Punkie Night is celebrated in the village of Hinton St George each October.
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Punkie Night is a Westcountry custom practised on the last Thursday of October related to Halloween in Somerset. Children will march around with a jack o'lantern, singing a song which goes : > It's Punkie Night tonight > It's Punkie Night tonight > Adam and Eve would not believe > It's Punkie Night tonight There are some variants of this old rhyme which also include these lines: "Give me a candle, give me a light If you don't, you'll get a fright" or alternatively: "Give me a candle give me light If you haven't a candle, a penny's all right" (Cooper & Sullivan, 1994). As Cooper and Sullivan (1994) explain, this relates to the tradition where children would beg for candles on this night, and threaten people who refused to give them anything (compare the custom of Trick or Treat). Cooper and Sullivan also explain how a Punkie King and a Punkie Queen would typically lead the proceedings.
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Christie's dedication in the book reads: > To Punkie, who likes an orthodox detective story, murder, inquest, and > suspicion falling on every one in turn! "Punkie" was the family nickname of Christie's sister and eldest sibling, Margaret ("Madge") Frary Watts (1879–1950). Despite their eleven-year age gap, the sisters remained close throughout their lives. Christie's mother first suggested to her that she should alleviate the boredom of an illness by writing a story.
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The pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus) is a North American freshwater fish of the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. It is also referred to as pond perche, common sunfish, punkie, sunfish, sunny, and kivver.
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No one knows how the custom originated, although it is almost certainly linked with Hallowe'en and similar traditions can be found across the Westcountry. As Morrell (1977) explains, the word "Punkie" is an old English name for a lantern, and jack o'lanterns for Punkie Night may be made of swedes or mangel-wurzels rather than pumpkins. An alternative explanation of the term is that it is derived from pumpkin or punk, meaning tinder. Cooper and Sullivan (1994) attribute the custom's origins to a fair which was at one time held at Chiselborough.
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The album sold over 2 million copies in the United States and helped Sean Paul become a Grammy Award-winning artist. Also, the version of "Punkie" is a remix and features Puerto Rican artist Tego Calderón singing his part in Spanish.
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In the Bantam edition, the dedication is to "Punkie", who is Madge, Christie's older sister. In other editions the dedication reads: > "To my Nephew. In memory of an inscription at Compton Castle and a day at > the Zoo." The "nephew" was Jack Watts (1903–1961), the son of Christie's brother-in-law and sister James and 'Madge' Watts.
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Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables. Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1999. p. 154 They were common in parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands in the 19th century, as well as in Somerset (see Punkie Night). In the 20th century they spread to other parts of England and became generally known as jack-o'-lanterns.
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The event's purpose, as it has always been from the start, is to raise thousands of pounds for local charities from money collection carts in the two-hour procession. In several villages Punkie Night is celebrated each October. Many villages had Friendly Societies or Clubs between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The use of Friendly Society Brasses as emblems was particularly prevalent in Somerset and the surrounding counties.
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Punkie Night originated many years ago and was started by farm labourers to light their way home after work. An alternative explanation of the term is that it is derived from pumpkin or punk, meaning tinder. It is now the "children's night" and held on the nearest night to Halloween. The children carry their "punkies" made from either mangolds, turnips, or marrows, which are hollowed out and faces or animals carved on them.
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In South Somerset, on the last Thursday of October every year, Punkie Night is celebrated. Children carry around lanterns called "Punkies", which are hollowed-out mangelwurzels. Mangelwurzels also are, or previously were, carved out for Halloween in Norfolk, Wales, parts of Yorkshire and northwest Cumberland (Workington). John Le Marchant recommends cutting the "mangel-wurzel" to learn the proper mechanics for a draw cut with the broadsword in his historic manual on swordsmanship.
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Massé moved to Los Angeles and found his way in to commercial production. He created the characters of Kewl Breeze, Z Strap, Elastika, Twinkle Toes, Bella Ballerina, Luminators, Pretty Tall, Sporty Shorty, Punkie Rose, Hydee Hytop, and Caligear for Skechers USA's television commercials and comic books. Massé performs a great deal of voice and jingle writing work in the commercials he produces. He also created and produced live-action commercials for Skechers USA that include D’Lites, Skechers Men's, Skechers Women's, Skechers Work, Skechers SRT and SRR, and most notably the Skechers Shape-ups commercial airing nationally during Super Bowl XLVI in 2010.
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On September 15, 2020, it was announced that the entire cast from last season would be returning, with Ego Nwodim, a featured player since 2018, being promoted to repertory status while Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang remained as featured players. On September 16, SNL staff writer Andrew Dismukes, Upright Citizens Brigade player Lauren Holt and stand-up comedian Punkie Johnson were added to the cast as featured players. Though not members of the cast, on September 16, 2020 it was announced that Alec Baldwin and Maya Rudolph would reprise their respective roles as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, while Jim Carrey would take over impersonating Joe Biden. Biden had been portrayed by Woody Harrelson, John Mulaney, and Jason Sudeikis during the previous season.
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I think our experience helped a lot with reaching our goal, and this album exemplifies the whole statement of having the time of our lives". Chris Henderson, in an interview with Entertainment Focus on July 27, 2011, discussed the band's new album. When asked "What can we expect from it?" he said, "The new record is a lot in a lot of ways a lot like the very first record The Better Life because it more punkie kind of rock sounds of it. But, there’s also the songs from like our second record so it’s a good mix of what the bands been throughout the ten years we been out, well thirteen years, you know it’s a good mix of that .I’m really proud of it, and when you’re a band like us... we're not reinventing the wheel.
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Coutts Merrythought Case Study The present range includes for the most part traditional and collectable teddy bears (including the company's "Punkie" and "Cheeky" variants), some other soft toy animals. Since the relaunch in 2007 the collectable part of the range consists of numerous special designs, each produced in a limited batch (typically between 75–200 units) and with new designs regularly coming onto the market. Recent commemorative bears include those for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton,Shropshire Star Here come Shropshire's Royal Wedding bears the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and in memory of the late Oliver Holmes. There is a notable foreign export market for the company's products, with Merrythought teddy bears being sent all over the world, most significantly in Japan, where in recent years a "cult following" of Merrythought Bears has developed; the depreciation of the British pound against the Japanese yen since 2008 has also helped sales there.
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