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Newsviners, Let's Write Us Some Pumpkin Porn

Wow.

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Have you been wanting to participate in one of my writing exercises or challenges but just waiting for the right one?
Perhaps waiting for one that is a bit more weird, upsetting, insane or just plain bonkers? Well, then I may have just
the challenge for you.

Yesterday I wrote what I consider one of the oddest pieces I have ever written, where I merged my two most common writing subjects, namely politics and pumpkins into... god knows what. I think I was aiming for a look at abortion and the presidential race through the eyes of pumpkins.

But I just had an idea that makes yesterday's piece seem about as predictable as >an episode of Law and Order.

So here's your assignment:

Above is a photo of a very special pumpkin, a pumpkin that I believe to be a pumpkin porn star. Let's just say he makes pumpkins with smaller stems cower and wish a pumpkin version of viagra would be invented soon and head off to check their spam email for any stem-extension offers

Your mission, should you accept it, is to write a story about pumpkin porn. You can do this any way you want - write from the perspective of the pumpkin porn star (you choose the name too), or give us the script or you can be the embarrassed mother of said porn star who just wants him to get a normal job.

Go wild. Make me proud. I'm going to be away for most of the weekend at this backgammon tournament (probably not filing a live report this time and do not know if I will have Internet access. But when I return
Sunday night I promise to read, clip to my column and comment on every piece, provided you remember to post a link below to your, er, piece.

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Now most normal people about to leave Newsvine for a weekend would just go. But I think by now you have determined I'm
not normal, I'm someone "carving" out my own niche

Question: If you remove the stem of a pumpkin is that a pumpkin castration? Discuss.

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  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:33 AM EDT
{"commentId":3550674,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

If you remove the stem of a pumpkin is that a pumpkin castration?

nope...somewhere between stem-cell and stempenilectomy

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#1.1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:50 PM EDT
{"commentId":3551913,"authorDomain":"weepngwilloswonderings"}

I hate to disagree but I belive Scoop is closer to the truth.  The actual term regarding what he spoke of is "peunuch".  It is the detestible sexual mutilation being practiced on our kind by humans, much akin to what they so blithely call "plucking the blossom".  In this case the perverted fruitialists are trying to actually prevent pumpkin mating so that they can have their perverted way with our women and guarantee thier own offspring.  How many more will have to go through such torture before the world steps up and takes notice??

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#1.2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:04 PM EDT
{"commentId":3552007,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

The biggest insult to a male pumpkin is to call him Stumpy, because that means hes lost his family jewels.

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#1.3 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:11 PM EDT
{"commentId":3556750,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

fruitialists

WOOHOO! I've coined a new term!

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#1.4 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:07 PM EDT
{"commentId":3557233,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}

congrats!

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#1.5 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:56 PM EDT
{"commentId":3557412,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

[best deep voice-over voice]

(Hopefully with Scott's approval)

"To learn more about fruitiology, see my article"

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  • 3 votes
#1.6 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:16 PM EDT
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#1.7 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:17 PM EDT
{"commentId":3562630,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

That word is a keeper. Who's your daddyPappa? (psst, no, not really we're the same age)

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#1.8 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:12 PM EDT
{"commentId":3599902,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}

castration? no... but it would mean it was dis-membered

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#1.9 - Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:05 PM EDT
{"commentId":3601729,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

(scoop crosses his legs and wonders how this compares to getting sucked at a car wash)

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    #1.10 - Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:05 AM EDT
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    {"commentId":3549494,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    A few thoughts to get you started:

    Does stem size matter?

    Is this why some pumpkins have smiles this big (see photo above), because they are just post-stem-coital?

    Does pumpkin porn have cheesy music?

    During orgasm do pumpkins scream out, "Oh, great pumpkin!"

    Try to make your story at least 200 words. And feel free to add your own photos for your story.

    Good luck.

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    • 3 votes
    Reply#2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:41 AM EDT
    {"commentId":3549906,"authorDomain":"Mars313"}

    Scoop,

    Stem size does matter. When my "carving blade" is thirsty,  a small-stemmed, scrub of a pumpkin wouldn't do it for me. I need a stem that puts the "PUMP" back in "pumpkin".

