Re: picture on Web
Or mine.... heehee
The original Rocky on the list..
Steve Thorson wrote:
> I agree with you Nic,but my hat goes off to Mr. Pacilli for getting
> everyone so wild about this. Nice to see it's not "my" butt in a bind
> for once.Pumpkinpiper
>
> >From: Welty <ldnwelty@raex.com>
> >Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> >To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> >Subject: Re: picture on Web
> >Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:01:19 -0500
> >
> >Rocky is a great guy with interesting ideas and definantly fun to talk
> to. The
> >picture from the newspaper looks much smaller than the 1400. However,
> I believe
> >this picture was taken the second week in Oct. and the fruit grew until
> Dec. 2.
> >Also this may be one of the smaller fruit, 630? Other pictures I have
> seen
> >indicate it is larger than the pumpkin in this picture. Could be his
> measurements
> >were not entirely accurate, I know that mine are often different than
> those taken
> >at weighoff (I estimated my 638 at 616 lb. and the weighoff crew
> measured it at 585
> >lb). Even if he was off several inches, this is a truly giant
> pumpkin. Also to
> >note is the fact that when he cut it open there was only a cavity the
> size of a
> >basketball because of the 20" thick walls. With walls that thick it
> definantly
> >weighed up pretty high. Once again, Rocky is a friendly person to all
> who are
> >friendly to him. He has nothing to gain by lying and may not grow
> again because of
> >all the problems these pumpkins caused. He is very different from all
> of us
> >pumpkin fanatics and has a completely different moral.
> >About the squash, it is not pretty enough to be a squash in my book,
> but may
> >qualify in official GPC rules which I have rarely seen enforced with
> large
> >pumpkins.
> >Just some thoughts, I hope we can all forget about this for awhile and
> focus on the
> >upcoming season were who knows, maybe someone else will top 1500 lb.
> While we are
> >on the subject, it would be interesting to get a range of answers of
> just how big
> >of a pumpkin the world will produce next year (since we already know
> that it will
> >come from our own patch).
> >
> >Nic Welty
> >
> >p.s. Sometime in the future I will get more Rocky pictures put on my
> web page.
> >
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