Hey guys,

It's that time of year again. Time to break out your pumpkins, knives, and saws to display your carving skills. It's a contest this year:

-All submissions must be in by 10/28/2011
-submissions can be a picture or video. They must contain a jack-o-lantern, and a label including your TWW name and date
-the limit is 3 submissions per user. Only one submission can win. No aliases allowed.

The winner will be decided by a panel of 5 judges, and will win a $25 gift certificate to Outback Steakhouse.

9/28/2011 12:32:47 PM

ill pour my heart and soul into this jack-off

9/28/2011 12:49:23 PM

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"ill pour my heart and soul into this jack-off"

I was coming in to post that this should be called the TWW Jack-Off 2011

9/28/2011 12:50:31 PM

i will be the judge!

9/28/2011 12:52:00 PM

I'd like to be a judge too

9/28/2011 12:52:30 PM

anyone have the patience to make one with **** ****'s introduction paragraph etched in

9/28/2011 12:54:37 PM

**** ****-o-lantern would have to be the scariest thing ever made

9/28/2011 1:40:22 PM

there should be different categories that you rate 1-5, with 5 being the highest.
example:

Creativity
Funny
Artistic
Realistic

or something like that.

9/28/2011 1:45:18 PM

love me some outback, i'm getting in this

9/28/2011 1:54:56 PM

this did not work out well when i tried it

but i wish you the best

[Edited on September 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM. Reason : "I was coming in to post that this should be called the TWW Jack-Off 2011" i did that]

[Edited on September 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM. Reason : goddamn that was four years ago]

9/28/2011 2:27:34 PM

ttt for october

Judges still need to be named. judging attributes still need to be developed.

10/5/2011 8:15:55 AM

I want to judge

10/5/2011 8:19:52 AM

great pictures so far. keep it up

10/5/2011 8:27:53 AM

They have to be in by the 28th? I normally don't carve mine until the 29th or 30th.

10/5/2011 8:29:51 AM

i normally just dig in dem guts. to get the seeds

10/5/2011 8:38:08 AM

The contest is canceled because of Ragged

Post your pics if you want. There will be no prize. That is all.

10/5/2011 8:46:20 AM

make the cut off date later and i'll do it...but I don't want my jack o lantern to rot before halloween

10/5/2011 9:17:18 AM

The cut off is whenever you want...there is no contest.

10/5/2011 9:54:19 AM

i will win this contest

i have carved the outside sales meme into a larger than average gourd

10/5/2011 9:59:15 AM

omg did anyone else just watch that pumpkin carving competition on food network? holy crap those things were crazy

10/5/2011 8:00:09 PM

bttt

10/9/2011 8:52:11 PM

10/9/2011 9:04:17 PM

^ love it!

10/9/2011 9:08:57 PM

I'm doing the pedobear pumpkin... fact

10/9/2011 9:34:42 PM

^^^^^I saw it! I was actually expecting something even more awesome.

I need to be a little more realistic, I suppose.

10/9/2011 9:51:07 PM

better than the medusa one that won? i thought that thing was crazy amazing

10/9/2011 11:38:17 PM

Yeah, you're right. It was pretty awesome. But...


They just cut so much off that they didn't really seem like pumpkins anymore. And there wasn't enough with the glow...I thought pumpkin carving was all about utilizing the light from a candle to illuminate your work, but they just carved elaborate stuff into pumpkins and put in light bulbs if they felt like it. We never really even got to see them in the full dark on a front porch.


I dunno.

[Edited on October 9, 2011 at 11:48 PM. Reason : It was almost too fancy, I guess.]

10/9/2011 11:47:25 PM

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"No aliases allowed."

That's like 90% of TWW users.

[Edited on October 10, 2011 at 12:07 AM. Reason : .]

10/10/2011 12:06:48 AM

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"They have to be in by the 28th? I normally don't carve mine until the 29th or 30th."

Same. Don't want the mold to eat my pumpkin before Halloween

^^ I totally agree. Those super fancy pumpkins are neat but I just feel like they're too much most of the time.

10/10/2011 8:54:40 AM

10/26/2011 7:37:51 PM

I'm either carving my pumpkin tonight or tomorrow

10/27/2011 8:39:17 AM

Man, last year I loved my pumpkin carving.. however, the pumpkin had SO much water in it.

The first night out with a candle in it, the damn thing shriveled up and made my design look so awful... any ideas how to combat that? Clean it out, then let it sit with a candle in it for one night? Then carve?

10/27/2011 9:51:03 AM

Buy an LED light made for lighting up pumpkins. I saw them for sale in the drug store yesterday.

10/27/2011 10:15:39 AM

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"Ah, the fleeting pride of a rocking jack-o-lantern. Carved ever so carefully, but destined to start molding within days. So, most people have heard of some of the preventative measures available for pumpkins. You can even buy Pumpkin Fresh, a spray made solely for the purpose of keeping your lantern lookin' good. Here's my favorite trick: Wipe a thin layer of Vaseline along each pumpkin's wounds — in the cuts and all around the scraped-clean inside. This'll provide a barrier between molds and the pumpkin, and keep the gourd from drying out."

http://offbeathome.com/2011/10/hack-halloween-pumpkin-rot

I have not tried the Vaseline trick myself but might pick up a jar this year to try out. There's some other suggestions on that post.

10/27/2011 10:36:54 AM

Also, try spraying PAM on it

10/27/2011 10:40:18 AM

Here's mine

10/27/2011 10:40:37 AM

Carved mine last night. Need to take a lighted pic so you can see the little pumpkin's eyes.

10/30/2011 9:31:24 AM

that's so cute! did you light the little pumpkin too??

10/30/2011 10:11:08 AM

Yeah I chopped off his back half so the light from the big pumpkin can illuminate it.

10/30/2011 11:20:39 AM

is that mike singletary?

10/30/2011 11:23:28 AM

We went to the pumpkin patch today and they didn't have a carving pumpkin worth a flip - all they had was that variety with like 3" deep ridges

Anyway; carved it up with a friends 2 year old and a bottle of jack. A good time was had.

10/30/2011 11:05:43 PM

Here's mine and my wife's pumpkins this year:


^you talking about a fairytale pumpkin? we carved one of those a few years back and it turned out well. those things smell like cantaloupe inside.

10/31/2011 12:40:58 AM

Here's mine

10/31/2011 8:17:56 AM

haha that had to of taken forever to color in with that sharpie!

10/31/2011 2:23:41 PM

lol so I thought I heard some punk kids last night coming up to our front porch to smash our pumpkins. Wouldn't have cared since it was 2am but I went out this morning and turned out it was some animal stealing the little pumpkin out of the big pumpkin's mouth

11/1/2011 8:57:34 AM

I think emptyfriend's wins but here are mine.



Carved them sat and monday already rotting due to the warm weather. today the white mold is black lol.

11/1/2011 1:51:35 PM