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If I put on my best Jack-o-lantern face do you think they would leave me alone???
Beat 360° 9/24/09 2009
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Sonic Boom and I went to a house that had a “McCain-Palin” Jack-o-lantern.
TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » With Liberty, Justice, and Trick-or-Treats for All 2008
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- For those who make no difference between the French words potiron & citrouille, I suppose they might call a Jack-o-lantern -- un “potiron lanterne”, (I assume the same people would also say that it is “un potiron lumineux”)
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Sonic Boom and I went to a house that had a “McCain-Palin” Jack-o-lantern.
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When the Irish came to America, Jack's turnip was exchanged for the more easily carved pumpkin and Stingy Jack's name lives on in "Jack-o-lantern."
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Jack-o-lantern luminaries on the Little Pig-Tailed Ghost cake's board?
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Your lawschool is so ugly and snaggletoothed that when it grinned area residents shoved a giant candle through its head and used it for a Jack-o-lantern which in turn frightened the children so badly trick-or-treating was cancelled for the next three decades resulting in a surplus of candy that ruined the economy.
U.S. News thoughtfully ranks the law schools for your edification and convenience. Ann Althouse 2009
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He looked left and right, ducked underneath, and casually placed the Jack-o-lantern front and center where it would live to make its own way in the Keene Pumpkin Festival, and maybe even to earn a living wage and to give its own pumpkin children a chance at a good education.
Bryan Bissell: New Hampshire - Tom Tancredo Stumpin' at the Pumpkin Fest 2008
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I noticed this and immediately pointed him toward the booth where people registered their pumpkins for the official Jack-o-lantern count before placing the pumpkins one of the many racks set up in town.
Bryan Bissell: New Hampshire - Tom Tancredo Stumpin' at the Pumpkin Fest 2008
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For those who make no difference between the French words potiron & citrouille, I suppose they might call a Jack-o-lantern -- un “potiron lanterne”, I assume the same people would also say that it is “un potiron lumineux”
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