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by CaptPatrick » Aug 14th, '09, 12:36
Carl,
Can't hazard a guess as to the function of your machine, but you've got my curiosity peaked...
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by Harry Babb » Aug 14th, '09, 12:41
Carl wrote: you've got my curiosity peaked
Me to......looks like pretty expensive counter weights on the lever.....
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by Charlie J » Aug 14th, '09, 13:35
iam going to say some kind of measuring device.
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by pacific marlin » Aug 14th, '09, 14:50
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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by AndreF » Aug 14th, '09, 16:37
Is it off the space shuttle?
I'm not sure but indecision may or may not be my problem.
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by Rawleigh » Aug 15th, '09, 07:31
Is it to get the last drop out of the ketcup bottle???
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by White Bear » Aug 15th, '09, 08:22
I'll guess it is for some form of astronomical observation device, radio or telescope.
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by Buju » Aug 15th, '09, 08:40
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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by Preston Burrows » Aug 15th, '09, 09:30
Buju:
Your thought process scares me man....................did you see the movie 'District 9' yet ?
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by IRGuy » Aug 15th, '09, 09:44
After studying the pic for about 30 seconds I have concluded...
It is a chain link fence straightener!
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by scot » Aug 15th, '09, 10:32
It's a warp drive inverter.
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by Buju » Aug 15th, '09, 10:48
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.
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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by Mikey » Aug 15th, '09, 11:04
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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by CaptPatrick » Aug 15th, '09, 11:13
One hellofa' big compass for accurately laying out extreme radiuses, segments, and circles...
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by Capt.Frank » Aug 15th, '09, 13:51
Is it a HDTV antenna??
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by Skipper Dick » Aug 15th, '09, 13:59
It looks like a decraminator to me
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by pacific marlin » Aug 15th, '09, 14:00
Y'all are talking nonesense, It's a thingamajig.
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by Capt.Frank » Aug 15th, '09, 14:09
I know it's a thingamabob you use it with the whatyamacallit.
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by JeremyD » Aug 15th, '09, 14:21
Powerpole
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by Buju » Aug 15th, '09, 14:24
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?
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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by Ed Curry » Aug 15th, '09, 19:10
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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by randall » Aug 15th, '09, 19:22
ok...thats funny!!
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by Harv » Aug 16th, '09, 18:35
Brewster Minton wrote: It throws pumpkins?
I agree.....it's a pumkin chunker.
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by neil » Aug 16th, '09, 18:49
brewster that thing casts sinkers off the beach while surffishing
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by scenarioL113 » Aug 16th, '09, 18:56
Finally!
Someone has really invented a "better mousetrap".
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by Hueso » Aug 17th, '09, 10:48
automatic outrigger?
stir straw to stir "brewster's rendezvous juice"?
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by Carl » Aug 17th, '09, 11:49
I enjoyed those answers...for a women I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole...LOL, funny stuff.
Anyway this thing
is a Real Big Rendition of one of these.
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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by DRIFTER31 » Aug 17th, '09, 14:06
Absolutly a devise to propell things [pumpkins/x-wives/surf casting]
I would spell it but i dont know how.....Trapoche
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by MarkS » Aug 18th, '09, 09:46
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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by chris pague » Aug 18th, '09, 12:36
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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by Mikey » Aug 18th, '09, 14:21
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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by Carl » Aug 18th, '09, 15:01
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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by Charlie J » Aug 19th, '09, 04:33
the wire is tel, or cable
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by Carl » Aug 19th, '09, 07:07
Telephone & 10' away
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