Steinie's U3DA Game "What is it?"

[Steinie]

Which end did you get stuck with?
Now I remember....ouch!

[jamesmc]

Kind of reminds me of a tool for changing a stylus tip for a Wacom pen.

[Draise]

That would be SO handy! I need that tool!

[FHembree]

Don't know why but I think it is an automotive tool for adjusting brakes on cars.

[Finis]

Cool guesses!

Really, it is a smallpox vaccination needle. The vaccine was cow pox, milkmaid's disease, not smallpox. A doctor noticed that people who had cow pox were resistant to smallpox so they used that much less deadly disease for the vaccine. Smallpox is extinct now except for samples in highest security laboratories in the USA and in Russia. Those of us old enough to have been vaccinated have small round scars on our shoulders. Mine has healed so that I'm not sure which shoulder it is on now.

Now someone post a new What Is It?

[jamesmc]

What is it?

[Steinie]

Hey I've seen these hanging from the back of pickup trucks...
Hmmm let me think about this one.

[spacekdet]

First, the potato quality is amazing.
Second, my guess is a tool for sewing leather.

[jamesmc]

First, the potato quality is amazing.
Second, my guess is a tool for sewing leather.

so close!

[Finis]

Potato?

I thought it was part of a musical instrument that tightens strings. But the point on the end wouldn't be needed for that.