Mystery Object Identification

[mjclark]

Anyone know what this is?


I found it on the beach- the white edging is rubber and the stuff inside is like a very compacted black powder...
...No-one I've shown it to has any idea although someone thought it might be part of a battery

[shmuppyLove]

What does it taste like?

[mjclark]

Actually the guy who thought it was a battery-part tasted it but couldn't taste anything (it's been in the sea for a bit eh?).
I also scraped a bit of it and burnt it but there was nothing particularly distinctive about the smoke either...

[Observer]

Mysterious epic gunpowder for our pirate ships?

Now that's something strange. It kind of looks like those silicon/rubber things put on glasses. The sea surely is strange, eh?

[Daigohji]

It's probably drugs that an Armenian sailor was smuggling up his ass, wrapped in a broken condom. He had to shit it over the side of the ship when the police searched it.

How did it taste again?

[maxlords]

You should totally put it in a spoon, hold a lighter under it until it liquefies, then inject it into your bloodstream with a hypodermic needle...

[Moniker]

What is that next to it, a coin? For a second I thought it might be a tin of Copenhagen snuff or something. Fine cut. Don't know what's up with the container though.

Try putting a pinch of it between your bottom lip and gums and see if you get a nice buzz going.

[stryc9]

Ah, not one of those things again. I've got like ten of them sitting round my house as we speak. They've brought me no end of trouble but unfortunately I just can't seem to get rid of them

[Herr Schatten]

It's probably an ancient artifact that's inevitable going to cause horrible things to happen. After all, there must be some truth to the those thousands of horror flicks.

[Drum]

It's an anusite. At night it crawls around in search of a warm, moist place to deposit eggs - typically an anus. If you handled it during the day it will use that scent to directly track your anus and turn it into a factory for its larvae.

[JBC]

Could it be a scrub brush that's bristles have rotted off?

[mesh control]

[Obiwanshinobi]

An OOPArt, eh? Does it get inside the ship from different routes and destroy the core at each end?

[CMoon]

Have you guys figured out what that goddamn thing is yet?

I vote it is too small to be a scrub brush. Can we get more photos from other angles?

Have you tried listing it on ebay as a mystery object yet?

[Paradigm]

It's a pound coin mate.

We all know mjclark's never used one