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  Kimmel Gnomes News
To protect the gnome owners and their gnomes, I am not revealing the last names or their precise location except of course, the Gnome Reserve, which is open to the public.
Liz Spera is helping me with other gnome gardens, and we thought you might know of clients who have bought large quantities from you and might agree to have their collections photographed - but not identified.
I don't have a garden gnome (my daughter won't let me), but I love what they represent: a good-natured world where we and nature are in perfect balance, a utopian society much like the one the Smurfs brought to television in the 1980s.
www.kimmelgnomes.com /gnomenews.html   (2138 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: GNOME
According to the Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the classical element of earth; they move as easily through the earth as humans walk upon it, have conical hats, and the sun's rays turn them into stone dildos.
Gnomes feature in the legends of many of central, northern and eastern European lands by other names: a kaukis is a Prussian gnome, and barbegazi are gnome-like creatures with big vaginas in the traditions of France and Switzerland.
GNOME is the official desktop of the GNU Project and the correct pronunciation of the name is /gəˈnoʊm/ (guh-nome), although /noʊʊm/ (as in the English word "gnome") is also in common usage.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/GNOME   (5687 words)

  
 LEAHLAND... Garden Gnomes Beanies & Plushies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gnomes work at night in the woods and sometimes in human dwellings, it is not sheer coincidence that the word gnome itself is derived from Kuba-Walda, which means " home administrator" or "home spirit" in the ancient Germanic language.
Gnomes are often represented in small ornamental statues called garden gnomes, a German tradition.
Some kidnapped garden gnomes have been sent on trips around the world, being passed from person to person and photographed at different famous landmarks, with the photos being returned to the owner.
home.att.net /~leahland/gnomes.html   (150 words)

  
 Garden Gnome Liberation Front
The Garden Gnome Liberation Front (GGLF) is a French organization that stands for the liberation of garden gnomes.
GGLF became popular in the United States and the Internet after the hit movie Amélie and the Where is my Gnome ads — a viral marketing technique used by Travelocity in 2004.
The Garden Gnome Liberation Front is largely an underground movement as their primary methods of liberation often subvert local trespass and property laws.
www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/g/ga/garden_gnome_liberation_front.html   (191 words)

  
 GNOME WEB
Garden gnomes are all the rage in Paris and have become something of a status symbol in French gardens.
The Garden Gnome Liberation Front claimed responsibility, and said it would strike again unless the exhibit was closed and all of the gnomes released.
And in 1998, a "mass suicide" of gnomes in the city of Briey in eastern France was attributed to the group.
www.gnomeweb.com /news/france1.html   (224 words)

  
 nthposition online magazine: The Gnome Liberation Front
The story of the garden gnome that gallivanted off to remote, exotic locations, sending postcards home from his travels, is embedded in contemporary folklore.
For example, last summer in north-eastern France, 11 garden gnomes were found hanged from a bridge in what appeared to be a mass suicide.
His interest in garden gnomes began when he was working as a milkman, the perfect disguise for would-be gnome liberators.
www.nthposition.com /gnomeliberation.php   (1791 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Garden Gnome Hit Squad
What happens is that the garden gnomes are place strategecally round the front an back and front yards, while the houses occupant is away.
At the front of the door is a hamper with a note saying something along the lines of 'your long-lost aunt has died and left you her garden gnomes.
Failing that the gnomes don't work, the hamper has poisoned chocolate inside it, and the hamper is removed from the house after the hit, by the way.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/Garden_20Gnome_20Hit_20Squad   (513 words)

  
 Garden gnomes spark pop culture frenzy and 'liberation' movement
Gnomes are igniting wanderlust in Travelocity's new advertising campaign, which kicked off earlier this year with movie, television and print ads.
Unlike the more militant European-based Garden Gnome Liberation Front, which is responsible for "freeing" - some say stealing - hundreds of gnomes, Elliott prefers "to negotiate for the release" by sending letters to those who sell them, display them or use them for financial gain.
According to gnome mythology, these close cousins to Snow White's dwarfs can live to be 400 years old and rarely marry before 200.
www.azcentral.com /home/garden/articles/0709gnomes09.html   (637 words)

  
 Free The Garden Gnomes!
In July of 2001, a gathering of garden gnomes were arranged by the group on a roundabout in eastern France.
The gnomes supposedly left a message bearing the words, ‘ you read these few words we will no longer be part of your selfish world, where we serve merely as pretty decoration." While in the year 2000 the group liberated twenty gnomes in the night at a Paris garden show.
Families are loosing their fear and beginning to place garden gnomes back in more unprotected areas of the yard.
www.garden-gnomes-need-homes.com /articles/free-the-gnomes.html   (340 words)

