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  Underpants gnomes - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Underpants gnomes have a built in Chameleon reflex, used to hide in dark corners, under beds, and in people's assholes during the day, or during the occasional midnight munchie run made by the human inhabitant of the house.
The natural predators of the Underpants Gnome is the Cross dresser, the Gareth, and the Uber-Gamer (a primitve form of gamers).
The feud between the Underpants Gnomes and the Gareth started way back when in the year of 1997, before the invention of the wheel, when the Underpants Gnomes were as brash as to steal the Gareth's flask of Vodka, and devoured it.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Underpants_gnomes   (411 words)

  
 afireinside.org/subvulture.com - humour articles
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 relocating of gnomes is a long practised student prank and is intended to cause puzzlement by the sheer randomness of the action.
Ornamental garden gnomes are ugly and tend to be owned by demented old women with hundreds of cats or by pretentious students who mistakenly construe them as 'gothic' or 'artistic'.
www.afireinside.org /archive/113.html   (786 words)

  
 Fool.com: "South Park's" Investing Lesson [Fool on the Hill] November 8, 2001
The boys end up deciding to write their report on the underpants gnomes that one of them has spied stealing underwear from his dresser.
The part that I loved about this episode was when the boys followed the gnomes to their cave, and started asking questions about how such a business is run.
Gnome 1: This is where all our work is done.
www.fool.com /news/foth/2001/foth011108.htm   (1001 words)

  
 The Invisible Gnomes and the Invisible Hand: South Park and Libertarian Philosophy by Paul A. Cantor
As in the phrase “gnomes of Zurich,” which refers to bankers, gnomes are often associated with the world of finance.
In short, the underpants gnomes are an image of capitalism and the way it is normally — and mistakenly — pictured by its opponents.
The gnomes represent the ordinary business activity that is always going on in plain sight of everyone, but which they fail to notice and fail to understand.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/cantor3.html   (4769 words)

  
 Gnomes (South Park episode) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Underpants Gnomes are a community of underground gnomes who steal underpants, notably from Tweek.
The Underpants Gnomes also appear in another episode, "Red Sleigh Down"; in it, they appear as Santa's elves; it is explained that they work on their own for most of the year, but assist Santa during the Christmas season.
The gnomes, however, are very concerned and don't seem to understand why Stan and Kyle are unfazed by the death of their friend.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underpants_Gnomes   (1008 words)

  
 gnomes
The farm gnome resembles the house gnome but is of a more constant nature and is conservative in all matters.
These gnomes (Farm and House) are good-natured, always ready for a lark or to tease; they are never malevolent, with a few exceptions, of course.
If a gnome is really wicked—which happens only once in a thousand –it is due to bad genes that result from crossbreeding in faraway places.
www.foundus.com /jani/gnomes/welcome.html   (989 words)

  
 Hear Our Voices: Underpants Gnomes
In this classic episode of South Park, one of the main characters discovers that tiny gnomes are coming into his bedroom at night and stealing his underpants.
The joke, of course, is that the Underpants Gnomes haven’t spelled out the crucial missing phase—how to turn stolen underpants into profits—but they continue their pilfering practices none-the-less.
So, if simply analyzing data is not enough, then what is? In order to fill in the missing second phase in the Underpants Gnomes’ plan, we have to ask, and attempt to answer, the kinds of questions that explicitly connect the dots between teaching and learning.
theknowingteam.blogspot.com /2007/03/underpants-gnomes.html   (850 words)

  
 Tweek Sounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Tweek telling Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny that the Underpants Gnomes might be coming for his blood.
Cartman, Kyle and Stan discuss the idea of Underpants Gnomes, and Tweek invites the boys to sleepover at his house.
The Underpants Gnomes sing their song as they steal Tweek's underpants, and Tweek tries to point them out to Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny.
members.tripod.com /~chibi_tweek/tweek_sounds.html   (163 words)

  
 Here's What's Left: South Park Guide to the Bush Administration, Part 1: Republicans are Underpants Gnomes
The first example and the one that's most obvious to me is that the current administration, although they look normal size on TV, is actually made up of underpants gnomes.
In the episode of South Park entitled "Gnomes" (Episode 217 for those dorks that know shows by episode number), Tweek (a jittery little guy, whose name comes from drinking the shitty coffee his parents sell in their coffee shop) keeps having his underwear stolen by the underpants gnomes.
To which a gnome replies, "Stealing underpants big business!" Fast forward and the gnomes take the boys down to their secret cave where they have hoarded an enormous pile of underpants.
hereswhatsleft.typepad.com /home/2004/12/south_park_guid.html   (2609 words)

  
 Division of Labour: Jeffrey Sachs and the Underpants Gnomes
Division of Labour: Jeffrey Sachs and the Underpants Gnomes
One of the all-time greatest episodes of South Park is “Underpants Gnomes,” wherein the coffee-addled character Tweak finds that his missing underpants are being stolen by -- you guessed it -- a group of underpants gnomes.
Here’s a screen shot of a gnome contemplating the plan.
divisionoflabour.com /archives/002167.php   (356 words)

