The Irish started it.They used to use turnips and swedes and shit until they went to America and discovered pumpkins and found they were so much easier to carve.
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Bob Todd whee,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:32,
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Fucking Manx and their Hop to fucking Naa!
Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:35,
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