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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: CyberPet on November 02, 2003, 04:10:21 PM

Title: OT: Guess the picture
Post by: CyberPet on November 02, 2003, 04:10:21 PM: OK, here is the rules:

We post a picture and the one first to guess it right will have to post the next picture in this thread. With a tie (two guessing the same thing, posting at the same time-stamp gets to post a picture each).

To save bandwidth loading this page, I suggest we link to the page instead of embedd it in the post.

I'll start it off with a simple one:
What is this?
Title: OT: Guess the picture
Post by: george on November 02, 2003, 05:12:29 PM: It looks to me like something in the animal kingdom regurgitating, yuk!
George
Title: OT: Guess the picture
Post by: kps on November 02, 2003, 05:23:42 PM: You been messing around the back of your old gas stove or somth'n?

I see a steel pipe and an old corroded copper wire...but what it is, I have no clue.
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Post by: Gary S on November 02, 2003, 05:47:56 PM: It does look like a wire of some sort?

Does it have to do with a refridgerator?

5 down and to you Bennet Cerf.
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Post by: Bruce_F on November 02, 2003, 06:26:52 PM: It looks like the cylinder on an old adding machine.
Title: OT: Guess the picture
Post by: RNKIII on November 02, 2003, 08:16:04 PM: I think it's an ice covered piece of rope along the docks...

Bob K.
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Post by: Diana on November 02, 2003, 08:45:06 PM: Is it a typewriter platen/roller?

*waves from Gatlinburg, TN...looking at the real-live colors as depicted by the banner..

see ya
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Post by: krissel on November 03, 2003, 05:34:18 AM: Ok, it's a dried up and leaking poinsettia plant stem...

or...

...you finally emptied out your vacuum cleaner and found that licorice stick you misplaced last summer...
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Post by: gapstr on November 03, 2003, 09:28:27 AM: It looks like an old cloth-insulated electrical wire.

And it looks like it's been in a fire, but not recently, as the spiders have had ample time to build some egg-coccoon webs on it, and the little spiders have already hatched and gone.

A. G.
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Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 03, 2003, 05:24:17 PM: I think Diana got it 'write'! It is also a mono-spaced font only writer. It is also in need of a good cleaning. Possibly because it is used for printing forms and gets a lot of daily (ab)use. It is also probably quite old, that bent wire was usually around to prevent the flying keys (hammers!) from hitting in the wrong areas. Many typists could hit the keys faster than the mechanism could fling them onto the paper/platten (even with a QWERTY keyboard!).

Jim C.
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Post by: jcarter on November 03, 2003, 05:52:52 PM: It's a tiny piece of driftwood hung up on the ladder where we come out of the water at high tide. It is a really Macro picture of a little hunk of wood, with a tiny tendril of seaweed stuck on the higher end, with water dripping off the right(other side) end of it.
You can't see the feet of the kids fishing off the dock about 3 feet above.
Jane
Title: OT: Guess the picture
Post by: Bernie on November 03, 2003, 07:39:10 PM: L@@k's like a burnt wire Connector? in a PC " A new one running Hyperthreading"
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Post by: () on November 03, 2003, 07:49:44 PM: it's a bone on an autopsy table...
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Post by: CyberPet on November 04, 2003, 01:47:42 PM: I thought I made it easy and it took until Diana to figure it out. YOU GO GIRL!!!!

OK, now it's your turn to come up with a tricky picture.
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Post by: Diana on November 04, 2003, 08:08:45 PM: Hey.. Fun stuff this..

Ok, this is probably too easy, but hopefully it will provide for some entertainment.

Picture
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Post by: krissel on November 05, 2003, 12:55:49 AM: Part of a guitar? or similar instrument?
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Post by: CyberPet on November 05, 2003, 02:16:47 AM: A Zither?
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Post by: dolphin on November 05, 2003, 06:34:42 AM: Looks like a slightly burnt piece of styrofoam.
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Post by: jepinto on November 05, 2003, 06:51:55 AM: Dulcimer hammer?
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Post by: Audone on November 05, 2003, 08:35:20 AM: Slab of bacon, rind on?
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Post by: taliesin on November 05, 2003, 09:40:35 AM: Think Jennie's close but doesn't look like any hammer or damper I've seen.
More like something laid across the strings.
Some kind of bow?
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Post by: Diana on November 05, 2003, 11:01:35 AM: How close does close have to be before I confirm?..

There are several answers walking around the edges of the one answer, but I don't want to spoil it if people are still guessing

edit for typo
see ya
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Post by: Gary S on November 05, 2003, 11:11:25 AM: I think it's Dulcimer like Jennie said.
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Post by: CyberPet on November 05, 2003, 12:34:34 PM: Piano?
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Post by: gapstr on November 05, 2003, 03:16:53 PM: It looks like a paired-string instrument, but all the strings look to be the same diameter, so it's not a 12-string guitar. I think lutes have five string pairs, but I don't know if they are all the same diameter. Hammer dulcimers have single strings that double back, creating an effective double string. But neither lutes nor hammer dulcimers are bowed, I think. Some viols have paired strings, but I think their strings are of different diameters.

Just thinking out loud, as it were. I'm probably no closer here than I was with the burnt wire and the cobwebs.

A. G.
Title: OT: Guess the picture
Post by: gapstr on November 06, 2003, 09:15:11 AM: A harp?

A. G.
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Post by: Diana on November 06, 2003, 06:25:30 PM: Taliesin Wins!

I figured there would be some mountain folks on the board who would guess it right off. There were several people who were getting really close, but Taliesin was the first to say Bow.

The main part of the picture is the butt-end of a bow...a special bow for the "bowed psaltry"

It's a lovely instrument having the full chromatic scale (sharps and flats played on the left side (downside in the picture)). The strings are played between the metal posts. The three dark spots between posts you see on the linked picture are C, G and C. High notes at the wide end and getting lower nearing the point. Very pretty violinish sound.

OK Taliesin...your turn..

see ya,