This year’s annual Pumpkin Drop at West Virgina University in Morgantown has been scheduled for Friday, October 26. Start planning now! More information will appear soon at http://www.mae.cemr.wvu.edu/ .
To catch a glimpse of Team Muse’s last entry (and of Robert, Nak, and Nak’s son Aaron), check out The Koko Bomb Saga on the Muse Fan Page.
Meanwhile, if you hear about any other pumpkin drops elsewhere, just let us know, and we’ll post the information here.
oh COOL. can i be on the team?
Anyone who can make it to Morgantown on the last Friday in October is on the team, as far as I’m concerned.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I probably won’t be able to go :'(
ha ha that is really cool XD
but i live in upstate NY.
dewd, dat’s kewl, kan ei bee on da teem?!!
Man. I live in a suburb of CHICAGO. And that’s my friends BIRTHDAY.
POO. (is that an acceptable exclamation, GAPA?)
Well, I’ve got about as much chance of making it as a rabbit does laying an egg, but it sounds really cool. Maybe I’ll try thinking up some plans anyway.
schweet!
… but i liv in northern michigan
but it sounds cool!
yay! altho i won’t be able to go, it’s nice dreaming….
I live in Upstate NY, and I can’t go. Best of luck, and I hope Koko Bomb is seucessful!
If i start saving my pennies, i might be able to go. if you see a crazy vegetairan blondie wearing a politicakl t-shirt, that’s me.
Actually, I might be able to go…actually, no, I probably won’t. but, if you see someone with red hair, hazel eyes, and green and purple shoes, it might be me.
those shoes sound REALLY FROODY! I want some!
I will also be skipping and singing the Charbonneau Song. You will notice me.
Cool!!!!!!! *hyperventilates* at what time is it? I may have a hard time convincing my parents to let me out of school…
Darn, why does it have to be on a school day? I live in Kentucky, though, so it’s not that far away – I’ll definitely try to be there! If you see a rather short, extremely shy girl with frizzy brown hair and dark brown eyes, most likely wearing jeans and a shirt with something in Latin or a scene from Monty Python on the front, that’ll probably be me.
I’ll have to make a MB t-shirt…
i live in New Jersey. :cry:!
NOTE:
I will be busy for the next week, and I won’t be able to visit the Museblog. It would make me very happy, if some of you posted ideas on the ‘Muse Movie?’ thread while I’m gone, to show that your not giving up on the fight.
Thank you.
See you soon.
I actually might make it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you think showing up in WV wearing a “LIke a rock, only dumber” tshirt w/ bush’s face on it would get me in trouble?
people who might actually make it:
Otzi
Eccentric
Sweet Melpomene
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MuseBlog
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Something tells me those italics aren’t going to turn out like I’d hoped…
You know, I think I’ll actually make like 10 of them and figure out some way to mail it to some ppl without knowing their addresses. Is there a way to do that, GAPA?
I don’t think so. Even GAPAs don’t allow themselves to know people’s addresses. If Samablamablous at the magazine agreed, you could send them to her, and people could send her self-addressed envelopes stamped with enough postage to mail a T-shirt… but that would be a little complicated.
You could sell them online! That’d be kewl. I would totally buy one.
If you wanted to have MB t-shirts for all the MBers there, you could just make them in advance and hand them out to the people who come.
If I can find a plain shirt to write on, I’ll put the text from post 23 on it, but it’ll probably look kind of sloppy. Or maybe I’ll just write “ECCENTRIC THE AFTERTHOUGHT” in big, bold letters so you’ll know it’s me. ^.~
28- that would work… i want to go!!!!!!!!!
where is it again?
Morganstown, West Virginia.
Nooooooooooooo!!!! Death, doom and destruction! It is on a FRIDAY, so a religious Jew such as myself cannot go. Curses!
*cries*
I probably can’t go either! I think I live to far away *cries with Phoenix*
I can’t go. Have fun, though! I’ll root for you.
how much of the 31% live in WV???
This isn’t about the Pumpkin Drop, but it’s not entirely off-topic because this post also concerns a potential offline meeting place for musebloggers. I think the NJCL has been mentioned in the past, so I’m wondering, is anyone planning on attending the NJCL Convention at Indiana University this year?
36- I don’t think there are any NJCL chapters near where I live…
What is the NJCL?
National Junior Classical League.
37 – I don’t have a chapter where I live, either, but apparently for $6 you can join the league as an “at-large member” and go to conventions.
38 – You can find out more at
www.njcl.org(although the link might get zapped).[We’ll compromise this time. –Admin.]
Oh!!!!!!!!!!!! I have an idea! You guys need to get a LOT of peanutbutter and put it in the container the pumpkin is dropping! Seriously!!!!! It really works!
Please just ignore me while I have this totally DIRP-ish moment. It would really work, but where would you get that much peanutbutter?
40- Where I live, if you join Latin club, you pay like $5 dues and the teacher uses that to enter everyone in the NJCL. And then they go to the competitions and stuff. Of course, our Latin program has about 80 people in it, and Latin club about 10-20, so it isn’t exactly a big program, but still..
GotES,
Good idea! I think there’s a “no fluids” rule, though. Otherwise I suspect we’d have seen a lot of shaving cream splashing around. I’ll check.
Actually, I think Aaron’s original trash-can idea would work if it had a bigger, sturdier parachute and different padding (maybe an inflated trash bag). But there are other designs I’d like to try, too, and I’m certainly open to suggestions from any MuseBloggers.
Suspension.
How about stuffing teddy bears around the pumpkin for padding? That would involve the sacrifice of a lot of teddies, but it’d be worth it if the pumpkin survived.
Id be willing to sacrifice.
Howbout layers of uh……………….Cotton balls.
Hmm…something to absorb the impact. Which was why I suggested just suspending it somehow in the middle of a container…*ponders*
I’d suggest something to absorb and spread the impact. You could cushion the pumpkin with an inflated bag or balloon, or hang it like a punching bag inside a nylon stocking.
GAPA, you’re very smart. But you knew that already.
omg that sounds so awesome i will deff. be there cant miss it