Pumpkin Chunkin
November 1, 2008
.:Post Register - Idaho Falls, ID:.
Pumpkins and physics
Students take place in annual Pumpkin Chuck contestDozens of youngsters converged Friday on Winfield Andersen Field near Snake River High School for the annual Pumpkin Chuck. In its 12th year, the event is a physics lesson disguised as a contest in which students build a pumpkin-hurling contraption and are judged on its performance. Teams come… Read more
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- Wasilla Not A Hundred Percent on Palin
- Vet: Six-legged deer soon to have four legs - Alabama
- Jonesboro High School Rallies Past Marion
- Florida nudist community wants clothing-optional polling site
- Mock Elections Give Deleware to Democrats
- Cross Country and Across The Country
- Life Doesn’t Have The Same Meaning It Used To
- Naked Running Pumpkins
- Early Voting Big in Georgia
- Pumpkin Chunkin
- Runners Push Barriers
- Early Voting In The South
- Obama Wins Minnesota
- Alternate Education In Michigan
- Separate But Equal In Massachusetts
- Scholarship in Maryland
- Racing Back Across The Country
- Sunshine Sunflowers and Sons of
- Kentucky Common Sense
- Obama Wins Iowa
- Fresh off The Turnip Truck
- Education in Indiana
- It Is All About Heart In The Heartland
- Boo In Illinois
- Sierra Vista Halloween Event Full of Character
Florida nudist community wants clothing-optional polling site
November 1, 2008
Right On! This is the second local news and newspaper story where the paper leads off with a nudity story.
Latest Florida & National News
LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. (AP) — A nudist community on Florida’s west coast wants to be allowed a clothing-optional polling site.
The Caliente Resorts, located in Pasco County north of Tampa, has approached election officials about the idea.
Nothing in state law would prohibit it, but the supervisor of elections says he is opposed to creating any new precincts before redistricting in 2010.
Sphere: Related ContentTable of contents for November 1 2008 News Wrap-Up
- Wasilla Not A Hundred Percent on Palin
- Vet: Six-legged deer soon to have four legs - Alabama
- Jonesboro High School Rallies Past Marion
- Florida nudist community wants clothing-optional polling site
- Mock Elections Give Deleware to Democrats
- Cross Country and Across The Country
- Life Doesn’t Have The Same Meaning It Used To
- Naked Running Pumpkins
- Early Voting Big in Georgia
- Pumpkin Chunkin
- Runners Push Barriers
- Early Voting In The South
- Obama Wins Minnesota
- Alternate Education In Michigan
- Separate But Equal In Massachusetts
- Scholarship in Maryland
- Racing Back Across The Country
- Sunshine Sunflowers and Sons of
- Kentucky Common Sense
- Obama Wins Iowa
- Fresh off The Turnip Truck
- Education in Indiana
- It Is All About Heart In The Heartland
- Boo In Illinois
- Sierra Vista Halloween Event Full of Character
Naked Running Pumpkins
November 1, 2008
Nudity is almost as big of a taboo in the United States as incest. This is an unfortunate situation. I find myself wondering how as a people we can call ourselves enlightened when the simplest of things is hush hush and dirty. I know it tied to the puritanical ways of our ancestors who came to this country to hide from crazy European sex, but it is we give up our prudish ways. it is time we stop thinking of nudity, the very form the God of Christians let infants be born with, as a taboo. It isn’t like I am advocating that we be allowed to make love to more than one woman at a time or stop having to learn her name. Nudity is what it is, our body, and if we truly believe that we own it we shouldn’t be afraid to go around in it, clothed or unclothed.
Hundreds of nude runners take to streets : County News : Boulder Daily Camera
Hundreds of nude runners take to streets
10th year of Naked Pumpkin Run gets rowdy; police issue ticketsBy Laura Snider (Contact)
Friday, October 31, 2008
An unidentified man runs along Pearl Street at the start of the 10th annual Naked Pumpkin Run in Boulder on Friday night.An unidentified man runs along Pearl Street at the start of the 10th annual Naked Pumpkin Run in Boulder on Friday night.
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10th Annual Naked Pumpkin RunAndrea DuBay, front left, Liz Kassab, second from front right, and Teresa Ayandele, front right, pose for a photo with a naked man on the corner of Pearl and Eleventh Streets during the 10th annual Naked Pumpkin Run in Boulder on Friday night.
The 10th annual Naked Pumpkin Run in Boulder turned rowdy, as police began ticketing some participants for indecent exposure late Friday night and hundreds of other costumed revelers started chanting “Let them go!” and telling officers to “find real criminals.”
A man in a red cape and sword climbed the pinnacle in front of the Boulder County Courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall, leading the chant with his sword.
About a dozen people were ticketed shortly after the crowd started its Halloween run at 10:45 p.m.
The group of runners, who annually shed their clothes and streak Pearl Street wearing only pumpkins over their heads, was huge this year — and that was part of the concern for police, who have rarely ticketed runners in other years.
“We wanted to do something before (the event) got out of hand,” said Police Chief Mark Beckner. “This was a good opportunity to enforce the law.”
In past years, police haven’t had the staffing levels to ticket the runners, Beckner said, but this year the Halloween run fell on a Friday when a lot of officers were scheduled to work. Beckner likened streaking to speeding — police can’t catch them all, but they do what they can.
