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Re: Where's Alice

I am a college student and I was wondering what the proper way of returning
a stolen pumpkin to its owner. There are a couple of dents in it and some
of the seeds fell out. I was thinking of putting newspaper in the pumpkin
to increase the weight so the owner would not know the difference. I didn't
realize how hurt people could get when they lose their pumpkins. You guys
really changed me. My friends put me on this list as a joke but, after
reading about Alice I am a changed man. I am even thinking about going back
to my religion and looking for "The big pumpkin in the sky". 

Thank you guys again for all of your help. You will never know what you
have done for me, my roomates girl's mom, and the gay guy that lives next
door.

If you need a protective device for your pumpkin you guys should look into
firecrackers. My friends and I used to use them to protect our gardens.
Just make sure that you don't have curious toddlers around. It can get
ugly.

-Barry

My roomate doesn't understand so I was wondering if we could get him on the
mailing list. His E-Mail address is ss7476a@american.edu

I think that we should have a mascot for this group. It could be Punky
Bruester or something cool like that.

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> From: Dan Shapiro <dgs@leland.stanford.edu>
> To: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: Re: Where's Alice
> Date: Monday, October 20, 1997 5:35 PM
> 
> Rick - a few years back I had someone steal a 250 lb pumpkin from my
front
> yard.  This was before I was a grower -  I had purchased the gourd and
> invested alot of hours carving it.  About 4 days after Halloween, it
> dissappeared.  At first I was really angry, and then I realized that the
> pumpkin was maybe 48 hours away from pulling a total meltdown, hopefully
in
> the trunk of some theif's car.   After that, Iwas afraid they would
return
> it!  But I did get some satisfaction out of imagining the "prize" turning
> aggressively into slime.  Serves them right.
> 
> 	Dan
> 
> >Alice was a perfectly shaped giant pumpkin, she weighed in at around 500
> >wonderfully orange pounds and looked really neat out in our yard.   This
> >morning we got up to find that she was gone!!!!  There were drag marks
out
> >to the driveway where someone loaded her up and took her away.
>
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