goes down;)
Ice it and wait until the swelling goes down;)
hahhaahaha....
What is this?
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Well?
A postcard with a note on it.
It's a legacy 3D wireless mobile multiplayer game--from IBM.
Too obvious?
It's a box with some electronic circuitry inside.
but first, they made a hole in the box.
What is this?
A paper weight?
Hah, we're just fulla shit, today, ain't we?
:lol2:
It's a legacy 3D wireless mobile multiplayer game--from IBM.
Too obvious?
LOL!!
A postcard with a note on it.
No.
It's a box with some electronic circuitry inside.
(surprisingly) Nope.
A paper weight?
Not really, no.
infinite monkey's answer is, of course, correct, but I am kind of looking for more detail.
Some clues.
It is really a game.
You've all played it.
Some of you probably have or had a copy of the game.
If it's not electronic, I would guess backgammon, but it says it's multiplayer. So that means more than two players. So it has to be something like Monopoly.
backgammon's multiplayer, no? solitaire, not so much.
So, not tron, not monopoly, not backgammon. (tron? you played tron?)
I will reveal this one today, I promise. :)
We had Pong and it looked nothing like that. Well, there was also no way for it to be multiplayer back in that day.
Hmmm, or maybe something like 'real life' badminton or something?
It's BATTLESHIP!
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I am laughing out loud. :D :lol2:
This is a picture of my boss's arm... Any ideas wtf that is? He says it doesn't itch unless he scratches it. Probably ringworm, but decided to post here just in case someone recognizes it as something else. Thanks!
Vesk, that's the mark of the beast.
Anyway, I could've named a hundred games besides badminton. I should have named all the games ever known to man.
As glatt points out, though, battleship is dual player. Thank you.
The Cellar: Your infallible source for medical opinions, diagnosis, and advice.
Some of us are doctors, all of us are gods.
This is a picture of my boss's arm... Any ideas wtf that is? He says it doesn't itch unless he scratches it. Probably ringworm, but decided to post here just in case someone recognizes it as something else. Thanks!
So tell him not to scratch it, already. :smack:
I'm not a doctor, but I did speak with one today. I think that is definitely the Mark of the Beast. He'd better get the whole arm burned off with liquid nitrogen, if it isn't too late already.
Nah, seriously ....
(a) Hi, welcome to the cellar
(b) Umm, this thread is where we play a game where someone takes a photo of an obscure object and we try to guess what it is. We haven't done any on medical issues before.
(c) ringworm for 200, thanks, Bob.
This is a picture of my boss's arm... Any ideas wtf that is? He says it doesn't itch unless he scratches it. Probably ringworm, but decided to post here just in case someone recognizes it as something else. Thanks!
Leprosy or gonorrhea. Either way, her dick is gonna fall off.
Molly Ringworm.
It's pretty, it's in pink ... done!
Leprosy or gonorrhea. Either way, her dick is gonna fall off.
You're so bad. :lol:
multiplayer?
:eyebrow:
Have you never played Battleship against another player?
I got the "legacy 3D wireless multiplayer game" at a convention as a gift/prize/schwag. I was surprised then amused. Thanks to all for playing. So to speak.
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Vesk,
1 -- Welcome to the cellar.
2 -- ew.
3 -- it looks kind of like a lower case "[FONT="Georgia"][SIZE="6"]
[COLOR="Red"]g[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]".
4 -- ew.
If it don't go away in a week, get a tattoo.
If it don't go away in a week, get a tattoo.
lmao
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Dunno, but I reckon there should be a washer just under the head of the bolt as well as inside the nut.
The elongated loop is for holding with your hand. The round loop is for fitting over something that needs to be pulled or lifted without being touched by the hand.
A device for removing hot sterilised bottles from the steriliser?
ETA: BigV. Probably some kind of sex toy. :D
Sex toy. That's what I was going to guess. Minus five points for the cheap wing nut and stove bolt.
Carboy carrying handle
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
ETA: BigV. Probably some kind of sex toy. :D
Sex toy. That's what I was going to guess. Minus five points for the cheap wing nut and stove bolt.
yeah my guess too. it's the new and improved cock ring with boulder holders! put yer dick through the hole and your boys through the oval!
welllll i dont know about you but mine don't fit
just sayin
welllll i dont know about you but mine don't fit
just sayin
oh they come in a variety of sizes. sm, med, lg, x-lg, xx-lg. you just have to be careful when putting the wing nut on your bolt. if you do it too fast you could wing your nuts and get a pube caught in the threads. not a cool feeling. :eek:
You know WAY TOO MUCH about this plthy.
only 'cuz you sent me the drawings for review of your invention for copyright!
Is it a carry handle for a bicycle?
That doesn't mean it isn't also a sex toy.
Hell, by that reasoning, "sex toy" is going to be my answer for everything in this thread from now on.
Three Cheers for Sex Toys!
I love you guys!
Not that way, though.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm just sayin'.
zippyt in one, FTW.
It's a delaying lever.
Yes, delaying the day I need to rebuild my sink or move out due to ten pounds of broken glass on the floor.
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ETA: BigV. Probably some kind of sex toy. :D
the word you're looking for is "
pervertable".
Sex toy. That's what I was going to guess. Minus five points for the cheap wing nut and stove bolt.
You say cheap like it's a bad thing.
yeah my guess too. it's the new and improved cock ring with boulder holders! put yer dick through the hole and your boys through the oval!
It
is articulated.
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welllll i dont know about you but mine don't fit
just sayin
LOL!
oh they come in a variety of sizes. sm, med, lg, x-lg, xx-lg. you just have to be careful when putting the wing nut on your bolt. if you do it too fast you could wing your nuts and get a pube caught in the threads. not a cool feeling. :eek:
Unless you're into that.
You know WAY TOO MUCH about this plthy.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, they say.
That doesn't mean it isn't also a sex toy.
Hell, by that reasoning, "sex toy" is going to be my answer for everything in this thread from now on.
Fucking word.
Three Cheers for Sex Toys!
Hip [COLOR="White"]thrust [/COLOR]HOORAY,
Hip [COLOR="White"]thrust [/COLOR]HOORAY,
Hip [COLOR="White"]thrust [/COLOR]HOORAY!
if yer going for a sex toyish thing i guess it could be a GIMP carrying handle
WTF is a carboy?
ETA: Why did you make me learn something??? On Sunday?! It's a bigass jug.
Now I gotta take a double dose of Damitol.
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It's an automobile. And don't call me boy.
Right off let me say I don't know what this is. I'm asking you.
WITELF (What In The Ever Loving Fuck) is this? All the caption said was "fromhorseintestine".
If it came from the horse/pony/foal in the background, it accounted for about a fourth of its bodyweight...
WITELF?
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Is it beautiful, or is it just me?
Most probably created by accretion of ingested sand over quite some time
What is this?
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V you dont need to be playing with that Crystal meth dude
if that was the kidney stone you passed then holy fuckmerunningwithablender!
We have a winner!
Two winners actually, I'm a winner cause I lived. It's a little beat up due to my rough handling. In situ, it was sharp on every point, one molecule crystal sharp. I thought I had a urinary tract infection on top of the kidney stone, but that turned out not to be the case. The pain I was feeling (hahahah first typed that as fleeing) and the practically continuous urge to pee was the stone moving into my bladder, and then out. Suddenly, like, instantly, the feelings of a UTI were completely gone. Kidney pain's gone too. Thank FSM.
GAWDDAMNALMIGHTEH! the one i passed years ago was NOTHING compared to that that that that THING! HOLY HELL! glad you made it! one thing i haven't mentioned is a friend of mine passed away about 2 weeks ago from kidney stones. some really serious shit! he got an infection and it killed him! great man he was. will be missed!
I'm very sorry to hear about that plt. Kidney stones are a bitch. They're hard to get at, y'know? And we need our kidneys. I'm sorry your friend died, ...***shivers***.
like i said, he was a great man. had absolutely no enemies. everyone, and i mean everyone loved him. thanks dude. and i'm SOOO relieved that you got through this man. i really really am!
I've passed a few, but the one I caught looked like that and a little bigger than a BB. I was astounded, and like BigV says, the pain stopped instantly.
They say passing a kidney stone is the worst pain a man will ever know since they will never give birth.
Not the way you want to leave this world. Sorry for your friend,plthijinx.
Fucking ouch.
So how do you avoid kidney stones? I've never had one. Is it just if you have hard water in your area? Or is it all diet?
[thinking]
Hmm, some kind of crystal aggregate, formed by precipitation from a solution
... doesn't look like quartz ... maybe gypsum or feldspar ...
reads thread ..
Kidney stone ha! as if! Snort!
reads ...
:eek: OWWWWMYGAAWWWWWD!!!!!!!!!!
Roughly what is the size of that thing??
Damn, that is sooo sharp and pointy.
That is one impressive Kidney Stone, my man. BigV's BigStone.
I actually first thought it might be a citrine, then realized that I was assuming a larger scale and went .... triple ick with a side order of eeeeeauw.
Glad you're rid of it.
Makes you regret not having evolved to make pearls out of those, eh?
Everything you *ever* want to know about Kidney Stones.
If you can't pass it with your urine, you have a couple of choices. Open kidney surgery (I don't know what the actual term is, but I've seen pictures of hunks of kidney like you might find in the meat section with a handful of bloody gravel in one of the pockets--not recommended); lapro-urethreal-??? surgery where they stick the camera and the tiny rock crusher on the end of a flexible metal wand right you know where (pass the general anesthesia please and make that morphine on the rocks a double); extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (actually not making up any part of this one) where they put you in a water bath and then assault the side if the steel bathtub with a sonic hammer/gun that sends shock waves through the wall of the bath, through the water, through your tissue, and through your kidney so violently that the stone shatters and you can (hopefully) pass the fragments. No, not making it up, you can look it up.
The pain associated with a kidney stone has a special name: renal colic. Several sites describe the pain as excruciating, as painful as giving birth. I can't make that comparison of course, but I can testify that it is the most painful experience I've ever had. From Wikipedia:
The pain typically begins in the abdomen and often radiates to the hypochondrium or the groin. The pain is often colicky (comes in waves) due to ureteric peristalsis, but may be constant. It may come in two varieties: dull and acute; the acute variation is particularly unpleasant and is often described as one of the strongest pain sensations felt by humans (being worse than childbirth, broken bones, gunshot wounds, burns, or surgery).[1]
The kind of stone I show here is (probably) calcium oxalate dihydrate, a common one, also known as Weddellite. There are numerous pictures around and they're all unpleasant, especially the microscopic ones that look like a
jumbled sharp crystal burr. The stone pictured above is about the size of a BB. I know that doesn't seem very big, but I promise you, it punches way,
way above its weight.
As for how do you get them or better yet, how do you avoid them? The solution to pollution is dilution. Drink lots of water. You should be producing two liters of urine a day. I'm a bigger guy, so I should be making more than that minimum. As the amount of urine decreases, it becomes concentrated and the solution becomes more saturated. This makes the minerals more likely to precipitated out of solution onto a given crystal seed like a clump of protein or whatever. Now you've started one, the only way (except for uric acid stones which are amenable to chemical dissolving) to get rid of it is to get rid of it. You can't rinse/wash/dilute away such crystals once they've come out of solution. They're small to begin with but will only inexorably grow, eventually to the point (ouch) where they are a problem.
There are foods to minimize and such, but the main best easiest idea is to drink plenty of water.
For ignorami like me, a BB pellet is around 0.175 inches (4.45 mm) in diameter.
Except BB pellets would be smooth and round. *shudders*
I'm off to drink some water now.
ETA You should totally make some jewelery out of that. Maybe put it on the tip of an eyebrow piercing or something. Next year's erotic art?
I was very disappointed when I learned that they don't lithotrip gallstones anymore. Apparently the darn things kept coming back bigger and more obstructive in revenge for being broken up. So, bye-bye gall bladder.
What is this?
Or, more interestingly, what's going on here? I'm headed out for a bit, will discuss upon my return.
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Dude that aint NO way to trim hedges !!!
Remember the branch trimming episode?
Hover-mower! Brilliant!
Srsly, looks like you were mowing the lawn and ran over a vine, which got tangled around the mower blade and started winching the mower toward the tree the vine hangs from, so that pulling on the mower lifts it into the air.
Lawn Mower Rodeo! Sweet! How long did it take to hog-tie that bush it's going after?
Several sites describe the pain as excruciating, as painful as giving birth. I can't make that comparison of course, but I can testify that it is the most painful experience I've ever had.
Ever hear of a guy passing a stone then a year later say, you know, I think I'd like another one?
What is this?
Or, more interestingly, what's going on here? I'm headed out for a bit, will discuss upon my return.
Dude, flip your blades!!
:p:
Ever hear of a guy passing a stone then a year later say, you know, I think I'd like another one?
uh... No.
But you can be assured I recognized it immediately.
Hover-mower! Brilliant!
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Hover-mower! Brilliant!
Srsly, looks like you were mowing the lawn and ran over a vine, which got tangled around the mower blade and started winching the mower toward the tree the vine hangs from, so that pulling on the mower lifts it into the air.
Srsly, your second guess is very close. I ran the mower into a couple HIMALAYAN BLACKBERRY CANES, and they got tucked behind the front drive wheels. I tried to pull the mower back--nope. They held fast, strong enough to easily bear the weight of the mower. Naturally, having my camera in my pocket, I took the opportunity and took the picture. I did eventually drag the canes from the canopy of the other trees and shrubs out onto the lawn where I could vent my murderous rage on all thirty feet with the blades instead of the wheels.
Himalayan blackberry is an introduced species here in the Pacific Northwest. They produce delicious fruit, and I love the berries. The canes, no. They are... they are the evil love child of kudzu and razor wire raised on a diet of kevlar and death metal. I read once that the way to kill them is to get some full strength Round Up, not that chicken shit stuff you get at the big box store. I mean the concentrated material that comes in big drums with the stenciled words "Agent Orange" partly redacted. Stuff you need a hazmat suit and a background check to get. Then pour a quart into a non reactive container with a handle, situate yourself near the base of the canes, lop them off flush with the ground with one stroke of your machete and on the backswing paint the now oozing stump with the evil brew before the sap skins over and the now pissed off plant sends up two new canes for every one you cut down. They're ridiculously strong, as you can see in the picture, and they're fucking armored with breakaway thorns that are the curse that keeps on giving.
They are everywhere up here, and given the chance, they'd take over the world, subject to the climactic limits. They sure like it here. They can form patches of brambly canes that permit no other growth. And even their berry producing benefit is only available at the perimeter. Getting rid if them is probably a fantasy. Reclaiming our living area, rescuing our other plants from their suffocating, thorny, light stealing blanket, that's reasonable, if difficult. I do like this method of grabbing them by the bottom and then driving away. Lamplighter probably knows of them, but I don't know of any other dwellars that might have other similarly scarring experiences with these blackberry canes. I hate them.
Shade is the best biological control.
Triclopyr is an EPA-approved, effective herbicide when used as directed.
Lilly-Miller sells it under the name of "Image"- Fred Meyer carries it.
Late afternoon, Springtime application to growing vines, and/or autumn.
Goats will eat the young, green leaves; but the roots survive to re-sprout - once the goats leave.
Little else is of value... I know, I've tried. :right:
Eather a Giant tootsiroll maker ,
Or a Tamale maker ,
Or a fake turd maker for testing Toilets
So how come when you go to the toilet store they brag about how many golf balls the toilet can flush? Like that's a difficult feat, flushing a small round ball. I'd be much more impressed with a photo of the pile of fake turds each one flushes.