  
 Garden Gnomes - Garden Accessories - at Online Discount Mart
Gnomes are defined as a race of small, misshapen, dwarf-like creatures that dwell in the earth.
With a gnome suggestion form available, you may also have found that hard to buy person on your list a gift that will be entertaining as well as decorate their garden or home.
Whatever gnome you choose to adopt, it is sure to serve you well as a conversation piece as well as decorate your garden or home for years to come.
www.onlinediscountmart.com /garden-gnomes.html   (1310 words)

  
 Garden Gnome Liberation Front at OrchidCharm.com
Garden gnomes set free in France The French Liberation Front for Garden Gnomes helps 74 of the ornaments make a daring escape from their suburban homes.
Garden Gnome Liberation Front homepage We are a Tactical Ops 2vs2 clan that protects and uphold the honor of Garden Gnomes.
Garden Gnomes are considered to have no place in todays society of fast cars and expensive fast food.
www.orchidcharm.com /growing-orchid/garden-gnome-liberation-front.html   (825 words)

  
 garden gnome pictures photos
The first garden gnomes were introduced to the United Kingdom in 1847 by Sir Charles Isham, when he brought 21 terracotta figures back from a trip to Germany and placed them around the gardens of his home, Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire.
Garden gnomes have become a popular accessory in many gardens, although they are not loved by all.
Some kidnapped garden gnomes have been sent on trips around the world, being passed from person to person and photographed at different famous landmarks, with the photos being returned to the owner.
www.picture-newsletter.com /gardengnome   (164 words)

  
 Gnome Liberation Front Strikes Paris Show
The not-so-tongue-in-cheek group has spent the last three years "liberating" the little cement statues from French gardens to return them to their "natural" rural habitat.
The Sarrebourg mystery is less sinister than the last major gnome 'napping incident, in which French officials last year found 11 gnomes hanging by their necks and a note saying they were, "leaving this cruel world...to join the temple of oppressed gnomes." Nonetheless, it has shocked the gnome-loving community.
But as the 21st century approaches, with organisations like the direct action Gnome Liberation Front in existence - and Lampy travelling the world to attend international gnome conventions - there is no evidence at all of the stone goblin's demise.
richlabonte.net /exonews/xtra3/gnome_liberation.htm   (676 words)

  
 Garden Gnome Liberation Front | Square Foot Gardening | Bronx Botanical Garden | Hilton Garden Inn Kansas City   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 Garden Angels: The Secret History of the Garden Gnome - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
But the common garden gnome has fallen on hard times in recent years, his reputation tarnished by campaigns led by mean-spirited elitist intellectuals and even perverts.
It's possible they were taken to France, where the Garden Gnome Liberation Front abducts supposedly enslaved gnomes and releases them back into their natural habitat.
But the garden gnome has some strong backers who are fighting to restore his reputation, led by Fritz Friedmann of the satirical International Society for the Protection of Garden Gnomes.
www.spiegel.de /international/1,1518,408272,00.html   (469 words)

  
 CNN.com - Garden gnomes gather for freedom - July 11, 2001
Some were set up to spell out "Free the Gnomes," leading police to believe that the prank culprits are members of a group known as the Garden Gnome Liberation Front.
But after a ringleader was fined and sent to prison in 1997 for his part in the disappearance of 150 gnomes, the group faded from the limelight.
A Paris garden exhibition was the group's target last year, where they stole about 20 gnomes during a night raid.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/11/gnomes.france   (264 words)

  
 Front Garden Gnome Liberation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A French police station has been stuck with a room of homeless garden gnomes, victims of a wave of gnome abductions, after a new bid to trace their owners failed.
The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has sprung back to life, stealing around 20 gnomes during a...
French activists committed to freeing garden gnomes have struck again, removing 15 from gardens in Alsace.
www.gardening-directory.com /inf/front-garden-gnome-liberation.html   (411 words)

  
 The Garden Gnome Liberation Front@Everything2.com
The Garden Gnome Liberation Front was originally a French organization, active throughout 1996 and '97.
It was responsible for rescuing a large number of garden gnomes from captivity and releasing them into their natural environment.
However, I have been able to ascertain that the French Garden Gnome Liberation Front has now inspired other similar organizations elsewhere, most notably in Barga, a town in the Province of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, where the European Gnome Sanctuary was founded in 2000.
www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=974606   (629 words)

  
 Too funny! "Gnome Liberation Group" - Topic Powered by eve community
There is a group that is stealing gnomes in Paris and demanding the release of all imprissoned gnomes.
PARIS -- The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes during a nighttime raid on a Paris exhibition.
Gary (the Gnome) was in danger of being beheaded as an infidel Gnome..this threat was issued by the Gnome Liberation Authority and I took it seriously enough to get protection for Gary.
forums.military.com /eve/forums/a/tpc/f/69719858/m/1830061690001   (429 words)