  
 When Your Bored U Write Ur Characters Background - DigitalBackSpin Video Game Community Forums
Seth was born to underpant gnomes in the magical kingdom of Dryer-Machi-naria.
Even though he was a Taru-Taru living in the lands of gnomes he had a happy childhood and was never poor.
At the outbreak of the Great War most underpants gnomes thought that their neutral land of underpants was safe from the hordes of primitives and demons that spread across vanadiel like a plague, and for a time they were, until a certain event came to pass.
www.digitalbackspin.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1019   (1321 words)

  
 Underpants Gnomes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In the South Park episode entitled Gnomes (Underpants Gnomes), The Underpants Gnomes are a community of underground gnomes who collect underpants.
Where none of the gnomes actually knows what the second step is, and all of them assume someone else within the organization does.
The gnomes specifically satirise dotcom businesses with poorly devised business models, although the satire lends itself to any ill-conceived business plan.
www.mirabilis.ca /archives/001473.html   (123 words)

  
 exit zero (formerly what are they saying): Underpants Gnomes for Kerry (Updated)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Apparently, this "Hit Republicans with Cars" campaign is using a variation of the South Park Underpants Gnome strategy.
Underpants Gnomes for Kerry have adopted the strategies (and occasionally the colorful dress) of traditional Underpants Gnomes, but will they succeed?
Some good news - from a quick Google, it appears that there haven't been any 'Underpants Gnomes for Kerry' attacks today, although there is one story titled: Democrats hit road to fight GOP gutter politics.
www.whataretheysaying.org /archives/001210.html   (1101 words)

  
 Underpants Gname South » Park Gnom Underpants Song - Underpants
- pajamas mediocrity Underpants #2 (aka Simon): It took Underpants Gname #1 (aka John) months of courting and a couple of spankings to convince Underpants Gnom #2s (aka Simon) the interweb was ripe for the picking, Song Underpants Gnom.
- Flickr: Photos from underpants : Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world, as every portlander loves to say, this was where they took the outside shots of the Overlook Hotel Song Underpants Gnom song.
After stealing several pairs of Tweek's underpants, the Gnomes walk out of his bedroom, unnoticed by the other boys.
www.newsgem.net /entertainment/underpants-gnome.htm   (561 words)

  
 Tweek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the episode "Gnomes", Tweek's father's Coffee Shop, Tweek Bros. Coffee, is under threat of enforced closure due to being outsold by a retail coffee shop chain, Harbucks - a parody of the Starbucks coffee chain - opening up in South Park.
Tweek himself experiences hallucinations - the titular underpants gnomes, whom he believes are stealing his underwear.
It transpires that the gnomes are in fact real; their discovery by the other characters is used to advance the plot line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tweek   (612 words)

  
 Animation World: South Park - Ghouls, Ghosts and Underpants Gnomes -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Stan, Kyle, Саrtmаn, and Kenny are also haunted by "Underpants Gnomes" and an alien "Тrарреr Keeper," although the subplots of these two episodes offer, in thе words of one character, "more fertile territory" fоr South Park's skewed social соmmеntаrу.
In "Underpants Gnomes," corporate takeover by an invading Harbucks Соffее threatens a local family business.
-`Underpants Gnomes'ý, a South Parký lоок at large corporations, and fеаturing the first appearance of the always-high-strung and apprehensive Tweeký.
www.animationworldwide.com /tov42303030303639364934.html   (578 words)

  
 Episode 217
and is beset by gnomes who come in during the wee hours of the morning and steal his underpants.
When the boys see this for themselves, they nab the gnomes and follow them to their cave, where the underwear is collected...
When the gnomes steal the guy's under-pants at the mayor's office, it's broad daylight.
www.southparkstuff.com /season_2/episode_217   (262 words)

  
 Bakaitis.com · The Communist Manifesto and the Underpants Gnomes
And so, this risk is like the South Park episode 217 where a group of gnomes steals underpants in their search for wealth.
The gnomes have a good idea and they have a great goal but getting from idea to the goal is a problem.
And while this “plan” of the gnomes satirized the Internet boom of the late 1990’s, it really applies to any activity in which the ideal and goal are disconnected.
www.bakaitis.com /?p=10   (732 words)

  
 The Guest Stars of "Gnomes"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The committee approves of the report and make it a cause, which leads to a vote on Prop.
They specialize in stealing underpants in the hopes of making profit from them, but they don't know how.
Normally, they work at night, but from to time to time, if one knows where to look, one can find them stealing underpants during the day, and even in broad daylight.
www.spscriptorium.com /Season2/E217guests.htm   (234 words)

