Gnome Rescue

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Jul 30, 2009 at 1:43 pm

An elderly resident of Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia died and left behind around 1500 cement garden gnomes. Not knowing what to do with them, the executor of the will contacted the Australian Gnome Convention for advice on disposing of them.

Convention organiser and “Gnome Master” David Cook said he did not hesitate in organising the rescue party when contacted about the homeless little folk.

“We didn’t want to see them put in a skip and taken to the tip and all smashed up,” Mr Cook said.

I believe that means they didn’t want to see the gnomes thrown away. A four-member team traveled 800 kilometers to pack up the gnomes of all sizes.They will be painted and refurbished, and will appear at the 2010 Australian Gnome Convention on January 26th. Link -via Arbroath

(image credit: Australian Gnome Convention)

Tags: Australia, gnomes

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Christophe
Jul 30th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Don’t you burn them in a ceremony, like US flags?
Skipweasel
Jul 30th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
When I was a kid we lived in a place where no one would /ever/ have a gnome, far too infra-dig. One night someone planted one in someone else’s garden. For weeks after it moved from garden to garden as people shifted it away from their own. Dunno where it went in the end, though.
valeriob
Jul 30th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
You down with OPP? Yea you Gnome!
Summer
Jul 30th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Wow…um…the guy in the pic is apparently trying to look like a gnome, but he really looks like a KKK member…
Larfin Jackarse
Jul 30th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
“I believe that means they didn’t want to see the gnomes thrown away.” Strine ur doin it wrong..

“We didn’t want to see them put in a skip and taken to the tip and all smashed up,” This actually means that they didn’t want them placed in the back of a locked vehicle (ie skip) and taken to a gnome fighting ring (ie tip) where they will fight each other in bouts (ie all smashed up).

“Gnome Master” David Cook is a well known greenie, left, peacenik, agitator who interferes in gnome affairs. Gnomes like fighting as seen in their close cousins dwarfs in LOTR.

This is not neat. They will be knitting doilies all day.
Neath17
Jul 30th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I guess he figures there’s no place like Gnome.
VonSkippy
Jul 31st, 2009 at 4:32 am
Gnome sucks – it’s KDE all the way baby!
Scotchdrnkr
Jul 31st, 2009 at 7:48 am
Shouldn’t they have been moved to Nome Alaska instead.
anonymoussss
Jul 31st, 2009 at 8:47 am
LOL Larfin Jackarse… that was very much appreciated
CanCan
Jul 31st, 2009 at 9:39 am
LOL…that’s a cute story!
redphone
Jul 31st, 2009 at 9:45 am
Aren’t some gnomes expensive collectibles? I wonder if that guy unwittingly let go of a small fortune.
RooGrrrl
Jul 31st, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Just for clarification, an Aussie to Yank translation (from an American living in Australia):

skip = dumpster
tip = landfill or dump

So the full translation would be:

“We didn’t want to see them put in a dumpster and taken to the landfill and all smashed up.”
Gnome lover
Aug 3rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
They definitely should’ve taken the gnomes and created and undersea garden off the coast of New South Wales. That would’ve been a fantastic diving spot.

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