  
 Garden Gnome Liberation Front
The Garden Gnome Liberation Fronts (GGLF) are international organizations that stand for the liberation of garden gnomes.
These so-called "liberation groups"—which can be seen as cults or simply groups of practical jokers—attempt to rid the world of "unjust" imprisonment of gnomes.
These groups claim that forcing gnomes to stand in gardens without just compensation, against their free will and for the sake of ornamentation is immoral.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Garden_Gnome_Liberation_Front   (475 words)

  
 Gnome Free!
According to a short report issued by the Agence France-Presse (which was reprinted in several major newspapers, including Canada's National Post), a new faction of society is resorting to spectacular tactics like mysterious midnight kidnapping raids to draw attention to their call for freedom.
The Front's aim, apparently, is to free gnomes from domestic captivity and return them to their natural woodland habitats.
Earlier this month, some 143 garden gnomes were discovered lined up in front of the city hall in Sarrebourg in eastern France.
www.dontflameme.com /silliness/Gnome.html   (660 words)

  
 Gnome Liberation Front Essays| Gnome Liberation Front Dissertations
The Garden Gnome Liberation Fronts (GGLF) are international organizations "that stand for the liberation of garden gnomes." The most famous is the Front de Libération des Nains de Jardin (FLNJ) (based in France), the creator of the world movement.
The Garden Gnome Liberation Front is largely an underground movement as their primary methods of liberation often subvert local trespass and property laws.
Forcing Gnomes to stand in gardens without just compensation and against their free will, for the sake of ornamentation is, to these groups, immoral.
www.marketing.degree-essays.com /gnome-liberation-front-essays.html   (706 words)

  
 Garden Gnome Liberation front
Many people talk to their gnome as if it were their favorite child.
The removal of some of the figures from the show at the Bagatelle Gardens in Paris was the first action clained on the Liberation Front's behalf in three years.
The article also included a picture of 2 middle-aged, slightly confused-looking men standing behind a throng of recovered gnomes, ranging from your garden-variety gnome with the red hat and wooden shoes to Snow White and a gaggle of dwarves.
www.geocities.com /kelemvour/Gnomes.html   (605 words)

  
 Garden Gnome From Hell: Garden Gnome Liberation Front ??? (!!!!)
This group thinks it's perfectly fine to liberate Gnomes from captivity (I told you--hose beasts).
A French judge recognizes the danger gnomes pose--he sent their ring leader to jail in 1997.
A CNN article reports: "The only suspected sighting of the organization since [1997] was a mass suicide of gnomes at Briey in eastern France in September 1998, when 11 of them were found dangling by their necks under a bridge."
www.gardengnomefromhell.com /2006/01/garden-gnome-liberation-front.html   (148 words)

  
 Garden Gnome Liberation Front - Gardening 
Garden Gnome Liberation Front has sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes...
Minimum number of garden gnomes relocated to the forest since...
Some 79 garden gnomes snatched by a so-called gnome liberation group, were...
www.gardenshelper.com /info/garden-gnome-liberation-front.html   (733 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Enchanted Beings > Gnomes > Travelocity Roaming Gnome
Since the central theme of the prank is showing a gnome "traveling" to various places, the Travelocity people thought the idea of a roaming gnome mascot was a perfect match for their online travel business.
The French-based Garden Gnome Liberation Front (Front de Libération des Nains de Jardins) wreaked havoc in France until 1997 when a northern French court handed its ringleader a suspended prison sentence and fined him for his part in the disappearance of around 150 gnomes.
To inspire her widowed father Raphael to travel, Amelie sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world.
www.tvacres.com /enchanted_gnomes_travelocity.htm   (405 words)

  
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 CNN.com - Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show - April 12, 2000
France's first garden gnome exhibition in the exclusive Bagatelle park on the outskirts of the capital opened last month and has been a hit with the public as chic Parisians develop a taste for kitsch culture.
The Garden Gnome Liberation Front vanished from the public eye in 1997 after a northern French court handed its ringleader a suspended prison sentence and fined him for his part in the disappearance of around 150 gnomes.
The only suspected sighting of the organization since then was a mass suicide of gnomes at Briey in eastern France in September 1998, when 11 of them were found dangling by their necks under a bridge.
archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/arts/04/12/france.gnomes.reut   (388 words)

  
 Garden Gnome Liberation Front
Garden gnomes were snatched from the lawns of about six homes in the village last summer.
Mary Romines found the ransom note tacked to the front gate of their home in A and L Trailer Park.
The pig statues were taken from her front yard, around a birdbath and beneath an arch surrounded by other cement swine brethren and chickens.
www.geocities.com /willdirne/gnome.html   (724 words)

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