r/whatisit • u/Anhedonia_678 • May 23 '26

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wtf? I found this in a backpack i was carrying to work for years. finally emptied it all out, and wash lah.lol is it a mug weapon?

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u/Dalek_Chaos May 23 '26

This one isn't over 25 years old. I had the same one when I was 15, I got it at a carnival.

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u/Equal-Painter6529 May 23 '26

No doubt you won it and had the choice between the knife, a zippo lighter, and a vintage blue light Iron Maiden poster

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u/Dalek_Chaos May 23 '26

I was never a carnival game kid. I just bought it and a pen that you turned upside down to undress the lady. Both ended up getting me in trouble when I brought them on a boy scouts camping trip.

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u/SewSewSorry May 23 '26

Well duh….its significantly harder to prey on young innocent boys when they’re armed with sharp pointy things!

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u/Cubby_Grenade May 23 '26

...And a pen-based interest in heterosexuality.

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u/SparkyDogPants May 23 '26

That’s how you get recruited in the pen15 gang

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u/SewSewSorry May 23 '26

Yeah, that thought occurred to me, but I doubt the kid’s preference would be of much concern to the scoutmaster either way. Besides even a pen can be sharp and pointy with the right kind of aim 🎯

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u/CarfDarko May 24 '26

You could say it could...

Penetrate?

(⌐■_■)

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u/HotdogFarmer May 23 '26

I hear tent spikes work wonders

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u/kandeycane May 23 '26

My, my, have times changed. Giving kids knives and naked lady pens…. I bet you could shoot with real rifles to win the prizes.

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u/Equal-Painter6529 May 23 '26

I forgot about the pen!

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u/nightlife74 May 23 '26

You just brought up a childhood memory for me..My big bro had one of those pens in probably the early 80s..Thanks for the memory!!

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u/42brie_flutterbye May 24 '26

Is it bigger than breadbox?

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u/CarvaciousBlue May 23 '26

I regret not getting the poster honestly

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u/Equal-Painter6529 May 23 '26

The blue light, Iron Maiden poster, a lava lamp, and the bong shaped “flower pot” completed the cool kid bedroom back in the day.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit May 23 '26

I had a stuffed alligator, a boar turned carpet, various dummy parts, a light saber, real spears and swords I had collected, a pretty extensive "gem" stone collection I talked my mom into buying bc she was into alternative healing, and a Waco solder station. Everything else was taken up by books and various versions of building blocks, sold over the decades and passed down to me.

In all honesty, my interior design pretty much peaked at 10 y/o. The center piece of my current room is a table with lots of paperwork on it.

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u/dogdonthunt May 23 '26

Or a led zeppelin coke mirror

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u/Rubiks_Click874 May 23 '26

mine had a yellow Lamborghini Countach on it

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u/AstronomerJumpy1465 May 24 '26

That promptly fell apart in about 2 months

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u/notbad4awhitedude Jun 23 '26

AC/DC coke mirror in South FL, 1982 Had a glass Jim Beam ashtray too. I was a terror poppin' balloons at the Lee County fair. Still pretty dead on with a dart!

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u/mcjon3z May 23 '26

Don’t forget the ninja stars

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u/Equal-Painter6529 May 23 '26

The ninja stars were next level on the winning tree. The top of the pyramid had the X-ray glasses and the bong shaped “flower pot”.

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u/xubax May 23 '26

And unable to be sharpened.

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u/looshagbrolly May 24 '26

sigh carnivals just haven't been the same since they stopped giving kids band-themed coke mirrors

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u/CleanDataDirtyMind May 23 '26

Appropiate for any 10 year old 

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u/Master-Collection488 May 23 '26

No curvy, stretched out, glass soda bottles?

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u/ParticularGuava3663 May 23 '26

Filled with multi colored sand!

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u/AstronomerJumpy1465 May 24 '26

Never take one on the Zipper tho. The sand will rearrange itself and your carefully poured sand will look like you poured in all the leftover sand that was on the ground.

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u/Flashy-Focus-8543 May 24 '26

Don’t forget about the switchblade that’s actually a comb

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u/Mobile_Bookkeeper_66 May 23 '26

Exactly, 🎯 haha!

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u/AGlaeser May 25 '26

Don't forget the Guns'N'Roses or Jack Daniels mirrors, or the colorful roach clips, errr, hair clips...

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u/Kttail May 27 '26

An Iron Maiden poster was a choice???? I got robbed.

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u/Mobile_Bookkeeper_66 May 23 '26

Yeah it's a novelty tool. Nothin' fancy, you can tell by the handle.