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This week it was vsitors looking at an octopus made out of pumpkins at a pumkin exhibition in Germany.
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. Clint75
The vegetarian's dilemma.
5. TubaMiriam
This was a hard act to follow for the Potato Exhibition.
4. Kudosless
On the last day of the transfer window, Arsene Wenger signs a new defender based on his "ten tackles" reputation alone
3. Mike Newcastle
I wouldn't have ordered a main if I'd seen the size of the starter.
2. Rogueslr
I've got to hand it to you Muammar, that's a damned fine disguise.
1. Bradmer
Without their CGI budget, Pirates of the Caribbean 5 was in danger of flopping.
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Comment number 1.
At 1st Sep 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:Sick squid for a pumpkin? You've got to be joking!
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Comment number 2.
At 1st Sep 2011, Raven Clare wrote:Oh gourd! Look at the size of that thing!
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Comment number 3.
At 1st Sep 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:Octo pumpkin pi
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Comment number 4.
At 1st Sep 2011, Raven Clare wrote:Yeah, you've got to get your eight-a-day
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Comment number 5.
At 1st Sep 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:If it's an octo-pus, why does it have ten-tacles?
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Comment number 6.
At 1st Sep 2011, Raven Clare wrote:"Pumkin"? Is someone taking the 'p'?
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Comment number 7.
At 1st Sep 2011, rogueslr wrote:Here's the sick squid I owe you.
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Comment number 8.
At 1st Sep 2011, rogueslr wrote:Just what is the deal with Germans and octopi?
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Comment number 9.
At 1st Sep 2011, Raven Clare wrote:The octopus is called Ian. "Hallo, Ian."
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Comment number 10.
At 1st Sep 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:Just a few seconds before, the octopus had been sitting in a nice, warm horse-drawn carriage ...
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Comment number 11.
At 1st Sep 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:Yeah, we had them all sent over when the Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival had finished
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Comment number 12.
At 1st Sep 2011, rogueslr wrote:I've got to hand it to you Muammar, that's a damned fine disguise.
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Comment number 13.
At 1st Sep 2011, Raven Clare wrote:It's a Jack-o-Langen
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Comment number 14.
At 1st Sep 2011, Rob Falconer wrote:We're going on a camping holiday, and you thought tentacles were small tents?
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Comment number 15.
At 1st Sep 2011, Raven Clare wrote:It's a cephalopod mollusc. And the 大象传媒 reckons we can get a pun out of that?
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Comment number 16.
At 1st Sep 2011, DissingDave wrote:Paul, the World Cup result predicting Octopus, is remembered by those crazy Germans in pumpkin form. Unfortunately, rather like Paul, the sculpture is now decomposing!
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Comment number 17.
At 1st Sep 2011, rogueslr wrote:Paul the octopus gets one last prediction right when he selects pumpkins for Halloween.
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Comment number 18.
At 1st Sep 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:OK, so it's not very musical. but it can't half play the drums
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Comment number 19.
At 1st Sep 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:Yeah, it's Ringo Starr's entry
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Comment number 20.
At 1st Sep 2011, DissingDave wrote:Even an octopus knows that there are times when only a squash will do!
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Comment number 21.
At 1st Sep 2011, Kudosless wrote:On the last day of the transfer window, Arsene Wenger signs a new defender based on his "ten tackles" reputation alone
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Comment number 22.
At 1st Sep 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:I wanted pumpkin pie, not octo-pi
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Comment number 23.
At 1st Sep 2011, Gray Gable wrote:鈥淎lien Foxtrot Twelve to Alien Control, I鈥檓 not sure about the eight legged disguise..鈥
鈥淎lien Control here, what about Alpha One?鈥
鈥淗e鈥檚 not sure either, along with the rest of them in the orange makeup..鈥
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Comment number 24.
At 1st Sep 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Well, I reckon it's a very poor tribute to the thirteenth James Bond film
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Comment number 25.
At 1st Sep 2011, LaurenceLane wrote:Michael Myers returns in Halloween 8 and this time it's tentacular!
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Comment number 26.
At 1st Sep 2011, bradmer wrote:"Peter Peter" was in for the shock of his life!
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Comment number 27.
At 1st Sep 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:It's meant to be symbolic of Germany n the 1930's
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Comment number 28.
At 1st Sep 2011, david regan wrote:Jealous man looks on in disbelief at the size of the huge tes..... sorry tentacles !!
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Comment number 29.
At 1st Sep 2011, Kudosless wrote:Munich Acht-uber-Feast
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Comment number 30.
