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Garden Gnomes

What have you taught your Garden Gnome to say and is it out where the public can walk by or do you have to invite people in to visit the Gnome? 

My Gnome says "Banana Phone"

Posted 17 months ago by LasaLoraine Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Mine is in front of my house and it says - "It is what it is", "Penny for your thoughts", and "Where ever you go - there you are" 
    (bonus points for those that know what movie the last two came from)
    Posted 17 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine is out in front of my house. It says:

    We may be lost but we're making good time!
    Posted 17 months ago by Riverwalker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have 2 (1 I tried to put in front of an open house, but it wouldn't let me :( )

    One says "This gnome will self-destruct in 10 seconds", because gnomes kept disappearing. The other one barks at people ("Bark Bark! Bark Bark Bark!").

    both are outside on either side of my door.
    Posted 17 months ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have one and I will be darned if I can remember even one of the 2 phrases I taught it already. I ran off to help with the party about the time I was settling it in at my front door.
    Posted 17 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine cycles through Monty Python quotes. This test I had it saying:
    Please fondle my buttocks.
    Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
    Drop your panties, officer, I cannot wait till lunchtime!

    ~all courtesy of the Tobacconist sketch (Hungarian phrase book)
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LOL - barking gnome - I love that!
    Posted 17 months ago by Stormy Weather Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have two.  I actually got the second one from a sand trap, big surprise!  The first one says, "I love to go a wandering" because he went off somewhere and was missing until the Devs gave him back to me.  The new one has two phrases:  "When I am good, I am very, very good..." and "When I am bad, I am awful."  They are out front on either side of my door.
    Posted 17 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I remember that sketch :)
    Between 9-10 years old I would stay up to watch Monty Python on PBS. :D
    Posted 17 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ben Affleck
    Posted 17 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the gnome comments! Someone on my street has a wicked clever phrase, which I wish I could remember, actually, two of the houses have.
    Mine are more common: Wipe your feet! Beware the attack chicken and the third is something along the lines of getting a yen for barbicue chicken, lol.

    @Brib Annie, that reminds me of the Mae West saying "When I'm good, I'm very very good. And when I'm bad, I'm even better" (picture the signiture West smirk, hehe)
    Posted 17 months ago by Phoebe Springback Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My outside gnome is boring, he just says...  "I hail from Gnome, Alaska"  (I really am from Alaska but not Nome) and "Gnome, sweet gnome" .

    I've seen some pretty funny ones in my travels :D
    Posted 17 months ago by PittyPat is sad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine says ahlan wa sahlan, which is sort of hello and welcome in arabic. It's not really a joke, I'm just learning arabic. I cheers me up. There's a gnome near me that speaks french, but I don't understand what it's saying.
    Posted 17 months ago by sakmet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine says
    Dial the Gate - ( StarGate)
    Beam me up Scotty
    and  Welcome Gnome
    Posted 17 months ago by Kaliope Muse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe when the test opens again I'll copy down what the french speaking gnome is saying,  and someone can translate for me. 
    Posted 17 months ago by sakmet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh and thanks for the Ben Affleck link. :) :)
    Posted 17 months ago by sakmet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have one on my street that only says "I am Sofa King we Tod Ed" or something like that. I know it's owned by Sofa King, but that's all I can make out of its message.
    Posted 17 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • lol Fokian. you really don't know what that person is saying? too bad we don't have a mail or pm service outside of the game.

    if it helps, put the words "we tod ed" together and say them as one word :)
    Posted 17 months ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine says "You can't take the sky from me" and "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal."  It's a fanboy.
    Posted 17 months ago by Tradescantia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just figured it out @bored. :D
    Posted 17 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine is outside my house...it says...
    I need sand between my toes,
    Where's the beach?
    I'd rather be at the beach.
    Posted 17 months ago by ~Pink Flamingo~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My outdoor gnome has always said, "Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier." -- Mae West

    Since I moved, I now have two gnomes inside (ty padme) at the top and bottom of my ladder. I just happened to take pics this test. LOL!
    Posted 17 months ago by JW Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Tradescantia, your gnomes make my Browncoat heart happy :)
    Posted 17 months ago by MaryLiLamb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Beach Bum - I'm getting a sense that you like the beach?  :-D   LOL
    Posted 17 months ago by Stormy Weather Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @JW who is that guy peeping from your floor!? O_o
    Posted 17 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • When  the next test starts my gnome (outside in my garden but will move to my front door) will say "Team Old Old Spice Guy"  What's with Fabio?
    Posted 17 months ago by LasaLoraine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • mine says....meccaleccahi-meccahinyho!  spelled phonetically of course. anyone recognize it?
    Posted 17 months ago by curiousfae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • JW, oh my giant, I LOVE your gnome quote. Perfection! :D
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Fokian Fool- That is my Friedrich Nietzsche "doll." You "pull string" and he talks.
    It bears a striking resemblance to stoot though it seems.  http://www.glitch-strategy.com/wiki/Awesome_Stew