I think the government should regulate the fake poo industry. Any Joe Schmoe can make knock-off poo in their garage and sell it as the safe, regulated, approved by Underwriter's Laboratories poo we have come to rely on.
How many more kids have to be fooled by fake faux poo before we act?
I am trying to imagine the conversation:
"We need fake shit to test our toilets!"
"No shit, Sherlock!"
"How are we going to make that shit?"
"I don't know shit about it."
"Golf balls are just bullshit!"
"Fiddle with some shit and make those turds!"
The poor lab guy probably had a long pondering session about it...
... sitting on his stool ;)
:notworthy
Hahahaa!
But seriously, what major breakthroughs in toilet technology have there been in the last 100 years? Sure, you gotcher automatic flushers and your padded seats and such...but the basic principle of the Crapper, how much could it be improved upon that we need to test it with fake poo?
For one thing: they are paying people to make fake poo when it's an unlimited free resource.
For another, what's the goal: gentlemen, we need to see exactly how small we can make this hole while keeping it capable of accomodating the average-sized poo. I want everyone on this project. Betty, call the Poo-man and make sure he ramps up production. The competition is draining all our profits.
Lastly: if your poo is always the same length, circumference, and consistency, I'd advise you to stop with the steady diet of packing peanuts.
So what's this?
Hash brownie extruder.
For one thing: they are paying people to make fake poo when it's an unlimited free resource.
Just think of it as your tax dollars at work.
A MILLION SHOVEL READY JOBS? And they're Outsourcing poo, when all these Fine Workers are pooping in their own homes and Getting Subsidized.
Smaller Crap = Smaller government
But seriously, what major breakthroughs in toilet technology have there been in the last 100 years?
You joke, but with new laws every decade or so saying that you can only use a thimble full of water to flush a toilet, the manufacturers have had to work really hard to keep the toilets flushing well with less and less water. The size and shape of the drain are very important. When you make it skinnier, the velocity increases, which helps the flush, but you make it too skinny and it starts to clog. And the bend of the drain plays a role too, as does the tank design. It's serious business. :Flush:
Sigh.
Technology Killed the Comedy Star. :(
;)
And you do know they are going to start Legislating the amount of poo we're each allowed. The Poo Extruder isn't testing toilets, it's testing PEOPLE!
They can't pass a law about that.....
.... if only because they're so full of shit!
Honest to God, I got no fucking clue what that is.
I can't decide if that's a kitchen you're in, or a workshop.
Ima say that's some kind of cheese, or pate. Or a sealant of some kind, putty perhaps.
Maybe you're making homemade Vienna sausages?
Does it have something to do with sex? I bet it's something to do with sex. Is it sex? It's sex ain't it?
Here's the shitty link:
A game of thronesOh, look. It is fake shit.
If you were going to make fake poo, would you make it brown? I'd make it some fun color, like green.
Or red.
Blue poo. We need more blue poo.
Pool blue poo. If we had poo that was pool blue, we could poo in the pool and no one would know.
Win-win.
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Is it the wad of gauze that came outta your dipstick after passing that stone?
Srsly, though...homemade Play-Doh?
Looks like he's flipping somebody off.
snicker
Looks like an enormous Char Siu Bao.
I am currently obsessed with it; I see a fluffy white cloud and my mouth starts watering.
It's that 'blow it into a hole/space' insulation, isn't it???????
A dozen or so Peeps Stacked and Nuked untill they Esploded in Peep abuse fury !!!
Looks like icing, but tastes like monitor.
Looks like icing, but tastes like monitor.
HAGGIS
Not in looks or taste or smell.
But, does it feel like haggis?
I couldn't tell you.
I've never had that white stuff in my mouth or throat.
So V, what is that white monstrosity?
That white monstrosity is a bar of Ivory soap.
A bar of Ivory soap that has been put in a bowl and microwaved on high for about three minutes. It got that big in the first minute or so, but if some radiation is good, more is better, right? When I took it out, it was not hot, just room temperature. It still smells and feels like soap, just lots bigger and lots fluffier.
...A bar of Ivory soap that has been put in a bowl and microwaved on high for about three minutes...
Ok, sure...but, umm, [SIZE="4"]
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Is this a trick question?
I had a bar of Ivory soap, and I had a microwave. And a bowl and three minutes to spare. What were you expecting?
Pretty much what I got.
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trivia question....what else is ivory soap good for?? i used to use it all the time doing this......
eta: and ate quite well from doing so.
Ivory is best for soap carving.
it is easy to cut...why i chose that brand over the others....
hoKayDen.
Found in an old barn, What is this?
Seriously, because no one we know seems to know. It's is apparently some kind of specialized sewing tool but for sewing what, and why the sliding halves? It appears there was another matching needle on the other half that broke off.
I'd send pictures to
this guy, beau.
Might be for sewing grain bags, tobacco stalks, or the lips on shrunken heads? :dunce:
Thanks, xoB, I will!
My Dad suggested the bag stitcher, but this seems too elaborate for that.
Grav, I don't believe shuttlecocks had needles but I suppose mebbe.
It's an
antique rug shuttle.
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It's the head-tool for a fracking drill.
By rotating the apparatus, the operator changes the direction.
The push/pull action of top piece is the actual drilling mechanism
They use wood to avoid sparks, which could cause an gas explosion.
Trust me, I stayed in a Holiday Inn last Friday night.
It's an antique rug shuttle.
...Or a "
rug needler", if you will.
This one looks exactly like yours.
That's amazing. Thanks Grav!
A for effort, Lamplighter!
xoB, I've sent that guy a pic. We'll see what he comes up with.
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I'd send pictures to this guy, beau.
Rob replied that is a tool for rug hooking, and sent this link...
http://laurasrughooking.blogspot.com/2010/11/susan-burr-rug-hooking-machine.html
An anonymous poster at the blog called it a "speed shuttle".
Thanks again, y'all!
Cool, Grave nailed it. I had no idea because my Granny was an old school hooker. :haha:
Yes he did.
...and yes she was. She didn't need no fancy tools when she hooked. Her rug was easy to poke.
{snort}
Sorry, couldn't pass that one up.
If you forget to promote the veal again, you're fired. :haha:
reminds me of one of those high speed photos of a balloon popping. But there are cables going to this, so it looks big. Is it a weather balloon popping?
Did you take the picture?
Got it in one! And
no, I didn't.
That's awesome that kids did that!
Hint: It's about 16 miles in diameter
spoiler alert.
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should be in where is this thread.
What is this?
Hint: it's a pretty tight crop.
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Occlusions in a gemstone?
a rock covered in seaweed/moss and other marine life.
It's water running down/dripping off something.
Heavily pitted glass fragments found at the beach.
a rock covered in seaweed/moss and other marine life.
closest, but wrong. not a rock. good guess.
It's water running down/dripping off something.
well, yes, there's water. it's actually moving upward, not downward.
It's a green anemone, stranded in a pool at low tide. I smooshed it with my fingers and it squirted water everywhere.
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huh. I never would have got that.
yeah... I reckon not. I don't usually post such an unhelpfully tight crop. It's an interesting abstract all by itself though. a few more to come in the neat pics thread. :)
Anenome! doo doo, dah doo doo
Anenome! doo doo doo doo
Anenome! doo doo dah doo doo, dah doo doo, dah doo doo
doo doo doodle doodle doo doo doo doo doo!
"With friends like these, who needs anemones?!"
"With friends like these, who needs anemones?!"
Will you be here all week?
Should we try the sea urchin chowder?
I've eaten sea urchin, and it is utterly foul. I recommend the clown fish, myself.
don't eat Marlin!!!! after all he was searching for Nemo!!!
It's a vent, but what is the name of this vent, invented by my great grandfather?
Ah yes, Great Grandpa Patented. He was a good man, God rest his soul.
is it Charles?
Charles
what?
Not Charles.:p:
The Apple legal department is sorry to inform you we have an iPhone design patent on the idea of a square control area with a 1/4" bezel and icons in a 3x5 pattern with a single button at the bottom.
Won't be as good as this one.
You'll think you're about to vent in to a park or something, but, really you'll be smack in the middle of a ghetto.
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Thanks, I was beginning to wonder...
Same relative, Spexx?
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If it's the same relative, in addition to the vent, he also invented a game.
You bounce a ping pong style ball off the table and into the pockets. Pockets at the edge are worth more.
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Getting the ball into the pockets is nothing.
It's only worth more if your opponent has to retrieve them.
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Yep. We found that in my father's stuff (he was a hoarder) after his death.
If it's the same relative, in addition to the vent, he also invented a game.
You bounce a ping pong style ball off the table and into the pockets. Pockets at the edge are worth more.
I didn't know that! Wait 'til I tell Mom. Dad's only living sibling no longer recognizes his wife, and thinks his sister, who died last year at the age of 90, is still 14.
I didn't know that! Wait 'til I tell Mom.
Google has all US patents, so it's easy to do a search for the inventor's name.
https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22DANIEL+GAILEY%22
Don we now our Gailey Apparel...
Give us this day our Gailey bread
First off, I don't know what kind of bug this be...That's why I'm asking you.
We saw dozens of these things hitting our Zinnias (?) pretty hard the other day. I've never seen these things before.
4 wings, 2 of which are vertically oriented, like the tail surfaces on an F-14 Tomcat jet.
Anybody got any ideas?
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I'm not sure about the
Miller Moth...head shape isn't right, no vertical wingset...The vertical wingset
is vertical at rest, on all the examples we've seen here, anyway.
Gypsy Moth?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymantria_dispar_dispar
(look at the gif showing how gypsy moths have spread from 1900-2007)
Your moth doesn't have as much hair on his ears...probably a weather thing.
:D Are you folks looking at the pic in post #2169? :D
Vertical wings, like these tailfins:
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I really do appreciate the input, though.
Really.
I will begin calling it "The F-14 Tomcat Bug".
I think the wings might just be damaged or somehow misaligned.
This might help though:
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/identification_toolsOkay, the most likely answer is that it isn't a moth but a butterfly. Unlike most moths, butterflies can move their front and back wings independently. I'd say your one is a skipper of some sort.
Dude, not all moths of one kind look alike. A Gypsy Moth who's been running around isn't going to have the perfect laboratory wings and antennae. Your moth has had some fuzzy moth wing powdery stuff knocked off him, and maybe his eyebrows too. His wings look as if he's had a rough time.
Maybe though you have a moth that's never been discovered before! The Kentucky BlueBeardMoth.
Your moth has had some fuzzy moth wing powdery stuff knocked off him, and maybe his eyebrows too. His wings look as if he's had a rough time.
Sounds like he's been through the battle of all mothers.
Anybody got any ideas?
Pine Processionary?Pine Processionary
That's a proper, good ol' fashioned moth. Look at the antennae on Grav's - thin and spindly with clubs at the end.
Yeah, you're right, I thought those were part of the flower. :smack:
First off, I don't know what kind of bug this be...That's why I'm asking you.
We saw dozens of these things hitting our Zinnias (?) pretty hard the other day. I've never seen these things before.
4 wings, 2 of which are vertically oriented, like the tail surfaces on an F-14 Tomcat jet.
Anybody got any ideas?
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http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/insects/butterflies/butterflies.htmMost specialest thanks to Rhianne for her link.
My mystery bug has been identified as a sachem skipper (atalopedes campestris), a type of butterfly.
It is the first skipper featured in
this video. It's not only identical to the dozens I saw the other day, it's even on the same kind of flower!
Thanks to everyone for the help!
You people rock.
I'd say your one is a skipper of some sort.
Nailed it.
OK I know what this is, but do you?
We have a winner!
In the humor category.
I don't know. But it's got hair or fur, or maybe silk (but I doubt it) held together with some sort of yucky dried goop.
Reminds me of a hairball yacked up by a cat, or a trichobezoar cut out of someone's stomach. It also looks a bit like a moth's cocoon. Or a close up of a low quality beaver felt hat. Nothing Abraham Lincoln would wear.
That's my line of thought, but I don't know.
Piece of recently disinterred deer hide, possibly chewed and vomited by doggie.
Rotting woodchuck after being skillfully taken out of commission via firearm?
Magnification of printing on a US dollar ?
Magnification of printing on a US dollar ?
that's a clever one. I'm interested to hear if it's true.
chewed yucky dried goop & cocoon are all on the right track.
Everything else, not so much.
Glatt already guessed hairball, and no.
I was guessing a different kind of hairball.
Is it a low-quality beaver hat?
chewed dried goop and cocoon are the right track.
Hairball, vomit, fur, woodchuck, mammal are all off track.
Here's another clue:
It is water proof and fire resistant.
I'm not sure a wet carpet is technically water proof...
wasp/yellowjacket/hornet nest
wasp/yellowjacket/hornet nest
Yes! What a mind.
The bands of color are from the different wood/plant sources. This was from the forest. I saw a lot of moss/algae on the trees, that's where I suspect the greenish bands came from.
Another close up view:
:) I've looked at them up close before.
That first picture, especially, was a great example. More than the sum of its parts, and all that.
I was reading on a muzzleloading forum that you can use the paper as wadding and it doesn't ignite when you fire the gun.
I'll have to test that out.
You just have to use rather heavy weight paper, i.e. with a high cotton content...
.... like $20 bills :rolleyes:
nitrated paper rounds can be loaded without being torn open. revolutionary war and civil war round were loaded in a paper cylinder tied off at the end. a lead ball or mini is put in nose first; then the blackpowder charge. the open end is either twisted or folded over. to load, you bite the end off of the cartridge and dump the powder. you can ram in the paper as wadding or cast it aside. of course the projectile is on top. the paper drops free 10 to 25 feet down range. sometimes it smolders and burns; other times it is just singed
When did they begin rifling those barrels? My GPR manual goes on and on about how the patch is critical to putting a spin on the ball.
I was reading on a muzzleloading forum that you can use the paper as wadding and it doesn't ignite when you fire the gun.
I'll have to test that out.
If you go to places like Sturbridge, MA, or Deerfield, MA, every home will have a Paper Wasp's nest hanging on the wall for shooting, because paper was so dear.
I misread foot's original post; didn't realize he was referring to using wasp paper as wadding. That would really be an interesting experiment. I take it Sturbridge and Deerfield are reconstructed villages?
Yes and
yes. Both are excellent.
There's not a lot of color out now in the PDX winter, but a neighbor has this...
Anyone have it's name ?
[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Purple Beautyberry[/COLOR], of course.
They're striking because of their color and that they hang around after all the leaves have dropped off and blown away.
Thx V, I think I'll try the local nurseries for it.
BigV, I've been watching this thread...
Expected to see some new BigV posts here.
BigV, I've been watching this thread...
Expected to see some new BigV posts here.
Yes sir. As promised. You are excluded from guessing, though I am sure glatt will bust you out of the penalty box in a few seconds.
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2221: chocolate syrup in glass of milk, needing good stir.
2222: No idea. Looks like velcro hooks on top, maybe a lever action suction-cup at the bottom.
2223: That aint that space-needle thingy, is it?
2224: your nuts.
2225: see 2221, after stirring and drinking. Needs washing.
first is a hippie candle
next is a suction mounted ball head or some such shiznit
Then there's the spaced out needle
We already knew you were nuts, but there's the proof
Hippie chai latte dregs, you hippy
2222: gizmo for attaching GPS unit to windscreen?
2222: gizmo for attaching GPS unit to windscreen?
yeah, or the dashboard
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The mark where a dog settled in for a nap, on frosty grass
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You step on the peddle, and bristles pop out on the top, so you can clean off the bottom of your shoe.
2221: chocolate syrup in glass of milk, needing good stir.
