Re: Re[1]: New Minnesota record goes kaput!
- Subject: Re: Re[1]: New Minnesota record goes kaput!
- From: "Andrew Papez" a*@cogeco.ca
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:39 -0400
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
Alun,
I still think it needs to be done at a weigh off for it to be a record. If
you don't think it will make it to that day whatever the day may be then how
can you classify it as a sound fruit.
andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alun Jones" <pumpkinmaniac@lycos.co.uk>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: Re[1]: New Minnesota record goes kaput!
>
>
> > Its not really a official new State record unless weighed at a
sanctioned
> > site on Oct 5th.
> >
> > andrew
>
>
>
> Yo Drew,
> Sorry my friend but you are wrong with this comment. As long as a pumpkin
> is weighed on certified scales with somebody to judge that it was in a
sound condition
> then this would stand as a record. By saying that it has to be a certain
date is of no
> importance at all. The GPC and WPC etc have no powers to make growers take
> pumpkins to weigh-offs on a certain day just to get it recorded as a new
record. Ask the
> Guiness book of records and they will say the same thing...I know...I've
judged for
> them.
>
>
> Alun
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