The Great Pumpkin Hoax

[Wabbit]

And my pocket watch! Tis a sad day

 

[novella]

Ah, but Guy Fawkes Day has a nice subversive political theme that I find appealing. I can even see the attraction of All Hallow's Eve--ghouls and ghosts and fancy dress parties. It's the glorification of winter squash that I don't get.

 

[Motokid]

It's the glorification of winter squash that I don't get.

It's the kids....they love the carving and the squishy guts...and the candles lit from the inside....all the cool ways to use the stems for noses.....it's an artistic outlet of the gourdy kind....

 

[lies]

We don't celebrate Halloween... though there are a few Halloween parties (just another reason to get drunk I guess).

My mother makes pumpkin soup in autumn though... She just buys the pumpkin (one is usually enough) from the farmer down the road.

 

[mehastings]

It's the glorification of winter squash that I don't get.

It comes from the fact that we're too lazy to carve turnips like our ancestors did. So we found something easier, pumpkins. Or, in real twenty-first century style, fake carving pumpkins from the craft store.

 

[Motokid]

It comes from the fact that we're too lazy to carve turnips like our ancestors did. So we found something easier, pumpkins. Or, in real twenty-first century style, fake carving pumpkins from the craft store.

Do they have fake slimey guts that make the kids giggle when they reach in to clean them out?

 

[mehastings]

Do they have fake slimey guts that make the kids giggle when they reach in to clean them out?

Nope. They are somewhere between styrofoam and plastic. The walls are tops 1/2" thick, and the pumpkin itself is totally hollow. You can easily carve pumpkin masterpieces from Martha Stewart's magazine into them, but I have to wonder who (other than Martha) would really want to.

 

[abecedarian]

Nope. They are somewhere between styrofoam and plastic. The walls are tops 1/2" thick, and the pumpkin itself is totally hollow. You can easily carve pumpkin masterpieces from Martha Stewart's magazine into them, but I have to wonder who (other than Martha) would really want to.

Yeah, and who's going to tell their kids to emulate Martha Stewart these days??? "Look kids, she carved such lovely pumpkins with just her dull plastic, prison issue butter knife!"

 

[Motokid]

Yeah, and who's going to tell their kids to emulate Martha Stewart these days??? "Look kids, she carved such lovely pumpkins with just her dull plastic, prison issue butter knife!"

Martha's out of prison now and doing just fine on her own TV show.

And that's assuming you think she did anything wrong in the first place, or was just railroaded into prison for a "crime" most male corporate giants would never have even gone to trial for.....

What exactly was she charged with?

 

[abecedarian]

oh, I was just making fun of the "let's copy Martha" theme.. I've never thought she was so bad, just annoying to anyone without a crew of people behind the scenes to make sure everything else gets done while mom spends the day creating intricate pumpkin carvings..

I thought her ankle cuff was a bit much..

 

[StillILearn]

The silence you are hearing is that of a woman who actually purchased a pumpkin that she could plug in.

 

[novella]

I thought they were illegal in California. Is it organic? Does it smoke? I'm telling.

 

[abecedarian]

The silence you are hearing is that of a woman who actually purchased a pumpkin that she could plug in.

But just think, The next time you have to have a White Elephant gift, you're all set

 

[StillILearn]

It's actually made of this twisty blown-glass kind of stuff, and if I catch it trying to smoke I'll pull the plug on it.

It knows this and is scared.

 

[abecedarian]

It's actually made of this twisty blown-glass kind of stuff, and if I catch it trying to smoke I'll pull the plug on it.

It knows this and is scared.

You mean you don't quote the surgeon general on the dangers of smoking?? I would think cancer of the electrical elements would be scary enough..

 

[mehastings]

It's actually made of this twisty blown-glass kind of stuff.

That sounds a lot nicer than what I was talking about. If I saw a pumpkin made of blown glass, I would probably buy it too.

 

[SFG75]

Halloween is a family tradition with us. We visit a family farm where one of their children own's a pumpkin patch business. We buy the scented candles, a few gourds, as well as let the kids pick out their favorite pumpkins. We take them home and as Moto pointed out, have fun digging through to the bottom and decorating them. Not only that, but I get free disposable service as the seniors take the pumpkins from the porches after halloween night and smash them all over town.