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It's Thursday, time for another quiz
See if you can guess the intended purpose of the following inventions

I scored a respectable 4/10, lets see if you're Barnes Wallis or Wilf Lunn.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:44, 26 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
I got seven
Go me.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:48, Reply)
I got 4
so that makes me a bloody stupid Johnson I reckon
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:51, Reply)
Woo!
5 - In your FACE PJM!

Apologies, I'm not even that competitive, I just felt like being shoutily insulting and I can't even do that without regretting it immediately. I'm so very, very, sorry.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:52, Reply)
4
Bah.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:53, Reply)
4/10
bah.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:55, Reply)
I got 6...

But I'm so old I remember when half of them were the 'latest must-have gadgets'

*sigh*
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:56, Reply)
9
Do I win some kind of invention guessing prize?
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:56, Reply)
Wanderlust
Yes, you win the continuing admiration of everyone on here for guessing 9 correctly.

How the heck did you manage that?
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 12:58, Reply)
Yeah...well...


I took it again, and got 8 the second time!

w00!
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:00, Reply)
I did this a couple of days ago
Got a not-terribly-good 3/10.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:00, Reply)
8/10
Not bad!
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:02, Reply)
not bad
I got 6/10 not too bad :)
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:04, Reply)
I managed
5/10.

Although I still refuse to believe the pile cream applicator is real. My eyes are watering at the thought.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:06, Reply)
7 - quietly inspired
I can live with that.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:07, Reply)
@PJM
The only one I got wrong was the eye massager one.

I have no idea how I did it. I guess I just have the brain of an invention guesser.
*smugs*
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:07, Reply)
Blimey
some weird and wonderful stuff there...
5/10, so I'm half an inventor!
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:17, Reply)
7/10
Most were guesses but some I remembered form some crazy website I was reading a while back :)
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:22, Reply)
I got 5
would've been 6, but I thought "surely no one would put that up their arse"
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:24, Reply)
Speaking of inventions
I think this would make a great QOTW.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:33, Reply)
I Got 4/10
Meh.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:33, Reply)
6/10
Woo!
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:37, Reply)
6
and I have to admit, a lot of it was guess work.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:45, Reply)
4 out of 10
would have been five but my mouse clicking finger would not accept the pile cream applicator and clicked something else instead.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:47, Reply)
I got 5/10
Although I think if the pictures had been bigger I might have done better. (or some other excuse).
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 13:58, Reply)
I got 6
I feel frighteningly mediocre.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:09, Reply)
7/10
Huzzah.

Like the idea of the hipflask-disguised-as-binoculars thingy.
(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 18:05, Reply)

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