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It's Sunday, time for a Whatziss!

By The Armorer on September 23, 2007 | | Comments (11)

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So, let your imaginations run free, and those of you who takes these things seriously... get to work.

Part 1 - what is it?

Part 2 - which era?

Part 3 - of those things that comprise the universe of what it is, which type system might it work with?

Part 4 - Which specific system is it a component of?

Ready on the right? Ready on the left? You may commence guessing! Or googling, as fits your idiom.

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By jim b on September 23, 2007 1:26 PM
Isn't calling us Idioms against the Rulz?
 
By BillT on September 23, 2007 2:06 PM
Nope. You're thinking of ideate.
 
By BillT on September 23, 2007 3:42 PM
Speaking of ideating, it looks an awful lot like the blade of a Chinese glaive, but it's missing the upper tang. Which probably means it's a Swiss Army Painter's Edge Guide, with can-opening capability. Come to think of it, the glaive made a pretty good can opener, too -- as long as the plate wasn't too thick...
 
By Rod Thorsen on September 23, 2007 5:32 PM
Pin knocker, or whatever it's actually called. Some Armour prior to the 50's used a track pin without any kind of retention, ie nut. They were installed with the pinhead on the inside. They would, of course, work out over time. As the track moved, any pins that had worked themselves out too far would contact this device and get shoved back into position. Of course I also have no idea what this is. Time to loosen up the free assocition again.
 
By AFSister on September 23, 2007 8:13 PM
oohhhhhh someone is in BIG trouble for breaking Excalabur. BIG trouble.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on September 23, 2007 9:44 PM
High speed-low drag tinfoil hat?
 
By Ninjafluff on September 24, 2007 8:58 AM
I don't care what it really is, OFS wins this one!! Best thing I've heard in quite a while!
 
By MajMike on September 24, 2007 9:04 AM
flanged boot scraper, for to get the mud off with..
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 24, 2007 9:21 AM
Heh. Just, heh. Youse peoples needs some context.
 
By Matthew E. Linn Sr on September 25, 2007 9:20 AM
Its a...,you know...one of them.
 
By Captain Tony on September 25, 2007 8:18 PM
Having grew up on a farm, it looked alot to me like some sort of really odd plowshare, or a really high speed wire cutter we use on HMMWVs in Iraq.
 
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