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)
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!").
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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.
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!
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?!
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. :(
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...
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!
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.
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)