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    #2.1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:08 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3549982,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    Extra credit if you can invent new words. So far I've invented

    pumption (pumpkin intuition)

    pumpocide (pumpkin genocide)

    and pump'd (punked, pumpkin style)

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    • 3 votes
    #2.2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:12 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3550467,"authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}

    Guys... 'stem' sounds so.... I dunno... well... short.

    As for me... I prefer the term 'vine'.

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    • 3 votes
    #2.3 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:38 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3551706,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    ooh, vine. That can get interesting because some will take it as shorthand for newsvine.

    When I first saw Minnie's piece about love in the vines i thought she meant here at newsvine.

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    • 2 votes
    #2.4 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:53 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3552582,"authorDomain":"weepngwilloswonderings"}

    Actually the term I have heard most often is "oh my Gourd"........

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    • 5 votes
    #2.5 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:44 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3558065,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}

    love it, some of you are working overtime, or maybe no it might just come natural.  LOL

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    • 3 votes
    #2.6 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:19 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3565204,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    I hope this isn't natural but i was sober and clean when I wrote it so who knows?

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    • 1 vote
    #2.7 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:34 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3566348,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

    Does pumpkin porn have cheesy music?

    Isn't that mandatory for porn regardless of genre?

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    #2.8 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:14 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3568020,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    i'll bow to your apparent expertise:)

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    #2.9 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:07 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3568076,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

    Well, I was young once... many moons ago...

    though admitedly (thankfully) there is some freaky stuff out there that I haven't seen...

    Speaking of freaky, yes, I actually own an old VHS copy of Pink Flamingo, it was given to me for my 20-something-th birthday as a "gag" gift (and yeah, the final scene made me gag!)

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    • 2 votes
    #2.10 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:14 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3599978,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
    Does pumpkin porn have cheesy music?

    Nah... but it is rather seedy.

    During orgasm do pumpkins scream out, "Oh, great pumpkin!"

    No, they scream "OH GORD! OH GORD!"

    By default, are pumpkins incestuous?

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    #2.11 - Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:10 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":3549871,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    Dang it! Newsvine did it again! It just ate something after I thought I finished it.
    Re-construction now in progress...

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    Reply#3 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:06 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3550059,"authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}

    Scoop... I think you're going over the edge a little.

    Pumpkin porn?  C'mon.

    Now, melons... that I could see.  (Ooh, round... juicy... firm... thump 'em, baby!)

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    • 4 votes
    Reply#4 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:17 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3550187,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    There's an edge? I probably stepped over that weeks ago.

    Have you hear Sir scott'smix-a-lot song "my baby (pumpkin) got back."

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    #4.1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:24 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3550449,"authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}

    Is that a remix of "My Baby Back Ribs Got Rack"?

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    #4.2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:37 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3552040,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    Yes it is by B5. See here.

    Actually there's a backstory to that link. I used to write for a site called blogcritics and I and others had noticed this band B5 had the most fervent fans who would write 100 comments a day.

    So I wrote this satire. Now look at the publication date and look what someone wrote there today. Then tell me who is more scary me the author of both pieces or the people writing those comments?

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    #4.3 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:13 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3552895,"authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}

    So... your middle name is 'Tonya'? 

    Man, you really are f**ked up!

    ;-)

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    • 2 votes
    #4.4 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:04 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3553049,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    I get an email each time someone posts to a former article and so i received about 12 emails today on something i wrote in a rush early one morning a few years ago.

    scott "tonya" butki

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    #4.5 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:12 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":3550620,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

    a pumpkin that I believe to be a pumpkin porn star.

    Let's just say he is a proud customer of another "male enhancement product... that'll show "Smilin' Bob"

    from Wikipedia:

    Enzyte is a herbal nutritional supplementmanufactured by Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals of Cincinnati, Ohio. The manufacturer claims Enzyte promotes "natural male enhancement", which is a euphemism for penile enlargement. However, its effectiveness has been called into doubt and the claims of the manufacturer have been under scrutiny from various state and federal organizations. The manufacturer's founder and CEO, Steve Warshak, and his mother Harriett Warshak, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering and sentenced to prison.[1]

    Enzyte is widely advertised on US televisionas "the once daily tablet for natural male enhancement". The commercials feature a character known as "Smilin' Bob", who always wears a smile that is implied to be caused by the enhancing effects of Enzyte; these advertisements feature double entendres and are deliberately designed to be somewhat campy.

    and his mother???   EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Definitely NOTa business enterprise I would want to associate my, or anyone else's, mother with!