At 1st Sep 2011, Frankonline wrote:Whats the area of a circular pumkin pie and octopus display ? .. Ocotopi r squared.
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Comment number 31.
At 1st Sep 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:I think they said it was created by some Irishman, Cal O'Malley
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Comment number 32.
At 1st Sep 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:When the octopus got frightened, the display turned into a tribute to Gutenberg
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Comment number 33.
At 1st Sep 2011, bradmer wrote:Beatles fans will be furious! Its not under the sea. Its not a garden. Its not in the shade.
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Comment number 34.
At 1st Sep 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:An octopus? But I said I wanted the display to feature eight cats.
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Comment number 35.
At 1st Sep 2011, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Mashing pumpkins
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Comment number 36.
At 1st Sep 2011, david regan wrote:Superpumpkinmadetolooklikegiantoctopuses
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Comment number 37.
At 1st Sep 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:How did they do it? Actually, I was wondering why ...
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Comment number 38.
At 1st Sep 2011, bradmer wrote:Without their CGI budget, Pirates of the Caribbean 5 was in danger of flopping.
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Comment number 39.
At 1st Sep 2011, johnc wrote:Fruit de la Mer
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Comment number 40.
At 1st Sep 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:Continuing the Theme, the next display was "Twenty Thousand Leeks Under the Sea"
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Comment number 41.
At 1st Sep 2011, Whatever Next wrote:Creating new designs to get Johnny to eat his dinner was getting more and more challenging!
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Comment number 42.
At 1st Sep 2011, bradmer wrote:Must have cost a few squid!
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Comment number 43.
At 1st Sep 2011, Steele Hawker wrote:Actually, it's meant to represent Dale Winton being attacked by a giant squid
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Comment number 44.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:I expect you to dry,Mr Bond
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Comment number 45.
At 1st Sep 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:Oranges and lemonsole
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Comment number 46.
At 1st Sep 2011, johnc wrote:So this is an octopus' garden in the shade
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Comment number 47.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:I ink I love you
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Comment number 48.
At 1st Sep 2011, Nick Fowler wrote:They fall for it every time! Suckers!
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Comment number 49.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:Octo-pie
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Comment number 50.
At 1st Sep 2011, JimmyG wrote:So, Paul! Who's going to win the Rugby World Cup?
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Comment number 51.
At 1st Sep 2011, Valerie Ganne wrote:And Hurricane Irene blew this poor mollusc many thousands of miles inland
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Comment number 52.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:We're going to need a bigger pot
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Comment number 53.
At 1st Sep 2011, JimmyG wrote:Charlie wasn't happy that the crabs were pinching his pumpkins.
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Comment number 54.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:Bean there done that
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Comment number 55.
At 1st Sep 2011, Steele Hawker wrote:I wish I spoke German - at least then I might understand the connection between octopuses and pumpkins
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Comment number 56.
At 1st Sep 2011, MAJM wrote:Mother :- "Kannst du z盲hlen die Tentakeln des Octopus?"
Child :- "Nein"
Mother :- "Nine??"
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Comment number 57.
At 1st Sep 2011, JimmyG wrote:Anyone fancy a game of squash?!
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Comment number 58.
At 1st Sep 2011, david regan wrote:As the expedition started, some of the group just could not believe that they were about to cross the Calamari Desert !!!
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Comment number 59.
At 1st Sep 2011, Steele Hawker wrote:The display had been created using horticultural tips from Ringo Starr
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Comment number 60.
At 1st Sep 2011, Frankonline wrote:Guests arrive at the Premier to "Halloween 6 - Michael Myers and the maniacal mollusc".
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Comment number 61.
At 1st Sep 2011, JimmyG wrote:Excuse me! Have you seen Nemo?
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Comment number 62.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:You must be out of your gourd
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Comment number 63.
At 1st Sep 2011, Valerie Ganne wrote:The tribute to Herman Melville only proved that Moby Dick hadn't been translated into German very well
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Comment number 64.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:Gourmet or just gourd, then?
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Comment number 65.
At 1st Sep 2011, Candace9839 wrote:The great pumpkin's security detail was a force to be reckoned with
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Comment number 66.
At 1st Sep 2011, Steele Hawker wrote:And this is by Jackson Mollusc
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Comment number 67.
At 1st Sep 2011, Gray Gable wrote:Arsenal鈥檚 late signing of a new goalkeeper proved controversial on account of his boots..
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Comment number 68.
