Friday, February 17, 2012

Fw: Re: [MC74 and Friends] POINTY



Hello

Here is my 2nd entry for POINTY, taken in a Museum in Germany
Guess what are the instruments on the left are for???
Cheers
Caro




14 comments:

  1. Hi Caro,
    Thanks for your great entries from the Huntington Library and the Museum in Germany . They are undeniably pointy and so interesting. The ones on the left look like syringes.
    MC

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  2. Thanks for these very interesting pointy things Caro.
    I am guessing the things on the left are for cooking? :-)

    BT

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  3. Hi BT

    hahaha, sorry very wrong answer, it's not for cooking ==>> eating hence through the mouth, it's for the other end of the anatomy!

    Caro

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  4. Hi EmCi
    Yes they look like giant syringes, but are a kind of huge laxative enemas...
    Caro

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  5. Hello Bao Tram

    As witty, and funny the question was,
    the instantaneous reaction was even better, simply hilarious ;-)

    Thanks for lighting up the forum, on a quiet Friday night,
    when "Linsanity", the perfect storm, cooled down somewhat,
    with the New York Knicks losing tonight, after a hot streak and 7 consecutive wins
    Quang

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  6. HL,

    Isn't it funny that MC came closest to the answer, while BT, you and I too all guessed pastry-related gadgets? Also interesting that there's such variety in sizes. From now on, whenever I say to myself (in a totally uncharitable lapsed-Buddhist moment), "he's an even bigger a-hole than I thought," there's Exhibit A from a museum in Germany to back that up!
    M-U

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  7. Hey Caro,

    What's with the different sizes? :-)

    BT

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  8. Hi BT and HL

    Although I really don't want to visualize the procedure, I would assume that the size would depend on how severe the symptoms were, here's some add'l information that I googled....

    Caro

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  9. Hi HI Hi , M.U. OI , NOW IT ' S MY TURN TO LAUGH OUT LOUD ! I ' M TRYING TO GET YOUR UNCHARITABLE LAPSED- BUDDHIST MOMENT ! Hi hI HOW MC CAN COME SO CLOSE TO THE ANSWER ? BIZZZ
    HL

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  10. HL and little sis
    How I came so close?
    1) I am not a gourmet cook so have no idea what cooking instruments other than basic pot and pans, spatulas and chopsticks, look like
    2) my simple mind usually just goes for the obvious, hi hi. I thought the instruments look so similar to syringes, so made a wild guess that they are syringes.
    Have a wonderful Sunday
    Mc

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  11. EmCi,
    My theory was that, having run into enough [ahem], you kinda suspected what these instruments were for, but you were way too well brought up to say that to Caro. :-P
    M-U

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