What Is It?

Safety fence at a race track.

I also agree that it is a safety fence, or guard rail fence of some sort, but due to the angle of the shadows I am inclined to think that the picture is upside down.

Othello: Jealousy incarnate.

Albert Einstein: 'What is it' relative to what?

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of asking "What is it?" was encoded into the object "fence" and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this question.

Charles Darwin: It is the logical next step after having no fence there at all.

David Hume: The veritable actualisation of custom and habit.

Werner Heisenberg: Well whatever it is, I am fairly certain I haven't a bloody clue as to its momentum.

Ernest Hemingway: It is thus to die. In the rain.

Aristotle: It is what it is.

The Evil Emperor: I have foreseen it.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the fence found it necessary to exist in this photograph.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that this individual fence be made manifest at this historical juncture and therefore synchronicitiously brought such an auspicious occurrence into being.

Oliver North: Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure it has something to do with our National Security being at stake.

Bill Clinton: I didn't inhale.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from its inception had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to obstruct passage, even whilst believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Nietzsche: Gaze at the fence and the fence gazes also at you.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of this image of a fence having been made manifest, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Machiavelli: It is there so that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a fence which has the daring and courage to boldly stand its ground, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of obstructive virtue? In such a manner is the princely fence's dominion maintained.

Karl Marx: A historical inevitability. Morons!

Plato: That which is there for the greater good.

Buddha: To ask 'What is it?' is to deny one's own Fence-Nature.

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with that (bleep) and I'll find out.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Timothy Leary: The Establishment's answer to everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: An opportunity to transcend the moment.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What is what?

Richard Nixon: I forget.

Morpheus: It is the One.

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Mark Twain: The news of its existence has been greatly exaggerated.

Molly Yard: It's a hen!

Zeno of Elea: It's there to prove you can never reach the other side.

Neo: The fence is not Real.

Blake: O to see heaven in the backside of a wild fowl!

Supreme Soviet: There has never been a fence in this photograph.

Katt Williams: It's a (bleep)(bleep)(bleep)(bleep)(bleep)(bleep)(bleep)(bleep) fence.

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up this morning as a hen.

Whitehead: Clearly the enquirer has fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced fencedness.

Hamlet: That is not the question!

George W. Bush: Yesterday, you made note of my -- the lack of my talent when it came to dancing. But nevertheless, I want you to know I danced with joy. And no question Liberia has gone through very difficult times.

Barack Obama: We're the country that built that fence!

Leonard McCoy: It's dead, Jim.