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What is it?

What is this mystery tool? Leave your guesses in the comments!

This particular item is one of my personal favorite tools. (We're not the experts at this game, but we do like to play.)

P.S.: If you do instantly know what this is, please save your spoilers and let's hear the guesses instead, m'kay?

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 02:27 AM PDT

Its a SPIRAL!!!! Use like regular spiral.

No really, is this one of those candle-putter-outers that works by conducting the heat away from the flame?

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 03:57 AM PDT

of course it's an eggcup :)
elias (eliashenrich@web.de)

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 05:22 AM PDT

Ah yes, I know what that is - it's the aerial off a 1947 RAAF microwave/RF transceiver used for communicating with extraterrestrial intelligent lifeforms. I know it is as someone STOLE it from me last week. I know what you guys are up to and I know where you live. Expect a visit soon!

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What is it? - From: Windell on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 05:29 AM PDT

What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 08:15 AM PDT

It looks like it does something heat related. But there are no scorch marks. And its very well made.

I would guess its soldering related but again its too well made and no heat insulation if its hand-held.

Im thinking kitchen? Cocktail stirrer? Cocktail whisk? Or one of those things you put in a glass coffee mug to disperse the heat when pouring in hot water which might break the glass?

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 08:26 AM PDT

either an egg cup or something to mush potatoes

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 08:31 AM PDT

Yolk separator?

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 08:46 AM PDT

It's a golf ball retriever I have one almost exactly like it in my bag, great for pulling balls out of a shallow stream or within the first few feet of a water hazard.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 10:08 AM PDT

It's a frothing whip for an espresso set.

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What is it?

From: faithellen on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 10:09 AM PDT

It's a fancy-schmancy egg holder for people who eschew the cheapo wire ones in the Paas coloring kits.

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What is it? - From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 11:26 AM PDT

What is it?

From: Kagetsuki on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 11:33 AM PDT

Futon tataki (for beating the dust out of futons)?

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 11:56 AM PDT

Looks like a scoop for lifting boiled eggs out of a pan of boiling water.

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What is it?

From: Alan S. Blue on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 01:37 PM PDT

It's either a tool custom designed for reversing the polarity of the neutron flow, or the missing piece of the chameleon circuit.

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What is it? - From: Windell on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 10:11 PM PDT

What is it? - From: Alan S. Blue on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 01:50 AM PDT

What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 01:39 PM PDT

Its an egg dipper for easter egg coloring.

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What is it? - From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 02:19 PM PDT

What is it?

From: p914 on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 03:17 PM PDT

It's a magic wand for putting the magic smoke back into blown components!

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What is it? - From: RichM on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 06:50 PM PDT

What is it? - From: whitefang on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 09:38 PM PDT

What is it?

From: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2007 @ 11:54 PM PDT

It's one of the rejected designs for a supppository. Don't ask how I know. Please.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 02:32 AM PDT

It's used to dip things in melted chocolate to make them chocolate-coated-things (strawberries, peanut butter balls, etc.).

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What is it? - From: tea_with_milk on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 01:56 AM PDT

What is it?

From: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 12:20 PM PDT

is it some antenna ???

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 02:10 PM PDT

I have one, my friend, a chef, has one. It is a tool for removing eggs from boiling water. Mine is short-handled, his is long because he uses a deeper pan for boiling lots of eggs.

Of course, we could both be using an aliens UHF receiver to remove eggs from boiling water, maybe i'm wrong!

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 05:19 PM PDT

It's a tea bag remover thingy! Isn't it hilariously obvious? Gohhhhh

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 07:00 PM PDT

It's a candle snuffing taper shaping gizzie.

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maybe

From: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 08:10 PM PDT

I don't see any leads, doesn't seem scorched (maybe). The top is made spring like, not just a spiral. There is no insulation at the handle end. Handle end looks darker, well handled? Looks too "goofy" to be made for RF. I'm going to guess some type of manufacturing tool to keep two materials separate. or a magic wand.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 08:50 PM PDT

That tool is known in certain occult circles as an Infinite Speculum.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 08:01 AM PDT

I'm not at liberty to say.

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Of course...

From: jasongraphix on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 09:03 AM PDT

A Golden Ratio Bubble Wand!

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 11:45 AM PDT

A fancy urethral sound?

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What is it? - From: Kagetsuki on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 12:09 PM PDT

What is it? - From: Anonymous on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 03:12 PM PDT

What is it?

From: phooddaniel on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 01:04 PM PDT

It's an instrument used to keep you eyes open whilst driving at the weee hours. Or a way to remove eggs from boiling water.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 07:15 PM PDT

It's a bismuth crystal scoop.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 12:30 AM PDT

IUD? : )

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What is it?

From: cmillard on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 01:37 AM PDT

Gotta be a egg yolk separator.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 03:43 AM PDT

It's an olive spoon for getting olives out of jars.
Dino :)

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What is it?

From: DenGarz on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 05:49 AM PDT

A golf ball retriever!!!

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 07:47 AM PDT

It is an yolk separator for an egg!

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 10:51 AM PDT

Is it one of those things they have at ice cream shops to hold the cones upright?

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 11:29 AM PDT

Is it a tool that you can use to get a boiled egg out of a really, really, really deep pan of boiling water?

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What is it?

From: Patti on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 02:24 PM PDT

It's a nose picker. And not a cheap knock-off, either. Quality stuff there. Where did you get it?

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 03:14 PM PDT

It's used by people born with flipper arms, (the thalidomide babies) to put contact lenses in, as they often can't reach their eyes.

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What is it? - From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 04:06 PM PDT

What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 05:30 PM PDT

1. An eggcup. Why does one need such a long handle at all? No.
2. Cocktail stirrer. The handle is too long and the spiral is too small. No
3. Mush potatoes. You would need to much only vertical potatos :) No
4. Yolk separator. You risk teh yolk will get through the spiral. No
5. Golf ball retriever. The handle seems to short for that. No.
6. frothing whip. Certainly it is not a regular whip. No.
7. Egg holder used with coloring kit. Possibly you can use it for that. The idea is the same...
8. For beating the dust out of futons. Made of metal? No.
9. Scoop for lifting boiled eggs. Possible, but why would you want to lift boiled eggs?
10. Rejected designs for a supppository. ... For elephants? :) No.
11. to dip things in melted chocolate. Yes!!!!!!!
http://www.kitchenworksinc.com/catalog.php?mode=publicviewitemdetail&ref=13209

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What is it? - From: Windell on Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 05:52 PM PDT

What is it?

From: Pixielo on Saturday, March 01 2008 @ 01:46 AM PDT

It is a truffle/chocolate/candy dipping tool. It is not an egg-rescuer--it's not big enough.
The top of the tool is only about the size of a U.S. quarter, and the swirl leaves a decorative pattern in the chocolate on the final product.

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Sunday, March 02 2008 @ 02:13 PM PDT

of corse its a bubble wand!
DUH!!
kidding i have no idea what it is
but it looks like a bubble wand

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What is it?

From: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 17 2008 @ 02:35 PM PDT

it is for honey, it's shape is like that so it does not spill.

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