This is just to freakin cute. Like I'm going to explode with cuteness or something. It's so cute it burns. Rainbows are going to come shooting out of your ass after you watch this one.

DAMARISCOTTA (NEWS CENTER) -- Ever wondered what happens to those enormous pumpkins after they're taken to the fairs to be put on display? Many of them end up floating down the Damariscotta River as part of the Giant Pumpkin Regatta!

The race was held Monday for the second year in a row. It is the highlight of Damariscotta's three-day pumpkin festival.

The race is the brainchild of pumpkin growers Bill Clark and Buzz Pinkham. This year they had a pair of 900 pounders, and one that hit 1,200 pounds.

"When you grow a giant pumpkin and put so much effort into it, you just want to share it," said Pinkham.

The race is becoming more and more popular. Not only do people want to see what kind of contraptions the racers came up with, they want to see who will get wet.

HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF

(on a personal note, I know I've done #3 unintentionally)

1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
2. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors."
3. Specify that your drive-through order is "TO-GO."
4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
5. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
6. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."
7. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what you think."
8. Practice making fax and modem noises.
9. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc" them to your boss.
10. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
11. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy."
12. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears and grimacing.
13. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.
14. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
15. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."
16. Staple pages in the middle of the page.
17. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.
18. Honk and wave to strangers.
19. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the cash register.
20. TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
21. type only in lowercase.
22. dont use any punctuation either
23. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
24. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times.
"DO YOU HEAR THAT?"
"What?"
"Never mind, it's gone now."
25. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
26. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "No, wait, I messed it up," and repeat.
27. Ask people what gender they are.
28. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
29. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
30. Sing along at the opera.
31. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.
32. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."

Interesting Facts:

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in
times of war or other emergencies.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,
Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under
a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Emus cannot walk backwards.

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point, NY.

There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps
are in the United States.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke
all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over
by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of "F."

Camel's milk does not curdle.

"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."
(MOdulateDEModulate)

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and
Australia have participated in every Olympics.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is
necessary. When it was built in the 940s, the state of Virginia still
had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and
whites.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal
category.

Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City,
after the Catholic Church.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered
a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight
Simulator.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a
gallon to clean the pot.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $.9.
You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to
make change for a dollar.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Superbowl.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but
only 6 people were injured

Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in
the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition.

The only two days of the year in which there are no North American
professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and
the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop.

The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn’t looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos.

Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds.

The seagull’s shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen, Scotland, and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he’s become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.

Customers have begun paying for the seagull’s stolen bags of chips because they think it’s so funny.