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(London Times)   Controversy threatens to rip the world of garden gnomes apart as company breaks tradition and makes female gnome.   (thetimes.co.uk) divider line 43
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2002-03-02 03:56:19 AM
And here I thought they were all gay.

No wait...

Garden Gnomes still are gay!
 
2002-03-02 03:58:55 AM
STOP THE PRESSES!!!

Oh, wait, it's 4am... they're already stopped.
 
2002-03-02 04:00:06 AM
This should have a tag.
 
2002-03-02 04:01:16 AM
All the female gnomes are supposed to stay at home. There they cook, clean and make gnome babies.........

GEEEZZZZ, what's next? They going to allow female gnomes to start voting? ? ? ?
 
2002-03-02 04:02:10 AM
"The "honour, reputation and meaning" of what gnomes stood for was at stake."

farkin loonies
 
2002-03-02 04:08:44 AM
Bad_Sinfluence, shut the fark up. Waa waa waa, it's all the rage these days at fark.

I think this is an awesome article =]
 
2002-03-02 04:11:31 AM
Is there a separate doe and buck season for hunting gnomes?
 
2002-03-02 04:18:23 AM
I thought all gnomes were plump.

Was there some reason someone had to point out her plumpness?

Besides, I'm not really sure the female gnome wants to wake up and find herself in an all male garden. That sounds like a nightmare come true. Having a name like violet horvath has certainly enabled me to see the female side of things and frankly, I think she'd prefer to be with some female gnomes. There were many holes in the story. Does she have a gnome de guerre?


"The "honour, reputation and meaning" of what gnomes stood for was at stake." I thought that sentence ended with a nice pun.

Anyway, I'd like to see more pictures of Katerina Witt standing on her hands.
 
2002-03-02 04:21:22 AM
I hit a gnome with my car last night. er uh I mean 2 Nights ago.. damn its late.. *sucks down another beer*
Evil2U


ps. DoD beta 2 sucks.. :(
 
2002-03-02 04:23:06 AM
"The Congress of the International Association for the Protection of the Garden Gnome"

LMAO!
 
2002-03-02 04:32:54 AM
Not a bad idea actaully :P

*Violently looks for Garden Gnome pic on net*
 
2002-03-02 04:37:48 AM
 
2002-03-02 04:38:44 AM
If that site hasn't been posted yet, feel free to do so.
 
2002-03-02 04:42:49 AM
A most excellent pic indeed.. :)
The Gnome i hit with my car was pretty much broken up into little biddy peaces.. all except the head..

*sigh* All yes that will be filed under the "fond memory" section of my brain.
 
2002-03-02 04:55:54 AM
Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?

No - we're gnome-ads!


I blame David Bowie
 
2002-03-02 04:56:49 AM
"In every wish and dream and haaaaaaaaappy hooooooooome..."
 
2002-03-02 05:03:38 AM
Shut the hell up Bad_Sinfluence, we're talking about female gnomes here, FEMALE, can't your puny brain understand the insane repercussions of FEMALE lawn gnomes? If these things start popping up every where it will rip the very nature of the universe apart and destroy our perception of reality for generations to come, and you dare question the sheer importance of this article!?!

Heheheh, on a less serious note, me and a bunch of friends were out at 1AM, we were bored, so we went to this one guys house who had a ton of lawn ornaments. We stole all of them, went three houses down, and set up his yard in almost the exact same way, it took like an hour, but it was funny as hell since it was one of those streets where all the houses looke the exact same.
 
2002-03-02 05:18:09 AM
It's about time there was equal opportunity among lawn gnomes! More power to the women!
 
2002-03-02 06:11:27 AM
so bad_sinfluence doesn't have a sense of humor? articles like this are the reason why i come to fark. if this article is so upsetting to you, well, that's almost as bad as the gnome nazi's.. i always assumed the women gnomes were smart enough to make the men do all the real work and that's why we never see them. what do you suppose these guys will do when children gnomes start popping up, illegitimate baby gnomes, we need to get on the yard gnome yard contraceptives and yard planned parenthood clinics quick, before we're up to our ass in gnomes..
 
2002-03-02 06:36:59 AM
you would crossbreed garden gnome and humans? my god man, you're insane!
 
2002-03-02 06:43:29 AM
Basel? I thought Gnomes were based in Zurich.
 
2002-03-02 08:23:14 AM
I really hope Bad_Sinfluence was being sarcastic when he thought I was flaming him, otherwise he is one of the stupidest people I've seen on fark.