At 1st Sep 2011, Kudosless wrote:"I bet Fritz'll not win the Pump-kin Seller of the Year Award again"
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Comment number 69.
At 1st Sep 2011, Steele Hawker wrote:Hang on! Shouldn't that be a Sept-opus?
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Comment number 70.
At 1st Sep 2011, johnc wrote:As the pumpkin octopus display slowly shrank with onlookers helping themselves, the brussels sprout coral reef remained intact.
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Comment number 71.
At 1st Sep 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:"Orange dresses didn't work, but perhaps this will," mused Bavaria beer executives.
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Comment number 72.
At 1st Sep 2011, Steele Hawker wrote:I asked it to point out the way to Ludwigsburg, but I'm all confused now
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Comment number 73.
At 1st Sep 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Pies of eight
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Comment number 74.
At 1st Sep 2011, Steele Hawker wrote:Things to do witr pumpkins #1 - make an octopus
Things to do with pumpkins #2 - not eat them
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Comment number 75.
At 1st Sep 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Slime me to the moon
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Comment number 76.
At 1st Sep 2011, johnc wrote:Not wanting to be outdone by the pumpkin-rich, octopoid artistry of the display, Esther Rantzen ran up brandishing a rudely shaped carrot.
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Comment number 77.
At 1st Sep 2011, Valerie Ganne wrote:Kraken' Pumpkins
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Comment number 78.
At 1st Sep 2011, Valerie Ganne wrote:Kraken' pumpkins, Gromit
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Comment number 79.
At 1st Sep 2011, johnc wrote:The age old question. What would you wish to be attacked by, a pumpkin shaped octopus or an octopus shaped pumpkin?
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Comment number 80.
At 1st Sep 2011, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Tentacley speaking...
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Comment number 81.
At 1st Sep 2011, Discombobulator wrote:Ten things to do with a pumpkin.
1) Pumpkin pie
2) Halloween lanterns
3) err.....
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Comment number 82.
At 1st Sep 2011, TheSamePeopleAlwaysGetPicked wrote:Vegetarian Sushi?
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Comment number 83.
At 1st Sep 2011, Kudosless wrote:Funny. I don't remember eating that
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Comment number 84.
At 1st Sep 2011, Valerie Ganne wrote:Built in the local airport, it was known as the Jack o' Lantern strip
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At 1st Sep 2011, Valerie Ganne wrote:Irene looks on at the devastation she's caused
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Comment number 86.
At 1st Sep 2011, Reeve Burgess wrote:It's easy to get confused between tentacles and melon balls
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Comment number 87.
At 1st Sep 2011, Kudosless wrote:Mercedes had overcome their A-Class problems with the elk test.
Now for the Sea-Class ...
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Comment number 88.
At 1st Sep 2011, Reeve Burgess wrote:So which is it? Paully Octopus or Sick Squid?
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Comment number 89.
At 1st Sep 2011, Pendragon wrote:Octopuses, octopi or octopodes? I never know, so thank goodness there's only one of them.
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Comment number 90.
At 1st Sep 2011, Pendragon wrote:I didn't know whether to ask for two octopuses or two octopi, so, in the end, I asked for one, and then added a PS "Better make that two"
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Comment number 91.
At 1st Sep 2011, Polly S wrote:The ghost of Paul, being pressed to predict for Euro 2012, felt that the odds had been stacked heavily in Holland's favour
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Comment number 92.
At 1st Sep 2011, Warro wrote:Yes children, if you don't eat your vegtables this is the monster that will come and get you!
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Comment number 93.
At 1st Sep 2011, Pendragon wrote:No, it's for Oktoberfest, you fool!
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Comment number 94.
At 1st Sep 2011, Pendragon wrote:Oktopusfest
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Comment number 95.
At 1st Sep 2011, Reeve Burgess wrote:OK, but I didn't want to steal any of your stupid old pumpkins, anyway
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Comment number 96.
At 1st Sep 2011, TubaMiriam wrote:This was a hard act to follow for the Potato Exhibition.
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At 1st Sep 2011, Mr Snoozy wrote:When "Ramsey's Kitchen nightmares" came back to haunt him...
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Comment number 98.
At 1st Sep 2011, SarahJaneSeddon wrote:What makes you think it was thrown out of a taxi cab?
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Comment number 99.
At 1st Sep 2011, Mr Snoozy wrote:After literally seconds of deliberation, scientists decide on "Octo-kin" rather than "Pump-apus" as the name for their new creation!
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At 1st Sep 2011, LaurenceLane wrote:They think it's uber alles, it is now!
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