# What's this metal thing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-metal-thing/430139>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 15, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-metal-thing/430139 "2007-12-15T22:16:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-metal-thing/430139/21 "2007-12-17T07:42:48Z")

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[QUOTE=A Monkey With a Gun]  
and hey… you got a freebie. 😃  
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Now all you’ve got to do take up golf. 😛

**A Monkey With a Gun** Do you know Bob Rice? :eek:

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**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-metal-thing/430139/22 "2007-12-17T15:46:41Z")

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[QUOTE=BoBettie]  
Some brand of board shorts my husband bought had a plastic version of the same thing with them. Very bizzare.  
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The plastic version sold with board shorts is a “wax comb” for scratching the wax that you’ve applied to the surface of your surf board. It gives you a rougher surface to adhere to when you’re riding waves. There’s usually a bottle opener and a little prong on the other end, which is actually an allen wrench which is used to tighten the skegs on your board.

But I agree, this is definitely a divot tool.

- SS

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-metal-thing/430139/23 "2007-12-17T15:59:35Z")

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Did you get the jeans from a large department store, like Macy’s or Sears? Perhaps, someone picked up a divot tool, and deciding against buying it, just slipped in into a random pocket on a pair of jeans as they were walking through.

Or, in some weird way, it was part of a plan to shoplift the tool? Like slip it in the pocket, buy the jeans for herself, and BINGO, a gift for her boyfriend.

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