Talk:Travelling gnome/Archive 1

Note
Note that this article was initially created from duplicate material in Gnome, Where is my Gnome? and Garden Gnome Liberation Front. ··gracefool |&#9786; 12:41, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Someone should add the Matthew Good music video for his song Anti-Pop.

This prank was dramatized in the french film Amélie.

Origin of Travelling Gnome
I believe the origin could be from a short story called "Wish You Were Here" by Frank Jones in a book "Fingerprints: A Collection of Stories by the Crime Writers of Canada"

It was apparently published in 1984. I read it in a High School english class 10 or 12 years ago.

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The origin may have come from That's Life! a BBC television programme. I cannot find an online date for when the story of the stolen gnome was covered but I seem to remember that it was well before 1984. --Russhayley (talk) 20:06, 27 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The first I heard of the travelling gnome prank was in 1978, when I met a group of landscapers/horticulturists who were fellow students at Ryde School of Horticulture, Sydney, who would steal peoples gnomes and place them along the freeway near North Sydney. They did this as a satirical expression of their strong distaste for kitsch traditional gardening - still common in Australia at the time - and their view that it lacked aesthetic style. The gnomes symbolising the kitsch gardening style and hence were targeted. I am fairly sure that this group were the original gnome pranksters. My recollection is that the theft and relocation of the gnomes was reported by the police in northern Sydney newspapers at the time. I remember reading about the Eastern suburbs gnome prank incidents much later.John Moss (talk) 00:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Merge
I'm proposing merging Gnoming, Travelling Gnome and Travelling gnome prank as they all appear to be variations of the same thing (despite claims to the contrary). The three article also appear to rely on a lot of original research, or even made up stuff. However, combined they may make a half-way acceptable article. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 19:50, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

- Discussion will be centralized in the Talk:Gnoming section. Joosterhout (talk) 18:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

- I have now redirected Gnoming to this article. See Gnoming talk page for full discussion and reasons. -- Escape Orbit (Talk) 21:52, 27 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge 'em. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Original Gnoming Article
Here's something quite funny I discovered while looking at the history of the Gnoming article. Brings back good memories of 2007; how funny this wiki was back then: There are three streams of local gnoming: The first involves purchasing gnomes for the intent of creating a gnome army. This is a 'force' of gnomes that is moved from one house to another at random during the night, allowing the occupant a surprise when they find their lawn and garden occupied by many small bearded men. The second involves finding a house that already has gnomes, and simply arriving in the night, as often as possible, to rearrange the gnomes, implying they have a life of their own. This can be accentuated by dressing them and giving them different toys. The third major stream of gnoming is the 'breeding gnome' where gnomes are gradually added to an existing gnome population over a long period of time, giving the impression that the cheeky devils have begun to breed. This looks less suspicious when there are female gnomes present, preferably more than one, to avoid 'smurfette' syndrome. Kausill 14:39, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

"Up In The Air"
Wasn't he traveling with a life-sized cutout of his relatives? I don't remember anything about a gnome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.187.187.119 (talk) 08:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

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Proposal to move and merge
IMO this article should be moved to Travelling gnome (Travelling Gnome currently redirects here, but not the proper capitalization) and merged with Garden gnome liberationists, because there's a lot of overlap in the topics and there aren't enough reliable sources on each topic individually to merit two separate articles (especially considering the phrase "Garden gnome liberationists" isn't a thing that exists in reliable sources at all). I'm gonna go ahead and do it since these articles aren't very active and if anyone disagrees, undue my edit and let's discuss more here. —PermStrump ( talk )  13:37, 17 December 2016 (UTC)