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I've never drank too much. Except back in high school, where it was pretty much obligatory. Our group of friends had a real bad experience with wine once. Being young and unsophisticated, we found some bottles of port wine that were kick-ass in the alcohol content department. So we bought that. (At the time, in Texas, the legal drinking age was 18, so still in high school. Not that the legal part would have mattered much.) We did not realize at the time that this port wine was cooking wine.

That was a real disaster of a party out at the lake that day...
 
I would agree. Yours looks like the previous owner sawed off the antlers, so you couldn't set it down. Maybe to make the drinking game go a little faster!

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I noticed these on the buffet.

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I will have to ask The Princess.

Ben
 
OK, I have this thing. Came out of a pile of stuff that was used to maintain communications wires, primarily in manholes.
Any idea what it is?
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I think it is a pavement strain gauge of some kind that they drop into a cutout to record how much pounding/movement the roadway is having.
This would explain it's trapezoid shape (so they can easily lift it back out).
The device inside it is pretty large going by the size of the hole in it that is potted with plastic.
It probably reports the movement of the roadway in all 3 six directions.
I bet it was expensive at one time.
 
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I think it is a pavement strain gauge of some kind that they drop into a cutout to record how much pounding/movement the roadway is having.
This would explain it's trapezoid shape (so they can easily lift it back out).
The device inside it is pretty large going by the size of the hole in it that is potted with plastic.
It probably reports the movement of the roadway in all 3 directions.
I bet it was expensive at one time.
Good try but Amish heart is probably right, DOORSTOP! It's kinda obvious!! Lol!
 
The thing I posted has just one wire.
I don't know what it is myself so I can't say who the winner is.
I have 4 of them and they're now tire chocks for when we pull in the garages.
They didn't come out of a missile silo did they?

Try cutting a section of the wire and see if you can light it.

Ben
 

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