Just in case he wasn't being serious, I was joking you friggin moron, oh well, Unpopular Commie Troll did it better.

And, if you were, ingnore this post.
 
2002-03-02 08:31:53 AM
Even garden gnomes can get a flame thread going.

Great
 
2002-03-02 08:42:38 AM
Scraping-fetus-off-the-wheel: I'm sorry, I fed the troll despite what the sign said.

So to everybody, the next time a Troll projects and spews rage at me I'll just point and laugh.
 
2002-03-02 09:26:56 AM
I love the commercial where the gnome goes all over the city w/ the neighbor kids...and collects photos.

Imaging the perverted possibilities w/ female gnomes as well. But wait...weren't gnomes asexual by definition since there were no female gnomes to begin w/??? So, we have witnessed evolution? Where is that guy that wants to pay me to prove evolution? This seems like proof enough to me...sho' me da money!!!
 
2002-03-02 11:11:45 AM
What if the company claimed these were really male gnomes who were transvestites--would that be OK with the gnome protectors?
 
2002-03-02 11:17:44 AM
PulsarCat: You *will* let us know what the reactions were to your 1am. "re-decorations" won't you? Good prank!! *G*

Evil2U: All that was left wast the head? Heh, sounds like you have another to mount on your wall! LOL!

Female lawn gnomes are not popular over there, and gnomes in general are not popular over *here* (in the US) Hmmmmm...
What if the female gnomes are made....um.....NOT so plump?
Heck, they'd then be popular everywhere I bet!

Man, I don't know about the rest of you,but I sense a possible future photoshop op.!

Let the games begin!
 
2002-03-02 11:20:43 AM
Garden Gnome Waiting For Right Time To Kidnap Boy
 
2002-03-02 11:22:10 AM
Actually, in Germany companies had already made a female gnome.
 
2002-03-02 11:22:12 AM
 
2002-03-02 11:26:43 AM
I think I saw this before. It was in the dictionary beside the word PATHETIC.
 
OBB
2002-03-02 12:55:20 PM
Now there's gonna be rivalries developing between the male garden gnomes and those jockeys who hold lanterns over the fair hand of female garden gnomes... God help us all [OBB returns to digging his bomb shelter]
 
2002-03-02 12:58:29 PM
YOU MOTHERF.UCKERS. YOU MOTHERFUC.KERS BETTER STOP MAKING FEMALE GNOMES THIS INSTANT.

YOU STOP IT. YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING!~
 
2002-03-02 01:04:13 PM
Stripe: Heheh, the end result was brilliant, the guy actully took out an ad in the paper offering $150 to anyone who told him who the "Garden Vandels" were.

It was very hard to stop laughing after that, and even harder not to turn ourselves in for that kinda money.
 
2002-03-02 01:06:45 PM
Don't know if this is true, but aparantly, one of the guys who was with me Dad worked with the guy, he was ranting about this at work for a week.

And no, the great Garden Vandels were never brought to justice.
 
2002-03-02 01:44:04 PM
I'm all for garden gnome procreation.
 
OBB
2002-03-02 01:53:00 PM
Germany, Christmas, 2002: (AP) Police have heard hundreds of reports of young transient garden gnomes attacking Nativity scenes and throwing the terrified shepards, wise men, and even the baby Jesus into the snow, just to get somewhere to spend the night...

...Local police captain Hans Gruber is quoted as saying "This wouldn't have happened if they didn't make those female lawn gnomes..."
 
2002-03-02 04:44:19 PM
God damned Hillary Clinton!!!
 
2002-03-02 05:37:29 PM
I don't see bad_sinfulences post... maybe it was deleted?
 
2002-03-02 07:33:11 PM
Bloody hell...some people need to get a life.
 
2002-03-02 10:03:38 PM
*applauds while trying to wipe away tears*

PulsarCat, that is BEAUTIFUL! *still laughing!*

Of *course* your Dad has noooooooo idea who is responsible, right? *G*

If this went to the papers, I hope you kept a clipping!
(Then again, if it *did* go to the papers, someone here would post it! Oooooo! you'd be caught for sure!)

I was thinking of buying as many pink flamingos as I possibly could and surround a neighbor's house with them!
(If anyone does this, let us know OK?)

*High five!*
 
2002-03-02 10:18:14 PM
Am I the only one here thinking that this whole garden gnome thing is becoming more and more like the Smurfs every day?
 
2002-03-04 08:31:36 AM
 
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