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# oh my gourd

Last year

2022

My gourd, it's not a potato: New Zealand couple’s world record dream mashed

Guinness World Records wrote to say that testing had found Colin and Donna Craig-Brown’s find was in fact a tuber of a gourd.

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Mar 16th 2022, 11:21 AM

All time

A girl became a human jack o'lantern after getting her head stuck inside a pumpkin

Foolish.

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Oct 29th 2016, 4:22 PM

Here are the pumpkins a guy used to propose to his girlfriend

He must have been good with a Stanley knife.

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Nov 4th 2013, 7:51 AM