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Item is 40" long, made of bamboo, with a metal clip
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I tried to find y'all something mongolon or anasazi in keeping with my trip but no good...so here ya go have a guess at this.
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It looks like a loop to catch small animals around the neck. I hope I'm wrong though. I hate to think of tiny animals having their neck caught in there!
Thanks Dottie! I love these! (I'm always wrong, but I love them!) ;) :D :D
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It looks like a loop to catch small animals around the neck. I hope I'm wrong though. I hate to think of tiny animals having their neck caught in there!
Thanks Dottie! I love these! (I'm always wrong, but I love them!) ;) :D :D
I'm with David on this one. I think I saw one of these in a documentary once, where some wild life conservationists were trying to catch some animals in order to tag and release them. The animals were not injured, David. In fact, the aim of the entire process was to try to conserve the species the conservationists were targetting. :D
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ok...I guessed! ;)
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Susie (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_1_201.gif)
Awww. That's a CUTE picture Susie!!! :D
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WHOA!
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I am sensing a trend here..... BUT are you correct? ? ? ? ? Ya know just because you all agree doesn't make you right....baaaa-baaaa..... any free thinkers out there willing to step outside the box, think outside the envelope and hazard a guess as to WHAT THIS IS? ? ? ? But then again maybe going with the majority is the CORRECT answer in this case....Only time will tell .....
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I voted for the carpet beater. Maybe I'll be right once. ::)
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WHOA!
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I am sensing a trend here..... BUT are you correct? ? ? ? ? Ya know just because you all agree doesn't make you right....baaaa-baaaa..... any free thinkers out there willing to step outside the box, think outside the envelope and hazard a guess as to WHAT THIS IS? ? ? ? But then again maybe going with the majority is the CORRECT answer in this case....Only time will tell .....
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Is this your way of telling us we're wrong, Dottie? ;)
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I guessed whip myself.... ;D
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Is this your way of telling us we're wrong, Dottie? ;)
Shhhhh David
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Mum's the word
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Until Friday evening....
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Come one! Come all! ;D Aren't there anymore guessers out there ??? or are they all off to the wilds of Alberta :D
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Well Friday is the day if you haven't voted yet be sure and make your guess before Friday evening because ;) that is when the answer will be posted.
Times running out! (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/LoScrigno_tardi.gif)
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I voted for a dowsing rod, because I have no idea what the hell that could be...and I´m too lazy at the moment to look it up in the dictionary.
Can´t wait for friday!
Dagi
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I voted for a dowsing rod, because I have no idea what the hell that could be...and I´m too lazy at the moment to look it up in the dictionary.
Can´t wait for friday!
Dagi
Hi Dagi!!!
*David waves across the ocean to Dagi*
I can't wait for Friday either! :D
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Only One More Day (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/322248486cd51370cbddf9d2a930560837b.gif)
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Ok Dottie I tried to think outside the box, but the only thing I can see is the noose..I too have seen something similar that was used as a lasso to catch animals.. I suppose it could be a carpet beater but I doestn seem too substantial for that.... ok I can be wrong again.....so whats new. janice
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Today´s friday!
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i know - is the majority right?!!
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i know - is the majority right?!!
Y'all will just have to wait until this evening to find out..... ;)...Peggy and I age going shopping for strawberries right now so we can make strawberry pies for dinner tonight. Everyone is expect to be in camp this evening so we're going to roast hot dogs and corn on the cob over the fire and tell tall tales. Should be fun. But I promise when I nip back over the hill before 5 to pick up Bob I will stop and post the answer to this poll. I'm sure he'll be needing something cold to drink by then ;) so no worries
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message conveyance stick ??? ???
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It's a dowsing rod. Or...ooops...nevermind....couldn't be THAT ;)
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message conveyance stick ??? ???
Maybe they used the loop to smack people on their asses to "message" their displeasure with them. ???
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Well, everything will be settled today. It is today, isn't it? Dottie, don't you DARE forget to tell us what that crazy looking thing is! You hear me? :)
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Well, everything will be settled today. It is today, isn't it? Dottie, don't you DARE forget to tell us what that crazy looking thing is! You hear me? :)
hehehe David...You're lucky my husband got too hot and too tired and called me on my cell to pick him up early...LOL ... I might have forgotten :laugh: not really so now while I sip my delicious Orange Creme Frappacino in air conditioned splendor I will post the answer to this poll!
OK so ARE YOU READY? ? ? ? 8)
I CAN"T HEAR YOU! ! ! ! ! ;)
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At Long Last the time has come to post the answer !!!!
First I want to say:
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to EVERYONE who participated!
Because this one was tougher than I thought it was going to be….(http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/1-1.gif)
Most of you thought it was a loop like the dog catcher uses to corner and control small animals (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/dog.gif)
Someone thought it was a whip…. not a (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/thsmiley_spank.gif) But a ….. (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/thsmiley_deadhorse.gif)
Still others thought it was a dowsing rod…
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or a rug beater …..
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But only one of you guessed ( I mean GUESSED!) the correct answer! (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/thsmiley_danceegyptian.gif)
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I was sure more of you would puzzle it out (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/LoScrigno_sherlockholmes.gif)
Where were all those train enthusiast’s we have around here (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/dotEmatrix/beefcake/Beefcake%202/Smilies%20Emoticons%20and%20Avatars/rk01_treno.gif) off to P’town or out riding the Silver Lariat or in the wilds of Canada I guess ;D
I was sure they would steal the day…. So can you guess what it is now?
OK without any further delay...
The Answer is:
It is an antique, obviously no longer in use…. Train order hoop, when a train wasn't scheduled to stop at a station but they needed to give the engineer new orders, they would attach them to this hoop and pass them to the train as it went by. Paper notes were held in the clip and placed strategically beside the rails at a height where railway employees would reach over and grab by the loop (or drop off) while aboard a moving train. These sticks quickly traveled back and forth across the countryside, making a free and efficient national inter-office memo system of sorts.
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/bittersweet/fa81g.htm (http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/bittersweet/fa81g.htm)
From the above site:
Moving aboard the train at great speed, the trainman ran his arm through the hoop, pulled it out of the hand of the telegrapher, took the order, and threw the hoop down alongside the track. Injuries occurred when the telegrapher was slow to let go of the hoop. Occasionally the telegrapher was jerked down on his back. Likewise, the trainman sometimes suffered arm injuries.
The old train order hoop was replaced with the "Y" shaped train order stick. The telegrapher placed the order in a string and then threaded it around the stick. The telegrapher held the stick and the trainman took only the string with the order attached in a slip knot.
So the WINNER is Shasta because a guess is as good any other answer !!!
Congratulations Shasta!!!!
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Congratulations Shasta, our official Guesstamation sleuth! :D
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You sure fooled me Dottie! I thought it was some sort of twitch or small animal snare. ???
Thanks for posting this Dottie! :D
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GREAT jOB SHASTA.. you are a true sleuth......and guesstimator...
yee haw :laugh: :laugh:
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Thanks. :)
Well, when it first came out I thought it was to hold small animals, but I kept looking at it, and it looked too---stiff---to hold some little necks. :o I thought maybe it was to pass notes around in the legislature -- years ago. :P
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Maybe they used the loop to smack people on their asses to "message" their displeasure with them. ???
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