Word: pumpkin
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...photograph, preferably from a three-quarter angle, because the shadows are better. Reduce it to a pure black and white copy by repeatedly increasing the contrast on a photocopier, outlining the dark areas that are going to be uncarved, making sure they all connect to the outside of the pumpkin...
...Pumpkin carving instructions...
Duct tape the pattern to the cleaned and hollowed pumpkin—it’s best to scrape the pumpkin walls down to a width of about three-quarters of an inch...
Transfer the pattern onto the pumpkin by punching along the lines of the cut out areas with a nail, golf tee, awl, or commercial pumpkin tool. Remove the tool, and if the outline is hard to see, rub flour into the punch holes, or outline with a waterproof...
...certainty that Vince Foster was murdered, based on a scientific reenactment which consisted of him firing a pistol into a large fruit in his back yard. (I say “large fruit” because there is some dispute over whether it was a watermelon or a pumpkin.) But Burton was not driven off the fringes of his party; on the contrary, they made him chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee...