Grow, grow, grow your boat
October 26, 2015 6:51 AM Subscribe
Pumpkin boats, whether captained by avant-gourd record-smashers or costumed squads of competitive squashbucklers, have sprouted up as part of fall festivals across North America. The splashing pumpkins have been spotted in Tualatin Oregon, Elk Grove California, Salt Lake City Utah, Cooperstown New York, Damariscotta Maine, and Lake Pesaquid in Nova Scotia, home of the Windsor Pumpkin Regatta.
What if sharks get a taste for pumpkin? Could get dicey
posted by greenhornet at 7:09 AM on October 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by greenhornet at 7:09 AM on October 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
wake me up when they run out the twelve-pounders for a broadside
WE SHALL BEAT TO GOURDERS
posted by poffin boffin at 7:27 AM on October 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
WE SHALL BEAT TO GOURDERS
posted by poffin boffin at 7:27 AM on October 26, 2015 [5 favorites]
How Avant-gourd
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 AM on October 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 AM on October 26, 2015 [3 favorites]
"I've always been fascinated by large vegetables." hahahahaha He motored his pumpkin to the Isle of Wight. From Portsmith!
Pumpkin, pumpkin every where
And all the gourds did shrink
Pumpkin, pumpkin every where
And not a squash to eat.
*Tattoos knuckles GROW FAST*
posted by barchan at 7:56 AM on October 26, 2015
Pumpkin, pumpkin every where
And all the gourds did shrink
Pumpkin, pumpkin every where
And not a squash to eat.
*Tattoos knuckles GROW FAST*
posted by barchan at 7:56 AM on October 26, 2015
Yaaaaarrrrr. These gourds be lourd, says I.
I'm sorry.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 8:33 AM on October 26, 2015
I'm sorry.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 8:33 AM on October 26, 2015
This is delightful.
posted by Ham Snadwich at 8:47 AM on October 26, 2015
posted by Ham Snadwich at 8:47 AM on October 26, 2015
It's better than swan boats. (Pumpkins don't bleed, for one thing.)
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 9:10 AM on October 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 9:10 AM on October 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Oh and oulipan, compliments for the tag "lifegourd".
posted by barchan at 9:36 AM on October 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by barchan at 9:36 AM on October 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
oulipan wins all the pun prizes for "squashbucklers", "splashing pumpkins", "growboats" and "lifegourd", leaving little for us other punfully-inclined.
Linus wasted so much time in the pumpkin patch; he should've gone to the lake...
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:33 PM on October 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Linus wasted so much time in the pumpkin patch; he should've gone to the lake...
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:33 PM on October 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
The Elk Grove festival's regatta is held in a pond I'm certain is 94% duck poop. I want to go but even watching the video of the waders + surgical gloves gets me as does the plume they paddle through at ~1:14.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:06 PM on October 26, 2015
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:06 PM on October 26, 2015
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