The giving of a gift, a set of tragedies therein, and a host of questions thereafter.

[silver 2039]

Garden gnomes are gay.

Oh I'll get that txt file to you sometime....

 

[Sparta]

Apparently there are people who worry about the plight of those gardengnomes as well: http://membres.lycos.fr/flnj/

Garden Gnome Liberation Front Wiki article

Glad to hear the situation worked out in the end, Rambuchan - hope your mother enjoys them. Sounds pretty crude to me as well for them to have been so forward in their disapproval, FWIW. Regardless of the meaning they chose to associate (with what should be a light amusing gift no less), it could have been overtly sporting a fused pound-dollar-uber-capitalism-with-persecuted-artist insignia and they still should've smiled and said thank you, IMHO.

 

[Abaddon]

Underwater gnome threat 'returns'


A secret underwater attraction that lured several divers to their deaths could have returned, police say.

 

[Rambuchan]

^ The Loch Ness Garden Gnomes!

 

[Abaddon]

SEE! gNOMES ARE DEADLY!!!!

 

[Rambuchan]

Errr Sloz, did you not read your link or something?

Gnomes don't place themselves around picket fences below 50ft underwater - divers do.

 

[Abaddon]

aha, thats what they want you to think

 

[Sparta]

The divers are just trying to liberate them from their oppressed servitude as ornamental garden monitors.

(I love how the police took the original garden, but are now powerless to do anything about any possible sub-50-M gardens because of regulations. I had this image in my mind of a garden gnome party at 50.2 M deep, laughingly mocking the arbitrary 50-M borderline. It's like just crossing into international waters before commencing the monkey knife fights (Simpsons).)

 

[thetrooper]

Garden gnomes are gay.

Yeah, it's in their genome.

 

[Sidhe]

Ah shut this thread now before someone else makes a weak gnome joke Gnot all Gnomes are Gay, there are some female Gnomes who live in breeding pits like queens and fire out huge numbers of smaller gnomes which then are shipped off and sold to garden centres. It would be more accurate to say that most gnomes are asexual. And that the "Queens" and here suitors are heterosexual.

 

[silver 2039]

Yeah, it's in their genome.

Thats not even vaugely amusing. You should be shot for such a crap joke.

 

[Rambuchan]

Yo Sidhe! If you think I will tolerate such rampant spamming in my thread as you have indulged in, then you obviously don't gno me very well at all.

 

[thetrooper]

Ah, we need firm rules and correct gnomenclature to keep the discussion on topic.

 

[Urederra]

btw and off topic: hilarious garden gnome scene in Braindead (by Peter Jackson).

I was thinking about "The Full Monthly"

Anyway, I agree with you. It is bad manners to get irritated for a gift, unless it was given with very clear second intentions.

I just remember a "mistery santa" (or however you call it) present somebody recieved in a work christmas lunch. It was a weather donkey figurine, and with a note that says how it worked. "If the tail goes up, warm weather, ir the tail stays down, bad weather". I have to say that in Spain spanish tail is used as a substitute of the word 'penis'. So, if you re-read my the note with that meaning in mind, the gift could be quite rude for a middle aged man.

BTW. the giver of the present was from Uruguay, so he might not had the second meaning of 'tail' in mind.

So, maybe there is a hidden meaning of the word 'gnome' for that couple, If you gnome what I mean.

Apart from that, they are tacky.

If I'd receive those figurines, I would accept them, and give them to somebody else the following christmas.

Little muslim figurines, on the other hand....

 

[IglooDame]

Now THAT is what I call a target-rich environment!!

 

[Sidhe]

Yo Sidhe! If you think I will tolerate such rampant spamming in my thread as you have indulged in, then you obviously don't gno me very well at all.

Stop it stop it now

 

[Rambuchan]

Don't worry old boy, my work in this office is done, I'm going gnome now.

 

[Sidhe]

Damn stop moving around so much Rambuchan

 

[Rambuchan]

Gnomeatter what you say, I'm still off.

 

[Sidhe]