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[Becks] Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:43:20 AM 
LOL I was using 'you' in a general context LOL
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[Vaillant 3.0] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:56:34 AM 
To get this thread back on track, here are a few pumpkin facts from this website: www.pumpkin-patch.com/facts.html

  • Pumpkins contain potassium and Vitamin A.

  • Pumpkin flowers are edible.

  • The largest pumpkin pie ever made was over five feet in diameter and weighed over 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen eggs and took six hours to bake.

  • In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.

  • Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites.

  • The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds.

  • The Connecticut field variety is the traditional American pumpkin.

  • Pumpkins are 90 percent water.

  • Eighty percent of the pumpkin supply in the United States is available in October.

  • Native Americans flattened strips of pumpkins, dried them and made mats.

  • Native Americans called pumpkins "isqoutm squash."

  • Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for food and medicine.

[hellrider 31038] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:38:20 AM 
where did you get the idea i saw green pumkins  at the store.lol
  [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:24:07 AM)
[Vaillant 3.0] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:31:20 AM 
Are they imported? Maybe whoever ships them overseas thought they'd get orange by the time they reach NZ.
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[hellrider 31038] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:28:19 AM 
hmmmmmmmmmmm again very interesting
  [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:24:07 AM)
[Becks] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:27:30 AM 
To be honest, we hardly ever see big orange pumpkins like what you guys get! LOL! Random!
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[Vaillant 3.0] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:26:43 AM 
Nice!!
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[Becks] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:24:07 AM 
Hellrider - yep, the green pumpkins you see at the grocery store here are typically smaller than your average pumpkin LOL!
Vail - green pumpkins we get look a bit like this, often with patches of orange.

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[hellrider 31038] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:22:51 AM 
you ever menchen that S word again

YOU,VE GOT ANOTHER THING COMIN VAILLANT.lol.i think i would rather drop it off a building.lol
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[Vaillant 3.0] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:21:35 AM 
You get green pumpkins in NZ?? Man! I've never seen a green pumpkin before. Maybe green squash, but not a green pumpkin!
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[hellrider 31038] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:17:45 AM 
hhhmmmmmmmmmmm very interesting Becks..they must be the size of the one i grew a little bigger than half the size of a normal pumkin.lol.
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[Vaillant 3.0] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:14:40 AM 
You should find and carve a white Jack-O-Lantern in December and you can have Halloween on Christmas!! It'll at least match the snow that you guys get overthere.
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[Becks] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:12:31 AM 
Really? We get them all the time here. As well as green pumpkins LOL!
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[hellrider 31038] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:10:52 AM 
first time the heeeeelllllllllrrrrrriiiiiidddddeeeeerrrrrr has ever seen a white pumkin.
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[Vaillant 3.0] Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:06:56 AM 
Check it out!! It's not as widely used as the orange one for Halloween, so it's only present in a small amount of pumpkin patches.


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[hellrider 31038] Friday, October 09, 2009 11:57:05 PM 
never even knew they exsisted.lol
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[Vaillant 3.0] Friday, October 09, 2009 11:55:04 PM 
Yeah. It probably just needed more time to grow and turn orange. Would have been a cool sight to see, though.

The white pumpkins are cool, too. Have you seen those suckers?
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[hellrider 31038] Friday, October 09, 2009 11:46:20 PM 
hey Vaillant yeah i dont think it was ripe yet.it was a little bit bigger than half the size of a normal pumpkin.yeah i remember doing something with it .i think i made a jack-o-lantern with it cant remember for  sure going back more than 20 years ago lol.all i remember for sure is it was green on halloween.i guess you need to plant them at a certain time for them to be ripe for halloween.
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[Vaillant 3.0] Friday, October 09, 2009 10:58:11 PM 
That's pretty odd. Maybe it wasn't ripe when you picked it out from the garden.

Did you make it into a Jack-o-Lantern?
  [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by hellrider 31038 from Friday, October 09, 2009 6:52:25 PM)
[hellrider 31038] Friday, October 09, 2009 6:52:25 PM 

many years ago back in the 80,s i grew my own pumpkin and on halloween it was green.

[guidogodoy] Monday, October 05, 2009 5:25:28 PM 
Hey, it is 20 years later for me and I am still waiting for that sense of appreciation! LOL!

Maybe I am a late bloomer. I honestly still wake up sometimes with the nightmare that I had an assignment due, they called back my degree because I forgot to take this class, etc. Won't claim it wasn't a PAR-TAY, though. Miss going to Big 10 football games!!!!!
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[SDBinNY] Monday, October 05, 2009 5:18:49 PM 
School only sucks while you are in it.... 20 years later you will appreciate how simple your life really was and long for that stability again.....
[hellrider 31038] Monday, October 05, 2009 4:49:10 PM 
if you have a web cam it is a good idea to have it facing the wall.THAT is unless you dont mind being watched by some complete stranger.lol.we had a incident here a while back and just passing along my leaning experience
[hellrider 31038] Sunday, October 04, 2009 11:53:54 PM 
i can not wait to hear the new  HALFORD HEAVY MEEETTT   TTTAAALLL        AND the next PRIEST ALBUM.HELL YEAH  WITH MY STUDDED WRISTBAND ON AND FIST IN THE AIR
[Vaillant 3.0] Sunday, October 04, 2009 6:36:30 PM 
Uvula means "little grape" in Latin.
[hellrider 31038] Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:52:14 PM 
BACKSTABBING IS FOR THE WEAK 
[hellrider 31038] Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:36:36 AM 
THIS IS DEFINATLY SOME SERIOUS HEAVY MEEETTT TTTAAALLLL CRANK IT UP LOUDER THAN HELL.AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT A TOTAL RUSH OF POWER
[kiamat] Sunday, August 16, 2009 8:30:29 AM 
Indeed. Whatever they tell you about 'You'll miss it when you've left' isn't true- I have yet to miss it and I liked school. Some of the time.
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[Coyote Bongwater] Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:51:59 PM 
today me and a friend went up to guitar center and we started rockin out, we'd play songs based on the guitar we were using, i got a flying v and started playing breakin the law , he got a gibson and started playin electric funeral, by the end i got another b.c. rich and started playin south of heaven :)
[Coyote Bongwater] Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:49:34 PM 

