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What Is It? for 2/15/2014

Posted February 15, 2014 12:00 AM
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What is this? Bonus points if you can guess where it is, too!

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02/15/2014 1:15 AM

Looks like one of the sculptures Lynn takes care of....

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02/15/2014 5:55 AM

Mesa, Arizona, USA then.

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02/15/2014 12:15 PM

Nope, not one of mine.

SE's bogie guess looks good to me.
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02/15/2014 12:54 PM

Actually it was TCM who, having had an intimate relationship with railcars, identified it as such.....

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02/15/2014 2:18 PM

Oh, yeah, guess so. Sorry tcm.

I never read his stuff anyway.

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02/15/2014 8:35 PM

That's okay. It's quite clear in many of your responses that you don't read much of anything anyone posts.

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02/17/2014 1:51 PM

Ohhh! It appears, in response for Lyn's faux pas (of incorrectly attributing SE with TCMTech's response) TCMTech has retaliated by intentionally incorrectly attributing Lyn's responses with qualities that are clearly characteristic of Kramarat!

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Ouch! Are you just going to stand there and allow him to slander you that way?

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As for the second part of the question..... the bogies are located in a city park, a city park that likes boxwood hedges.

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02/17/2014 2:07 PM

See # 9.

Just for the record, I didn't vote SE a GA though.

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02/15/2014 2:55 AM

Meerkats found at Pompeii
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02/15/2014 3:53 AM

They look like what's left of the primary casting for the suspension system of a rail car.
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02/15/2014 10:46 AM

Yes I think it's a bogie, painted black....

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02/15/2014 11:19 AM

Bogies at 12:00 high....!

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02/16/2014 10:09 AM

That's strange. The guy who got it right hasn't been voted a good answer??

I'll give you one!

I think SE owes you one, too.
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02/15/2014 10:20 PM

a giant can opener

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02/16/2014 7:49 AM

I guess the owner must have had some big nults and bolts to do up.

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02/16/2014 1:37 PM

looks like a futuristic high powered machine gun...I WANT ONE!!!
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02/16/2014 8:05 PM

Art or plucked steampunk eagles?

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02/17/2014 9:30 AM

Bogies that no longer boogie?

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03/06/2014 7:34 PM

somthing the tinman hocked up after a night on the town lmao

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