In addition to what other posters have said, chemotrophic bacteria can play a significant role concentrating/enriching certain metallic ores by eating dissolved minerals in deep groundwater and metabolizing out metals. Lots of vein-gold runs through very old & fractured marble/granite bedrock with a lot of hydrologic activity.
Because my trapezii are fuckin’ jacked. Straight yoked. I’ve been working on my sternocliedomastoid form for years with some serious cervical reps. Glad someone noticed. 
A double entendré?
I think its just a reference to an old shitpost, of which the humor derives from absurdity.
If you couldn’t bullshit out of that in in moment, you’re not getting away with it now. Go work in a theater.
@TomBombadil@hexbear.net , A statement please.
I’d shoot the developer of time-travel.
Balls.
No chatbot could ever figure that out.
Easiest things is to wash/disinfect the surface before you carve, like give the pumpkin a nice bleachwater bath. Use clean tools & seal the cut edges with petrolium jelly or WD-40.
Long-term you probably could dry it as a gourd to preserve it, but it’ll shrivel up a lot and look like shit.
Formaldehyde/pickling would also probably work, but i imagine it’d get all mushy.