NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me radio show is holding a pumpkin carving contest this year. Here are the rules:
Carve a pumpkin based on somebody, or something, in the news. Maybe Joe Biden! Maybe balloon boy! Maybe an avant garde piece representing Kate Gosselin’s hair! Up to you. Take a picture, send it to us at waitwait (at) npr (dot) org. We’ll post them up here, and our favorite gets Carl’s voice on their home answering machine.
Arin and I really want to win, so we hosted a Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me Pumpkin Carving Party this past Sunday.
First we did some brainstorming with the whiteboard and wrote down all the newsworthy events of 2009 we could think of. We then set out carving and thinking of the best (worst) newsworthy Halloween themed puns we possibly could. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
Also, some notable pun-kins who didn’t make the cut (get it?):
- Wacko Jacko-Lantern
- White House first dog, Boo Obama
- US Airways pilot and hero, John Skully
