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lots of non-computery people like it though. It's supposed to be tacky, I think.....

Just triangle eyes and nose and a smiley mouth. :D

then just visit your local dollar store and get some nice not-so-dangerous-to-kids tools and let rip

I've seen pumpkin carving "kits" in stores before. Seems like they had patterns for different faces and kid safe plastic knives and saws. Never tried one, though.

I've never heard of this place, but it looks cool.

@ Tulip draw the face on first to see if you like it.

Got pumpkins for my kids last night. They'll sit on the porch -hopefully unmolested by squirrels- until nearer the night, though. Otherwise they'll be horiid/gone by Halloween. They were on sale and I'm fed up of waiting until when I think it's the appropriate time to buy them (a couple of days in advance) and there being just the "character" pumpkins left.....

it is. It's a small bi-level in the middle of a sixties neighborhood less than 5 minutes walk from my house, so you're definitely forgiven for not having heard of it! I just find it so cool that this is right in the middle of a neighborhood and done for fun. He starts setting it up at the end of August.

Flash sites suck. Whoever thought they were the next best thing are sadly mistaken. Flash sites suck.

I usually carve my pumpkins the day of Halloween, set it outside until around 8:30 when we stop giving out candy. Then I cut it up and put it in the fridge. Then next day I can cook it up and use it for cookies, muffins, pies and stewed veg. Once its to that stage, I can freeze it to use later. We have never gotten sick cutting it up around 3-4 and leaving it outside in the cool/cold for 4-5 hours...

I wanna! I wanna!
I'm going to buy a pumpkin kit (stencils and tools - haven't seen a stencil only kit here but they're £1.99 so I'll forgo my monthly McDonalds breakfast) and pumpkin. I'll have an afternoon's pleasure carving it... or get Dads to do it and have an afternoon's pleasure watching him and reliving my childhood.

And If'n I'm allowed, I'll put it out the front. And if not I'll (grudgingly) offer it to my niece & nephew. In the hopes they refuse it and I can have it in our kitchen all night! Yay!

When we were younger - and poor, as I've said countless times - Dads carved out a grapefruit for us instead. Not that we usually had grapefruit, but it was smaller, cheaper and more obviously edible tham pumpkin. We carried it round on a saucer and were the envy of the neighbourhood. Simpler times.

Don't fret, Sundae. I've heard that the first jack o'lanterns were carved out of turnips. Get yerself a turnip! :)

Voila!

The first Jack-o-Lanterns were made in Ireland out of hollowed-out turnips. A piece of coal was inserted into the hollow and the "lantern" was meant to guide the way of poor old Jack who wasn't welcome in Heaven but was also barred from entering Hell for tricking the devil. According to legend, the devil gave this crude lamp to Jack so that he could walk the earth forever in limbo. When the Irish brought this tradition to America, they apparently decided that pumpkins were much easier to carve than turnips, and the modern-day Jack-o-Lantern was born!

Baldrick

Baldrick o' Lantern?

we used turnips when we were kids. Pumpkins just weren't around in the UK then. and hell, yeah they are so much easier to carve. Just before we left the UK there were pumpking at hallowen, but they were the pie pumpkins which are still a lot of hard work. Give me the huge hollow ones! (Pumpkin is not edible imo)

Pumpkin that's good to eat doesn't look like pumpkins that you carve.

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