Comments on: An Excerpt From My Graduate School Thesis, “There’s No Such Thing As A Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:50:19 +0000

Gina - I am so glad you shared this with my readers, especially how heartless the United States is when it comes to Brazillian “pretty good” pumpkins. Let this be a lesson we can all learn from so that agricultural history does not repeat itself again.

Amy - Of course I do. I’m a Summer.

Susan - Only one of them did. But she also lost her tongue in a freak stove-top burner S’more accident, so…

By: susan

susan — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:01:50 +0000

Did your graduate school professors sound like: “Bwah, bwah, bwah, bwahbwah, bwah bwah.”?

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:19:13 +0000

You look hot in pink, Pauly.

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:02:25 +0000

I live in Brazil. And I can tell you firsthand that no matter what these hard workers do to produce American Standard Great Pumpkins (pumpkinus morbidobesitius) they are simply not getting the results the US wants. So rather than importing these Pretty Good pumpkins, the US is actually holding Brazilian farmers to higher standards, i.e: Great. This means that in the fruit markets here, even in my city, the shelves are literally overflowing with these gigantic gourds that, to the layperson’s eye, look nice and plentiful and satisfying. But there are too many of them, so the prices have dropped, supply totally outweighing demand, fruit markets losing money left and right and needing to make up for it by hiking up their prices on mangoes and avocadoes, which has sent all of us into tizzy. And thus, the US has its fingers in yet another South American crisis for which it has no concern nor solution.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:41:08 +0000

That’s ok. Those pumpkin patches were dangerous places anyway, what with the Red Baron flying around shooting bullets all over the place.

By: LisaBinDaCity

LisaBinDaCity — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:27:21 +0000

I still love “I got a rock.”

Poor Charlie Brown.

By: sandra

sandra — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:12:54 +0000

Why do they have to put the other pumpkins down, is what I want to ask…?

By: The Centaur

The Centaur — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:05:43 +0000

Paul, the Wall Street Journal seems to support your analysis. Great Pumpkin futures have fallen sharply. And firms that invest in pumpkin exploration have seen their share prices decimated. Thankfully, my 401k is no longer heavy on the pumpkin industry.

By: Pauly D

Pauly D — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:00:39 +0000

Jerry - And don’t forget about the tooth fairy’s teeth rotting out because of the lack of safe drinking water, thanks to the melting of the radioactive ice caps.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:52:51 +0000

Personally, I hate the smell of pumpkin. So a pumpkin that smells like cheese would be a welcome addition to my pumpkin selection.