Look now we can talk about lawn gnomes in peace!

juggernut60 · 02-01-2006, 08:25 PM

so what are are everyones thoughts on lawn gnomes?

rohirrim TR · 02-01-2006, 09:19 PM

you mean the little ugly statues that people put in their yard and then expect me to move and put back everytime I mow?

juggernut60 · 02-01-2006, 10:01 PM

yes that would be them!

Bombadillo · 02-01-2006, 10:30 PM

I had a chemistry teacher who looked so exactly like a garden gnome I couldn't even look at her. Her nose would magically wiggle left and right while she talked too, and she would make faces sometimes to be fun, and each and every time throughout the year I would laugh until I cried. I failed both exams because it was impossible to pay attention.

She hated me.

rohirrim TR · 02-01-2006, 10:47 PM

I'm always left with the question of why are their lawn gnomes? are they just there to cause me misery when I run over one with a mower? or do they hold a deep symbolic meaning to their owners?

juggernut60 · 02-02-2006, 07:17 PM

i think that heywere created to cause mass chaos lol. i mean have you ever put a gnome in one place and then later found it somewhere else?

Merenwen Vardamir · 02-03-2006, 11:48 AM

Ooo! My friends were followed by a gnome they found it the woods! It kept ending up at Nicks front door, no matter how many times they moved it! And the Great Gnome Uprising is already being planned. And since the Gnomes sit out in the lawn allllllll day, they made friends with the papers and now all the Sunday editions are in on the concpirecy!

juggernut60 · 02-04-2006, 11:46 AM

ooooo thats creepy! See they are on the move to try and take over, One hop at a time lol.

Merenwen Vardamir · 02-04-2006, 07:01 PM

Lol. Do you know what to use to destroy them? Because my neighbor baby broke on, so I have to watch out for her.... >.> <.<

Lotesse · 02-05-2006, 01:19 AM

www.gnomeland.co.uk

Excerpt from a script of "King of the Hill"

BOBBY: We have a garden gnome!
HANK: Oh, boy.
BOBBY: I shall call him "Vandor."
PEGGY: You will call him Winklebottom, like everyone else.

BILL: Hank likes the gno-ome. Hank likes the gno-ome.
HANK: I do not like the gnome, Bill.
BILL: Hanky and gnomey, sitting in a tree...
HANK: That's it! I'm kicking your ass!

SALLY: Let me offer up a little tip. Your Winklebottom is facing southeast. Technically he should face north.
PEGGY: Wonderful! Why?
SALLY: Well, that's where they're more apt to find tree moss, which is how they make their delicious gnome tea.
PEGGY: That is so charming.
HANK: No it's not.

PEGGY: Garden Gnome Fact # 28: At night, Garden Gnomes are quite lively. But they turn to stone the second daylight hits them.
BOBBY: I love it! Hey, maybe tonight we should leave out a snack plate for old Winklebottom. Perhaps a fruit pie?
PEGGY: No, Bobby. Winklebottom would like mushrooms and dandelions and a thimbleful of peppermint schnapps.

HANK: I need a gnome. Not just any gnome, a Winklebottom.
SALES MANAGER: A Winklebottom? Why not just ask me to move a rainbow?
HANK: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just weird.

juggernut60 · 02-05-2006, 10:26 AM

wow that is a creepy site. The music now haunts my soul

Merenwen Vardamir · 02-05-2006, 04:02 PM

Just the title creeps me out..... Gnomeland: a happy place...... *Shudders*

juggernut60 · 02-06-2006, 04:22 PM

if there is a gnomeland then is there a land for everything?

Merenwen Vardamir · 02-06-2006, 05:59 PM

Lol. There's a fairy world!

Tehe

juggernut60 · 02-06-2006, 06:05 PM

ya there also is a paper world lol and a chalk zone!

Bombadillo · 02-06-2006, 10:50 PM

Gnomes don't weird me out usually, but I definately wouldn't let my kids near that one.

Anybody have any gnome-napping stories. I know an ancient German couple in Pennseylvania whose lawn is covered in gnomes, goldfish ponds, and trains. Their main gnome (the tallest, brightest one, which sat on his front stoop fishing) was stolen some time in the 80s, long after that tradition had become obsolete, and later that year he sent a postcard (from Paris IIRC, but it doesn't matter), and the next week he was back.

I wonder if people nowadays would appreciate such antics.

Lotesse · 02-06-2006, 11:22 PM

There's this one French movie, I wish I could remember the title or the lead actress's name, but I'm braindead right now. She's very cute, in a pixie-ish kind of way, little dark-haired, huge-eyed mischievous chick, and in the movie she likes to do all these elaborate, artistic pranks and so forth. Anyway, one character in the film, I think it was her Dad, had a garden gnome, who disappeared, and who kept sending the dad postcards of himself in front of world landmarks, like the Statue of Liberty, the Pyramids, Big Ben, you name it. Garden Gnomes, apparantly, enjoy taking off on trips and sending postcards.

The last sane person · 02-07-2006, 02:12 AM

I'm sure that's not all that they enejoy either. I found one in the back woods of an old park, it was creepy. The rocks around it were in a perfect semi circle, with the gnome in the opening. It looked like some one had positioned it, but it was so old with moss and all. I had fun with a few friends there and we treated the thing like Yoda.

Kinda looked like him, with all that moss. We made a fort there, and its still there last I checked. He became our Yoda and we "protected him" and the woods surrounding. That was a fun summer as I recall.

Lotesse · 02-07-2006, 02:31 AM

Lotesse · 02-07-2006, 02:33 AM

02-01-2006, 08:25 PM	#1
juggernut60 Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 10	Look now we can talk about lawn gnomes in peace! so what are are everyones thoughts on lawn gnomes?