school sucks


no wait that's an understatement




Edited at: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:50:17 PM
[hellrider 31038] Sunday, August 09, 2009 8:40:33 PM 
lol..yeah sounds like you had a real blast.lol.did you get some nice fake bushy eye brows to wear untill yours grew back .remindes me the time working the garage heating up a pipe red hot to bend it with the torch some how i ended up getting my lips on it lol.
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[ron h] Sunday, August 09, 2009 12:37:49 PM 
Like Head Banger said, only took a couple of weeks and he hasn't made the same mistake since!!!
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[Head banger] Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:47:25 AM 
took almost that long to get rid of the smell of burnt hair.  burned about the first inch of the front of my head.  what fun.
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[hellrider 31038] Sunday, August 09, 2009 12:57:26 AM 
only 2 weeks .you must have been relieved when you got them back.lol
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[hellrider 31038] Sunday, August 09, 2009 12:52:08 AM 
  lol.thats hilarious.lol.how long it it take for them to grow back                               [           Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by ron h from Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:51:20 PM)
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[ron h] Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:51:20 PM 
Well, what was creepy about my brothers situation was that he took an eyebrow pencil and drew eyebrows, but they had these huge arches to 'em, which made him look wide awake...it was funny and creepy at the same time   [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by hellrider 31038 from Saturday, August 08, 2009 7:34:17 PM)
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[Head banger] Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:46:31 PM 
takes about 2 weeks.  I burned mine off as a youngling with a home made flash bomb.
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[hellrider 31038] Saturday, August 08, 2009 7:34:17 PM 
i believe it still is a good idea to keep your eyebrows in mind.shi? happens then what do you do.hell i dont even know if eyebrows grow back or if they do how long it takes.lol.it would suck having to wear fake bushy eyebrows for a couple years.lol
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[J.D. DIAMOND] Saturday, August 08, 2009 3:44:59 AM 
LOL!  I shave my entire head twice a week......I am totally "BALD" and I don't have any hair anywhere near my eyebrows!! lol!
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[hellrider 31038] Friday, August 07, 2009 6:05:13 PM 
lol.yeah ron it is very easy to to. i sware i nicked mine last year .lol.after that i keep them in mind all the time.
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[hellrider 31038] Friday, August 07, 2009 5:49:20 PM 
lol.i was dead serious to my friend.just passing on my learning experience to others
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[ron h] Friday, August 07, 2009 4:06:20 PM 
My youngest brother accidentally shaved his eyebrows off (well, actually one, so he had to shave the other to match!!) and he was so funny/creepy to look at...reminded me of Uncle Fester
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[guidogodoy] Friday, August 07, 2009 2:16:48 PM 
HAAAAAAA!!!!! I remember that previous conversation!
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[hellrider 31038] Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:23:46 PM 
when shaving your head it is very easy to accidentally shave off your eyebrows or part of them lol.allways keep them in mind when shaving your head.
[ron h] Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:09:56 AM 

Heavy metal gamers break air guitar record

Buzz up!

June 17 2:22 P.M.

At the recent 2009 Download Festival in the U.K., 440 headbangers picked up imaginary instruments and simultaneously strummed along with Motorhead's classic rocker "Ace of Spades," setting an official Guinness World Record for - what else - the Most People Simultaneously Performing Air Guitar. The previous record? A measly 318.

Air Guitar

The raddest jam

But it wasn't just a spontaneous act of group rocking. The moment was orchestrated by game maker EA as a way to promote its upcoming heavy metal action game, Brutal Legend (which also explains why all 440 rockers were wearing the exact same shirt).

Kerrang FM's Christian Stevenson, who MC'ed the ridiculous record-breaking attempt, was unsurprisingly overcome with emotion.

"That was one of the raddest jams I've ever been involved with," he said. "The crowd played their air guitars better than Eddie Van Halen! Then they destroyed 'em good and proper. Who cares, right? They can go to the air guitar shop and get another one. Sick to the infinity of sickness! I want a crowd like that at every gig I'm at. Awesometacular – air guitar world records rule!"

Made-up words aside, it probably was a sight to behold. But 440 people playing air guitar at once doesn't seem that impressive. Heck, any decent touring band could smash that by simply asking everyone at a show to air-guitar to one of their songs, although they'll apparently need to put a Guinness World Record worker bee on the guest list if they want to make it official.

[pip] Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:43:18 AM 
It takes more muscles to frown than to smile so if you're like me & hate to exercise then just stay smiling !!
[TheElectricEyedRouge] Saturday, May 23, 2009 9:12:48 PM 
Whoa.... how in the hell did they remember his name I wonder.
My brain was hurting when I was reading that too.....
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[hellrider 31038] Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:45:40 PM 
the METAL GOD ROB HALFORD can definatly still rip your face off and rattle your brain(what a beautiful experience last years metal masters tour in toronto)with the mighty paaaaainkillllller
[Metallark] Sunday, May 17, 2009 3:02:58 PM 
The term "Hillbilly" is synonymous with the term "Appalachian American"
[Vaillant 3.0] Sunday, May 17, 2009 12:45:15 PM 
Mars has the largest and most violent dust storms in our entire solar system.
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