Gnome Town USA

Now you can display your favorite 8 inch garden gnomes with this table top fountain. The fountain includes a recirculating pump and is suitable for your home. Make your wood land gnomes happy with this beautiful fountain.

For more information please click here: Table Top Garden Fountain for Garden Gnomes

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Our Garden Gnome reporter has just informed us of another gnome sighting. He just returned from viewing the new movie, “House Bunny” in which several garden gnomes were sighted.

“House Bunny” is a movie about a playboy bunny who is thrown out of the Playboy mansion and ends up becoming a house mother at the Zeta sorority house. This playboy bunny turned house mother helps the sorority sisters, who have the least popular sorority on campus, find ways to boost membership in hopes of saving their charter. Our Garden Gnome reporter spotted several scenes of this comedy where gnomes were part of the setting. So if you go to see this movie, look for the gnomes!

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McCain’s attack ad says that Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world implying that he is right up there with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Actually, McCain could have used one more example, the garden gnome. For centuries garden gnomes tried to lead a quiet life among humans and shunned any sort of attention. Now they are appearing everywhere. We see them in print and television ads and in movies. Recently, Uluru, a high end clothing manufacturer used one of our garden gnomes on the front cover of their printed “Holiday Resort 2008″ catalog.

Their popularity and their celebrity status are growing just like Obama’s. If Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world, then garden gnomes must not be too far behind him. If fact, we wouldn’t be at all surprised if we get a call from the White House some day asking us to ship some to Mr. Obama. After all, being a celebrity has its perks.

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We never go anywhere without our little traveling Gnomes, Timothy the Supervisor and Adam with Butterfly. Can you suggest a better way to make yourself feel right at home?

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I recently went to a party and wore my Garden Gnome T-shirt. I was surprised when a woman asked me where Gnome Town USA was. She actually thought the town was somewhere in the USA.

Being mischievous, I decided to take advantage of the situation. I immediately started to explain that Gnome Town USA did exist and was a place where all garden gnomes go to live. I explained that Gnome Town USA could be anywhere and was all around us.

At this point the lady was completely bewildered and I decided to give her a straight answer. I explained that it was a place in cyber space, the internet. At that point she started laughing so hard I thought she was going to fall off her chair. Afterwards I told her more about the web site. She replied that she was going to look at it and then email her friends to look at our garden gnome web site.

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Lately, almost daily, gnomes are popping up in more TV shows, movies, and ads. It’s become almost a sport to watch for gnomes. My wife was watching “The Full Monty” on TV one night when she spotted one of the characters pick up a Garden Gnome for some laughs only to be reprimanded by his friend to put it back. We had never really noticed or thought much about it the first time we saw this movie, but now that gnomes are making their guest appearances almost everywhere, it was a little bit of a thrill to discover one in an older movie.

A reference to gnomes was heard in coming attractions of the new movie, “The Love Guru.” The main character, played by Mike Meyers looks at one of the characters, played by Verne Troyer, the same actor who played Mini-Me in the movie, “Austin Powers”, and says to him, “…I didn’t catch your Gnome…name.”

And who hasn’t seen the wonderful Travelocity gnomes featured in their ads. It’s always great to see new ads pop up and the creative ways they use gnomes in the ads doing all sorts of stunts – flying through the air, doing magic on stage, riding the rapids, or performing high dives.

All this excitement about gnomes has prompted with some new words or gnomeisms that we believe should be added to the dictionary.

Gnomeisms: Little bits of philosophy.

Gnomey Gnomey: A phrase for someone who seems to have the “good luck power” of a garden gnome.

Gnome Snatcher: Someone who likes to steal garden gnomes. (By the way, this is a criminal offense punishable by law.)

Here are some phrases that are self-explanatory:

“May the Gnome be with you.”

“Only the Gnome knows” or “Only my Gnome knows the truth.”

“If you can love my Garden Gnome, you can certainly love me.”

“So goes, so goes my traveling gnome.”

“Chillin’ with my Gnomies.”

“Oh, Gnome you di’nt.”

“Down on Gnome Street.” (Coincidently may be found in a little place called Gnome Town USA, where garden gnomes and traveling gnomes go to be adopted.)

If you hear of any new Gnomeisms, please let us know.

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No one really knows the true origin of the golf term “mulligan”, which is a do-over. One of the more popular theories suggests that it came from a fellow by the name of David Mulligan. In the 1920’s David would drive his golf buddies to the golf course and in doing so would drive over some fairly rough roads causing his hands to suffer in the process. His buddies allowed him an extra shot off the first tee.

You may hear a few other theories as well, but there is one theory that is not well known and may very well be the true source of inspiration.