Correct! I thought the pattern was cool. We go through a *LOT* of chocolate milk at HouseofV. Two gallons a week is unremarkable. I buy the Hershey's Chocolate Syrup in bulk. Congratulations!
2222: No idea. Looks like velcro hooks on top, maybe a lever action suction-cup at the bottom.
Your observations are correct, but that's not really a guess, is it?
2223: That aint that space-needle thingy, is it?
As a matter of fact, it is! The very, very top, taken with my own little 4-5x optical zoom. Granted, I wasn't standing on the ground when I took it. I learned that it was unofficially called the
Wheedle for a time, though there are other attributions. Congratulations again.
2224: your nuts.
Now, now, language... I grade this answer as incomplete.
2225: see 2221, after stirring and drinking. Needs washing.
You're right about the washing, but not about anything else; wrong.
#2220 a frost angel ?
Correct! Twil and I went for a walk around Greenlake the other day and we left the house pretty early. The previous night was clear and cold. When I saw this patch in the shade, I fell upon the opportunity to make the first snow angel of the season. But what I really made was a frost angel. It was fun, and Twil got a slightly embarrassed laugh out of it. Congratulations!
first is a hippie candle
nope, lamplighter scored this one.
next is a suction mounted ball head or some such shiznit
suction mount yes; not a ball head, not close. please keep trying.
Then there's the spaced out needle
correct.
We already knew you were nuts, but there's the proof
har de har har. negative.
Hippie chai latte dregs, you hippy
dregs, yes; hippie, maybe but your answer's wrong. try again!
2222: gizmo for attaching GPS unit to windscreen?
yeah, or the dashboard
attach, yes. windscreen yes, dashboard no. my dash has a faux-leather texture to the plastic/vinyl/whatever. It won't stick there. Definitely windows though, and I've used it very successfully in that configuration. Not a gps, not close.
The mark where a dog settled in for a nap, on frosty grass
ha! I made a careful examination of the space for any evidence of dogs (which could have been very ewww) before I settled in. But no. Good guess though.
You step on the peddle, and bristles pop out on the top, so you can clean off the bottom of your shoe.
very creative, but no. keep trying!
2224--An RF filter
also very creative, also no. keep trying!
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I'm percolating an idea that the the suction cup thing is some sort of optional dual mount system for mounting something that can use either a cup holder grabbing that cylinder, or the suction cup on the windshield. The velcro doesn't fit that theory, and I'd like to see some hardware for holding a GPS or similar, but that's my line of thought right now.
I'm guessing the nuts are for holding down the spire at the top of the Space Needle. They are very clean though, which is curious.
I'm percolating an idea that the the suction cup thing is some sort of optional dual mount system for mounting something that can use either a cup holder grabbing that cylinder, or the suction cup on the windshield. The velcro doesn't fit that theory, and I'd like to see some hardware for holding a GPS or similar, but that's my line of thought right now.
Nope. The suction cup mount is device specific, though it is removable and the device is perfectly useable without the suction cup mount.
I'm guessing the nuts are for holding down the spire at the top of the Space Needle. They are very clean though, which is curious.
Winner! These are two of twelve (I think) hex nuts holding the Space Needle to the Earth. They're huge. I have another shot of my hand in front of one of them for scale which I'll post when I can get to it. They're clean, super clean, and everything is painted white which was enough to satisfy the camera to forgo the flash.
some kind of damage wrought by a furry critter?
Wow. That didn't take long. An Aluim pot that I heated grease, to use on cast iron. Left it outside and Squrrels liked it.
omg.. that makes me cringe to think of the teeth scraping, gouging the metal.
uuuuuuuuughhhh... *shiver*
I just knew it had to be teeth marks, but I figured it was on wood. Thinking of the sound that must've made makes my teeth hurt!
I've read (Soul Mountain) about a forestry station in China that left an aluminium bowl of food out for a panda. In the morning, the bowl was gone, except for a few little shreds. They were able to track the panda for a week, by following the trail of crumpled aluminium droppings through the forest.
Like slow motion radar counter measure.
Did I post this already?
What makes this picture noteworthy?
You just don't see that many mustaches in any random group of guys any more.
:lol:
I know, it looks like a Village People concert.
But that isn't the answer. ;)
One of these fingers is not like the others
One of these fingers doesn't belong
Can you guess which finger is not like the others
Before I finish my post?
Wut are ya, some kind of soothsayer? Did you say sooth? All out in public and everything?
Wut are ya, some kind of Claire Voyeur?
Wut are ya, some kind of oral cull?
(I can keep this up alllllllllll day.)
Wut are you, some kind of large medium?
Did I post this already?
What makes this picture noteworthy?
re-enactmented in 2011 ?... the last time the cubs and red sox played was 1918
Wut are ya, some kind of Fill Spectre?
Lamp: foot got it. I thought maybe it was more obscure. I don't know if he already knew it, or if he's just that observant.
The first known recorded Flipping of the Bird. Guy on the top left.
First off, I don't know what this is. I need a little help.
Made of: Iron/Steel (rusty)
Dimensions: ~3 x 5 inches on the base, tapering app. ¼ inch on all four sides at the top, weighs about ten pounds
The indentation in the top is about an inch deep, maybe 1½ inches across and 2½-3 inches in length. Bullet-shaped, flat on one end, rounded on the other.
Kinda looks like half of some kind of mold, or something.
Found on the grounds of a 100 (+/-) year old house.
That's all I got.
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It's old, and it's heavy...gotta be worth something, right?
Worth more if you could find the other half of --- a cannon shell mold ?
I'm gonna guess it's a dolly of some sort. Prolly was shiny once.
http://www.handsontools.com/Dolly-Pick-Spoon_c_798.htmlThat'd be a neat find but I'm wondering if it would hold a piece for riveting?
All I could come up with was some kind of trivet/coaster for a wheeled bed frame?
That'd be a neat find but I'm wondering if it would hold a piece for riveting?
It definitely looks like it functioned as an anvil of some sort.
I think it looks like half a latch of some sort, with the flat end of the scooped out center being the working surface. Maybe a gate latch where this piece sits in the ground.
What is this?
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This is the
SMPS-600 from Jensen, of course. It's a "Digital Audio Speaker with Surface Fusion Technology". Which is to say it's a magnetic speaker coil with a thin high density foam disc where the cone of a regular speaker would attach. This disc is affixed directly to the voice coil and when you place it on a hard surface, the surface behaves like a speaker cone. A tabletop, a windshield, Flint's forehead, etc. It's really amazing the amount of sound you get from this device. It has lots of cool features, a microSD slot, FM tuner, AUX input, rechargeable battery, etc. I use the little patch of velcro on the top to store the remote control when I'm not using the device. The suction cup mount is removable letting you place the speaker directly on a horizontal surface, or use the suction cup mount and place it on a window, or the lid of your cooler at the beach, etc.
It's a ton of fun, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. :)
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This is a picture of the bottom of a five gallon glass carboy after having racked a batch spiced cider. The beige stuff is yeast and yeast lees, the dark brown stuff that looks like forest duff is the spice mix I added, cinnamon, cloves, orange and lemon peel, etc,. The orange ring not in focus around the border of the picture is the vinyl coated carboy wrangler ring/handle I use to haul this heavy load around.
I wound up making applejack from the cider and it's delicious!
Now for a new puzzle. What is this?
The long lever is about four feet long, the middle arm is about a foot long and the end has a very fine edge to it and it's slightly curved, like a spoon. Both levers move. The base looks like it was made from 5/8ths rebar.
Thats the biggest bottle opener I have ever seen. ;)
an old pry bar to break a tire bead away from the rim,
i.e., to pull the tube out for patching. ?
I think it's a bead breaker too. I thought of that last night, and find two confirming posts here this morning. I would imagine the rebar triangle base would be driven over... no. The tire would be off the vehicle and lying flat on the ground with the axis pointing straight upward and the tread touching the vertical post. Then the breaker bar with the spoonish tool tip would be adjusted to the most vertical position possible/necessary and placed on the sidewall of the tire nearest the rim as close to the bead as possible. Then the operator would be able to lean downward on the long lever and exert a great deal of force concentrated near the bead....
That makes sense. Now I just need to drag it up to the nearest antique dealer. Thanks guys.
I think it's a bead breaker too. I thought of that last night, and find two confirming posts here this morning. I would imagine the rebar triangle base would be driven over... no. The tire would be off the vehicle and lying flat on the ground with the axis pointing straight upward and the tread touching the vertical post. Then the breaker bar with the spoonish tool tip would be adjusted to the most vertical position possible/necessary and placed on the sidewall of the tire nearest the rim as close to the bead as possible. Then the operator would be able to lean downward on the long lever and exert a great deal of force concentrated near the bead....
Quite correct.
A manual mole smasher
This suggests the existence of something I need:
The Automatic Mole Smasher.
I was taking it apart in my head to try to make a peavey out of it. Nice find.
Some kind of sea creature that hides in the sand? An anemone of some sort?
(I just wanted to say, with friends who sandbag like that, who needs anemones? I'll be here all week. Try the Fish of the Barnyard.)
I've seen "nests" like that where fish lay eggs, but then the fish is usually hovering around, protecting the nest.
It's a Ford hubcap - Thunderbird?
I can't remember what fish it is, but, I think it makes that nestthing/egging ground with one fin, while swimming on it's side.
Does anyone else remember that, I think I learnt it here?
Team BruceDigger have it.
It's the courtship display area of a pufferfish. The fish makes it as Grav describes, pulls a few chicks, gets laid, and ends up as sushi.
... This disc is affixed directly to the voice coil and when you place it on a hard surface, the surface behaves like a speaker cone. A tabletop, a windshield, Flint's forehead, etc. ...
Hey, I don't remember that we specficially attached it to my forehead, but I'm not outright discounting that either. A lot of people were attaching a lot of stuff to a lot of other stuff...
...BruceDigger....
Our lovechild.
:rolleyes:
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This pattern is created where the aliens land.
What did I win?
You can be first to be probed.
At least you'll get a clean probe...
Let's try that yet again...
What is this?
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MRI machine?
Very close.
Very.Thought I'd duck back in to close the what is it.
I guess Glatt gets the win (imagine that). He said MRI machine...It's a CT Scanner with its clothes off.
I did not know ALL that shit was spinning inside there:
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Now, I do not want to go in there!
Jesus, no wonder the service contracts are so high.
I've never seen a field engineer crazy enough to turn the motherƒucker on without the casing.
Watch the dangers of an MRI I doubt the casing would do much in the way of containment.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=plvIEf7JsKo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DplvIEf7JsKoI think that the only purpose of the casing is to keep from scaring the patient. And it's a dust cover.
Maybe, but, damn I've just never seen anyone do that.
Cuz you hangin with lite weights
Dang, I missed this one. Something I actually knew!
Re the MRI, that's why they do orbital x-rays of anyone who may have even a faint possibility of having metal in their eyes (people who work on grinders, other types of metal-working etc.), prior to running the scan.
This isn't going to be a proper What Is This?, because I'm not positive what they are, but, what's in the pic? There are some clues...What I think is the answer, is below the pic, highlight to see it.
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channel markers is my guess
I first thought 'giant military-grade spinning tops'.
Those are bouys, channel markers and such.
My mother-in-law has those kinds of Christmas lights. They bubble after they heat up.
It's well known that golf tees can be used to fix stripped-out screw holes, such as door hinges.
Those are the military's stock reserves of very large plugs for right- (blue)
and left- (pink) threaded holes in ships, docks, pipes, caves, etc.
.
If it's not red caviar on celery, then I want to know how many times the image is magnified.
Creepy. Looks like a teeming mass of chiggers.
Fish eggs on water grass.
Not fish eggs, chiggers or caviar.
Magnified a lot.
Yes, blood on a gauze pad.
Believe it or not, I saved this same image for use in this thread.
I have no idea. It's been around the house as long as I can remember.
Something left from your Dad's store?
Reminds me of '70s macrame, although it's not exactly that.
I made a great owl wall hanging for my first apartment using macrame and two interesting branches. It was lost at some point in my many moves from here to there.
I think it might have been some kind of fashion accessory, worn on a dress or maybe hair.
That's cool looking!
Reminds me of an onion.
Yeah, those cells are definitely biological. I'm inclined to think it's the pit of something tropical. Pineapple core, maybe.
nope nope
it is edible though, so you're on the right track
A cake (or sticky-bun) being lifted off the serving plate?
Is it from the Spore Store?
A rutabaga? Can't picture you buying one, but there it is. I said it. A rutabaga.
I hear that in Eva Gabor's voice as Lisa Douglas. A roootahbaga. Or something.
Flower stem? Or since it's edible, like, an arugula stem?
Looks maybe like a fungus of some sort
[eta] Sorry, Inf, your 'spore store' took a moment to sink in :p
As in, feces?
Edit: No way, you said it was edible. A banana, I guess?
No way.
We're gonna need more than that.
How do we account for the pattern?
Is it by the stem? That's not the flesh, right?
Nice macro shot, by the way.
I didn't take the picture... I just thought it was cool.... I thought the color was a give away...
Busterb, how big is that piece?
Look here, or here.
That laughing single dad link with the microscope pictures is awesome.
@ Wolf. The scalloped end is 3.5" across and overall 16" long. Not sure if the thing in front of this dress is a belt, or not, but it has tassels.
... but it has tassels.
If it's half of a pair of pasties, I'm interested.
Purely for educational purposes, of course.
I want to read the accompanying article.
Macro means really close up, right?
How does a really close up shot of banana that is so close up you can see the inner fruit workings, end up being not much bigger than an actual banana? Is it not to scale? Like, one banana equals one mile?
I think it's mostly the stem of the banana, so it's virtually all skin. The fruit of a banana doesn't look like that. If it's the stem, that means it's like a quarter of an inch across in real life, and it is like 6 inches across on my screen above. So it's enlarged 24 times.
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Plantain stem.
Same as banana but much, much larger.
Very interesting. I never knew there was such a thing as
banana stem, other than the handle part you peel back on a banana.
Yes, the stem is what the bunches grow on...
Without it we couldn't
Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go homeWhat kind of bug or worm is this?
Ahhh....looks like it. Thanks!
meal worm yes. the bearded dragon eats them. crunchy.
um.... where did you find it? keep it in the fridge or it will become a beetle....
Mealworms seem to be the pop stars of the beetle world. Incredibly popular and ubiquitous when young, unwanted when they develop into adults.
Looks like a melted vibrator.
um.... where did you find it? keep it in the fridge or it will become a beetle....
My friend saw it in the forest where he lives. He didn't know what it was either.
Mealworms seem to be the pop stars of the beetle world. Incredibly popular and ubiquitous when young, unwanted when they develop into adults.
Aha. Very good.
Did more search on mealworms to see what kind of beetles they become. Found out that they are edible for human consumption. I want to say yuck then I thought. Who on the Cellar eats mealworms?
I've had them before.
I think I bought them online. They very flavoured, spicy I think. Very crunchy. They were just a novelty items for me, I don't remember liking them enough to made a habit of it.
Found them but don't know how to link when using the iPad.
They were Bush Grub, Mexican Spice Crispy Critters.
Illy the turtle snacks on them at our house.
Hagrid eats mealworms. he enjoys the Cellar vicariously. usually while eating kale or celery leaves, though.
Hagrid is a bearded dragon, I assume? Too bad he never met Yzma, our bearded dragon. She enjoyed mealworms as well. Alas, she departed after a long life and is buried on our property, with a proper grave marker.
My friend saw it in the forest where he lives. He didn't know what it was either.
