Re: The Nuts and Syrup Challenge 1
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- Subject: Re: The Nuts and Syrup Challenge 1
- From: w*
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:55:24 -0500
Brett you need to talk to Wayne Hackney about the boat ideas, your treading
on his pond..... Wayne.....
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> From: Orion910@aol.com
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: The Nuts and Syrup Challenge 1
> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 12:47 AM
>
> Bruce and Wayne,
> The friendly wager may have to be upgraded to the Bud Bowl status of
pumpkin
> growing. Weigh offs will aways be the Superbowl, but during those
commercials
> you have to have interesting stuff.
>
> How does the Nuts and Syrup Challenge 1 sound?
>
> Here is the latest, I have gotten a few, rather many emails about people
who
> want to be on 'Our Team' out west and I don't know what to tell them. To
> expand, here are some new things for you to look at...
>
> 1. We could use the Mississippi River as a division line between team
Nuts and
> Team Syrup (who have been knicknamed 'the sticky team'). Reason being, I
have
> gotten a few, rather a bunch of emails from people who want to join in
the
> fun. The bulk are from California, but there are others too. What
should I
> tell them?
>
> 2. Weighoffs, I know there are many weighoffs out there with many not
being
> on the big GPC weighoff date. The Weeks Seeds, Windsor, and others could
all
> be counted for you guys and the big sites from the West. Every weighoff
> counts as long as there are judges and an accurate scale. That way, the
true
> top 10 pumpkins grown by each side would be represented. For instance 1
of
> our top ten may come from Carnation, 4 from Canby, 2 from Half Moon Bay,
and 3
> from the other GPC sites on our side of the Mississippi. Our cutoff date
> could be Halloween.
>
> We could really have some fun and get everyone involved. Then we could
all
> get together with our top pumpkins and have a crash up derby using the
> pumpkins as boats with the last pumpkin able to keep its skipper afloat
the
> winner. Let me know about the Nuts and Syrup stuff, the boats were a
crazy
> thought.
>
> Take Care,
> Brett
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