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Herpderpedia
People who don’t understand why Wikipedia is “down.” Priceless.
Back to the start (Chipotle)
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How doctors die
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“Last weekend, The New York Botanical Garden brought on master food sculptor Ray Villafane to carve zombies out of two giant pumpkins, one of which was the world’s heaviest pumpkin. He used the “pale flesh Brant and Eleanor Bordsen’s 1,693 pound pumpkin for the zombies” and the world record-holding 1818.5 pound pumpkin from Kelsey and Jim Bryson was used as the base.”
[via Laughing Squid]
This entire sculpture is awesome, but using those messy, stringy pumpkin innards as zombie gore is a particularly nice touch.
awesome!
(via hushlittleghostlings)