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Carl,

Can't hazard a guess as to the function of your machine, but you've got my curiosity peaked...

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Carl wrote:you've got my curiosity peaked
Me to......looks like pretty expensive counter weights on the lever.....

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iam going to say some kind of measuring device.
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That guy needs to take bath or something,that is one bad swarm of mossys or flys or maybe the transporter's not working too well, where's Scotty?
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Is it off the space shuttle?
I'm not sure but indecision may or may not be my problem.

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Is it to get the last drop out of the ketcup bottle???
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It throws pumpkins?
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I'll guess it is for some form of astronomical observation device, radio or telescope.
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Perpetual motion machine?

Orbital bombardment equitiorial mount defense system?

Death Ray?

Prototype handheld GPS?

Shock & awe leather belt hole puncher?
I don't know what the world may want,
But a good stiff drink it surely dont,
Think I'll go and fix myself...a tall one.
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Buju:

Your thought process scares me man....................did you see the movie 'District 9' yet ?
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After studying the pic for about 30 seconds I have concluded...

It is a chain link fence straightener!
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It's a warp drive inverter.
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cockpit mounted auto-gaff?

Giraffe/Elephant artificial insemeninator?

Worlds most impressive tooth extractor?

Chain link fence destroyer?

Preston, haven't seen it... you recommend it?
Looks like we might have some weather to deal with next week & perhaps the next weekend as well. Tis the season.
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The purpose of this device is obscured by the swarm of white flies. Note where the two parts converge at the front of the operator. Got it now?
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One hellofa' big compass for accurately laying out extreme radiuses, segments, and circles...
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Is it a HDTV antenna??
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It looks like a decraminator to me
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Y'all are talking nonesense, It's a thingamajig.
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I know it's a thingamabob you use it with the whatyamacallit.
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specially designed motion picture camera mount, for a specific pan/angle/shot?

Modern art to symbolize industry harmonizing with society?

Door knocker?

4000psi articulated gutter cleaner?

Bottle opener?
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I don't know what you would call it but I believe its used to sexually stimulate the woman you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
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ok...thats funny!!
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Post by Harv »

Brewster Minton wrote:It throws pumpkins?
I agree.....it's a pumkin chunker.
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brewster that thing casts sinkers off the beach while surffishing
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Post by scenarioL113 »

Finally!

Someone has really invented a "better mousetrap".
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automatic outrigger?

stir straw to stir "brewster's rendezvous juice"?
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Post by Carl »

I enjoyed those answers...for a women I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole...LOL, funny stuff.

Anyway this thing

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is a Real Big Rendition of one of these.






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Just a Big Pentograph.

So what was it used for...


A movie prop, the "Killer" used it to distort a regular size painting onto a large canvas. The setup was the "Killer" would dip the brush (attached to the end) into the victims body cavity using the blood for paint.

It took a month to design, build and debug the unit so it would work thru the entire range of motion and swing to and from the canvas under the control of one person. All that for a few second shot in a horrible movie. Still it was a very cool job.
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Absolutly a devise to propell things [pumpkins/x-wives/surf casting]
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This is the tool they used to determine where to put the kiddie pool!

http://www.acetj.com/videos/player.php?mediaID=3045

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Just goes to show that it is better to be lucky than smart!!! Here is what happens when you get it wrong!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGn82lsvGec

And if you don't kill someone the first time, try again!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McI9LCSwXfI
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Post by chris pague »

Only thing bothers me is that a power line in the pic? What does the next series of pics show and are we sure that the white flyes is in fact the guys hair is on fire?
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Post by Mikey »

Curry gets my vote.
Prop for a few seconds in a flick I would believe as I have seen such tripe. Still like Ed's best.
O.K., let's move on!
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Post by Carl »

Seriously...it's just a working prop.

Thats not a powerline in the pic, but a phone line and not half as close as it looks to that Pentograph.
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the wire is tel, or cable
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Telephone & 10' away
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