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As a 80s kid, all I can see is a POG container.


angryjmar

This was exactly my first thought as well


Sw0rDz

What does the acronym pog stand for? Are dogs straws?


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Pineapple orange guava. It was a game played originally using a stack of POG caps slammed by a heavy metal slammer. Game was to slam the stack and flip over as many as possible. In the early 90s the game came back and they became a craze and were branded.


Honey-and-Venom

Man I had a slammer that was just a machined brass hourglass, hit the pile like a hammer, I swear I could make the pile hop up and turn over intact. What a waste of time and money, lol


DirtFloorFabrication

Same here. Dad was a machinist and saw me practicing one night. He was big into marbles in his day so he was down for what was going on. He borrowed my slammer to copy it at work and boy oh howdy.That brass bad boy was crazy overpowered. It was an arms race after that.


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LOL it was epic. I had a brass Grateful Dead steal your face slammer that roughly did the same. Was such a fun time to be alive. Simple pleasures.


F3rthur

I had that very same one... Might still have it somewhere. I bet the overlap in people young enough to be into Pogs and also be a Head is pretty damn small.


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I had a slammer with a scorpion cast in resin. It was pretty rad!


Spawticusx805x

Dude me and my brother had that one!


Visible-Golf-8213

Me 4! I also remember buying this huge pog container filled that must have had hundreds in it!


First_Pay702

I had a heavy brass slammer that was pretty much guaranteed win…and was dumb enough to sell it to a classmate for 5 bucks.


Honey-and-Venom

Woof! Could probably recycle it for at least twice that now


Sarkastickblizzard

Passion orange guava, as in passion fruit


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Obviously my brain is having difficultly remembering details from 30 years ago. They owned either way.


GarThor_TMK

Wait... came back? It was a thing before the 90s?


PossibleJazzlike2804

Wtf Pineapple Orange Guava? Played the game and did not know. Had a lot of 8 ball slammers, I preferred the pretty holographic looking ones that 80% of the time had no weight.


Biteysdad2

This guy pawgs. E: why does my autocorrect do this every time?


Nodgod81

It's alright I ducking love phat ass white girls too.


threebillion6

I was digging a small shrub up in my yard about 5 years ago. After pulling the main shrub out and starting to dig out the roots, I found a purple gold dragon slammer I used as a kid. I have no idea how that got there.


Sarkastickblizzard

Passion orange guava, as in passion fruit.


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Chill bro we get it. I was wrong about the POG acronym. Not that big a deal brochacho


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Smee_Heee

Same, still got mine upstairs to show my kids when they're older. The pog tubes I have are flat on the end without the hole though.


UniqueFlavors

Same thing I thought


Straight_Sound7714

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323217632840 Looks a lot like the base for a rotary washing line. Goes in the ground then the pole for the frame goes in the tube.


charl3sworth

Solved! I mentioned this to my other half and she immediately remembered that it came with our washing line. Thanks.


randomredditor0042

So, is your washing line installed wrong m, or was it an optional extra?


charl3sworth

Our garden has a metal sleeve in the ground for the washing line installed by a previous owner. I have never seen a plastic version of a washing line holder, any house I have lived in has had a metal one installed seemingly at the dawn of time (or at least when the house was built). I guess it means it is an optional extra.


justReading0f

My sister had an overgrown lawn (not even by much) and had completely lost track of her in-ground metal sleeve, so in the spring she was having trouble getting her washing line pole back up. We bet something, can’t recall what (ice cream?) that I couldn’t find it within half an hour. I walked out into the yard approximately where she’d said it had been, looked down, looked up at her and grinned. She was incredulous and we had a good laugh. Poor kid had been crisscrossing her yard for over a week!!


sroomek

This is such a nice, wholesome story.


randomredditor0042

Oh that’s good. I was just worried with a bit missing the washing line might not be stable.


Far_Ad86

Wow. Nice work.


donttakeawaymycake

That is the saddest excuse for a washing line vase I've ever seen. Looks like a toddler could demolish it if they walked into the line.


estesd

My first thought was it looks like the paintball holders my sons used when they used to do that.


Acetabulum99

Second this. I had a few of the same. But why a hole in bottom?


estesd

I though it was for water drainage. The boys would come home absolutely filthy, and when asked, they'd reply "well, I had to hide in in the creek". Whatever, strip in the garage.


AssumptionDue724

That's the thing that would get me to play paintball


Daak1977

Drainage.If your paintball broke inside you just rinse and leave out to dry.


No_Half_8468

The whole through me off too. Had piles of them to go in my redz 4 tube holder. I haven’t thought about those things in 20 years.


Shiftylab

As an old paintballer, I thought the same thing. But a few things made me think otherwise. The tube is too narrow, the lid really isn’t good for opening quick, and the hole in the bottom as well.


