Friday, October 15, 2004

It's not enough that we carve them up and eat them.

I made a run to the pumpkin patch today to get some precious Snacky Jacks and decorations for Tina's sister's baby shower tomorrow. As I was rubbing mud off the little guys in the wet grass I noticed a strange contraption across the field.

Turns out it is a pumpkin chunker. Our local Grossmans Nursery is having a "Pumpkin Chunkin' Competition. Contestants try their hand at loading a pumpkin into the catapult and attempting to hit a 22-foot long mobile home 250+ feet away." Ooohweee! I wanna try!

It may not be at quite the level of the National Pumpkin Chunkin Competition where you can enter a chunker powered by air, centrifugal, catapult, or human power, but I still want to hurl a helpless ten pound orange gourd across a field to his impending doom... splat. Mwah-hah hah.

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7 comments:

  1. asdfasdfasdfOctober 16, 2004 at 9:49 AM

    ljc, that is pretty darn evil.
    --linus

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  2. asdfasdfasdfOctober 16, 2004 at 9:49 AM

    ljc, that is pretty darn evil.
    --linus

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  3. NicoletteOctober 16, 2004 at 11:36 AM

    Discovery Channel did an hour long show on the Punkin' Chunkin' Comp in lower DE a year or two ago. It was hilarious, if not a tad embarrassing for some of the participants. Think "Best in Show" meets pumpkins...

    Are you gonna chuck some pumpkins at the mobile home? I wonder if you win anything if you hit it, say a year's supply of pumpkins -- in one month. :)

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  4. DrakeOctober 16, 2004 at 3:57 PM

    please share a picture of your pumpkin chunker toss; nothing beats the splat of some pumpkin sucker guts.

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  5. Local EggOctober 17, 2004 at 11:51 AM

    I went to engineering school with a guy who went down to Delaware each year for the nationals. His punkin' chucker was built on the chassis of an old station wagon, and was powered by liquid nitrogen and boiling water. The logical next step from hairspray powered potato guns?

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  6. c mcdOctober 17, 2004 at 9:54 PM

    wanna hear embarrassing? my uncle was one of the fellas that started the punkin chunkin in "slower lower" delaware...yupperoonies. he even missed my wedding because i had the audacity to get married on the first weekend of november! (but i might have "pit" passes this year! that means "backstage" access!)

    oh brother.

    cheryl
    knittlesandbits.net

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  7. AnonymousOctober 20, 2004 at 8:49 PM

    Sprinkle some Worchestershire on the seeds before putting them in the oven. Yummilicious!!

    Alison
    :)

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