Comments on: Mellon Collie and the Seasonal Sadness

By: Kali

Kali — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:34:01 +0000

Thats so sad!! Same reason why I dont believe we can have pumpkins at our house. Its sad to think that you can’t even have a pumpkin on your porch without being afraid of it ending up in pieces on your lawn!!! I hope she got to carve at least one!

By: ariane

ariane — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:02:51 +0000

We had a “living fence” of waist-high nettles at the bottom of our vegetable garden because there was a tennis court next to it and people would come over and smash the plants and produce with their rackets under pretence of “looking for a lost tennis ball.” The city decided that the nettles (on our private property) were a “danger.” Instead of asking us to cut it down, they showed up one day, didn’t even knock on the door, cut the nettles and then fined us. If they had said, “You have to cut those” we would have done without a murmur. Oh, and the city workers trampled a row of beans in the process, too.

By: infanttyrone

infanttyrone — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:19:17 +0000

I remember walking to school uphill in the snow both ways…
waaaay back then we had a perpetual edit feature…

I knew then that Schroeder, not Linus,
was the Peanuts piano prodigy.
OK, back on your heads…

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:37:59 +0000

It’s amusing how Canthz has the hypocricy to claim that they can take a joke better than the rest of PAN when he/she (who the hell cares?) obviously can’t and will whine and use passive aggressive smilie faces with the best/worst of them.

Keep it up. I shall continue to eat popcorn and marvel at how ‘hilarious’ and ‘cool’ you think you’re being.

By: Jami

Jami — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:30:04 +0000

People should be allowed to raise their plants anywhere in their yard without having to worry about vandals.

I tried repeatedly to grow geraniums in my flower garden out front. Every single time within 24 hours of them being planted, someone would rip the entire plant out and throw it into the street. They never bothered the other plants. Just the geraniums.

My mom used to have a “living fence” of rose bushes. One day for no reason some guy poured used motor oil over every single rose bush. Since the house is on the corner that guy must’ve saved the oil for months to be able to cover every single bush.

By: Haley

Haley — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:11:18 +0000

Crazy idea: maybe instead of telling her, “someone smashed YOUR pumpkin! Goodness gracious, people are just terrible!” he could have just bought a similar looking pumpkin and set it in the patch for the final few days until they were ready to carve it. When I was a kid, some teenagers smashed my jack-o-lantern one year. My mom was lucky enough to catch it before I left for school and told me some weird lie about why it wasn’t on the porch, and she bought and carved a new pumpkin before I got home that day. I was none the wiser until she told me the story when I was in my twenties.

And, seriously, smashing pumpkins has been a teenage angst tradition for ages. If you leave your jack-o-lanterns outside, you’re being incredibly naive. Obviously this is a little different, since they took a growing plant directly off the vine specifically for smashing purposes, but my stance on jack-o-lanterns is firm.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:30:16 +0000

Can’t touch this pumpkin?

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:53:56 +0000

Sister Sledge and MC Hammer, I was thinking of.

I don’t think Smashing Pumpkins with Timmy’s Mallet (Spunky Punky Monkey or whatever it was called) would be a big hit. I love the Peter Gabriel, though.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:36:34 +0000

Past achievements?

Look at the upper right-hand corner of the page and see that you got Word of the day.

My bad…that’s me.

No wonder Alice is blue, her foot is in her mouth again! Wanna go for the Trifecta?

By: aliceblue

aliceblue — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:17:56 +0000

It’s funny to watch you sputter.

@emcd By Tom Jones you mean an over the hill horndog existing off of past achievements?

See you in the funny pages.

By: FeRD

FeRD — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:11:55 +0000

@Grant: The sadly-underappreciated 1980′s TV show, or the Peter Gabriel song?

@CB: I agree with Kerry — WeRD!

By: Palomon

Palomon — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:34:33 +0000

Nothing here is necessary, but a lot of it is amusing.

By: UnclGhost

UnclGhost — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:20:13 +0000

Sean, is the sexism really necessary? Even ironically?

By: infanttyrone

infanttyrone — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:48:50 +0000

To put it crudite-ly…they hate us for our free-noms…