Comments on: Guess That Gadget!

By: Guess the Gadget

Guess the Gadget — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:38:08 +0000

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By: Ben Morris

Ben Morris — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:29:24 +0000

6/10 Going with first inclinations would have resulted in a little higher, rethinking is the enemy!

By: Ed Autumn

Ed Autumn — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:56:31 +0000

7/10

Meh, that pile cream applicator completely surprised me :D

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:04:37 +0000

6/10, + yeah, I had a chalk thing too. It was used by my depraved music teacher Mr. Moriarity in Elementary school, who used to make the whole class sit quietly on their hands for five minutes if one kid was misbehaving. We used to call him Mr. Fartiarity. Ah, children. :)

By: electronic_mily

electronic_mily — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:28:33 +0000

Adding my voice to the “chalk thing!” vote – there’s been one of those in every music class I’ve been in.

By: Thews

Thews — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:42:07 +0000

that chalk one was the easiest. it was even in an episode of the Simpson’s, Lisa used it to write sentences five times faster when she had detention

By: Tequila

Tequila — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:12:55 +0000

7 out of 10…Quietly inspired

That chalk one was easy. In the catholic school I went to for grade school they still used them. They were less for music though and used to teach proper cursive handwriting.

Came in real handy later in life when nobody would accept anything hand written :D

By: Miss E

Miss E — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:00:29 +0000

I got 9 out of 10 and the one I got wrong was because I didn’t go with my gut.

To the daniel: I remember those staff chalk thingys (my vocabulary skills are amazing)! We used them in elementary school music class. Ah…elementary school that was so long ago.

Now I want a coloring book.

By: the daniel

the daniel — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:46:36 +0000

The top-right gadget is called a "simple tool dating from about 1900", but was definitely in use in my life in the 1990s and is still available today. No need for fancy new technology when the simple old gadgets work just fine.

By: six06

six06 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:10:50 +0000

4 out of 10 – quietly inspired.

bah.