02-01-2006, 10:30 PM	#4
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	I had a chemistry teacher who looked so exactly like a garden gnome I couldn't even look at her. Her nose would magically wiggle left and right while she talked too, and she would make faces sometimes to be fun, and each and every time throughout the year I would laugh until I cried. I failed both exams because it was impossible to pay attention. She hated me. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

02-03-2006, 11:48 AM	#7
Merenwen Vardamir Enting Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ever Lost, Childress. Posts: 93	Ooo! My friends were followed by a gnome they found it the woods! It kept ending up at Nicks front door, no matter how many times they moved it! And the Great Gnome Uprising is already being planned. And since the Gnomes sit out in the lawn allllllll day, they made friends with the papers and now all the Sunday editions are in on the concpirecy! __________________ And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And beauty stayed his hand. And from that day on, he was as one dead. "But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

02-04-2006, 07:01 PM	#9
Merenwen Vardamir Enting Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ever Lost, Childress. Posts: 93	Lol. Do you know what to use to destroy them? Because my neighbor baby broke on, so I have to watch out for her.... >.> <.< __________________ And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And beauty stayed his hand. And from that day on, he was as one dead. "But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

02-05-2006, 01:19 AM	#10
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	www.gnomeland.co.uk Excerpt from a script of "King of the Hill" BOBBY: We have a garden gnome! HANK: Oh, boy. BOBBY: I shall call him "Vandor." PEGGY: You will call him Winklebottom, like everyone else. BILL: Hank likes the gno-ome. Hank likes the gno-ome. HANK: I do not like the gnome, Bill. BILL: Hanky and gnomey, sitting in a tree... HANK: That's it! I'm kicking your ass! SALLY: Let me offer up a little tip. Your Winklebottom is facing southeast. Technically he should face north. PEGGY: Wonderful! Why? SALLY: Well, that's where they're more apt to find tree moss, which is how they make their delicious gnome tea. PEGGY: That is so charming. HANK: No it's not. PEGGY: Garden Gnome Fact # 28: At night, Garden Gnomes are quite lively. But they turn to stone the second daylight hits them. BOBBY: I love it! Hey, maybe tonight we should leave out a snack plate for old Winklebottom. Perhaps a fruit pie? PEGGY: No, Bobby. Winklebottom would like mushrooms and dandelions and a thimbleful of peppermint schnapps. HANK: I need a gnome. Not just any gnome, a Winklebottom. SALES MANAGER: A Winklebottom? Why not just ask me to move a rainbow? HANK: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just weird. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

02-01-2006, 10:01 PM	#3
juggernut60 Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 10	yes that would be them!

02-02-2006, 07:17 PM	#6
juggernut60 Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 10	i think that heywere created to cause mass chaos lol. i mean have you ever put a gnome in one place and then later found it somewhere else?

02-04-2006, 11:46 AM	#8
juggernut60 Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 10	ooooo thats creepy! See they are on the move to try and take over, One hop at a time lol.

02-05-2006, 10:26 AM	#11
juggernut60 Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 10	wow that is a creepy site. The music now haunts my soul

02-05-2006, 04:02 PM	#12
Merenwen Vardamir Enting Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ever Lost, Childress. Posts: 93	Just the title creeps me out..... Gnomeland: a happy place...... Shudders __________________ And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And beauty stayed his hand. And from that day on, he was as one dead. "But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

02-06-2006, 04:22 PM	#13
juggernut60 Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 10	if there is a gnomeland then is there a land for everything?

02-06-2006, 05:59 PM	#14
Merenwen Vardamir Enting Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ever Lost, Childress. Posts: 93	Lol. There's a fairy world! Tehe __________________ And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And beauty stayed his hand. And from that day on, he was as one dead. "But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

02-06-2006, 06:05 PM	#15
juggernut60 Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 10	ya there also is a paper world lol and a chalk zone!

02-06-2006, 10:50 PM	#16
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Gnomes don't weird me out usually, but I definately wouldn't let my kids near that one. Anybody have any gnome-napping stories. I know an ancient German couple in Pennseylvania whose lawn is covered in gnomes, goldfish ponds, and trains. Their main gnome (the tallest, brightest one, which sat on his front stoop fishing) was stolen some time in the 80s, long after that tradition had become obsolete, and later that year he sent a postcard (from Paris IIRC, but it doesn't matter), and the next week he was back. I wonder if people nowadays would appreciate such antics. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

02-06-2006, 11:22 PM	#17
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	There's this one French movie, I wish I could remember the title or the lead actress's name, but I'm braindead right now. She's very cute, in a pixie-ish kind of way, little dark-haired, huge-eyed mischievous chick, and in the movie she likes to do all these elaborate, artistic pranks and so forth. Anyway, one character in the film, I think it was her Dad, had a garden gnome, who disappeared, and who kept sending the dad postcards of himself in front of world landmarks, like the Statue of Liberty, the Pyramids, Big Ben, you name it. Garden Gnomes, apparantly, enjoy taking off on trips and sending postcards. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

02-07-2006, 02:12 AM	#18
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	I'm sure that's not all that they enejoy either. I found one in the back woods of an old park, it was creepy. The rocks around it were in a perfect semi circle, with the gnome in the opening. It looked like some one had positioned it, but it was so old with moss and all. I had fun with a few friends there and we treated the thing like Yoda. Kinda looked like him, with all that moss. We made a fort there, and its still there last I checked. He became our Yoda and we "protected him" and the woods surrounding. That was a fun summer as I recall. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

02-07-2006, 02:31 AM	#19
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	__________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

02-07-2006, 02:33 AM	#20
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	__________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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