What is this?

[da]

I was walking roverthedog and came across this... thing, a block from my house, right at the path that goes to the neighbourhood elementary school.


What is this thing?









[Poll #697578]


Edit: It looks like I've got smart friends (and a friend-of-friends- Hi [Bad username or site: abrichar - @ livejournal.com]!) I was still perplexed about the operation of this thing, so I image-googled. This one made it... quite clear.



Eep!

Thanks, all. (chickenfeet2003: I think I liked it better as a Victorian puzzle. *very amused*)

Comments

[metalana.livejournal.com]

But I wanted to say "a pair of eyelash curlers" because they look and work like scissors (albeit bent 90 degrees). One of the weirdest plurals...

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Weirder than a pair of pants?

...

...a statement which, upon reflection, strikes me as a fairly good epitaph.