So you and your "friend" were out in the woods, and close enough to the ground to see mealworms. Hmmm :eyebrow:
Yes, we were looking for worms and bugs. ;-)
Yes, of course, I would never suggest any impropriety like rooting in the dirt. Not me, that would be preposterous. :runaway:
What does "rooting in the dirt" mean?
Doing things that aren't discussed in polite company. :blush:
Did you mean 'rutting'?:bolt:
:p:
Hihi....I just found out what it means. I meant to delete my post but been busy all morning and forgot about it. Btw, I wouldn't be doing anything in dirt. You need to put out a blanket first. ;)
You need to put out a blanket first. ;)
I keep
two in GrandCherokeeOne
at all times, for that very purpose.
Just sayin'.
:D
Ahhh....thanks for the pointer. Hehehehhe.......
This ought to go pretty quick.
What is this?
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What is this?
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You're right Griff (you're right too, for that matter, Gravdigr). I found it at Hardwick's, my local [strike]candy store[/strike] hardware store. They have **everything**, and a vast selection of used tools, but not this one, anymore. I paid $2.50 for it. I looked around the web to learn about this tool, because I had no idea what it was called. In the store, I figured out for myself that it was good for tightening pipes, like a pipe wrench, like a pipe ratchet actually. It only grabs in one direction, to reverse direction, turn the wrench over. The sharp teeth grip the iron pipe neatly. I think I scored a great deal, since in my searches, I found "universal wrench", "alligator wrench", and "goat wrench" that matched my tool. I found new ones for sale for as much as $73!!!
yikes.
I thought the holes in the handle were for putting in some kind of cheater bar for more leverage, but no. They're for turning square nuts. Some of the wrenches I found have rethreading dies in the handle. It's a pretty cool tool, I love tools.
The shadow of something filled with clear liquid, with light shining through it... I'm inclined to think of things in the optometry occupation, of course, but that little nub at the top is throwing me.
Ooh, I once knew a girl whose eyes never developed because of a congenital defect, and when she was a baby her "glass eyes" (which she needed in order to keep the sockets growing with her so she could be fitted for real glass eyes as an adult) had little sticks sticking out of them so her parents could pull them in and out for her. Surely it's not one of those?
Water balloon on a canopy of some sort.
Light through a sunglass lens on a tee shirt.
Sorry, no, no, and no
Ball park, though
You have a glass ornament hanging in a window, and the sun is shining through it. The little string at the top is too small to show its shadow.
Something like this.
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It's sunlight shining on a curtain after passing through a suction cup like this
Why is there a nipple hook on yer suction cup?
Oh, you didn't know about Spex the Kink. :haha:
Why is there a nipple hook on yer suction cup?
Why isn't there one on yours?
It's for joining sheets of paper together without using staples. We had something similar at school (I really am getting old). When you hit the knob it'll cut a hole like a normal hole-punch only longer and straight, next to that it cuts a little tab which you then fold up inside the hole to hold a few sheets together.
That's a much neater job than the ones I remember using did.
Hi Rhianne! Where you been?
I remember those devices. Sometimes we did it by hand, in lieu of a stapler and in a pinch.
Which makes me want to be all OCD once again and remind people that THIS is how you staple papers, and why:
http://www.qewl.com/pages/stapling.shtmlMy wife bought one of those and more than once she has sent me to work to scan documents that have had key things like dates or other information obliterated by this contraption. Good thing is that if you are really careful you can unfold it and put it back together to scan.
What is this?
Reminds me of one of those lunch order ticket holders you would find in an old deli. But the base looks like an ash tray. Maybe it's a combo?
ashtray with smoke [strike]absorbing[/strike] creating tentacles of perfumed felt/cardboard directly in the path of the rising smoke from the resting cigarettes.
Close enough!
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It's an old laboratory instrument for researching the effects of cigarette smoke on mice which were suspended in clips on their tails over an ashtray containing multiple lit cigarettes.
That is freaking cool. Never seen one before.
Good job, Gravdigr!
What could possibly go wrong?
OK, what is this?
Green plastic, about 5 1/2 inches long and about 5/8 of an inch wide.
Oh, it's not what it says on the handle but is used in conjunction with that.
Something to do with labels.
I'm going to guess a label peeler upper.
Something to do with labels.
I'm going to guess a label peeler upper.
What Glatt said. It's a label lifter.
Yes, the Garvey Labelmatic embossed into the handle refers to one of those gun looking thingys that printed and applied price tags to everything in the supermarket. When the price changed up or down, this was the tool Garvey supplied for removing the old price sticker, probably for free.
It's a clever device, sharp enough to get under the sticker but not quite sharp enough to cut you or the product. Light weight, cheap to make, and pretty ergonomically designed for it's day... feels good in the hand.
I have a what is it. The catch is, I don't know what is it.
I think I know where is it. I'm assuming it's in or near Albuquerque, New Mexico since it's a screen grab from "Breaking Bad". Please, no spoilers, I have the last two episodes left to watch yet. I've roamed around Albuquerque via GoogleEarth a little, with no luck.
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It looks to be a monument, or memorial, or maybe an art installation of some ilk.
If it helps, and if you know the show, this the place Jesse was supposed to meet the man who was to give him a new identity. Walt later meets the same guy at the same place after everything turns to shit in the third-to-last episode.
So...What is it?
...people don't understand what they are looking at when looking at the tombstone-like concrete projections on the dam face. What the heck are they?
If water flows over the top of the dam (which, in these years of extraordinary-drought, occurs almost never) the concrete projections break the flow of water, so it can't gain too much speed and kinetic energy, and thus blunts water's power to undermine the dam and cause damage downstream. They look like a very-clever engineering adaptation to solve a problem that is particularly acute when dealing with water flow in the unconsolidated sand and gravel that compose much of the soil on the mesas bordering the Rio Grande Valley.
"Breaking Bad" Filming Locations - Season 5b
Yes, Dwellars assembled, you're right. I do have too much time on my hands.
One of those jet exhaust deflectors at an airport?
Just wondering...
11 minutes is hardly a lot of time
Well done with the Google Fu.
...Google Fu.
I had to look that up!
By Google of course:)
Here's the view from the air, if one can't be bothered to follow Carruthers' link. Interesting that they build houses directly in line with a spillway.
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Holy smokes! How's this for a match?
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It's almost the same exact frame!!
I have seen Carruthers' Google Fu, and it is strong.
Good job! And thanks!
What's this?
Maybe railroad tie spikes.
I was thinking tie setter. Or something railroady.
Zippy gets it.
It's a nail puller. I'm still trying to get it all cleaned up so it works well. I wonder if it worked well when it was new? I've never seen one like this before or even seen a reference to one.
The sliding handle is a hammer that drives the beak down into the wood around the nail head. Then as you pull back on the lever, there's some complex mechanical action going on that multiplies the grabbing power of the beak holding on to the nail head as you pull it out.
Only problem is 120 years of rust have made it a little sticky in operation. The ramming handle gets hung up on the shaft sometimes. I'm making progress though. Nothing moved at all when I started cleaning it up, but now everything that is supposed to move does move. PB Blaster is a good thing. I saw it at a roadside stand yesterday and it called to me.
And this is
the patent.
The inventor sold it to Samuel Nafew, who had a company in NYC
manufacturing cast iron stuff. I never even heard of this company, so they must not have been very long lived.
Cool find, where did you get it? It's a miracle it moves at all. My uncle used to soak rusty binding stuff in automatic transmission fluid, but these days any good penetrating oil should loosen it up. It will take time and patience, though. The patent drawings show how it works, which I couldn't fathom from looking at the picture.
It was $15 at a roadside stand out in the sticks of rural Virginia.
It was really rusty and covered in something brown and sticky, like dried molasses. I tried carb cleaner on it first, but that didn't touch the brown sticky stuff. So I thought maybe it was water soluble. So I hit it with the hose for a while. Nothing. Simple Orange degreaser/cleaner. Nothing. So I got out the oven cleaner. That worked really well when combined with a scrub brush, and then I switch to PB Blaster penetrating oil, and then regular engine oil.
I might need to get out sand paper or a file, but want to be cautious before removing lots of metal.
It was fun spending half an hour getting it to loosen up.
I ain't changing teams or nothing, but, I like Glatt's tool.
Glatt is a torturer. That is not cool.
Not taking off metal is a good plan. When iron turns to rust the volume increases significantly which binds moving parts. If you can get the rust off with chemicals like Navel Jelly you'll do minimum additional damage.
I hope you will post a pic when you get it cleaned up
Glatt look at this
http://www.castironcollector.com/cleaning.php
Very interesting. They talk about using molasses to clean rusty tools. So maybe that brown sticky stuff really was molasses?
I'm going to try some more oven cleaner, and then see if I can set up an electrolysis bath with stuff I have on hand.
It would be cool if I got it working and then set up a GIF of it in use.
More likely old cosmoline than molasses.
...cosmoline....
That's the word I was trying to think of.:smack:
That's because you're a manly man with a natural aversion to cosmo. :haha:
What is this?
No, really. What the Fuck is this?
It was very firm to the touch. Like poking a baby's head.
It's maybe eight or ten inches wide. We were out walking on the beach just now, and found it. I'm thinking some kind of jelly fish.... But it was so dense.
And no, I didn't flip it over. Because Fuck That.
Sea life is not my bag but Google had this beached Cannonball Jelly. If it's firm to the touch it's probably very fond of you. :rolleyes:
It's obviously a jellyfish that ate a baby's head.
Keep checking for the soft spot, then we'll know for sure.
Pick it up and squeeze it while rubbing it on your inner thigh.
Y'know, see if it's poisonous.
I, for one, welcome our gelatinous new overlord...
I wouldn't recommend it, but...
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I'm envisioning a cocktail. You get these hand-blown glass receptacles, make ice shaped like the white part up there. Pour the liquor around the ice, and sprinkle the top with...I don't know...sauerkraut? We'll make millions!
What is this?
No, really. What the Fuck is this?
It was very firm to the touch. Like poking a baby's head.
It's maybe eight or ten inches wide. We were out walking on the beach just now, and found it. I'm thinking some kind of jelly fish.... But it was so dense.
And no, I didn't flip it over. Because Fuck That.
This event made one of the national newspapers this morning.
I'm not sure if it's the same thing but thought you might like to have a look.
It was found down in Cornwall in SW England.
More pictures and text from a local newspaper here:
Barrel jellyfish still washing up on shoreline. Look at this River Fal monsterI don't know what this is, that's why I'm here.
This pic is supposedly Kansas, circa 1900. It's a water wagon. I don't know if the water is for the crop, the poor dumb animal working the crop, or the poor dumb bastard working the animals working the crop.
What the hell is that conglomeration of shit on the horse's back? Popdigr worked with horses and mules in his youth, and he don't got no clue what it is.
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Yes, the crap on the horses is to drive off biting insects.
The guy in the middle is leaning on the handle of a pump. The elbow on the top of the pump might be an outlet, but could also be a vent so what I suspect is double pistons, can move freely.
The galvanized container to the right of the kid, looks like a potable water container for people.
If there's a water tank in the wagon, it can't be very big, with only two horses... even in Kansas. :p:
Maybe it's just a pump, possibly with some hoses, to go where they need some water moved, like stock tanks or irrigation ditches.
What is this?
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My mother in law had one of those until she started started dating a guy with a tractor and tiller. Then she sold it.
Is that one of those teensy tillers?
Looks like it, probably a Mantis.
Yeah, I think he left us a little too much info to work with.:D
I suspect that this won't be too difficult.
the world's largest butt plug?
Er... no, but thank you for your answer. ;)
Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radio Range (VOR) navigation beacon?
What? You mean to tell me my grandma was some sort of scientist? :eek:
Well, if it isn't a VOR they must have hellishly big citrus fruit in Wyoming. :eek:
Is that Sheldon's shaving mug?
the world's largest butt plug?
See!! I'm not the only pervert on here after all. Humpf, take that LJ ;)
See!! I'm not the only pervert on here after all. Humpf, take that LJ ;)
Reminds me of the scene from MASH where Major Houlihan calls Corporal Klinger a pervert.
Major Pearce leaps to Klinger's defence: 'He's not a pervert'!
Houlihan: 'How do you know that'?
Pearce: 'Because I'm one and HE'S never at the meetings'.
I don't know what kind of Ford this is, and I'm too lazy to go finding out, so I'm asking you. Ima assume it's Australyish, but, I don't see no Foster's. It's Australyish for beeh, ya know.
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It may be the rare Ford Ranchocamino.
That looks like a Falcon Ute. I read Aussies hate Fosters, and export most of it.
I read Aussies hate Fosters, and export most of it.
I've heard the same. I was taking a jab at our Aussie(s?).:D
I was taking a jab at our Aussie(s?).
You say that like it's a bad thing? :confused:
What is this? (big pic apologies)
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Nesting birds on the ice. Probably penguins.
Yebbut, what kind?
How many?
Whir dey at?
What's their names?
Yep, its birds. 5300 mating pairs of Imperial Cormorants.
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In Patagonia.
And they're all named Bill.
Link to some more infoIt's a cool picture, regardless. I came across pictures of penguins after I made that guess, and it was clearly wrong.
http://prairieice.blogspot.com/2012/05/penguin-kite-aerial-photography-ii.html5300 mating pairs
It's an orgy!
:lol2:
I don't like orgies...I never know who to thank.
~paraphrasing Rodney Dangerfield
Ugh, can you imagine what a 10,600 cormorant orgy must smell/sound like? [Size=1]The horror.[/Size]
It's a polar bear whose Mom did not believe in vaccinations...
Or a COCK! with a misplaced scrotum!
Misplaced scrotum...Got dang, that Gravdigr fella oughta been a comedian.
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Right off, I don't wtf this is. I'm asking you.
The 'kernel', for lack of a better word, is about the size of a Rice Krispie, maybe ½ inch tall, and fairly hard, with a rough texture. The 'cage' (?), the expanded part, is about an inch tall, maybe a shade over. All of it was on the end of maybe four-five inches of weak, limp stem.
I know it's a plant. At least, I'm fairly certain it's not an animal.
So, wtf is this?
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Wull,
Alls I know is sometimes, in the garden, a plant takes a while to throw off the seed section where it started? And when it does that is when it really takes off and becomes identifiable? It looks like this thang had a problem throwing off its seed section.
If I recall correctly, I think it was a pine tree.
Yep. It was a pine tree.What is this?
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Flashlight/spotlight filters?
The Staples "Easy Button", the "Not So Easy Button", and the "Oh So Much Harder Button"
Barbarella's suit windows.
some oblique qlues
I've just washed them. When I removed them, the convex side (the side facing the camera) was covered with glycol.
They're a matched set, all from the same thingy. Every one of you has been in the presence of these components, or ones functionally identical. Sometimes these lenses are clear and the glycol is colored.
They're pretty cool, but I don't have a project in mind for them at the moment. There were other components I scavenged from the thingy that are much more fun.
They must have come from rear projection tv then. And you are keen on using the big mirror and screen.
They must have come from rear projection tv then. And you are keen on using the big mirror and screen.
Look at you. Your confidence level is over 9000. For good reason. :p:
Liiiiike this?
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And this is what I have in mind for the fresnel lens in the front of the screen.
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Ultimately, I'll make a frame for it like this:
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I only have the silver bezel on it at the moment and I took it to my friends yesterday and in just a few seconds, we charred a dark rag. White paper towels seem much more immune. I also learned that I need some darker sunglasses, much darker.
More later. Congrats glatt!
What is [strike]this[/strike] going on here?
