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# it's that time of year again when, for some reason, Americans come and look at my pumpkin stencil
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 9:35, archived)
# i done my pumpkin this weekend
but i went for the traditional scary face
rather than that modern scary face
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 9:37, archived)
# of all the things i accomplished this weekend
unfortunately pumpkin carving wasn't one. i might buy some turnips on the way home for that 'slightly too poor to do it properly' effect
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 9:50, archived)
# use a melon
easier to hollow out than a turnip
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 10:05, archived)
# that's a good idea that
halloween watermelon carving, i can see it now. come global warming and we're living in a tropical paradise it might catch on.
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 10:10, archived)
# That is doing it properly.
It's a tradition that came over here from Ireland and was originally turnips. Emigrants took it over to the colonies and, as there weren't any turnips, adapted it to pumpkins instead.

So doing it with a turnip is authentically retro.
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 10:05, archived)
# but bloody difficult
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 10:07, archived)
# well, i've learnt something there
(, Mon 30 Oct 2006, 10:16, archived)