Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 20, 2013

splat

And Voila!

I’ll bet Janis could turn that squashed pumpkin into a great pumpkin pie!

Well…. at least …. I think… the jack-o-lantern got out!

That’s one way to remove excess pumpkin. Neighborhood kis usually are to blame, tho…

run pumpkin……run!

guess the pumpkin couldn’t wait.

I like to watch the trebuchets hurl pumpkins. Missed it last year.

Love Janis’ eyes in the 3rd panel! The jack-o-lantern became one with it’s pumpkin.

Actually, the pumpkin IS a kind of squash.

True: After having pumpkins kicked/stolen by neighbor-hoods; father of a friend resorted to painting concrete lawn ornament pumpkins orange..No further problems

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a pumpkin symmetrical enough to roll completely off a table. Leave it to Arlo to buy one that was.

Better shim up that corner leg.

Should it not have continued to roll or roll to a stop? That is one ripe pumpkin if it really when splat!

Trebuchets, air cannon, spud guns…… its all simply wonderful….

The horror! The horror!

It turns out the entire pumpkin was excess

Once I let a pumpkin sit on the ping-pong table in the Florida room (it was in Florida) for about a month. When I sought to remove it, I found that the bottom had seeped onto the table, causing a permanent pucker on the table’s surface. I shored up the bottom of the pumpkin somehow, carried it outside, and threw it onto the ground.. It went “splat:!” and landed flat as a pancake, with a canned-pumpkin like concoction cradled in a leathery shell. :- $

Michelangelo would have liked this, I’d bet.

Luddie! Look out!!