On 2011-07-25, Mike Lyle wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:29:43 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

I've never had any trouble carving them for decoration or cutting them
for cooking with a normal kitchen knife. I've never heard of anyone
having to use an axe.

Then your punkins weren't the real Aussie deal. But pray allow for a
little colonial poetic licence. In pumpkin-eating cultures, though,
they do mature in store, where they lose quite a bit of their water
content and intensify their flavour. You wouldn't want one of those to
fall on your head.

I happen to be from a pumpkin-eating, pumpkin-indigenous (but
otherwise colonial) culture, and I've never seen them growing high
enough off the ground to fall on anyone's head.

Does "pumpkin" also mean "durian" in Australia? ;-)