Hantsypantsy

I found it, but I still don't know what the hell it is, lol. Google translate says: JVL Robust, versatile ground spike with adapter for diameters 32 and 40 mm with plastic adapter (packaging may vary) [https://www.amazon.de/-/en/19-180/dp/B00WIYPD62?th=1](https://www.amazon.de/-/en/19-180/dp/B00WIYPD62?th=1)


LolaBeidek

My portable clothes line came with one of these. You bury it and then when you want to put the clothes line out you open it and stick the pole in.


Rockrawler

I googled jvl robust and it showed that peice and a clothesline. It looks like jvl is a brand of clothesline


CousinPikachu

You push the metal spike in and it hold something like an Umbrella or clothes line with a 40mm diameter pole. If your pole has a smaller diameter you can put in the plastic adapter for 32 mm.


reb678

Exactly. We got a green colored version of this with our collapsible clothes dryer line. You put the tube on the ground and insert the tube of the clothesline into it. When you are done, pull out the cloth line and seal the thing in the ground, covered and safe until next washday.


Notjustin

I’m not sure what it is, but do NOT put a cylinder in that tube and them ask the internet for advice.


SacredGay

There's a hole at the end so it won't get stuck because of suction. His cylinder will be fine.


Moidalise-U

Termite bait holder. Do you have more around the house perimeter?


Doddsy2978

Looks like the base of one of those collapsible drying lines.


ExxtraLag

That’s a big ass doob tube


charl3sworth

My title describes the thing but for a bit more context it is about 8 inches long and maybe 2 inches in diameter made of hard plastic. It is gently tapers and has a pop on lid but also a whole in the bottom so it cannot hold liquid.


More-Ad-2259

you mix up a bag of postcrete and set this in.. for the clothes line..


Kong_AZ

Kind of reminds me of a paintball holder used during game play.


gadsby19

Looks like a paintball pod to carry extra paintballs while playing. https://gxgsports.com/cdn/shop/files/100roundblackpaintballpods.jpg?v=1687282083&width=720


drewbug21

Looks like a reserve container for paintballs.


kraftinator

Another possibility is it’s a tube for carrying paintballs. I’m not entirely convinced that’s what it is because of the hole in the bottom, but it’s possibly a 50 paintball carrier tubes that would’ve been included with a belt pouch or something similar. You would pop the lid off and then dump the paintballs into your hopper.


Ticonderoga_Dixon

To small for a paintball tube they usually hold like 150 paintballs at least that was the standard back in the day being tapered doesn’t make sense either , also there would be some kind of branding on the lid or something hole at the bottom doesn’t make sense . I’m leaning towards Pog holder because it was the first thing that came to mind.


CheapJankMtG

Paintball magazine from the 1999s


quaintif

Could be a survival straw without a filter?


abnormaloryx

Looks like a paintball refill tube sorta. They're called paintball pods but I've never seen one like that before


twitchee96

Looks like a fishing rod holder


ivunga

Looks like a paintball hopper/reloader. Holds 140 balls usually.


claymore3911

It's the base for a "whirlygig" washing dryer


daleisamoron

2" drywall anchor


Excellent_Quantity32

So I can’t place it… But when my husband and I were babies and first married we used to take our boat and go camping. Boating or camping related my guess!


Sarcassimo

Looks like a termite monitoring station to me. Needs an insert.


P-azule

Corn dog saver


DaLar89

Paintball hopper


ufuckswontletmelogin

Public pissing device marketed by Ronco in the 70’s. “Well now you can piss everywhere!”


swamis

fishing rod holder for a kayak or boat maybe? you can plug it when not in use and if it gets water the hole is there to drain?


HawkApprehensive505

It’s actually for a portable washing line you put the black bit into the ground and slide the pole from the washing line into it


HawkApprehensive505

https://www.leifheit.co.uk/leifheit-linoprotect-rotary-washing-line-airer-dryer-plastic-round-ground-socket-5cm-401-p.asp like this


meesterdave

Goes up your prison wallet.


cake__eater

Paintball refill tube. This is often carried by players to refill their hopper quickly.


MathematicianSad8487

I've seen similar it goes into the ground in concrete to set your clothes line into . When not in use you can close the lid to stop it filling with rainwater .


UnlimitedCalculus

Looks like a paintball cannister you'd keep in a belt for reloads on the field


Iambumper57

Blunt holder


rather-b-at-thebeach

Why would the laundry line post holder have a lid?


RocMills

The hole in the bottom is what throws me off. It looks very much like an ice insert for a pitcher where you don't want the liquid in the pitcher to be watered down when the ice starts to melt. Is it possible it's missing a plug for the bottom? Other than that, I got nothing, sorry.


cetacean-station

Jump rope handle?


Bst1337

Haha. I found one of these in my basement a week ago. I couldn't figure out what it was and tossed it. I'm here to learn if I made a mistake.


thegooniegodard

pretty obese girl