Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for April 12, 2023

It’s in the elf improvement section.

Mrs. Chomsky has a copy of that book.

Linnaeus’s book on baby names suggested two-name names for baby gnomes and was called “Binomial Gnomenclature”

Gno kidding.

They just released one for their pet wildebeests too: Gnu Gnome Gnomenclature.

Some parents like to choose little gnome names.

It dwarfs the competition.

He got there by riding along in his Gnome -Mobile.

Had a lovable neighbor who collected them. Neighbors would bring him one back from vacations and business trips. He had well over 100 when he had to go to the old ‘gnome home’. I still miss him. Lovable old Irishman.

I’ve never known a Gnome to roam so far from home alone.

Gnomebody knows the troubles I have..

At a bookstore in Alaska…

For a garden-variety name

And the most popular name, once again, is Rumpelstiltskin.

Are there gnomes in Nome? Are there gnus in Gnu Jersey? Are there cows in Moscow? Inquiring minds want to know.

That book is so big it dwarfs him.

gnat is a good name for a boy…

My mom and I have a family of gnome figurines; we had a game of hiding them somewhere in the downstairs for the other person to find. Gnorris and Gnelda, who have a little girl, Gnilla. Then there’s also Cousin Gnolan.