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What Is It? for 4/29/12

Posted April 29, 2012 12:00 AM
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04/29/2012 12:18 AM

Antique clothes-washer plunger.
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04/29/2012 4:15 PM

Looks too ornate for that. Must have been the deluxe model.

Or the plunger for a butter churn?
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04/29/2012 5:15 PM

Oh I think this would be the deluxe model....

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04/29/2012 6:21 PM

Could be......

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04/30/2012 7:05 PM

Could be, but it also bears a resemblance to some of the old funnels I have sitting upside down with a piece of dowel stuck in the outlet ......
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05/01/2012 3:29 AM

And still available !

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05/07/2012 9:15 AM

Otherwise known as a "posser."
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04/29/2012 1:20 AM

No ma'am, not like that....

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04/29/2012 3:22 PM

She is actually been attacked by a Dalek.
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04/30/2012 9:38 AM

Good one. Lol Daleks never impressed me as being particularly threatening. More like they annoy their victims to death. As a kid I wanted to punch 'em. Bloody Roombas with an Attitude! Poor Ms. Pinocchio in that pic, looks like the lyin' biotch is being fitted with a strain-relief following the incident in which the first salesman bent over to tie his laces. She denies it of course... :-#
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04/30/2012 11:31 AM

What's this, a face lift?
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04/30/2012 7:19 PM

No, 19th century sinus relief.
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04/30/2012 12:17 PM

Hey! Is that a Doorman shirt she has on?

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04/30/2012 3:42 PM

10" lower and 4" to the right or left would work better.

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04/29/2012 8:16 AM

I cant put my finger on it but it seems to ring a bell for me.

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04/29/2012 7:39 PM

Keep your fingers to yourself, you beast!
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04/29/2012 8:28 AM

candle snuffer

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04/29/2012 3:35 PM

The inner half of the mold for making a velocity joint rubber boot.

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04/29/2012 3:38 PM

Is that really the cod piece that Dorothy gave to the Tin Man?

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04/30/2012 8:23 AM

whatever you do!

Don't sit on it!
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04/30/2012 8:29 AM

Looks like Admin's finger stuck in a nargila!
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04/30/2012 8:32 AM

A cookie cutter?
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04/30/2012 8:44 AM

laundry washer, still available too!

http://www.lehmans.com/store/Home_Goods___Laundry___Washing___Rapid_Laundry_Washer___66RW?Args=

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04/30/2012 9:28 AM

Sweet !

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04/30/2012 12:49 PM

I don't know about that!!!
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04/30/2012 9:13 AM

Looks sort of like a weight that the old-time printers used to use to press and flatten- out the paper to the typeset prior to lowering the boom (for a lack of a better term) and applying the high pressure.......this occurring before the invention of modern mechanical printing presses (like in Benjamin Franklin's time).

[If you have ever visited Colonial Willamsburg in Virginia, then you'd know what I am talking about.]

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04/30/2012 12:39 PM

It's a pewter candle holder with a bees wax candle sitting on someone's mantle.

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04/30/2012 4:21 PM

I'd advise giving it back.....

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04/30/2012 4:35 PM

It's a metal plunger for a rubber toilet!

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04/30/2012 8:08 PM

Definately clothes washer/plunger!

My Grandmother had one just like it on the farm!

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04/30/2012 8:41 PM

A kind of mortar ?
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04/30/2012 9:40 PM

An apolitical agitator?
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05/01/2012 7:18 AM

Hear ye, hear ye. It's a donger containment device.

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05/01/2012 3:05 PM

Antique oil can candle holder.

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05/01/2012 7:37 PM

It looks like the school bell they used when I was in 1st grade.

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05/02/2012 6:56 AM

It's a clothes plunger for an antique washing machine. The picture is from Craigslist.

europium, Kris, lonster, and Sid_Sidow were correct.
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05/02/2012 7:07 AM

Well... did you buy it? :)
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05/02/2012 7:31 AM

Nah - too pricey for my taste.
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