Comments on: Farmer grows pumpkins with human faces http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618762 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618762 They would be even creepier once carefully carved- eyeballs, nostrils and a thin line between the lips should do the trick. They would be even creepier once carefully carved- eyeballs, nostrils and a thin line between the lips should do the trick.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-619081 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-619081 I saw an old newsreel-type short about a farmer who was doing this on TMC's One Reel Wonders. This farmer made his pumpkins shaped like skulls rather than human heads, though. I was a little disappointed to see that Vegiform site only had lameass elves and stuff and no skulls. I saw an old newsreel-type short about a farmer who was doing this on TMC’s One Reel Wonders. This farmer made his pumpkins shaped like skulls rather than human heads, though. I was a little disappointed to see that Vegiform site only had lameass elves and stuff and no skulls.

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618640 Stefan Jones Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618640 Aha . . . this explains the pajama-soaking nightmare epidemic among Popular Science readers in early 1938. Aha . . . this explains the pajama-soaking nightmare epidemic among Popular Science readers in early 1938.

]]> By: Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618654 Xeni Jardin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618654 I was bracing myself for "human feces" instead of "human faces." I was bracing myself for “human feces” instead of “human faces.”

]]> By: dbarak http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618665 dbarak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618665 Which one is the pumpkin? Which one is the pumpkin?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618921 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618921 I also thought it said "feces." I also thought it said “feces.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618936 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618936 Am I the only one who originally read that as "human feces"? Am I the only one who originally read that as “human feces”?

]]> By: Heartfruit http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618681 Heartfruit Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618681 http://www.vegiforms.com/ sells molds to make your veggies into creepy looking faces. http://www.vegiforms.com/ sells molds to make your veggies into creepy looking faces.

]]> By: johnmcorg http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618684 johnmcorg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618684 This is an outrage! This is an outrage!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-619708 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-619708 mmmmm this isn't about feces at all. while looking at the photo i noticed that the fonzes face is in the bottom left hand corner. mmmmm this isn’t about feces at all. while looking at the photo i noticed that the fonzes face is in the bottom left hand corner.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618685 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618685 How long can it be before we see a dildo tree? How long can it be before we see a dildo tree?

]]> By: dbarak http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618688 dbarak Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618688 .."How long can it be before we see a dildo tree?" Not long... (but really long) http://beautyofnature2009.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/this-s-also-a-tree.jpg ..”How long can it be before we see a dildo tree?”

Not long… (but really long)

http://beautyofnature2009.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/this-s-also-a-tree.jpg

]]> By: Czapek http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618695 Czapek Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618695 I don't know which one has the creepier eyebrows... I don’t know which one has the creepier eyebrows…

]]> By: Snig http://boingboing.net/2009/10/22/farmer-grows-pumpkin.html#comment-618713 Snig Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-618713 If you really want to scar/scare a friend who's passed out drunk, take him and leave him in a field where these are growing. Night would be creepy, but even in the middle of the day, it'd give one the heebies. Would be interesting as a strategy for alcohol cessation. 'Course, every year he might have to leave the country for the whole month of October for somewhere that gourds don't grow. If you really want to scar/scare a friend who’s passed out drunk, take him and leave him in a field where these are growing. Night would be creepy, but even in the middle of the day, it’d give one the heebies. Would be interesting as a strategy for alcohol cessation. ‘Course, every year he might have to leave the country for the whole month of October for somewhere that gourds don’t grow.

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