AtD excerpt - "punkinroller"

[jbor at bigpond.com]

That occurred to me too. As did "Ernest Pudding's Gourd Surprise" (GR 
80). But second thoughts prevailed.

It's just an idiomatic insult, one which an outlaw like Jimmy Drop 
would have been likely to use back in 1899.

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On 09/08/2006, at 5:10 AM, David Meury wrote:

> The pumpkin rolling is obviously connected to the
> cheese rolling in M&D.
>
> See?  The novels really are all tied together.