# Show us your Jack o'Lantern!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 19, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798 "2023-10-19T17:51:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/1 "2023-10-19T17:51:27Z")
I’ve never carved one before but I’m really happy with how it turned out!
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/56821557@N06/53270616655/in/dateposted-public/)
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/2 "2023-10-19T18:01:23Z")
I haven’t obtained the raw material for my 2023 o’Lantern, but here’s a nice one from a couple years ago:
[ ](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/2/2955d8f9fc7530edb3d4b7022e81d4e787b1e2fe.jpeg)
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/3 "2023-10-19T18:13:37Z")
Little bit more advanced than I can do!
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/4 "2023-10-19T18:33:10Z")
I think I was just lucky. Neither previous years nor subsequent years were on par with that one! I googled an artist I remembered (Greg Irons, underground cartoonist) and tried to mimic one of his creepier renditions.
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/5 "2023-10-19T18:41:41Z")
I’m rather proud of this one I did a couple of years ago. Unlike many of mine, I designed it rather than cutting it from someone else’s pattern. You’ll probably recognize the inspiration for it.
[ ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/2zWw38sPnCJN45k49)
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/6 "2023-10-19T18:55:05Z")
Looks great!
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/7 "2023-10-19T19:22:51Z")
That’s awesome @markn_1 !!
My friends and I have been getting together every year to carve pumpkins, since 1998. So I guess this was the 25th year? Here’s ours. Mine is the flaming Jack on the top. Gomez Addams was done by a 12 year old!
[[Album] imgur.com  ](https://imgur.com/a/nRzxy8I)
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/8 "2023-10-19T19:52:30Z")
Nice!!!
@markn_1 yours too!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/9 "2023-10-19T20:02:00Z")
We’re not making jack o’lanterns this year due to our vacation, but here are a couple from a few years ago.
[ ](https://imgur.com/6BXCvzJ/)
Mine is on the left (not as good as previous years), and my wife’s first jack o’lantern is on the right.
Here are a couple I made the year before that.
[[Album] imgur.com  ](https://imgur.com/a/fEDAQlo/)
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/10 "2023-10-19T20:05:54Z")
Some fine examples! Thread makes me sad, thinking back to when me and the kid used to carve. That’s all gone now. ☹
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/11 "2023-10-19T20:09:34Z")
Is it the avatar of a poster here? I know this looks familiar, but I can’t think of it. Please tell.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/12 "2023-10-19T20:10:10Z")
King Crimson album cover
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/13 "2023-10-19T20:10:59Z")
Oh yes. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/14 "2023-10-19T20:13:40Z")
Does someone here use that King Crimson image as their avatar?
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/15 "2023-10-19T20:17:22Z")
You can carve one for yourself! That’s what I did 🎃
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/16 "2023-10-19T21:37:35Z")
The thought is too depressing.
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### Author:  [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/17 "2023-10-20T01:46:18Z")
My daughter is painting pumpkins this year.
[ ](https://imgur.com/FXMqT0T)
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/18 "2023-10-20T02:02:57Z")
We always painted. Needed those pumpkin guts for later endeavor.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/19 "2023-10-20T14:32:13Z")
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/LGw28Y3.jpg)
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/403NrBs.jpg)
We have many pumpkins and squash outside as decorations, but they will all eventually be roasted and consumed, so no carving.
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-us-your-jack-olantern/991798/20 "2023-10-20T14:43:17Z")
I love those bumpy pumpkins.
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