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How to Make Pumpkins Fly

(Nov. 14) - Start with one delightfully warped science project contest for grown-ups. Add a touch of county fair and a whole lot of tailgating. What do you get? Flying pumpkins. Every year on the first weekend after Halloween, competitors bring catapults, trebuchets, air cannons and all sorts of other pumpkin-launching...

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Pumpkin Chuckers Aim To Squash Football As Top Thanksgiving Sport (VIDEO)

One of the highlights of Thanksgiving is gathering around the TV to watch an oblong spheroid fly through the air.

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25th Anniversary World Punkin Chunkin Championships take place in Delaware

"It's the highest-rated event on the channel," said the Science Channel's general manager of programming and executive vice president Debbie Myers.

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11/24/11 Check Out Mythbuster's Annual 'Punkin Chunkin'... Source: Starpulse Discovery Channel and SCIENCE have teamed up for the return of PUNKIN CHUNKIN, the official annual extravaganza where teams of backyard "engi-nerds" gather in a Delaware cornfield to see whose homemade contraption can propel a pumpkin the farthest.
11/04/10 PUNKIN CHUNKIN RETURNS FOR THIRD YEAR OF HIGH-FLYING... Source: TheFutonCritic.com Fresh off last year's high-flying, nail-biting and explosive competition, PUNKIN CHUNKIN will air this Thanksgiving on Discovery Channel.

Background on punkin chunkin

Pumpkin Chucking, or for rhyming purposes Pumpkin Chunking (also called Punkin' Chunkin', Pumpkin Chunkin', and Punkin Chuckin') is the sport of hurling or 'chucking' a pumpkin by mechanical means for distance.

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