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The sun is to your right, and there's a large window reflecting the sun to your left. The car has some molding coming off. Your left foot is slightly pigeon toed the way you are standing.
Edit: And it looks like a trickle of piss from some homeless guy is following a joint in the concrete slab.
No piss, epoxy in the crack or joint in the concrete... and ugly shoes.
Driveway stains to the left of me, driveway stains to the right, there you are, stuck in the middle with you(r) left shoe coming untied. Beside your car.
Your penis emits 100,000 lumens?
detached tongue on sidewalk
You are all completely correct, of course. Except Spexxvet, sadly.
Here's some background information.
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Bet you only noticed the bright sun because it's so freakin' hot there now.
I hope the hospital visit wasn't too bad. Is everything OK? I know you've posted that Tink isn't doing well.
Tink is very frail. Her situation has changed dramatically, but she's much stabler that she was when that picture was taken.
On another note...
What is this?
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Clues available upon request.
Looks like liquid Nitrogen pipes.
I bet you're right. Care to tell the class what they're doing in this picture?
It appears they are venting off the lines which causes the liquid Nitrogen to flash to vapor creating intense cold, hence the frost at the flash point.
What is this?
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I may have to leave, so, I'll give you a link where you can find the answer, if you don't know.
This is what it is.It's a baby centrifuge that keeps them from swallowing something they've put in their mouth until they spit it out.
:lol2:
Kinda like a salad spinner?
:lol2:
So, I'm messing around on GoogleEarth, and I wind up in
The Fucking Azores (that should be their official name) somehow, and go into StreetView (dammitall, now I want go to the Azores). The place is beautiful, btw (at least Terceira is).
Anywho, I came across this:
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What the hell are these? I'm asking, cuz, I got nfc.
Here's a GoogleMaps link to the place I found them, If ya want look around for context, or something.
The only clue I have is maybe they're recycling bins. IDK
"The green bins are for glasses, yellow for plastic and metal, and the blue bins will now be used for paper disposal."
I guess red would be shit like batteries.
You'll find out when you get there. :D
You'll have even more fun in China.
Into which of those bins do we put the
bricks of smog?
None, they don't bother recycling those because they have plenty of new ones every day.
Recycling, youbetcha. I'd guess the red one might be for sharps.
What the hell is this? From a movie or TV show?
Here it is. //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_V-173
I'd never seen one in color before. It that a current picture of a historic plane or an old picture of a new plane?
OK, thanks fargon.
1942 to 1947 testing.
Do you remember where you found that pic?
Yes,
one of the tumblr sites with nothing but pictures, no information, and very rarely even a link to where it came from. I tried to image search and struck out, which is unusual, not even other sites with the picture, no less information.
Well, the paint scheme matches the plane at the wikipedia link above.
It's probably the "Restored Vought V-173 frontal view at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, TX"
All I did was google image search.
I did a TinEye search and only 3 results came back.
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All 3 page links go to the same page,
Google Mobile. There is no Flying Flapjack there.
IDK
Thanks gtown. :thumb:
V-173 specifications
Type: Single-place research aircraft
Powerplant: Two 80-horsepower Continental A-80 four-cylinder opposed, air-cooled engines driving two three-bladed,
controllable pitch propellers 16 feet, 6 inches in diameter
Performance: Maximum speed 138mph; rate of climb 800 feet per minute; service ceiling 10,000 feet; range unknown
Weights: Empty weight, 1,655 pounds; gross weight, 2,305 pounds
Dimensions: Length: 26 feet, 8 inches; Width: 23 feet, 4 inches; Height: 12 feet, 11 inches
First flight: November 23, 1942
A whole 160 horsepower. :eyeball:Caramba!
Here's one for the old timers, what are these?
eta: the handles are about 3/4" thick and taper to about 3/8" at the tip.
Ya use 'em to get the butter out of the churn?
Would one stir lard with those?
Are they used in the leading (led not leed) of auto bodywork?
Ooh, that's what they remind me of: mortar trowels for bricklaying.
Are these from your baking days?
(a question that has an entirely different meaning to classicman)
Nope, nope, nopety nopenope, and :joint: nope.
spreading lead when doing body work?
No.
Here's a hint:
They are used in a Vermont general store on a regular basis. These are at least 50 years old.
A trans-Atlantic shot in the dark here, so don't laugh.
I always associate Vermont with snow, skiing etc.
Anything to do with either of those?
From the wear pattern on the lower 'tool' (for lack of a better word) they're used to get something, like lard, grease, or ice cream, out of something else, like a can or jar.
Whatever they contact, it's not a staining substance, as these have been used regularly for over 50 years, and are not particularly stained.
From the wear pattern on the lower 'tool' (for lack of a better word) they're used to get something, like lard, grease, or ice cream, out of something else, like a can or jar.
Whatever they contact, it's not a staining substance, as these have been used regularly for over 50 years, and are not particularly stained.
I did wonder if they were butter pats, Mr G., but as you suggested earlier they might be for getting butter out of a churn, I abandoned that idea.
Suggestion re-instated but probably still wrong. :)
Syrup stirrers? Syrup pot side scrapers?
From the wear pattern on the lower 'tool' (for lack of a better word) they're used to get something..
Whatever they contact, it's not a staining substance, as these have been used regularly for over 50 years, and are not particularly stained.
Additional hint, they've been polished by use and the smaller one is much older than the bigger one and has been somewhat further shaped by use.
Additional hint, they've been polished by use and the smaller one is much older than the bigger one and has been somewhat further shaped by use.
Dildos!
or maple syrup extractor thingy, or something to do with maple syrup or bob Newhart.
Dildos!
We have a winner! Of a different contest, but a winner none the less.
I like the Bob Newhart reference, but no.
I'm waiting for Glatt to make a guess then I'll tell you.
If it's not the kind to bust ass, or move a canoe, searching for wooden paddles is very frustrating.
Oven paddles, for taking luscious Vermont maple-based baked goods out of a Vermont general store oven.
Are they wax spreaders for luscious Vermont ass-waxing? In a general store.
:lol:
Tanks, needed a laugh!
I'm waiting for Glatt to make a guess then I'll tell you.
Beats me. I don't know.
Is it for scooping a pickle from a pickle jar? Looks awkward, but who knows?
They are obviously filthy, therefore nothing to do with food. Possibly used on asses as an attitude adjuster but that is an off label use.
Something to do with flying, from your clues.
Something to do with flying, from your clues.
Flying? Put the wine glass down, Ortho and put on your other glasses. ATTITUDE, not ALTITUDE. ;)
Nope.
Quick re-cap:
They are used in a Vermont general store on a regular basis. These are at least 50 years old.
They've been polished by use and the smaller one is much older than the bigger one and has been somewhat further shaped by use.
From the wear pattern on the lower 'tool' (for lack of a better word) they're used to get something...[missing word]
They are obviously filthy, therefore nothing to do with food. Possibly used on asses as an attitude adjuster but that is an off label use.
An image search won't help, I took this picture and had never seen these before despite living in VT for ten years and right across the border for another 20.
Digging nails out of a bulk barrel.
No, they use hand cultivators for that.
Anymore guesses or do you cry uncle?
Uncle. I do need new glasses and didn't go back far enough to get the full pic. My bad.
They are used to open cardboard boxes without damaging the box. Sort of a box spud if you will. You slip it in and jiggle it about...
you do the hokey-non-pokey and you turn yourself around....
Good puzzle!
I'd love to see a video of it in use.
You slip it in and jiggle it about...
That's how
I do it.
:p:
Box-opener's, huh? I feel a little let down that they're something so mundane.
Nice one, Feet.
Good clean fun! Thanks foot!
I'd love to see a video of it in use.
When you finish your bandsaw you can make one and try it out!
Make one for me, I'll use it at my night job. "Box cutter? No way, I got this here, um, stick!" :D
I guess back in the day it was a good idea to not hurt the boxes. Re-use was recycling. Now we crush them all and bale them for recycling.
Do you have any more? That was a lot of fun.
This is probably easy but it is a cool photo. Again, one of mine so google probably won't help.
it is a cool picture... I get the sense that it's a cross sectional view of some bird bone, a skull plate or a breastbone or a pelvis, some large flat section, not a long linear bone like in a limb.
Very good.
For the bonus round would you like to guess the animal and bone?
You get to keep the steak knives and the living room furniture in addition to the car if you guess right. If you guess wrong then you will lose everything and also get a paper cut.
It's a visualization of life, holding together but mostly hollow.
OK,
Pileated woodpecker skull.
I have to double check it and it is some where in the yard. At first I thought it was part of a deer's scapula, then I remembered I recently excavated a wood chuck, so it might be that.
I'll look for it tomorrow.
All the parts move around freely.
I was about to guess a bit of some kind, but, I got nothing.
Popdigr also guessed some sort of tack/bit.
NFC.
How about some (rough) measurements?
What size is it? Could it be a horse bit and the reins thread in through those fancy bits on the side?
Beauregaard,
this page describes the item in question as "Just In Case (JIC) Driving Horse Bridle Bit -4.5" Mouth- Old Vintage Antique".
Fucking Pinterest, man.
Found searching
"old bits for horses". Pic #3.:D
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dang.
That didn't take long!
Thanks, y'all!
dang.
That didn't take long!
Thanks, y'all!
That's just how we roll.
Sometimes.:rolleyes:
Always go to the Cellar, the horse's mouth... al least that's one end. :lol:
This is probably easy but it is a cool photo. Again, one of mine so google probably won't help.
I found the piece and quizzed the kids and it turns out it is a piece of horse shoe crab shell that they brought back from the cape last summer.
I found the piece and quizzed the kids and it turns out it is a piece of horse shoe crab shell that they brought back from the cape last summer.
Thanks for coming back and wrapping the bow around that story. I was curious.
And researching the anatomy of a crab on the web, this diagram clearly shows it's the anterior portion of the carapace.
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With a tattoo that size he must have sobered up before the artist finished, nice job. As an aside I pulled into an inlet on the Maryland shore and there were thousands of these horseshoes there, very bizzare
A vinyl album in scummy pond water?
I love your answer.
A vinyl album in scummy pond water?
NGC 7635 I cheated and googled it because I have no other resources.
I'm a failure, I need to be Punished Please!!! (He says in a pleading voice.)
How about just not ruining the game for everyone else?
I was gonna guess a drilled out finger hole in a speckled bowling ball.
So it's some sort of heavenly body huh?
I was gonna say an empty drinking glass.
A confirmation or denial of correctness/wrongness would be appreciated right about now.
Nobody got it yet, although one was in the ballpark.
Oh, and it wasn't Fargon.
Did you take this pic?
Is the pic 'enhanced' in some way?
Is it some form of kaleidoscope?
I was also thinking along these lines. But it would need to be taller and skinnier.
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Did you take this pic?
Is the pic 'enhanced' in some way?
Is it some form of kaleidoscope?
Nope, nope, nope.
Naturally fluorescing small creatures?
Picture of the moon taken through snow flurries.
It's the inside of a recently emptied milkshake cup. Monkey was in the neighborhood with thermos.
Was the cup colored, or was the milkshake that color?
That was a pretty good What's This?.
A question.
Wait!
A period.
What is this?
No pictures yet, it's at home, I'm not.
It's a scratch built thingamjig, yellow grounded AC plug, very heavy gauge power cord into metal single gang electrical box, a light switch, BUT the throw is perpendicular to the long axis of the box. The other half of the box has what appears to be a metal cover over a transformer. Other side of box has two approximately 16 gauge twisted core wires coming out, through a tight rubber grommet. These are about a foot long, and are covered with a length of shrink tube. They go into a black plastic encased toroidal electromagnet.
I plugged in the power cord, turned the switch on. The torus displays magnetic aspects. I tested it with a screwdriver. When I put the tip of the screwdriver across the hole, it seemed to vibrate like a buzzer might. Weird. When I inserted the tip of the screwdriver into the hole it was pulled strongly into the hole at first, but when the screwdriver got about halfway through, the pulling force stopped. When I tried to withdraw the screwdriver, I felt a little resistance at first, then an increasing pull countering my pull, strongest just as the screwdriver tip neared the "exit".
Like a solenoid.
So, wtf is this thing and what was it made to do?
I have some ideas, but I don't want to prejudice the jury of my peers. Or betters!
A question.
Wait!
A period.
:D
Sounds like some quack health device. Relieve back pain by plugging this thing in and waving it over the ache.
Big pic apologies...
What is this?
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Wrong, bug breath. Live bugs. I think. Mayflies, to be precise. In Minnesota. And that's all I got.
Sorry 'bout the bug breath thing. That just slipped out.
Actually, Bruce is prolly right. If they weren't dead, wouldn't they have flown away?
That's when it's good to be management and not the guy with the shovel.
Big pic apologies...
What is this?
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Sludge from a sewage treatment plant?
The clue was the piles seemed to under lights.
Cherry or olive pitter. And no I didn't cheat.
Dang, I thought it would take more than three minutes!!
Fargon for the win.
I would to thank my fans and all the little people that make me so awsome.
For cherries it's a little more work than just spitting out the pits, but if you were using fresh cherries in a dish of some sort, kinda handy.
I have one for cherries, use it all the time. Mine spatters a bit so I have to lay a paper towel over the top while I work.
Momdigr was mashing the crap outta the cherries. Punch the pits out the stem side/stem end of the cherry. Less damage.
Hmm. I will try that next time!
First off, I don't know. This is a screen grab from a NSFW video in a real person's real living room. It looks industrial, maybe maritime, factory built, and not originally intended as decor.
Judging from the legs I would say it was definitely made as an end table.
Looks like a hexagonal floor lantern with blinds for directional lighting and/or wind screening. There appears to be a glass pane (or lens) in one of the frames. Can't tell if it was candle; or, electric. That could be an antiquated bulb fixture inside. Perhaps it was designed for outdoor use on a porch, deck; or, in a cabin.
Is that out of a lighthouse?
Hey Beau, good to see you.:welcome: I doubt it was designed to be a table because there's too much other shit going on, I think it's re-purposed but I can't figure out from what.
Sexo may be on the right track with adjustable light source for some purpose.
hayNow, Bruce! Thanks!
I worked for furniture companies for years, and have seen a lot of weird pieces. I think it's more of a display case type of table. It appears to be the right height for an end table, with drop down glass shelves to possibly display pieces kept inside. The top also has the hallmarks of a display table/server tray. Maybe a chairside bar?
It doesn't look sturdy enough to be any kind of light fixture of that size, and those are ferShure feet.
Looking at it again on the video where it's slightly clearer, I was wondering if that wood "shelf" with the fold down wings was added to make it useful in that setting. Although it would be a shitload easier to have just built the shelf solid, but but who knows. Since it is a NSFW video, trying to contact them would be pretty creepy. :haha:
I would be interested in seeing a clearer shot, or some different angles if you get a chance.
Since it is a NSFW video, trying to contact them would be pretty creepy. :haha:
And might not even work. Reminds me of how one of the scenes in The Kings Speech was filmed on a set that had been used for a porno previously, and when someone discovered it, hilarity ensued. The set could just be a rental location and the film makers probably don't know a thing about the furniture there.
What video is it from?
The video is NSFW
http://www.voyeurweb.com/contributions/view/3270725-striptease mild, but still NSFW.
No different angles it's just background, and I'm pretty sure it's her living room and not a set..
I have no clue. I looked at the video and even in focus it makes no sense. It could be a lens for a large lamp turned upside down and the small shelves could be access doors for cleaning. Fuck if I know.
Since it is a NSFW video, trying to contact them would be pretty creepy. :haha:
I was about to suggest that someone not me contact her cuz I don't want to join their site and spend money. Cuz I'm a cheep asshole.
