# Show me your Jack-o-Lantern
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 30, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953 "2014-10-30T01:00:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/1 "2014-10-30T01:00:15Z")
[Here’s mine](http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m305/llaaksonen/jackolantern2014.jpg).
Just a traditional Jack-o-Lantern. I like the incredibly elaborate carvings people to, but I’m a traditionalist. (A traditionalist is someone who lacks the talent and ability to do the fancy ones. 😉 )
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/2 "2014-10-30T01:59:45Z")
‘the elaborate carvings people _ **do** _’; not ‘to’. :smack:
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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/3 "2014-10-30T02:39:39Z")
We made a [pangolumpkin](http://imgur.com/BgcmJXX) this year. Pangolins are [awesome](http://savepangolins.org/) and all 8 species are now considered threatened because people keep hunting them for food, boo.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/4 "2014-10-30T04:01:30Z")
I beg your pardon
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/5 "2014-10-30T12:31:56Z")
I would love to post a pic of our carved pumpkins.
Only _the damn squirrels ate our pumpkins before we could carve them!_
Little grey bastids.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/6 "2014-10-30T15:50:09Z")
[Here’s](http://i.imgur.com/Tr3ASAf.jpg) the ones my friends and I did this year.
Mine are the ghost in the top middle (it’s a white pumpkin!) and the “erhmagerd!” skeleton on the bottom left.
**Araminty** what does yours look like when lit up???
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/7 "2014-10-30T16:11:31Z")
> [@araminty](#):
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> We made a [pangolumpkin](http://imgur.com/BgcmJXX) this year. Pangolins are [awesome](http://savepangolins.org/) and all 8 species are now considered threatened because people keep hunting them for food, boo.
Excellent! 🙂
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> [Here’s](http://i.imgur.com/Tr3ASAf.jpg) the ones my friends and I did this year.
See, that’s why I’m a traditionalist! 😉 No ability to draw like that. Also, the knife I used wasn’t ideal for pumpkin carving.
> [@MissTake](#):
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> I would love to post a pic of our carved pumpkins.
> Only _the damn squirrels ate our pumpkins before we could carve them!_
> Little grey bastids.
Light 'em up anyway! They’d be unique! (I’ve always wanted to make a Punk jack-o-lantern… Hollow it out, and then just punch a hole in it.)
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/8 "2014-10-30T19:24:04Z")
**Johnny** yours came out pretty good for having a bad knife! It is totally a great jack-o-lantern!
My friends and I don’t draw patterns, we just get those pattern books and tools from the drugstores when they go on sale after Halloween. I have about 6 books and maybe 70 knives/pokers/scoops right now. We just use them 'til they break!
We also are known to go to [www.zombiepumpkins.com](http://www.zombiepumpkins.com) and buy a pattern but we’ve been doing it so long we’re sort of done with them for now 🙂
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/9 "2014-10-30T20:06:29Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> **Johnny** yours came out pretty good for having a bad knife!
Actually, it’s a moderately _good_ knife! It’s the smallest one out of the cheapest ‘starter set’ by Henckels. Just not ideal for pumpkin carving. Next time I’ll use on of the SO’s cheap serrated steak knives. They’re more flexible. But I still would have done the same design. It would just have better cuts.
Thanks for the compliment! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/10 "2014-10-30T20:09:18Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> [Here’s](http://i.imgur.com/Tr3ASAf.jpg) the ones my friends and I did this year.
Wow.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/11 "2014-10-30T20:44:27Z")
[Great](https://www.flickr.com/photos/108894776@N08/15048438014/) [Scott!](https://www.flickr.com/photos/108894776@N08/15666498931/in/photostream/)
Freehand-carved this one just going off an image from the internet.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/12 "2014-10-30T21:06:44Z")
Day-yam!
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/13 "2014-10-30T21:12:58Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> [Great](https://www.flickr.com/photos/108894776@N08/15048438014/) [Scott!](https://www.flickr.com/photos/108894776@N08/15666498931/in/photostream/)
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> Freehand-carved this one just going off an image from the internet.
Wow.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/14 "2014-10-30T21:31:12Z")
Thanks!
Although, one slip of the tool wonked off part of the V on the VIII, but there was much beer being had.
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/15 "2014-10-31T03:10:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Actually, it’s a moderately _good_ knife! It’s the smallest one out of the cheapest ‘starter set’ by Henckels.
For major cutting, jigsaws work _great_.
However, we haven’t carved a pumpkin since [the tragedy](https://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/15485850050/)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/16 "2014-10-31T05:02:32Z")
> [@Spiderman](#):
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> However, we haven’t carved a pumpkin since [the tragedy](https://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/15485850050/)
_LOL_
Should have done X’s for the eyes. 😉
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/17 "2014-10-31T05:58:36Z")
Even though I’m in Australia, like many things American the Halloween Thing has infiltrated our culture now, and in the last week there’s been the usual commercialism with costumes, treats and pumpkins on sale.
So my kids went to the local Aldi where jack-o-lantern pumpkins were available at some exorbitant price per kg. My son grabbed the first one he saw, which happened to be the ‘display model’, pre-carved, not realising he should have taken an intact pumpkin. The cashier didn’t bat an eyelid either.
Thus we have a genuine-creepy Halloween Pumpkin, all ready to greet the local sprogs who come begging at the door tonight for sweets and treats. 🙂
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/18 "2014-10-31T14:16:07Z")
I don’t have a picture of my Jack-o-Lantern, but when I took its circumference and divided it by its diameter.
I got Pumpkin Pi
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/19 "2014-10-31T15:28:07Z")
[Mine](http://imgur.com/a/CwGjx). The center part is the same as I did last year, except I learned my lesson – cutting all the way through leads to serious imbalance issues and two days later you have a major illegible mess. So this year I just dremeled the design into the skin, and then added the surrounding decor.
Also, eff the rest of the NFC East.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-jack-o-lantern/702953/20 "2014-10-31T15:49:21Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> [Great](https://www.flickr.com/photos/108894776@N08/15048438014/) [Scott!](https://www.flickr.com/photos/108894776@N08/15666498931/in/photostream/)
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> Freehand-carved this one just going off an image from the internet.
Love it!
See guys, this is the sort of thing you should envy. Not my drugstore designs. Just being able to transfer a drawing on to a pumpkin from your brain is a major feat!