The story actually dates back to 1735. In the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland, there lived a small group of garden gnomes that witnessed the birth of golf. Aristocrats from Edinburgh would spend their leisure time on the lawns of Edinburgh Castle playing a new type of sport with hand carved sticks and a small ball. The gnomes who were well hidden in the nearby trees would watch intently as the gentlemen batted the balls into strategically placed holes in the ground. The gnomes were captivated by this new game and would watch for hours.

One day, Mulligan the Garden Gnome, who was notorious for being mischievous, decided to play a little trick on the golfers. He gathered the other gnomes and whispered his plan. The others giggled with excitement. They hadn’t had a good laugh in a long time and this seemed like the perfect prank. The gnomes hid among the bushes and trees and anytime one of the golfers hit the ball near them, the gnomes would take the ball and hide it. The golfers were perplexed as to what was happening to their golf balls. They began to suspect each other and soon rounded up some of the peasants to act as guards or “caddies”. The caddies would keep a close watch on the ball and would stand next to it so that the golfer would be able to his next shot. The gnomes were still able to carry out their prank on occasion and each time the ball went missing, the gentlemen would take a do-over shot.

This continued on for several years as gnomes never tire of a good prank. The gnomes simply returned the golf balls they collected to their owners. The gnomes got a big kick out of seeing the expression on the gentlemen’s faces when they discovered that the missing golf balls ended up in their possession. However, Mulligan the gnome didn’t return the golf balls he collected. He would carve his name on each ball and hide them safely in the large oak tree on the castle grounds. He wasn’t sure why he wanted to keep them, but he liked his little prank so much, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

The groundskeepers were grooming the lawns one day. It was unusually hot and the sun was brutal. One of the groundskeepers decided to take a nap and nestled next to the large oak tree that harbored Mulligan’s golf balls. By this time, however, the tree held so many golf balls that one of them eventually was squeezed out of a knothole in the tree and landed on the sleeping groundskeeper. The groundskeeper woke up and looked at what had interrupted his nap. He soon discovered that the tree was full of these little balls and brought them to the gentlemen who were just gathering for the start of their game. The gentlemen noticed the name “Mulligan” on all the golf balls. Although they questioned everyone they knew and all the peasants in the village, the mystery was never solved. The gentlemen enjoyed a good laugh after realizing that someone was having fun with them. And from that day on, each time the ball disappeared everyone referred to the do-over as a “mulligan”.

So there you have it. The true story of the mulligan, made famous by our very own “Mulligan” the gnome! The next time your golf ball disappears, you’ll know that Mulligan must be nearby and up to his old tricks.

Please click here to view a a larger image or purchase: Mulligan Garden Gnome.

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Hello. My name is Robert. I’m a garden gnome. I’ve often wondered why humans suffer from all sorts of diseases and conditions that are unheard of in our gnome community. For a long time it didn’t make sense to me that if gnomes live in the same area as humans and eat most of the same foods as humans, then how could humans be so different? So I asked my garden gnomes friends Zack and Thomas and they had an interesting theory.

Zack explained that Garden Gnomes are masters of their emotions.

The incredibly knowledgeable Thomas pointed out that gnomes control their anxieties and have simply learned not to get their drawers in a bunch about potential problems. He thinks that gnomes are light years ahead of human Yoga masters who often preach controlling metabolism and mental thoughts.

Then I remembered many years ago during a ferocious thunderstorm, a tree fell down blocking the entrance to Isabella Gnome’s home. Upon arriving home, she immediately looked over the damage and then calmly went for help. Luckily garden gnomes work closely together and come to the aid of each other whenever there is trouble or a need for help. Isabella went to see Bradley who lived next door.

I remember Bradley blushing as he recalled his story and how Isabella had walked in on him taking a bath asking for his help. I guess she didn’t even notice! Bradley got dressed and immediately went to get the others to help cut and remove the fallen tree. I helped too and when we removed the tree, we were surprised to find that the garden gnome door to Isabella’s house had been damaged. Luckily, Howard the Carpenter Gnome was there and immediately went to work to build Isabella a new door. Everything went smooth like clockwork.

No stress. We saw a problem. We worked together to fix the problem. Badda Bing, Badda Boom…we were done. I figured that there was no stress involved because gnomes just do want comes naturally – helping others.

Now, if this happened to humans, there would be lots of stress. After a storm like that one, I imagine that telephone lines would be down, electricity would be out, and no one would be able to use their appliances and gizmos for hours. What would humans do? Their food would spoil. They wouldn’t be able to watch TV. Neighbors would argue about who is responsible for what. Life would be interrupted. It wouldn’t be a pretty sight because everyone would be worried about their individual problems instead of helping each other.

Hmmmm……if only humans could discover what we gnomes already know! Maybe I’ll write a book to explain our secrets. Hmmm….then they could make it into a movie! I like movies…especially the action-filled ones. Let’s see, who could play me? Brad Pitt? … George Clooney? …Matt Damon? …

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