That, and She Who Might Kick Yer Ass Up Between Your Shoulder Blades might kick yer ass up between yer shoulder blades if she finds out.
All bets are off. Not America. There's no telling what it is/was.
But, she'll do. Yes she will. And she can leave her hat on.
A woman who will wear one purple shoe and one black shoe is insane. The furniture is the least of her problems.
What's really insane is she has another pair just like them!
:drummer:
T,IHAW. Try the tenderloin.
welp. It's too tall to be an end table, and it doesn't match any of the other furniture in view. In fact, not 1 piece of any of the furniture matches any of the others so that's no help, but I still say it's furniture. Some kind of display case or curio would be my best guess.
Wait a minute, what hat?
This hat...
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She ain't wearing one of those, either.:jig:
What do you suppose this is?
2-1/4" long
Some sort of cutter. I'm going to go with a citrus peel remover.
An aid to help a child learn the proper grip on something, like a musical instrument.
Not a cutter.
Not a grip helper.
Doesn't measure anything.
:)
Some kind of grout and/or caulk tool. Or tile gapper.
Or a sliding window lock.
Some kind of grout and/or caulk tool. Or tile gapper.
You've moved incrementally closer (don't get bogged down in the trees; look at the forest).
It's some sort of edge trimmer.
Nnnnnooooo . . . . :rolleyes:
You're getting warmer, though.
Window glazing/putty whooziwhatsit?
I was thinking something to do with chickens, but it's awfully dainty. It's got an unused hole in one side for putting it on a string, but you didn't do that, so it's not needed. It has a grippy part, but the grippy part is very lame. It couldn't take much force without your fingers slipping. I was thinking some sort of bag or zipper closure. Or maybe a marking tool like a pounce wheel. Also reminds me of those wrapping paper cutters, but there is not enough to grab on to.
You wouldn't by any chance have a picture of the other side?
You've moved incrementally closer (don't get bogged down in the trees; look at the forest).
Upholstery. Tucking the fabric up underneath something. Maybe, the upholstery of car seats.
Not for pastry cutting, or window glazing, or chickens (hee!). Not for closing bags, not a marking tool, not a cutter, not for upholstery, and sorry, the earlier image is the only pic I have of that particular style (that doesn't give it away), but here's an image of a different version that is used for the same purpose:
:)
Ah ha! I cheated. Never would have guessed. Really oddly specific.
That profile at the bottom is really specific, like it fits into the lip of a paint can or something.
Some sort of scraper. Like you move it around the lip of a paint can to get the paint back inside. Except the profile is wrong and that rubber spatula at the top doesn't make sense.
That profile at the bottom is really specific, like it fits into the lip of a paint can or something.
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winnah!
Some sort of scraper. Like you move it around the lip of a paint can to get the paint back inside. Except the profile is wrong and that rubber spatula at the top doesn't make sense.
I think the spatula part at the top is probably metal - it's described as being a tool to
open the paint can.
No way!
You know, instead of coming up with a new tool, they should sell paint in containers that don't have that problem.
No way!
You know, instead of coming up with a new tool, they should sell paint in containers that don't have that problem.
Inorite? There
has to be a better way.
ETA: And here it is.
Throw away your stirrers and say hello to the first paint container upgrade in decades. Dutch Boy's plastic Twist & Pour Paint Delivery System, otherwise known as a paint can, has a twist-off lid, internal pouring spout, and mug handle. Need to remix? Just close, shake, and pour. Initially available for gallon cans of latex-based paints; quarts will soon follow.
Can you imagine if they sold milk in gallon cans instead of jugs? And you needed a screwdriver to pop the lid and try to pour it into a glass?
Can you imagine if they sold milk in gallon cans instead of jugs? And you needed a screwdriver to pop the lid and try to pour it into a glass?
It's weird that paint can technology hasn't progressed until now. And frankly, that neat Dutch Boy invention should be an industry standard. Surely the plastic upgrade is cheaper to make than metal cans?
Yes, it's a tiger attacking a man. But what
else is it?
28" high, 68" long
Automaton and organ; the man flails and wails.
It was featured in
the first of the Sharpe books.
Automaton and organ; the man flails and wails.
It was featured in the first of the Sharpe books.
Well done! The political back story is quite interesting. :thumb:
Yeah, what clodfobble's brain said. More specifically, it's a skin stretcher for toms.
Gotta be a drum thing.
It is. I tried to fool you with this one, because it uses different materials on a part I thought might give it away.
... it's a skin stretcher for toms.
Had a good internal chuckle at this. No, not what this is. We generally apply pressure to the head to bend the pitch, either with the butt of the stick or sometimes your elbow. You can slowly let off the pressure to play a series of notes with descending pitch. I guess if you had a mechanical skin stretcher it would be... a timpani?
So we got, it's a "drum thing" ... but What is it?
Look at the parts. It's an engineering puzzle. What does it do?
Looks like it would dampen a cymbal.
No, but it would do something with a cymbal.
It's got to tune them somehow
Does it put those little dents in them? Punch out the center hole?
A quick release mount?
Yes.
That is what it does.
It quickly releases, and also quickly re-attaches, the top high-hat cymbal which is normally affixed directly to a rod mechanically connected to the foot pedal. [SIZE="1"]
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This device, called a "
drop clutch" replaces the wing-nut in the normal high-hat clutch with it's own wing-nut, and the lever-operated clamp that "grabs" the standard clutch. When you engage the lever, the top cymbal "drops" and when you step on the pedal, the clutch re-engages.
It temporarily converts your pedal-operated high-hat into a fixed-position high-hat. If you are operating a different pedal with your left foot (like a second bass-drum pedal), you might want this option.
What is this?
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Tool station for on-the-go bike repair?
Yes!
A "Public Work Station". I have an unobfuscated image and a close up of the tools on the computer. I'll share them tomorrow.
Well done.
That's kind of cool. Looks like a self serve community bike repair kiosk. Hope those cables are on a spool that can be pulled out. They seem kind of short.
Edit: Huh. Looks like there was another page of comments. I got this new firefox that just installed. I wonder if that made me not notice the additional page or if I'm just unobservant this morning.
Looks like a fire department attach point for a sprinkler system, possibly to flush the system.
What is this?
Is that a melted record album?
Ok, I cheated, too.
That is crazy.
Some sort of sea creature egg sack.
More specifically, a horn shark egg case.
I remember seeing similar egg sacks, like the lightning whelk, that are in a spiral.
I've seen that before..
I can't remember where, though.
Any ideas?
Only in a very tortured analogous sort of way. ;)
Nope. Not keys.
1 - For measuring grooves in things like molding or window sashes.
2 - For making grooves in plaster finals and trim.
3 - Cleaning Satan's hooves.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
But you're right - it does look like it could do all those things.
I think we have a previously unrecognized multitasker!
Wow Glinda, this is an excellent one. I've never seen anything like this before and was thinking along the same lines as Bruce.
I'mma think a bit.
They are too flimsy to do any actual work, so I think they are a measuring or layout device of some sort. I'm thinking something to do with sewing. All the sewing gauges I can find have sharp corners. they don't come to a little curved point. they look more like this:
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But yours is old and looks handmade, so I guess it could have been made special. I can see them being used to locate a point, like where to sew a button on.
FLEAM-3-Blade-blood-letting. :eek:
FLEAM-3-Blade-blood-letting. :eek:
Yep. Good job!
I was watching a TV show where the term "three-bladed fleam" came up, and thought it would be a great
What Is This challenge. The concept is creepy, but the name . . . how can you
not love the name?
:rolleyes:
Man, if ya ain't really careful around here, you'll learn something.:)
Next!
Not a snowshoe.
I'm not sure how big this item is, but I estimate it's probably about a foot long.
nicely done!
Not really, I downloaded the picture to take some measurements and it's the name of the picture. :rolleyes:
The next one is a chicken ladder.
Not really, I downloaded the picture to take some measurements and it's the name of the picture. :rolleyes:
You're not allowed to do look at the photo ID! :p:
The next one is a chicken ladder.
Ha HA!
Nope. Not a chicken ladder.
Hint: This item was handmade by a craftsman, as an aid in his work.
You're not allowed to do look at the photo ID! :p:
That's not true, the photo is often downloaded to aid in research.
No, it's not t a butter churn.
Is it used to position tiles?
Ooh, you're getting closer . . . but no, it's not for setting tiles.
No, but you're closer still. :)
I almost said an old hod.
Shaping the mortar joint between the brick courses?
Shaping the mortar joint between the brick courses?
Oh my, you're
so close! Close enough for gubmint work, I guess. ;)
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A home made version of the
Bricky.That'd be a fairly sloppy mason, btw.
True. I'm sure it would just slow a skilled mason down and get in the way.
What is this?
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Obviously a wheel. I assume you want to know what from.
A big bandsaw. You can see blade segments on the sides.
A big bandsaw. You can see blade segments on the sides.
Correct! Took you long enough...;)
Big? How big? This big:
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That's pretty impressive.
That sign and all the holes in it kinda bug me.
They're not holes, they're "o"s. Raised letter "O", which holds a little puddle of rainwater.
And a D and a B and some numerals, etc.
Band saw wheel memorial.
I hope that was not the cause of the demise.
Here's a nifty little thing. What do you suppose it is?
A tool to fake a smallpox vaccination.
It is a clever plan to make me crazier than I already am.
How can that be achieved through cleaving?
ETA ah, ya late edit'er! (as am i!)
:lol2: Ah, you guys crack me up!
Not for fake vaccinations or punching leather. Keep guessing!
Is this for (tobacco) pipe smokers, who want a tight pack but need to aerate the top layer for some reason?
No, but a clever (or cleaver) idea. ;)
I'm going to say those things are loose and removable, since they're not spaced evenly. A camping toothpick holder?
Sorry, no. The pointy bits aren't loose or removable, just pointy.
Is it used to put ventilation holes in crusts so they don't burst while cooking?
Is it attached to the end of a foil for fencing with porcupines?
Needler for removing arc welding scale.
Hee hee! You're all very creative in your answers, but thus far, no one has come close.
Is it time for a hint?
Ok. It is only used occasionally in a game that everyone has heard of and/or played.
Hole puncher for sticking croquet wickets in the ground.
It's a pool cue tip tool with which to prick the tip so it will hold chalk better.
I'd never heard of it let alone seen one used; but, the hint along with the positioning of the spikes gave me the idea and I Googled "pool cue tool" to verify there was such a thing.
Well with my clean wholesome lifestyle I couldn't possibly be acquainted with such paraphernalia. :angel:
I knew the clue would give it away. ;)
Well done, sexobon! It's a tip pricker! :D
Damn. The one What Is This? I knew on sight!
I swiped this shot from a book I'm reading, so if it's against the rules please delete it.
Air powered mixer of some sort?
A thing-to-vibrate-the-bubbles-outta-something?
Multiple container-filler. With what substance, I don't know. Could be anything from lab test tubes to mustard bottles.
It's a weapon for killing multiple Snarglepusses all at once.
Ah, yes. The good ol' ACME QX-322 Quad Snarglepuss Annihilator.
Hand-held power paint mixer?
Paint stripe gun. It looks like the feed lines are mostly cropped out of the picture in the bottom of the hilt/butt of the handle.
That's an air line, it's an air powered tool. The hole is the exhaust.
Grav and Bruce are closest so far. It is air powered and it does vibrate.
Yeah, Gravdigr's answer sounded cromulent when I read it. That black rubber bushing looks like it would flex when the head oscillates. No idea what it could be used for except that bubble removing thing.
The prong thing would vibrate like crazy. Maybe it's a meat tenderizer or a leather distressing machine.
I think grav was onto it, vibrating something like concrete to debubble and settle it.
There *is* a clue in the picture.
I see a couple leaves. Is it an almond harvester? Stick that thing against a branch and vibrate the almonds loose?
Kinda like this guy?
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Idk, but that guy is way too proud of it.:lol2:
He's smiling because he has no pants on. :yesnod:
He's working on his interpretation of American Gothic.
Not quite, Glatt, but you're very close.
Does it vibrate root vegetables outta the ground?
Olives are harvested in a similar way.
It's been a week...
What the hell is it already? The parents are driving me crazy.
lol Sorry, Grav. It *has* been a rough week.
The title of the picture is "Mechanical blueberry vibrator-picker".
I suppose it could be used for almonds, olives, and other such agricultural products so I'm giving Glatt the win.
btw, the photographer is the award winning NatGeo photographer Bill Curtsinger who is famous for his marine pix among others. He is the only person *ever* to photograph a narwhal in it's natural environment. If you're not familiar with his work you should take a look.
The pic is from a special edition of a book called ThePineBarrens by John McPhee that is about the Pine Barrens of NJ, an amazing geographic oddity. It's hard to believe that such a huge expanse of wildlands could exist so close to NYC, let alone east of the Rockies. There are areas in the middle of it that you could go for literally dozens of miles without running into a town {and then it might just be a crossroads with some rundown houses} but on a clear night a bright light in the woods can be seen from the EmpireStateBuilding. The unique soil produces an acidic black water that forms what is called bog iron. This bog iron was used extensively to make a high grade iron from which the majority of the cannonballs used during the American Revolution were made, plus cannons and other armament. Some of the wrought iron around Independence Hall was made using bogIron.
It's a fascinating read and I highly recommend it if you can find a copy.
There are areas in the middle of it that you could go for literally dozens of miles without running into a town {and then it might just be a crossroads with some rundown houses}
Great place to dump the chemical waste from North Jersey.
but on a clear night a bright light in the woods can be seen from the EmpireStateBuilding.
That's the Jersey Devil flying. :eek:
Well, I can say for sure that if you are driving through the Pine Barrens, you should not make a wrong turn onto some little dirt-ish road. Chances are good you'll wind up with a grizzled old guy giving you the big hairy eyeball from the front porch of his shotgun shack, wondering why your nice city vehicle is heading into his cranberry bog.
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youGotApurtyMouth, Bruce!
But it ain't cheap. :yelgreedy
I think beauregaardhooligan is mistaken about the blueberries. :haha:
did we do this one yet?
extreme closeup of a cat's tongue?
don't know if this one's been done yet.
That's what it looks like to me.
extreme closeup of a cat's tongue?
don't know if this one's been done yet.
close enough i guess. It said human tongue, but i didn't dig real deep fact checking
You ever stick your finger in a cats mouth like when giving a pill? All soft inside. I imagine the tongue quills fold down inside the mouth. Anyone know for sure?
did we do this one yet?
No, and we shouldn't.
You ever stick your finger in a cats mouth like when giving a pill? All soft inside. I imagine the tongue quills fold down inside the mouth. Anyone know for sure?
I can't tell.
It's like the light in the fridge...
The circle in the center turns/rotates.
The angles on the bottom corners are 75 and 68 degrees.
mebbeSomeKinda drafting tool/protractor?
That's a really cool item. I googled it and the proper term for it is "Ames Guide". It's for calligraphy and drafting and art - here's a video explaining it
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dang Undertoad, that was fast!
I tried searching for the names on it and didn't find much useful. I bow to your superior googleFu.
Now to see what eBay says! lol
Let me save you folks seven minutes of your life that you WILL want back.
7 minutes = It's for drawing lines.
What is this? Hint - not lace underwear for balls.
Something alive and actively growing. Looks fungal. Bread yeast, maybe?
Nope and nope, grew but not growing.
Carved out of ivory?
Occasionally, similarly carved ivory objects turn up on the Antiques Roadshow which explains my line of thought.