    @RM- I had to steal part of your picture from my party. I know I have a pic of him talking somewhere too. Ty, and hope it's okay.
    Posted 17 months ago by JW Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @curiousfae Jambi!
    Posted 17 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine are a bit foul-mouthed. If you want to know, come by and see them.
    Posted 17 months ago by malo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh dear. This thread just made me realize that the gnome outside my door disappeared, and I don't remember when exactly. He must be traveling the world a la Amelie style. But where are my postcards?!
    Posted 17 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Steal away anytime, JW, no problems!
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How are gnomes disappearing?
    Posted 17 months ago by Spellbound Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wish I knew! I just know I bought a Gnome a long time ago and put him in front of my house saying something funny and now I can't remember the last time I saw him. :(
    Posted 17 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmmm.
    Posted 17 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Little  Miss Giggles - Sadly he was so funny that he was discovered by an agent and is now doing stand-up in clubs and commercials for Travelocity.
    Posted 17 months ago by Stormy Weather Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i have a welcoming committee of about 20 gnomes in front of my house, each saying "welcome" in a variety of languages.

    somewhere in there is the original gnome, who alternates between "there's gno place like gnome" and "don't panic"
    Posted 17 months ago by BeatFreq Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Something happened several tests ago and many Gnomes disappeared including mine.  That day as I was traveling I found this bunch hiding out in a nearly empty apartment building in Bon Stravenue.  They seemed to know what happened but none admitted to being my gnome.  They do all look alike. 
    www.flickr.com/photos/bribl...
    Posted 17 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • BeatFreq, I love your gnome army, btw, never got a chance to say:)
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have three gnomes outside of my house to greet visitors.  The first one cycles through "On your knees, wretch!", "All hail the Empress!", and "Here there be dragons.

    The second one says, "Smarten up, you're in the presence of the Empress."

    The third says "The Empress, The Empress!

    I put the second and third ones together so that you should get a good echo effect.  Because nothing says hilarity like megalomania! 
    Posted 17 months ago by Kross, the Empress Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lol Kross!  Sorry I mean Hail Empress!
    Posted 17 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My Gnome says:
    1. ScillyGirl5,Faunasphere Enthusiast (retired)
    2. Forget the gnome,beware of owner.
    3. Have PMS and a shotgun,any questions?
    Posted 17 months ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • In RL someone stole their neighbor's garden gnome and took it around the world sending postcards home.  I think that's when travelosity started using a garden gnome in its ads.  Maybe all of our missing then reappearing gnomes are trying out to be spokes gnomes for tv ads, as the current one is retiring on labor day to play Glitch full time as stoot's assistant. 
    Posted 17 months ago by xoxJulie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine say -

    Bore Da!
    Shwmae!
    Braf cwrdd â chi!
    Croeso i fi nhy!
    Posted 17 months ago by Ama Gafr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • He cycles through:

    ''Gnome Sweet Gnome''
    "Ain't you got a gnome to go to?''
    and a third that I don't remember... maybe: There's no place like gnome..

    I have new stuff in mind^^
    Posted 17 months ago by Zira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Ama Gafr...these are Welsh, correct.. and the last one is hello in Welsh? please translate for us...Love this  thread...clever and funny.
    Posted 17 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @napabeth Yep welsh.

    Bore da! - Good Morning!
    Shwmae! - Hello! (lit. How are things/you? It's a contraction of shwd/sut* mae.)
    Braf cwrdd â chi! - Nice meeting you!
    Croeso i fi nhy! - Welcome to my house! (nhy being a mutation of ty)

    *Gogs represent!
    Posted 17 months ago by Ama Gafr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Wave your pants in the air like you don't care"
    "It's not a hat, it's an ice cream cone"
    "Gnome, gnome on the range..."

    I can't remember the rest of what my outdoor Gnomes say.
    The're fairly tame though. 

    My indoor gnomes talk dirty to me though :)  
    Posted 17 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine says:  "Our house is a very, very, very fine house. With 8 cats in the yard..."
    Posted 17 months ago by Cabinwood Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Whoops - there goes Mr. Jelly." (Gnome's been on the purple)
    "BLERG"
    "Hit it with a hammer!"
    Posted 17 months ago by jasbo Subscriber! | Permalink
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