What In The World Could It BE?!!--"He Got It Right" ~ The Big Reveal To A Simple Guessing Game ~ Original Photograph of Original Find and Short Discussion of Said Find ~

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Original Post

What In The World Could It BE?!! ~ A Simple Guessing Game To Win One SBD

What In The World Is It?

I can't tell you that. OK, NOW I can. I've received some pretty creative guesses as to what these little circular things might be. And lo and behold....@ocrdu GUESSED IT!! Congratulations @ocrdu, you've won one (1) SBD for coming up with the correct answer.

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How This This Small Guessing Game Came About

Walking across a local church parking lot on Wednesday, I discovered a bunch of odd discs and small squares scattered all OVER the place. They were everywhere in the center of the lot, surrounded by obvious burn marks in the asphalt and some odd residue. What in the world went on here last night? Upon closer look, the discs were made of cardboard, and had a small hole poked in the center of each one.

My first, and most obvious thought: Some sort of Alien activity went on in this parking lot last night. Possibly listening devices that got dumped accidentally, in larger numbers than intended when their space conveyance made a hard landing. The burned stuff is leftover exhaust residue from a saucer engine in dire need of a tune-up.

Or, more likely: There was a very brief, very violent ray-gun battle in the lot over parking space, or some other such new-visitor disagreement. These little cardboard discs and all the burned stuff must be the resulting weapon residue. Much like burned cordite and spent shell casings, or 'wads' from muzzle-loader ray weapons, like the older days here on Earth. This whole situation cried out for more deep sleuthing.

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What I Found

A Real Parking Lot Mess

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Space Mayhem Residue-Let's Collect All These Discs...They Gotta Be Good For SOMETHING

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This Is Looking Less And Less Like Space-Based Activities

Someone ran over the mess, and spread it all around. Maybe that's how they put out the burning spots. Seems like you might start your car on fire doing this sort of extinguishment. Time for more investigation.

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"Please Report Anything Suspicious to SOMEBODY "

Further away, over in the bushes, I discovered a large box. It was burned pretty badly, and looked to be homemade, taped together with electrical tape. With lots of long tubes. Hmmm, next thought: "What IS this thing? Closer perusal led to more discovery...

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Ah HAAAAh, Some Sort Of Pyrotechnic Device

So THAT'S what this big mess is all about. My training in forestry work suggested leaving it alone, as it might blow me up. But on closer look, the box looked pretty 'spent'. Though I didn't mess with it. It still looked homemade. And the little discs appear to fit in the ends of the tubes, which suggests store-bought. Who has time to hand or machine mill all those discs, just to blow them up or burn them? Another 'ping in the brain' moment arrived:

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The Final Answer To Our "What In The World It Could Be" Question

New Year's Recognition Detritus

_{Taken from an earlier moment in time on the bike path -July 4, 2018}

Someone was out celebrating the New Year, and this was their DIY way to do it. Though I think this thing was purchased, and just LOOKS kind of homemade, after blowing itself up and burning out the night before. FIREWORKS - that's what the little discs are for. They fit into the tubes and blow out, once it's time for the big show.

Congratulations once more to @ocrdu for getting the answer right. It was a hard one, for sure. The whopping one (1) SBD will be on it's way soon.

Thanks to everyone for playing, it was fun, and you all had such great ideas. My second thought when I found them (after the Alien thing), was on the sanding discs and hole-saw guesses as well. Lots of other great ideas sprang forth too. Clock parts, washers from sinks and such, and I liked the fishing pole repair suggestion, though I'm not a fisherperson-so didn't think of that. There was even a shower curtain guess. How creative is that? They were ALL great ideas everyone put forth.

Thanks for participating in the game. Here's all the folks that played along, and suggested what in the world these things might be: @blacklux, @digitalis, @doctorcrypto, @jschindler, @kimberlylane, @koskl, and @ocrdu.

Onward, to more contests in the future. Just as soon as I can find oddly-weird things in parking lots and creeks and fields and such. Have a most wonderful Saturday in Steemitville, and a Happy New Year.

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Thanks for stopping in and viewing my very first What In The World Could It Be? challenge. If you have any thoughts about guessing games on Steemit, any new ideas on how to run a contest (first of this sort), other guessing games on the Internet, potential leftover Alien parking lot messes, or anything else this post reminds you of, please feel free to comment away in the spaces below. I'd love to hear from you.

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_{Posted: 01/5/2019 @ 12:42}

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Excerpts From Late-Night Conversations With A Mechanical Cat

Fact Number 111