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    • 3 votes
    Reply#5 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:46 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3551870,"authorDomain":"stuartcfoster"}

    Calvin and Hobbes...so awesome when it comes to Pumpkins

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    • 2 votes
    Reply#6 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:02 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3552084,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}
    Calvin and Hobbes...so awesome when it comes to Pumpkins

    refresh my memory - i forget what they did. I do think one area where I did appreciate Peanuts was the Great Pumpkin idea. I considered doing a story taking that Great Pumpkin story to the nth degee.

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    • 2 votes
    #6.1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:15 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3552288,"authorDomain":"weepngwilloswonderings"}

    Maybe we should have a write in campaign for The Great Pumpkin, so that finally we can get an orange-blooded American in office.  Then the people with the "hoes and spades" would pay attention!!

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    • 2 votes
    #6.2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:27 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3556464,"authorDomain":"stevehouse"}

    Calvin and Hobbes on pumpkins? All that comes to mind is

    OKAY JACK, TIME FOR YOUR LOBOTOMY!!!

    Snowmen were more Calvin's thing.

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    • 2 votes
    #6.3 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:36 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":3552336,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}

    Pumpkin Porn?

    And when I touched your skin, it was so firm I thought only of how your shell of protection must contain the soft texture of delight.

    The way you warm my heart... a shining light of flame seen through your eyes... I could only hold a candle to your beauty.

    To taste you, to eat your very essence, I was in heaven.

    I have whip cream....

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    • 3 votes
    Reply#7 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:30 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3553085,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    hmm, we're back to that classic debate of deciding what is porn and what is erotica.

    i wonder if pumpkins find whip cream to be a turn on.

    do you think "pumping" has a whoe different meaning for those orange folks?

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    • 2 votes
    #7.1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:15 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3553196,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}

    Porn vs. erotica
    To me are personal viewpoints

    Reminds me of when my 8th grade science teacher had a sex ed discussion and one of the students said, that his father said, that everyone masturbates, some just lie and say they don't.

    A red dress is sexy
    the fit is sensual
    the way it's worn is erotic
    when it's off it's porn

    Lol, all are perspectives and based on a persons upbringing, environment and associations.

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    • 2 votes
    #7.2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:22 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":3552862,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}

    You all are a patch of sick-Os,

    LMAO, ROF

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    • 2 votes
    Reply#8 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:02 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3553126,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    pumpkin prude.

    you probably think pumpkins belong back in the closetpatch or something.

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    • 2 votes
    #8.1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:17 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3553177,"authorDomain":"hugo-gnzlz"}

    lol, oh I will try my best to come up with a good, worthy story.

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    • 2 votes
    #8.2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:21 PM EDT
    {"commentId":3565245,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

    no pressure - i won't hold it against anyone if they opt not to write pumpkin porn. It might be held against you if you ever apply for a government position.

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      #8.3 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:37 PM EDT
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      {"commentId":3556383,"authorDomain":"clariflutist73"}

      I'm in! I just hope I don't violate the terms of my newly found American Pumpkins Liberties Union chapter and degrade female pumpkins everywhere.

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      • 1 vote
      Reply#9 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:30 PM EDT
      {"commentId":3556987,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

      i'm checking in from the tourney. the hotel it's at - a marriott - wants $180 for a room. no way. so who knows where i'm sleeping at. wonder if the hotel has any pumpkin porn.

      i'll be more scarce so dont freak out.

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      • 1 vote
      Reply#10 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:34 PM EDT
      {"commentId":3557722,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}

      Anyone who would be so sick as to come up with pumpkin porn deserves to be ripped off for a hotel room. I am NOT going to engage in this cheapening of sacred love among squashes. Squashes are quite affectionate, but they do not do porn films for mere money. NO. NO. A thousand times NO. Scott, go to your room. Do not pass Go. And stop doing that.