Probably missed by a country mile. :)
ETA If I'm allowed a second go, I'll say it's coral.
Carved out of ivory?
Occasionally, similarly carved ivory objects turn up on the Antiques Roadshow which explains my line of thought.
Probably missed by a country mile. :)
ETA If I'm allowed a second go, I'll say it's coral.
I'd say that coral might be close enough but those little critters have got to be chalk or some other powdery fossilised rock. No?
Winner!, Chalk it is. Not the shit your teacher used on the blackboard, the White Cliffs of Dover type of chalk.
was gonna suggest diatomaceous earth
I was gonna go with sand dollar.
Winner!, Chalk it is. Not the shit your teacher used on the blackboard, the White Cliffs of Dover type of chalk.
I knew I'd seen something like that before. I just couldn't place it.
I finally got around to hooking this thing up to a little motor from a CD carousel tray and a solar panel.
Not *quite* the disco ball we imagined, but still kindaKewl.
https://youtu.be/Ij6ZHqTLSW8Heh, I recently got a few of those. Haven't done anything with them yet.
Your contraption might work better with a good flashlight at night.
you could make the imperfect ones the star of a great kaleidoscope
I finally got around to hooking this thing up to a little motor from a CD carousel tray and a solar panel.
Not *quite* the disco ball we imagined, but still kindaKewl.
https://youtu.be/Ij6ZHqTLSW8
OMG, do you have a cat? /thinking mean to kitty thoughts. :blush:
Heh, I recently got a few of those. Haven't done anything with them yet.
Your contraption might work better with a good flashlight at night.
Laser pointer.
I couldn't find a good thread to post this under, so if someone has a better suggestion, please let me know.
We've been harvesting lots of ash for firewood lately thanks to the EmeraldAshBorer so we thought that's what this was. After cutting it down and running it through the log splitter, it is definitely not ash. The wood is super dense and very heavy, kinda red, almost orange, and it's so stringy it fights the logsplitter wedge almost to the end. Ash tends to pop apart as soon as the thick part of the wedge gets to it.
Also note the pic without the bark. The EAB leaves a distinctive, wandering track when it eats away the cambium. The bug that killed these trees leaves a radiating starburst type of track under the bark. The standing dead tree's bark will fall off in big sheets as a result, just like the EAB's victims.
These trees are long dead and perfectly seasoned for firewood, but without the leaves it's really hard to tell what it is.
Any ideas?
beau, approximately where were these trees harvested from?
North central Ohio, close to CedarPoint.
They are very tall and very little branching, but they were in a wooded lot.
This one was just over a foot in diameter at the base, and probably atLeast 40, 50, or 60 foot tall.
Reading about guitar building they say there is two kinds of Ash...
Ash can come from various sources. You have hard ash, which has a lot of bite, almost like maple, but with more (and chunkier) lows. Hard ash is generally speaking on the heavier side. Swamp ash, on the other hand, is much lighter, with less compression in the tone. You will get an opener sound with lots of highs and upper mids that cut through the mix like a hot knife through butter. The difference between a billet cut from the top or the bottom of the tree makes a huge difference in tone. A high-cut piece of hard ash might be closer to the sound you’re looking for than a lower cut of swamp ash. This goes for all woods, but in my experience this is even stronger the case with ash than other types.
footfootfoot
footfootfoot
footfootfoot
SHHH!!
Aw, dammit, here he comes...
footfootfoot
footfootfoot
footfootfoot
sounds like a helicopter
What is this?
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I did not take this pic.
Looks like a scanning electron microscope picture of a very small zipper.
Not mineral or vegetable or zipper.
Larger than actual size.
Gotta get outta this house, but, Ima check back in just a few...
I'll post the answer before I go.
That leaves..... ANIMAL!
You just gave us a hint!
Here's another:
The animal isn't quite as big as the pic in my post, some of them aren't, anyway.
[COLOR="DarkRed"]If ya still guessing, don't look at the next post.[/COLOR]
You're somewhat kinda getting close-ish.
Here's the answer:
...[COLOR="LemonChiffon"]Oh, noes! It's gecko toes![/COLOR]...
Link to the picI'm outta here. They're driving me nucking futs. I can't breathe.
I was looking at slug's teeth, and some look similar. They have teeth on their tongues. And something called a chiton has teeth that look a lot like this image.
I just peeked. That's cool. I was wrong, but it's neat to see similar patterns in nature be developed independently to do basically the same thing.
I was never going to get that.
I probably zoomed in too far for a good look.
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A different style of What Is This?
What are this?
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Needing the animal, not the type, like Oh, that's a mammal., or, It's a deer., yeah no, that ain't gonna cut it.
I'll post the answer, before I leave for the bar today.
And, yes, li'l bit is too cute to eat.
Yet.
White Tailed Deer?
It's years since I've seen them in the flesh so I'm probably wrong.
Female and baby reindeer?
Porcupines.
Them ain't no 'Merican Deer.
Damn, I forgot.
Sorry about that.
It's a kob and her calf.
Wiki linkThis could go either way, what to you think this is? OK, actually what these are? :rolleyes:
At the peak of the industrial revolution, NYC was being built in no small part out of granite that was brought down from the coast of Maine on ships. The water was fairly deep along the rocky coast of Maine, so the ships would get right up close to the rock outcroppings, and load up. There are still rusty iron rings and spikes driven into the rock that the ships would tie off to, and notches like these, carved into the granite to anchor temporary peirs and gangways in place.
Well it's all true, but that might not be what this picture shows. This rock isn't all covered in seaweed.
It's rock, but far from Maine and much older than NY.
What are they, what are they used for, how are they used.
I think they are holes for wedges used to mine slabs of limestone, marble and such.
Yes, they're holes chiseled in the rock by Egyptian stone cutters a long time ago, but what happens next?
Close, split on the dotted line, but how?
Nope, wood. Fill with sun dried wood and add water, rinse-repeat, swelling wood will split the rock.
I was thinking cutting once the stone was on site.:smack:
Saw a Discovery-type thingy where they showed it the Egyptians mighta/coulda done it that way (the sand and rope thing).
Crooked thinking.:neutral:
Nope, wood. Fill with sun dried wood and add water, rinse-repeat, swelling wood will split the rock.
I watched a programme on TV last night which showed operations at a Canadian sandstone quarry.
Vertical holes were drilled in the rock and expanding mortar poured into them.
Within two or three days manageable sized chunks of rock just fell away.
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...aaand he just buried his chisels.
I had the opportunity to do that with a relatively small boulder, and only 5 wedges. Or feathers and wedges, or whatever they are called. It was fun. Drilling the holes took the longest time, and I had power tools.
Patient and steady.
"Let the hammer do the work."
What is this?
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Clue: Related to another (current) thread.
I'm thinking part of a clutch, but am looking forward to finding out whatever it is.
Its a phone cord.
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Closeup of a guitar string
Looks like the spring of a power snake(pipe declogger).
Yeah, it looks a lot like a drain auger, but it does have a wire down the center, and my auger doesn't have that.
Closeup of a guitar string
Close enough. It's a string running through the tuning knob/tuner.
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Sorry I took so long.
What is this?
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I'll try to remember to post the answer before I leave.
Prolly won't last long. I think we had a similar pic, previously.
Nice. I never realized strawberries had hair. I recognized the seeds, or course, but that hair. And look at the wrinkles in the skin in spots.
Aw, man. So sorry, I forgot this completely.
It is a strawberry. Like ya needed me to tell ya.
Re; Hair
Lint, maybe? Hairy strawberries...ugh.
Google has some hairy berries, I suspect the one on the right is mold of some sort.
Hairy Berry?
Wasn't she in Swordfish?
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Cable in a sheath, through a fitting with an escutcheon plate in a bracket.
Cable in a sheath, through a fitting with an escutcheon plate in a bracket.
lol
Can't you be more precise?
It's a nail, bent, broken, and stuck in my palm nailer. Curse words were used before and after the leatherman finally extracted the offending fragment.
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First off, I don't know. I'm hoping somebody has a clue what the contraption is on the ground behind the guys with the gas pump. Looks like it's glass and rigged to be suspended, but why and for what?
I've been informed somebody is pretty sure it's a battery acid jug. Now I wonder if what I thought was a hanging cord is really a hose and that dark spot against the wall next to his leg is a squeeze bulb air pump?
Looks to me like the top of the glass bottle is closed and the narrow bottom has a cap; i.e., it's upside-down. Could be nothing more than a stand for getting the last drops out of half-empty jars of some viscous liquid.
:idea: A hummingbird feeder.
I've had a look around the Google, and the Pinterest, and I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the first clue wtf that thing is.
Popdigr has no clue either.
Google is slipping. Pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages and pages of results under 'battery acid dispenser' got exactly fucking nothing.
Add the word 'Brookins', solid gold.
Meh, fuckem.
That brand new one the wanted $125 so it could be repurposed.;)
But another item caught my eye and I tried to follow up but the listing was from 2013. :eyebrow: This is going to be a recurring problem because Google never throws anything away.
specificity, brother
"Brother", I had every word in the English language in that little box at one time or another.
old vintage handheld glass antique service station gas station battery acid dispenser battery acid jug, I think was the last one.
And every combination thereof.
I well remember having new batteries filled at the parts store, but not that old filler.
I think it was made to be refilled itself by turning upside down and putting in a fresh jug of sulfuric acid, potent stuff best not spilled.
second favorite pair of Carhartt pants have a hole, right there, at the bottom of where the right front pocket ends. That's where I braced the battery, briefly, as I readjusted my grip on it during an installation. Next time I washed the pants, new hole.
Thanks battery acid.
:eyebrow:
I well remember having new batteries filled at the parts store, but not that old filler.
That's a pre Big One, WW II, item, before plastic became ubiquitous.
I think it was made to be refilled itself by turning upside down and putting in a fresh jug of sulfuric acid, potent stuff best not spilled.
I don't know if they refilled that bottle of they bought it in bottes like that and swapped them out.
At Boeing we had Sulfuric and Hydrochloric in stainless steel drums that looked just like beer kegs. A tapper and an evil mind could really hurt. :shock:
second favorite pair of Carhartt pants have a hole, right there, at the bottom of where the right front pocket ends. That's where I braced the battery, briefly, as I readjusted my grip on it during an installation. Next time I washed the pants, new hole.
Thanks battery acid.
:eyebrow:
Same story, different article of clothing, and different dispensing method.
I was wiggling the battery post/clamp on a buddy's 3/4 ton 4wd Chevy while he tried to start it. The tall truck fender meant the battery was about six inches from right eye
when it decided to assplode. About a six inch piece of the battery left the vicinity in quite a hurry. I got a good dose of acid on my KY Wildcats cap. Holes everywhere.
Still have it. It's my Good Luck cap.
Thanks battery acid.
It spattered your cap from six inches away and you weren't blinded? ◔_◔
I'd change my whole damn wardrobe to the KY Wildcats line, summer, winter, spring, and fall.
It spattered your cap from six inches away and you weren't blinded?
Aaaaaand that's why it's my lucky hat.;)
We never found that corner of the battery. It may still be flyng.
I once caught a bit of spray in a situation like that. It caught me on the eyelid, on the fold of my partially opened eyelid, one flying drop making two wounds that showed the shape of the drop when my eyelid was partially closed, like the folding surprise picture on the inside of the back cover of a Mad magazine. It scabbed over nicely, and I'm ok.
But it was >< close....
The proper response is immediately flush with clean water for ten minutes.
Not curse a blue streak while wiping your eye with your sleeve. :haha:
Not curse a blue streak while wiping your eye with your sleeve. :haha:
Not my eye, but a fair mist on the face in general.
I cursed a blue streak and wiped my face with my shirt-tail. No wounds, still ugly as ever.:thumb:
You saved yourself some money..
The final cost of your procedure will depend on the type of peel you want, the condition of your skin, and other factors unique to your case. Light chemical peels can cost as low as $150, while deep chemical peels are generally the most expensive, as much as $6000.
What be this?
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It's a hi-fi speaker for someone with a whole lot better ears than mine.
Clear gaming console, probably coin operated in a mall.
Yeah, looks like a mechanical precursor to pinball machines.
Some kinda keyboard missing an end and stood on it's back.
Somebody cut an accordion in half!
Way to go beauregaardhooligan!!
It's a cut-away accordion.
goddangit I kept thinking it looks like a piano--I don't know why, I didn't even see the keys.
Interesting observation that it resembles a 'transmission line' loudspeaker enclosure. It's probably using a similar principle?
What is this?
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In the first pic it's lying flat. In the second, it's standing on edge.
It's ~3 and a half inches long, ~an inch and a half wide/tall, and ~a quarter inch thick. It's made of rubber.
It did not come off of Batman's batbelt.
Looks to me as if it might be a spacer in some sort of drive shaft or other mechanical gubbins which also absorbs vibration.
I feel like I've seen that before, but can't put my finger on it. This is a good one.
I'm thinking of a pool cue bridge, I think. Except I don't think anybody would make one out of rubber. Too grippy. And the shape is wrong too.
There's a rust-colored residue in a general oval shape around the three central holes, as if it attached to something that shape.
Are the inside of those three holes slightly gouged out by threads? So it bolts onto something.
Or in between something, like it's a rubber washer.
It's an anti-squeal damper for disc brakes.
I would've guessed a separator that electrical cables snap into so they're not close enough to damage each other or otherwise cause interference.
It's a double sided mute for some kinda stringed instrument, I'd guess a banjo.
Probably 2 different stiffnesses for different levels of muting.
...although I find this style more effective.
The three central holes are for mounting purposes.
No one's gotten it yet.
I'll leave it up til tomorrow, see if anyone guesses it.
Footfootfoot would probably know what it is. Prolly. Maybe.
What is this?
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No more callers please, we have a winner!!!
How popular are they in House Fobble?
I liked the ONE I got, Twil declined to share it with me. I only got one because it was eight bucks for one large-ish-apple sized fruit. The flesh was sweet and mild, but not eight bucks sweet and mild. And they look amazing.
They're not that expensive here, about $4 each at the big Asian food store. The kids don't love them but I still get them occasionally because I'm a mean mom who believes variety is essential. I don't make them eat durian, at least.
Digr, is that for the brake cables on a bicycle?
No sir, it is not. But it sure looks like one doesn't it?
It's the shaft-gripping part of a bow-mounted arrow quiver.
Similar to this one I found on teh Google:
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I thought that Feet, being a bowhunter, might have gotten it. Big Sarge might also have known what was it.
That was a good one, Gravdigr.
A guy at my work thought it was a spark-plug wire separator.
I was thinking conjoined batarang.
What is this?
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What is this?
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The second one is a lighthouse, specifically the lenses of the light.
^^^WHS^^^
#2949 Looks like a trellis.
#2949 would be the sliding door/gate for an elevator.
The second one is a lighthouse, specifically the lenses of the light.
Correct!
Taken from inside the Fresnel lens.
Other guesses about the first picture... keep guessing.
What is this?
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Fresnel lens
Other guesses about the first picture... keep guessing.
Looks like wood.
A baby gate for a doorway/hallway?
It IS wood, BUT that is not the function of what is in the picture.
The wood lattice looks like it could fold but there's no marks on the wood indicating it has. So it just holding against that canvas from moving in... or maybe down. That's why it needs the stringers for strength.
What is this?
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Internal lattice support for a yurt.
Internal lattice support for a yurt.
This is the correct answer!
Darned if an image search for "yurt" doesn't turn up the lattice as nearly universal.
Fooled me.
Yeah...
