Field guide No. 773
Yellow gloves wring a steel chain
Rinse, wring, rattle.
Two yellow rubber gloves, with no hands in them, wring out a thick steel chain over a sink, and small links drip out like water. The washing up is going badly.
Field noteWringing squeezes water out of cloth. This chain gives up little chains, as if steel were wet.
- Specimen
- No. 773
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A stainless steel sink.
- Nearest existing relative
- Rubber gloves.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
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