Warning : May contain more than your daily recommended allowance of randomness
It’s time for this week’s caption contest, and since Halloween is approaching, here’s a photo featuring someone in a costume. I’m not sure who it is, but it’s a caricature, and the person is standing on his bed, which is in the ocean for some reason. So, like always, you get to explain what’s going on here.
(To see the other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)
It may be a little too early to think of my Halloween costume for 2012, but I thought of it anyway. :) Since 2012 is supposedly the end of the world, for Halloween I’m going to have my hair all messed up, not shave for a few days previous, and wear a giant sign that says “THE END IS NEAR!” It’ll be like one of those old-school doomsday prophets.
You could also do this at work on a Monday.
Obviously this picture doesn’t quite do it justice, but it’s close enough…
Once again it’s the Halloween season. Well, not really a season, because it’s just one day of trick-or-treat, but I suppose some folks do lots of decorating for it. It seems like the “spooky” decorating is becoming more rampant each year. But I digress…
Are you going to go to the most sincere pumpkin patch to wait for the Great Pumpkin? Each Halloween night, he rises out of the pumpkin patch to scare little children, er, I mean, to give them candy and presents. That’s what I hear anyway. I haven’t ever been to one of those sincere pumpkin patches. Maybe I’m not sensitive enough to know if one is sincere. Whatever… Let’s get to the point of this story… I’m digressing again…
One Halloween holiday tradition I’m trying to get started is putting a flaming pumpkin of poop on someone’s front porch. I mentioned this a while back, but it has yet to catch on for some reason. I know, creating a jack-o-lantern out of poop is not ideal, so here’s an update (consider it version 2.0). Take a standard jack o’lantern (however you want to spell it), and cover it with poop. Take it to a friend’s porch. Then you set it on fire. It’s a guaranteed good time!
Some of the staff here voted and nominated Mango-Man’s house as the first place to try out this new Halloween decoration. I’m sure it’ll draw trick-or-treaters to his house, with all the bright fire on his pumpkin. He’ll have to let us know how it turns out. 🙂
Now that Halloween is over, I’m sure you are all wondering the same thing — what am I to do with all my leftover pumpkins? Well, after extensive research* on pumpkin uses I found just the answer to this age-old question of the leftover pumpkin conundrum. I hereby introduce you to the “World Championship Punkin’ Chunkin’ Contest” (more info here) held each year in Millsboro, Delaware. This year it will be on Nov 2, 3 and 4. Teams will travel from far and wide to see just how far a pumpkin can be chunked or who can chunk one with the most accuracy. Each team brings their own launching device, whether a catapult or a trebuchet or something original. In fact a world record was set back in 2003 when a pumpkin was launched an astonishing 4,434 feet.
“How did this all come about?” you might ask. Well, here is a snippet from an interview with one of the Punkin’ Chunkin’ founders :
“It all started back in 1986,” said Ellsworth. “We were playing around one day and somebody started talking about throwing pumpkins. There had been an article in a newspaper or on television about some people throwing pumpkins at Salisbury State. A physics class or something. One of us said that they could throw further than someone else… The longest shot that year … was 126′.”
*no “real” research was done. I was surfing the web and stumbled across the site. (The website also has pictures of the various devices used, and there’s some videos in the 2004 gallery.)
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