This year’s streakers were a diverse group — young and old, who were costumed as vixens and nuns, ghosts and witches earlier in the night. Veteran runners were handing out a few useful tips to the newbies in the backyard of a house on Grove Street before the run.
The inside of a freshly gutted pumpkin is slimy, and the squash helmet is bound to slide around on a runner’s hair.
“Handles are the most important thing in pumpkin running,” said a second-year runner who preferred not to identify himself.
You also need visibility, said the man, who had carved his jack-o-lantern upside-down so he could peek out of the wide mouth as he ran.
Others aren’t so modest — with their bodies or their names.
“This is my second time; it’s so liberating,” said Jill Fountain. “It’s a whole bunch of people taking off their clothes. It’s like making fun of being nude.”
Shortly after 10 p.m., a Norseman (who appeared to be one of the leaders) started to rally the troops. You must have a trash bag for your clothes if you run, he told the crowd. And most important, don’t throw away your pumpkin — this is Boulder, after all.
“We are composting the pumpkins,” he yelled. “Await further instructions after the run.”
Though police haven’t typically busted up the naked fun run, city officials did warn the public earlier this week that tickets weren’t out of the question.
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- Wasilla Not A Hundred Percent on Palin
- Vet: Six-legged deer soon to have four legs - Alabama
- Jonesboro High School Rallies Past Marion
- Florida nudist community wants clothing-optional polling site
- Mock Elections Give Deleware to Democrats
- Cross Country and Across The Country
- Life Doesn’t Have The Same Meaning It Used To
- Naked Running Pumpkins
- Early Voting Big in Georgia
- Pumpkin Chunkin
- Runners Push Barriers
- Early Voting In The South
- Obama Wins Minnesota
- Alternate Education In Michigan
- Separate But Equal In Massachusetts
- Scholarship in Maryland
- Racing Back Across The Country
- Sunshine Sunflowers and Sons of
- Kentucky Common Sense
- Obama Wins Iowa
- Fresh off The Turnip Truck
- Education in Indiana
- It Is All About Heart In The Heartland
- Boo In Illinois
- Sierra Vista Halloween Event Full of Character
Vet: Six-legged deer soon to have four legs - Alabama
November 1, 2008
Vet: Six-legged deer soon to have four legs
08/18/08
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A six-legged deer found in Rome that captured the interest of the nation is about to become much more normal.
According to veterinarian Dan Pate with West Rome Animal Clinic — who cared for the deer after it was attacked by dogs — the animal is undergoing surgery today to remove its two inner rear legs.
The deer, nicknamed Spyder, is under the care of an Athens-area wild life rehabilitator.
Pate said the surgery is being performed by Dr. Tim Crowe, a former professor at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine.
The deer used a leg from each of its two pelvises to walk, so today’s procedure involves taking a leg from each pelvis.
It’s not yet known whether the surgery will allow the deer to be released into the wild.
Click here for video and here for more photos of the six-legged deer.
Sphere: Related ContentTable of contents for November 1 2008 News Wrap-Up
- Wasilla Not A Hundred Percent on Palin
- Vet: Six-legged deer soon to have four legs - Alabama
- Jonesboro High School Rallies Past Marion
- Florida nudist community wants clothing-optional polling site
- Mock Elections Give Deleware to Democrats
- Cross Country and Across The Country
- Life Doesn’t Have The Same Meaning It Used To
- Naked Running Pumpkins
- Early Voting Big in Georgia
- Pumpkin Chunkin
- Runners Push Barriers
- Early Voting In The South
- Obama Wins Minnesota
- Alternate Education In Michigan
- Separate But Equal In Massachusetts
- Scholarship in Maryland
- Racing Back Across The Country
- Sunshine Sunflowers and Sons of
- Kentucky Common Sense
- Obama Wins Iowa
- Fresh off The Turnip Truck
- Education in Indiana
- It Is All About Heart In The Heartland
- Boo In Illinois
- Sierra Vista Halloween Event Full of Character
Food For Thought
May 15, 2008
With everything those crazy Floridans have been pulling I am not sure one message here is a bad thing. Melting Glaciers = What’s The Big Deal - Florida actually sounds pretty good, Of course Floridans being who they are always wanting government intervention to save them from the evils of the world will no doubt demand flood walls built across the entire state. When that is not enough I can see the religious nut jobs finally turning back to prayer rather than the little Dutch boy putting his finger over the leak. I actually can’t wait until they have Christian thinking they can fight the tide of change by sticking their fingers into the dripping holes of dykes.
The next laughable message is for Hillary Clinton. Denial = What I Think - The Facts. Enough said!
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April 25, 2008
We have finally gotten rid of the Olympic torch and Bong Hits For Jesus has once again made its way to the background, when what should happen but another school censorship case lands in the federal courts. While Some of the federal courts have decided it is fine to censor a drug message with the saviors image attached to it, even thought Israeli scientists have concluded Moses was in fact stoned probably the entire way trip out of Egypt. Back to the point at hand. While one federal courts says no to Jesus and Buddah, another one says a Chicago area school can’t ban a students from wearing anti-gay t-shirts. With this verdict from Chicago the count is one for the Savior, one for Leviticus, and one for the big gay love affair the government has for campaign contributing Christiandom.
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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me….
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When did we lose ourselves? When was it a mark of a good parenting to have a kid grown up long before time? The problem is it isn’t a sign of good parenting. The fact is trying to make your children more adult is simply another way not take responsibility for them. In the end, yes, your kids need to be responsible, but so do you as a parent.
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