  
 Main Street Electric Parade/South Park - MousePad
Anyway, the underpants gnomes have this little theme song they sing when they march or do work and such.
The underpants gnomes theme song was played throughout this entire South Park episode.
Well, my boyfriend turned to me and asked, "Why are they playing the underpants gnomes song?" At first I looked at him like he was crazy, then I began to listen to the music.....
mousepad.mouseplanet.com /showthread.php?t=2446   (588 words)

  
 Tweek vs the Underpants Gnomes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
An early platformer, Tweek vs the Underpants Gnomes (more commonly known as simply "Tweek") is based around everybody's favourite paranoid hyper kid...
Going through a series of dangerous worlds, Tweek must re-collect all his underpants from the Underpants Gnomes, while defeating them with his trusty throwable cups of coffee.
A simple (and somewhat repetitive) platformer obviously inspired by the Season 2 episode "Gnomes," Tweek vs the Underpants Gnomes is perhaps Rumney's most successful game, and still has its share of fans today.
www.spgarchives.com /info/tweek.php   (102 words)

  
 Underpants gnomes
So here is a clip of the underpants gnomes.
Many startups are currently in phase 1: the collect underpants mode.
Of course, we'll never be able to think of Technorati again without thinking of the underpants gnomes.
www.niallkennedy.com /blog/archives/2005/05/underpants_gnom.html   (203 words)

  
 Radioactive Liberty - Useless. Worthless. Pointless. » Selling Cell Phones for Fun and Prophet
The Underpants Gnomes are renowned as being responsible for mysteriously missing underpants.
The profit model used by the Underpants Gnomes has long had an unknown second step.
We now learn, via Detroit Free Press, that these three enterprising graduates of the Palestinian Institute of Technology found that by moving from the underpants market to the disposable cell phone industry, an important second step could be implemented.
radioactiveliberty.com /?p=574   (375 words)

  
 Liberals - Real Life Underpants Gnomes
For those unfamiliar with South Park, the Underpants Gnomes have a plan that consists of three phases.
The hapless gnomes are relying basically on nothing more than a blind hope that somehow collecting underpants leads to profit.
And just like the beleaguered gnomes they are convinced beyond all reason that they are on the road to success and that controlling the lives of people leads us all to paradise.
www.yoursdaily.com /different_views/liberals_real_life_underpants_gnomes   (912 words)

  
 South Park Quotes - Underpants Gnomes Quotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Underpants Gnomes Quotes (1 - 1 out of 1)
Are we missing your favorite Underpants Gnomes quote?
South Park Quotes.com, its operators, and any images and quotes contained on this site relating to "South Park" are not authorized by Comedy Central.
www.southparkquotes.com /episodes/underpants-gnomes-quotes.html   (86 words)

  
 Episode 217 - Gnomes
Your underpants are missing because you lose them, not because of underpants gnomes.
We won't stop until we have…" A gnome tosses the underpants to two others, who carry it away over their heads.
Since we are so concerned with the corporate takeovers, we went and asked our friends, the underpants gnomes, and they told us all about big corporations.
www.planearium2.de /scripts-217.htm   (3295 words)

  
 We Can't Stop Until We Have Underpants!
Like the underwear gnomes, Kassi always seems to forget phase two.
Knew I should've eaten more." He shakes his head, then, adding, "Tossing tubers in the hot springs seems like rather an odd cooking method." At Khari's comments, he wiggles his fingers in mock-threat, as if he's going to tickle her some more.
I can't rest 'til I've got underpants, 'cause I *promised* Lyssiath that we'd find some for Auntie Lirra." Strangled snickers can be heard coming from Kassima's direction.
www.filidh.org /~kassima/logs/gnomes.htm   (4624 words)

  
 alarm:clock: Underpants Gnomes Business Model Vs. Google Is Our Business Model
We find that this answer often suffices for bootstrapped companies with low overhead, but whenever a company is venture-backed, overhead gets loftier, bigger returns are expected and the "Google" response doesn't fly.
Instead, we get the classic Underpants Gnomes response (see SouthPark transcript below if you are not hip to the reference) where step one is traffic, step 2 is silence and step 3 is profits.
As we posted yesterday, the Underpants Gnomes model is working for WebMD's IPO and we are seeing lots of other companies getting Gnomes' Underpants funding.
www.thealarmclock.com /mt/archives/2005/09/underpants_gnom.html   (380 words)

  
 The Name Inspector ~ On Names and Naming
There’s something absurd about the word gnome, and using it to replace the first syllable of a stuffy, corporate-sounding acronym really makes Gnomedex work.
Gnome is just similar enough to Com- to make Gnomedex sound natural, but just different enough to make Gnomedex subtler than a pun.
It’s a slight tweak of The Locker Gnome, a nickname that Chris gave himself in high school that relates to one of his physical characteristics.
thenameinspector.com   (3130 words)

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