# Identify this Whatsit **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 3, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790 "2018-01-03T11:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/161 "2018-01-17T16:10:33Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Okay, it finally does show up in the “bamboo disk” search here–but nothing close to the first page–it is 68 rows down for me, or around the 340th image. That could have been a result of Google tuning my search results based on previous failed searches for this object - I had been searching for things like ‘bamboo towel hook’ just before I hit the right term ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/162 "2018-01-17T16:38:04Z")
By “all over the place”, I don’t mean just on this board; I mean pretty much anywhere on the Internet that I see ads. They’ve never gotten annoying enough (at least, on any sites I particularly care about) to bother with an adblocker, but they’re sometimes weird. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/163 "2018-01-18T19:59:18Z")
I’d buy some as coasters. I don’t accidentally knock over glasses often enough, so the “handle” part would make a convenient booby trap. ---
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/164 "2018-01-19T00:45:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So, is anyone else now getting ads for this thing all over the place? Here! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/165 "2018-01-19T01:33:14Z")
> [@curious11](#): > > Here! I looked at a cute scantily clad young woman in a Target ad, and they hit me every day. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/166 "2018-01-19T03:31:14Z")
Lots of people would like to get hit by cute scantily clad young women every day. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/167 "2018-01-19T07:57:18Z")
Crap! All I ever get is Home depot ads. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790/168 "2018-01-19T11:47:31Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Crap! All I ever get is Home depot ads. Do you want cute scantily clad young women? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-whatsit/805790.md?page=8)