The Great Pumpkin is an unseen character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.The Great Pumpkin is a holiday figure (comparable to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny) that seems to exist only in the imagination of Linus van Pelt. Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. The Great Pumpkin was first mentioned by Linus in the comic strip in 1959, but the Great Pumpkin invariably fails to appear, and a humiliated but undefeated Linus vows to wait for him again the following Halloween.
This premise was reworked by Schulz many times throughout the run of the Peanuts strip, and also forms the basis for the 1966 animated television special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The best-known quote regarding Linus and the Great Pumpkin, originally from the comic strip but made famous by the TV special, is "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."
1,674-pound SD pumpkin just shy of world record
By Associated Press | Friday, October 8, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Central
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PARKER, S.D. — This pumpkin weighs nearly enough to be Cinderella’s coach.
South Dakota farmer Kevin Marsh of Parker knows his 1,674-pound pumpkin isn’t pretty — it’s won an ugliest pumpkin award at a Colorado event. But it’s also only 51 pounds shy of the world record listed by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth.
It’s not the first big pumpkin Marsh has grown. One he grew earlier this year was 1,536 pounds, and he had one at 1,488 pounds last year.
Marsh says he doesn’t have any big secrets for growing behemoth squash. He says he buries vines as they grow so they get double the amount of roots, and uses a lot of organic fertilizers.
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