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		"We babied this thing for 147 days," says man of his 252-pound watermelon (abcnews.go.com)		53
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Joliet_Jake		2006-08-29 05:11:17 PM

Nice melons.

I Love Redhead Men		2006-08-29 05:11:39 PM

Pics?

Joed112784		2006-08-29 05:11:58 PM

useless without pictures

Farkie von Farkenstiel		2006-08-29 05:13:12 PM

We ate and ate and ate, and still had some to go home
Is anyone else turned on?

a17rwk		2006-08-29 05:14:18 PM

So are oil prices going up or down because of this?

The_Sponge		2006-08-29 05:14:52 PM

Damn! I was trying to find that Far Side cartoon where these cave men just killed a giant watermelon.

/Can somebody help a farker out with this one?

toonz		2006-08-29 05:15:27 PM

nobody puts babied watermelon in a corner!

Altoid		2006-08-29 05:15:49 PM

Agreed. Whats the point of an article about obscenely large produce without photographs of said produce?

This is on part with that article about german cake thieves accompanies by a four year old picture of a mexican kid carving into a birthday cake.

bootC13		2006-08-29 05:16:13 PM

"Monster melons became the Sistrunks' hobby two years ago". ive got something in common with these guys.

Purelilac		2006-08-29 05:17:10 PM

Why the Unlikely tag?

KrispyKringle		2006-08-29 05:18:01 PM

Altoid: He was Chinese.

FecalMatters		2006-08-29 05:18:02 PM

Bet it tastes like shiat

stabnsteer		2006-08-29 05:18:04 PM

Geez...that's 1.7 pounds a day. They could practically watch that baby grow...

Kinda like my wife's bell...ouch! Ouch! Stop hitting me...!!

dbaggins		2006-08-29 05:20:06 PM

not sure if the site can handle the hits. we'll see.

berylman		2006-08-29 05:20:49 PM

People talk about these gigantic watermelons in near reverential terms like it is something miraculous. I geuss it makes a quaint "no one was hurt today" news item however.

/Show me a 250 lb. wild blueberry, my friend, and then we'll talk.

ben jovi cucumberledge		2006-08-29 05:20:57 PM

mmmmm, big melons are my favorite!

www.scottobear.com

/hot link
//not safe to touch

Cassata26		2006-08-29 05:21:01 PM

The_Sponge

It was a carrot

www.eas.slu.edu

ga362		2006-08-29 05:21:46 PM

trivia time. where is the watermelon originally from?

RoadRage78		2006-08-29 05:23:54 PM

That child is not Chinese, He's Mexican, considering that he looks Mexican, and the picture was taken in Mexico City, in April... of 2002. Leave it to Reuters to put a 4 1/2 year old picture in a recent news story, farkin morons.

0MGWTFBBQ		2006-08-29 05:24:57 PM

the real question, is how much vodka can you pour into that thing?

irving47		2006-08-29 05:25:29 PM

People who submit articles with no pictures about inordinately large objects should be banned from even submitting for a year.

dbaggins		2006-08-29 05:25:44 PM

KrispyKringle		2006-08-29 05:25:50 PM

RoadRage78: If he's not Chinese, then how come the headline says he is? Answer that, eh, smart guy?

Your argument crumbles before my impenetrable logic.

dbaggins		2006-08-29 05:27:03 PM

Chinese-Mexican watermelon babies ?

hisphrenic		2006-08-29 05:27:33 PM

That's a lot of seeds to spit.

RoadRage78		2006-08-29 05:28:25 PM

KrispyKringle: Please tell me you don't believe everything you read! Give me some hope.

\Hates Reuters

statsman		2006-08-29 05:28:50 PM

I'd expect a 254 pound watermelon to be bigger.

statsman		2006-08-29 05:29:52 PM

I mean 252 pounds. Still think it should be bigger.

KrispyKringle		2006-08-29 05:30:26 PM

RoadRage78: Of course not. I have a very critical eye. That's why I didn't fall for Yahoo's caption claiming it to be a Mexican baby when it was really a Chinese one. Because I don't fall for that media spin like you do.

Take some of your own advice, buddy.

Cassata26		2006-08-29 05:33:30 PM

Wow... I stand corrected

cretinbob		2006-08-29 05:33:40 PM

//one of the few sfw GIS "big melons" pics. from or friends at The Smoking Gun

Andy Andy		2006-08-29 05:36:45 PM

That's not even the record, but they're getting close.

nothing beats the pumpkins for size, though.

waste301		2006-08-29 05:37:33 PM

PICS

vstheworld		2006-08-29 05:37:45 PM

this thread is useless without pixxx.

ElBarto79		2006-08-29 05:41:36 PM

Did somebody say big melons?

dbaggins		2006-08-29 05:42:42 PM

I throw up a little in my mouth when I see these gigantor breast implants.

theorellior		2006-08-29 05:45:02 PM

dbaggins: I throw up a little in my mouth when I see these gigantor breast implants.

Not to mention those lip implants.

dbaggins		2006-08-29 05:46:26 PM

if boobs are like chocolate...

then something like that is what ? chocolate enemas ?

KrispyKringle		2006-08-29 05:51:21 PM

Jesus. Why would someone have that done? And what doctor would do it without violating his oath?

ScorpioT		2006-08-29 05:56:46 PM

I throw up a little in my mouth when I see these gigantor breast implants.

Yea me too. Ugh she is HORRID looking.

ElBarto79		2006-08-29 05:57:27 PM

KrispyKringle

"Jesus. Why would someone have that done? And what doctor would do it without violating his oath?"

It's Lolo Ferrari, I don't think she was entirely sane to begin with.

vincent_blackshadow		2006-08-29 06:10:12 PM

"We started them in cups in March and then put them in the ground on GOOD FRIDAY. They were about 3 inches..."

/with or without the thorns & nails?

Transhumanist		2006-08-29 06:17:50 PM

That's a helluvaway to talk about your wife.

veedeevadeevoodee		2006-08-29 06:21:43 PM

The Principle of Percussive Maintenance:

If you can't fix it with a hammer ...
Get a bigger hammer !!!

NYMoogle		2006-08-29 06:27:55 PM

But did he tar baby the watermelons? Cuz that would just be racist.

DiamondSmasher		2006-08-29 06:31:46 PM

The article gave the length and circumference of the melon. Divide circumference by 3.14 to find diameter.

neednap		2006-08-29 06:38:38 PM

DiamondSmasher: Divide circumference by 3.14 to find diameter.

Would that be watermelon pi? Mmmmmm, juicy!

ipomoea		2006-08-29 07:16:51 PM

Railbird3		2006-08-29 07:36:10 PM

0MGWTFBBQ

the real question, is how much vodka can you pour into that thing?

Screw that... How much Everclear can you put in there?

[ralph]
"This watermelon tastes like burning! .... I want more!"
[/ralph]