Pumpkins are elastic and can be expanded by vigorous inflation with a bicycle pump.

The rare orange pumpkin is considered a delicacy in certain parts of the USA, when it is eaten raw with a sprinkling of anchovy. The more common purple pumpkin is only edible when combined with jalapeno peppers and a small amount of carob paste to make rissoles.

Pumpkin carving only became popular in Latvia after it was discovered to ward against the visits of Jehovah's Witnesses.

I have a giant pumpkin for a head. I need to carve out eyes for myself every morning because they heal over when I go to sleep.

That was too disturbing - I shan't post anything more about pumpkins now.

Pumpkins are just a large form of nutmeg which arose after colonists attempted to interbreed that delicious spice with plains buffalo in order to have pre-tenderised meat. Wild pumpkin herds are almost extinct now, though, following a devastating outbreak of rind and pip disease.

My mother uses a pumpkin as a bowling ball. It tends to leak a bit on its way down the lane, but it makes for a delicious snack as it is served up by the ball return machine.

Plenty more where those came from!

Pumpkins are giant amoebæ with bad cholesterol.

I am the Queen.

I am a Queen.

We are the Queen

We are the champions

...of the Commonwealth... (thank you TBT)

...Games.

Scientific high-vacuum equipment rely on colonies of microscopic vacuum squirrels, that gather and horde the molecules from the air.

I tried to manage a haunted house once, but could only eek out a living.

I have never eeked in my life and even peeking is not in my nature.

It is now an hour earlier than you think it is (UK only).

I am Tiger Woods

I am one of Tiger Woods' woods.