Comments on: Small mystery widget competition without prizes

By: Barabus

Barabus — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:10:55 +0000

It attaches to a Pastors bike with the right hand set of lock nuts. Then by screwing down the cap nut it forces a drop of Holy Water out of the thin tube on the left. This allows a small amount of Holy Water to last through the many late night/early morning baptisms, etc., that a Pastor frequently is called on to do. Dave is happy because he won’t have to use spit any more.

By: John Simmons

John Simmons — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:59:59 +0000

It’s a hanging participle, clearly.

Using a little modification, it also enables you to quickly and easily split an infinitive

By: Spud

Spud — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:16:18 +0000

it’s a deep drawn dingle arm. as any fule kno..

By: Sam P

Sam P — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:24:02 +0000

Nice floor

By: Chris Clark

Chris Clark — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:21:41 +0000

As the size of the photograph will depend on the size of the screen for thos webbooks it is for attaching very tiny parts to something not quite so small or ….for those looking at in church on large projected image ….it holds the shuttles main thruster on to the shuttle itself. Not bad for £1.49 although I fancy the postage would have been significant.

By: Karen C.

Karen C. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:06:46 +0000

I think it is for adjusting skates, inline or the usual four wheel kind. I have a pair of old metal sidewalk skates. So I say it is a skate adjuster IF i made it on time to answer.

By: Sarah B

Sarah B — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:22:29 +0000

I think Russ was on the right lines – it attaches to your drawing board but I think it attaches to the harness of the small church elf that does your cartoons – has he been using the pencil sharpener to try and escape again???

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:09:48 +0000

Apologies for the garbled English in that previous post. Should be “allows you to quickly sharpen …” and “a handy thing for placing in …”

As you have all no doubt spotted.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:08:17 +0000

Three suggestions:

1 A screw-on thingummybob for your drawing board, that allows you quickly sharpen your pencil by rubbing it against the patterned end

2 A handy thing for place in a convenient corner at church for looping over all the discarded palm crosses we’ll be seeing in a few weeks’ time

3 A movable prong for Dave to hang his Magical Inspiration Hat on. For when he doesn’t need it.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:25:29 +0000

Hey, I had a Sturmley Archer 3-speed gear shift on my very first two-wheeler, which was a type of bike we called an “English Racer” even though mine was made in Holland. It never worked quite right after I left the bike out in the rain. (But all these years I thought it was “Sturmey”).