A traditional yurt or ger is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure comprises an angled assembly or latticework of pieces of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs, and a wheel possibly steam-bent. Wikipedia
I looked at an ad for a new 16 footer, it said can be assembled with little help in 48 hours.
Does anyone know what this thing is about, it's appeared as the symbol preceding the name of several websites I've visited for years.
Does it matter what browser you use?
Ah, bingo, never thought of that.
Yes it shows up in Chrome, the same sites in IE show a little haloed e.
Thank you Sir. :notworthy
One explanation could be the Earth/globe symbol/icon shows up if you have Google predictions turned on. Give me a few and I'll edit in some references.
The "star" icon appears next to bookmarked sites.
The "clock" icon appears next to sites from your browsing history.
The 'magnifying glass' icon appears next to searches, including related searches if you have the prediction service turned on.
The "globe" icon appears next to related sites, when you have the prediction service turned on.
The "box" icon appears next to web apps you've installed from Chrome Web Store.
I know this is old but a little Earth symbol indicates Google trying to recommend a url. Nothing is ever really deleted. Google will always remember and will suggest it unless you turn off google suggestions!
That doesn't look like any of those items to me, but you're probably right.
Lemme check.
It shows up next to only 8 out of dozens of bookmarked sites.
In IE-10(not windows 10) it shows the IE symbol on the same 8 sites.
In Chrome, with all the options except spell check turned off there's no change.
I still think it looks nothing like a Star, Clock, Glass, Globe, or Box.
Hmm... I guess it could be a lens without a frame? But that's turned off??
but that link points to another support link which points to
this one where they claim it's just a default chrome faviconPerhaps he way to do this is to go to EDIT for bookmark icons in each browser. It may name the icon and give you alternates, even to use just the website icon.
Perhaps the icon isn't displayed on all frequented bookmarked sites if some of them were exported from another browser.
It seems that they make something to change your Favicons:
Bookmark Favicon ChangerI'm getting them on both http and https sites.
It really doesn't mean a damn, I was just curious as to why they appeared.
What is this?
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Ah yes, I think Griff got it, a stinger.
Griff POSTED it, but I got it.
Alternate acceptable answer: how I knew it was time to stop mowing last night.
I spent a can of aerosol yellow jacket poison on the nest entrances I could see. I'll replenish my supply of killer in a can and pick up a few more traps on the way home tonight.
I hate those fuckers *so hard*.
I wonder if someone could shed some light on this for me?
Is a 'stinger' an insect in its own right, or is what is pictured left behind by the creature after it has stung?
A bit of US v UK puzzlement on my part, I think.
Ta!
Yellow jackets are not our friends. Bald face hornets hit me harder though.
A friend of mine had that problem so he poured gasoline down their hole. When he was done mowing he could still hear them so he gave them another dose. After putting everything away he could still hear them so he lit a match and threw it at the hole. Blew a hole in the lawn over 3 ft deep but no more buzzing.
Carruthers some insects lose their stingers when they sting you, bees and some wasps.
Carruthers some insects lose their stingers when they sting you, bees and some wasps.
Ah! OK so Yellow Jacket = Wasp.
Understood!
Ah! OK so Yellow Jacket = Wasp.
Understood!
Sorry, that's not correct.
Yellowjackets are hornets, and wasps are wasps.
Wasps are generally distinguished by very slender "waists" and hornets are generally bulkier and often have black and yellow markings. The wasps come in a wide range of colors.
Yellowjackets often nest in burrows underground. Note xoB's gas/match/crater story.... So tempting...
Nothing new here, but most bees have barbed stingers and the whole mechanism is torn from its abdomen after stinging.
The stinger continues to spasm and pump venom after you have pulled the bee off and stomped it 400 times into the ground, so remove the stinger by scraping it off, then proceed to stomp.
Hornets and wasps usually have smooth stingers so they jab, inject venom and pull out, usually to hit you somewhere else.
Best to kill the only the ones close to your activity areas and at night when they are home watching TV.
The thing about yellow jackets is they not only sting repeatedly, they *bite* while they sting. The bite will itch for days after the sting has gone away. You have to be careful not to scratch yourself raw.
I recommend a paste of green clay with a touch of tea tree oil.
I'm getting ready to go murder them now. It's rained lightly for a couple days, the sun's been up for only a few hours, it's not warm out yet. I'll clear the area of the debris then we'll see. I have four cans of poison and a couple new baits for the traps for those that evade my wrath. And I have two gallons of gas, FOR THE MOWER, jeeze you guys.
But if I have any left, I may well dispose of it dramatically.
Suck 'em out with a shop vac.
My friend discovered some in his yard right before a 4thofJuly party and didn't want to bomb the place. He found a huge glass bowl, went out early in the morning just before it got light and capped their hole with it. Then he sealed all around the edge with dirt and put a rock on top.
It made for fascinating entertainment.
He said after a coupla3 days they dehydrate and die.
I'm surprised they didn't have a second entrance.
I've used the inverted bowl technique (only for yellowjackets, of course).to good effect.
They do often have auxiliary openings so you have to look carefully for them. Not carefully just in the close search sense, but in the caution sense: those little buggers are fierce and determined.
Working at night with heavy clothing, as complete overage as you can with gloves and eye protection is more than important.
The edge seal has to be maintained.
They will beat themselves to death for days before activity dies down.
Buried deep under the surface tunnels are brood chambers containing thousands of eggs and larva, unaffected by the turmoil up top.
They are immune to all but the most powerful shop vac and have to be dug out and killed separately.
I got stung by (I think) a regular bee, right on my wrist-- about an hour before I went to go play a three-hour gig on the drums. It didn't bother me that bad, but AFTER the gig, when I went to load up, I noticed it was painful to lift anything heavy, I guess because all the swelling in such a small area.
Then the SOB itched like hell for a couple more days.
I really have no idea, but I am going to say stacking metal chairs, cropped in such a way as to leave the recognizable chair part missing.
I really have no idea, but I am going to say stacking metal chairs, cropped in such a way as to leave the recognizable chair part missing.
Yeah, correct. Just trying to get this thread moving again.
I like this thread too, so I hope your efforts succeed.
Here is a mystery picture" that I bought at a magic and joke store when I was probably ten or eleven (1952 or so).
I looked at it every time I went there and couldn't figure it out. As with the 'magic' tricks and other goodies, you had to buy them before the owner would tell how they worked.
Damn, but that place was hard on my allowance.
I still have that postcard and it still stumps people.
Of course once you know what it is, you can't look at it without seeing it, so I can't say if it is going to be hard or easy here.
I found it online with my first Google try.
http://www.optical-illusionist.com/imagefiles/mystery1.jpg
http://www.optical-illusionist.com/imagefiles/mystery1.jpg
I've seen that one before but couldn't remember the answer. Did a search for optical illusion images, and saw some good ones.
Stumbled across the answer for this one and it still took me a minute to see it. But now there it is, plain as day.
I think it's hard to find because to us white is nothing, it's the canvas, so we look for the answer in the dark parts.
I think it's hard to find because to us white is nothing, it's the canvas, so we look for the answer in the dark parts.
Plus, it's all dirty, grainy, and overexposed.
Pennywise, or angry Bozo?
Oh, I see it, now.
:cheerldr:
Only took a second but I'm sure I've seen it before.
It looks like an x-ray of the profile of a skull, but I logically know that x-rays don't display a black "eye hole"
Looks like led Zeppelin II
Sorry. The first album then
Oh, I see it, now.
:cheerldr:
Holey Cow, that took me a while!
I thought it was a skull with the back of the head blowed out.
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The original has more background and is turned 90 degrees.
It is amazing how deceptive it still is after 70 years.
Ask for answer (some hints are already posted) if you're still stumped.
what is this?
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Leveled wood, ground off nail heads.
Right.
To be precise, the points of the nails were ground off, not the heads.
I have been working on a project (new thread pending...) and this is a chunk of a couple layers of plywood that had some protruding nails---not anymore!
Then I cut it as needed, pics later.
Here's a shot of an adjacent section pre-"leveling".
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I cheated I tx Jim to find it is a cow.
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I cheated I tx Jim to find it is a cow.
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That's fine. Do you see the cow though?
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I sent him this
Moo-ooo, I'm a cow.
Starts about 37 secs in:
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You may know but we'll have a go at it.
Salt grains?
Yes, salt it is.
♪ ♫It fell out of the sky♪ ♫
♪ ♫And landed just♪ ♫
♪ ♫A little south♪ ♫
♪ ♫Of Louisville♪ ♫[/CCR]
Guy came home and found it in the wall of his mobile home. FAA says it's not part of an airplane. Norfolk Southern railroad ppl say they weren't involved.
WTF is this? (IDK, btw)
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~2 inches around, ~10 inches long.
It looks explosive in nature, kinda. I think it looks sorta/kinda like the business part of some kind of a mortar round. Kinda/sorta. Stabilizing fin/ring on the bottom. Kinda.
Here's the story.
I'll start the ball rolling
I wonder if it is a shock absorber or similar suspension component.
compressed gas cylinder, says teh internet.
Could be:
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Found on a Google image search for air bag deployment cylinder.
I thank you.
I'm just trying to figger out what model this car is.
In my expert opinion, it looks old.
I'm going with Glatt.
No help:
Looks like a 30s-40s Ford or Chevy, but a lot of cars from that time look awfully similar from that angle.
I even looked online and that taillight (if that's what it is) on the left fender looks like no other taillights I have seen out there in Google images.
The car is consistent with late 30's US cars. '37 or so.
I just asked Popdigr about it, and he spat 39 Ford right out.
He is not an authority.
39 Ford Business Coupe, rear
Restored and bumperless but that is the thing there
We had a 39 Ford RC car that my brother and I built, with dad's help. I'll ask dad. Looks right though.
This has the chevron taillight, license holder halfway down and squared off bottom. Handle looks right
1940 Ford Sedan
https://barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/f52-e1445396298340.jpgThis has the chevron taillight, license holder halfway down and squared off bottom. Handle looks right
1940 Ford Sedan
https://barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/f52-e1445396298340.jpg
That's it!
This has the chevron taillight, license holder halfway down and squared off bottom. Handle looks right
1940 Ford Sedan
https://barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/f52-e1445396298340.jpg
bingo!
I kinda thought it was a post wwII model.
Thanks, perfesser!
What is this?
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Divers encountered it off Norway, while diving on a WWII shipwreck.
Looks like a big Jelly or one of my used condoms.
Answer: [COLOR="LemonChiffon"]Ten-armed squid eggmass[/COLOR].
You probably don't know.
I don't expect you to know what an answer actually looks like, but there's one
right there in post #3048.
If ya wanna argue, argue with these ppl,
here.
Here endeth the lesson.
Yeah, I found that answer yesterday and found it interesting, though I can't understand why they can't identify the species.
I did not and do not understand the "Answer:" you also gave yesterday.
How you doing with the "I Love Lucy" What's the Connection question?
I did not and do not understand the "Answer:" you also gave yesterday.
Work on it.
Christ, it's like fucking Waldorf and Statler in here...
What's the connection between Christ, Statler and Waldorf?
You probably don't know. :p:
Christ, it's like fucking Waldorf and Statler in here...
Put me on Ignore. You'll be happier. I guarantee it.
If anyone is interested in getting the satisfaction of solving the little "I Love Lucy/ University of Mary Washington" connection poser, I would suggest looking briefly at the shorter of their two Wikipedia pages.
That is all I did to discover it.
What two Wiki pages. Who's two wiki pages. Post a link or drop it.:mad:
If anyone is interested in getting the satisfaction of solving the little "I Love Lucy/ University of Mary Washington" connection poser, I would suggest looking briefly at the shorter of their two Wikipedia pages.
That is all I did to discover it.
What is this "connection poser"?
What two Wiki pages. Who's two wiki pages. Post a link or drop it.:mad:
Well those two questions are candidates for top awards in a certain category.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mary_Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Lucy
As for the third choice:
When I read of glatt's son's good news, I realized I did not know of UMW and looked it up.
It sounds like a very nice institution and one worth considering.
One possible plus is that in 2006-2007, its President was a man named William Frawley.
Now it is dropped.
People probably just expected more, when the term "connection" was used, than that a former university president (who was fired for repeated DUIs) coincidentally had the same name as the well known actor (who died 40 years earlier) who played on I Love Lucy. That was an extremely loose association like we might find in the Word Association threads.
Hmm... :rolleyes:
I did say a week or so ago in trying to explain this to our resident sexton:
"It is just kind of a joke."
Ol' Aesop sure had a lock on human behavior, seemingly vulpine or not.
It's OK, even Babe Ruth struck out once in awhile. :haha:
What is this?
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Unless you've read
this story, you ain't gonna get it...
Whatever the story says, that's a chip off a fancy polished granite counter top
(read the story) ok no it's not
I've wondered if that had ever happened.
I wish that they had reported on the brains dimensions.
Mind vitrified. :speechls:
What is this?
Clue below:
[COLOR="White"](just a tease about an upcoming DIY project)[/COLOR]
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Half a dozen 'T' pieces, plumbing for the use of.
Purina Badger Chow delivery mechanism?
A thousand internet points to be shared among you as you see fit.
It's plainly obvious what they are, 2 inch black iron pipe tees.
The DIY project is the design and construction of a handrail for the staircase in the house. I strained my brain trying to put this together in my head since no store had all the pieces for me to hold in my hands and mentally assemble. I have since penciled it all out on paper and... uh.... it'll probably work. I've worked with iron pipe before and it's satisfying to start at one end and add the pieces or sub assemblies together building onward toward the other end. In this case, I'm still a little uncertain how I'll screw together all the pieces since some of them route around in a big rectangle... kinda.
The scale of the pipe is really big, and these tees, being "female", feel even bigger around the threaded portion. They're the first to arrive, thank you Amazon. It was frustrating trying to source all these locally. I did not find a hardware store in my area that did pipe cutting and threading. The cutting I could do of course, that's just a vise and a hacksaw and handful of ibuprofen washed down with a gallon of sweat. I did find some places locally that had the pipe, but in 21 foot lengths. Anyhow, I'll take pictures and post my progress.
Ha, just noted that glatt thinks these are Carruthers' tees.
lol.
WhatIsThis?
{seriously, because I don't know.}
gas shutoff valve handle so you don't need to keep a wrench nearby
Like in this pictureI got something that looks pretty similar, but mine is made of black plastic and it's a specialized tool to unscrew the blade mechanism of a Vitamix from its housing.
I can say pretty definitively that if I had one of these, I would use it for TURNING WINGNUTS.
bigV, I went and looked at our gas valve and don't see how it could do that. I may not be looking at the right thing, though. Would the long recess be what grabs the valve?
Clodfobble, we do have a vitaMix, but I don't see how it could work on that either.
Flint, those look like drum keys to tighten/tune the heads.
...and I know lots of drummers that are wingnuts.
Looks like a gas cap wrench for a gasoline tank. What the gas tank was attached to I don't know; but, it gave relatively open access and wasn't recessed like a car gas tank cap. Something similar is made for cars that reaches to greater depth:
Example of car gas tank cap wrench.Google images has dozens and dozens of drum keys.
I held on long enough to find these:
https://www.gcmusic.com.au/pearl-pupugn-6-2-wing-nuts
Congrats to Mr. Hooligan, though they are for tightening cymbals to their stands.
Google images has dozens and dozens of drum keys.
I held on long enough to find these:
https://www.gcmusic.com.au/pearl-pupugn-6-2-wing-nuts
Congrats to Mr. Hooligan, though they are for tightening cymbals to their stands.
hmm.
Seems like the cymbal stands I've seen were threaded whereas drum keys are square holes.
I may have to decline.
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