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      • 1 vote
      Reply#11 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:47 PM EDT
      {"commentId":3557842,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

      doing what? i didnt do nothing. Found a nearby hotel for $89.

      I'd forgotten how incredibly aggressive these real backgammon players are (i'm just a wanna be but not nearly as geeky as most here.)

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      • 2 votes
      #11.1 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:57 PM EDT
      {"commentId":3557911,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

      not nearly as geeky as most here

      Now, now... I'm sure you're just as geeky as the rest of the nerds...

      (forgive me, I couldn't pass this one up)

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      • 2 votes
      #11.2 - Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:02 PM EDT
      {"commentId":3562173,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

      Saw that one coming and wrote a response earlier... Backgammon geeks are a special breed. Many have memorized all statistics on every roll and move (i.e. exact odds of getting a roll they need) and when they don't will take a photo to study and examine later. They have way more patience and concentration than I do. Against them I feel like I must be ADD.
      My biggest failing in backgammon is I get bored doing the easy predictable move - if you always do the logical move then you are just acting like a robot or a computer.. but then you lose because often the predictable move is the right move.
      I attend backgammon tournaments which I guess makes me a freak That said I'm not as much of a freak as most of those here who are so geeky they make me look like (insert someone not geeky here) But I admit this is like saying I'm the least ugly of a group of ugly ducklings or the best smelling skunk

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        #11.3 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:34 AM EDT
        {"commentId":3562508,"authorDomain":"psychotic-wanderer"}

        Nothing wrong with being a freak, geek or anything in between...

        (this pearl  of wisdom brought to you by a freaky, geeky, nerd :D )

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          #11.4 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:01 PM EDT
          {"commentId":3562736,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

          Yes that's why this topic is a celebration of all of us freaks and geeks. We must embrace our inner freak Speaking of freaks the Red Roof Inn had deviant sex on the tv but no, no squash or pumpkin porn. wimps.

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            #11.5 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:20 PM EDT
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            {"commentId":3562184,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

            Oh and, yes, I am on wireless at tourney via adjacent Towson University. So I'm taking advantage of that fact between matches.

            There about 90 people here, so it's smaller than the Pittsbugh ones I attended for two years. so this is my third tourney but i'm clueless and out of my element and asking myself often "what am i doing here?" The answer is challenging myself and learning and exploring new things

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            • 1 vote
            Reply#12 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:35 AM EDT
            {"commentId":3565518,"authorDomain":"gilemrys"}

            Oh, this sounds fun.:)  The term 'fisting' must be included in anything deamed 'pumpkin porn' IMO.

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            • 3 votes
            Reply#13 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:00 PM EDT
            {"commentId":3566051,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

            I'm waiting to see how the term "pumping" is used

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            • 2 votes
            #13.1 - Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:48 PM EDT
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            {"commentId":3606272,"authorDomain":"weepngwilloswonderings"}

            Ok guys, pumpkin porn eh?  Well here is my response to that.......

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            • 1 vote
            Reply#14 - Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:37 AM EDT
            {"commentId":3658334,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

            An idea for my next story is coming to me... something about the porn industry deciding it's one thing to have fetishists, to have sex for those who like porn about grandmas and midgets and dogs and people going to the bathroom but there's one type of porn that is just so offensive it must be prohibited.

            Yes, that's right - pumpkin porn is one step too far.

            "I looked at it and then I got embarrassed," Larry Flynt said.

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            • 1 vote
            Reply#15 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:07 PM EDT
            {"commentId":3658933,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}

            Ok, here's the sequel in progress

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            • 1 vote
            Reply#16 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:36 PM EDT
            {"commentId":3712770,"authorDomain":"monicad"}

            ok, Scott, I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but I wrote my pumpkin piece. I hope ALL of you will read and comment on Pumpkin Patch Politics: The Bill of Rights.

            It is 4am, so I am posting it here until I figure out where else it should go.

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            • 2 votes
            Reply#17 - Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:10 AM EDT
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