BS: A game of Gnomes

Subject: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 01:42 PM

It had nothing to do with me. Honest!

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 02:33 PM

Huh - so you say...

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 04:06 PM

Most gnombs that I have met are somewhat agreeable.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 04:07 PM

Btw, the "b" in gnomb is silent.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 04:23 PM

Mind-gnombing.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 04:31 PM

You have to watch out for the silent pee in Wranglers...

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: GUEST,#
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 04:32 PM

I got kickedin the gnombs once. Hurt like hell.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 04:33 PM

Forgot to say, Dave - I saw your ancestor a few years ago - on a visit to Lamport Hall in Northants. The original owner of the house - Charles Isham - had been on some sort of Grand Tour in the 1840s and brought back the very first gnome into England from Nuremberg.

The little man sits under a glass dome in a dining room...

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: GUEST,#
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 04:37 PM

BTW, the only letter that wasn't silent was the o.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 07:01 PM

"Gnomes were first introduced to the United Kingdom in 1847 by Sir Charles Isham, the 10th Baronet of Lamport. He brought 21 terracotta figures back from a trip to Germany and placed them as ornaments in the gardens of his home, Lamport Hall. Lampy, as he is known to the gnome fraternity, is only one of the original batch to survive."

There is a "gnome fraternity"?

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 07:27 PM

Could be worse. Could be these. http://getflocked.com/index.php

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 07:29 PM

Er, these.http://getflocked.com/index.php

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 07:45 PM

They called Sarkozy the garden gnome.

Well, le nain de jardin...

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 02:18 PM

The little man sits under a glass dome in a dining room...

What a cruel fate! The Gnome Liberation Front shall hear of this...

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Will Fly
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 02:36 PM

I can see it now.

"Free the Lamport One!"

"Lampy out!"

"Up the GLF!"

Placards, banners, demos in Trafalgar Square, questions in the House...

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: GUEST,CupOfTea, No Cookies
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 04:54 PM

heh.

In Cleveland the first business to do this was called "Flamingo Surprise" mebbe 30 years ago and you might wake up to find a flock of a few dozen plastic pink flamingos all over your yard, and a sign on wheels with a message like "happy birthday"

Variations included a flock of plastic penguins (a nun sent that to our music director for his 50th, much to his disgust, and he threw them over the cliff at Lake Erie. ), teddy bears, & cartoon characters. The idea here is the company comes and retrieve them & the sign after 24 hours. ... so did the gnombs go home?

Joanne in Cleveland whose friends are much to classy and poor for such a stunt.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 04:37 AM

What about Elf & Safety?

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 04:51 AM

In the online game version of Lord of the Rings I have an Elf character called Ansayfti :-)

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Will Fly
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 08:28 AM

Awa wi' ye - ye bad little Gnome!

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Ernest
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 01:33 PM

...and I thought this thread was an advertisement for Tyrion-Lennister-Lawn-Ornaments....

getting my cloak & jelly bag cap....

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 04:59 PM

This might be a better SONG CHALLENGE than the one currently proposed. For the Charles Isham story, I contribute: "Benedictus qui venit in gnomine dome mini!"

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 05:59 PM

Far too lofty for us Gnomes I'm afraid, Grishka!

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 10:58 PM

Sheer Staggering genius.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jun 15 - 02:20 AM

The Battle Cry of the Garden Gnome can be found in this Song Challenge thread.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Musket
Date: 12 Jun 15 - 04:17 AM

Many moons ago, my company made vibrating tables etc for precast concrete. A company in Newcastle asked me in to design a casting station for concrete ornaments cast in latex moulds. No problem I thought and off I went.

My ex wife and my eldest both have some of his samples in their respective gardens.

They made rude gnomes. (Used to advertise in Private Eye)

Everything from gdoggy fashion to gabusing themselves. "that fishing rod looks a... Oh"

My favourite was the one sticking two gfingers up.

You didn't used to do some gmodelling perchance Dave?

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Jun 15 - 05:29 AM

Gnomes in Latex!
Now you're talking.

Subject: RE: BS: A game of Gnomes
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Jun 15 - 05:54 AM

I auditioned, Musket, but was rejected for being too rude. What I couldn't do with a begonia, a kilo of fresh compost and a dibber isn't worth mentioning... :-)