A pumpkin by any other name

Two things to know about me: I love puns of all sorts, and I love Halloween. Being a Halloween connoisseur, I delight in finding out new things about my favorite holiday. Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across a site dedicated to teaching kids how to grow pumpkins from seeds. Even better, they list all sorts of nifty pumpkin names that tickled my funny bone.

There seems to be a plethora of Jacks in Halloween pumpkins way beyond Jack-O-Lantern. Just to drop a few names, there is Jumpin’ Jack, Jack of All Trades, Jackpot, Jack-B-Little, followed (swiftly, I’m sure) by Jack-B-Quick. Digging deeper, I found it just got better and better! Spooktacular, Casper, Baby Boo, Munchkin, Ghost Rider.

You can tell I’ve got some serious investigative pumpkin purchasing to do for our annual Halloween carve fest!

 

By the way, did I tell you the one about the three-legged dog who walked into a bar? He was looking for the man who shot his paw.

-- Jennifer