[UA] Gnome

Tim Groth tim.groth at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 09:56:42 PDT 2008


Maybe some twisted personomancer variant or rite, wherein the viewers are
convinced that a mythical creature or animated object exists and that the
adept/performer is that thing.  Perhaps it is the only way to juice up masks
of mostly humanoid mythological beings, as opposed to animal based ones.

-Tim

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Courtney <lynxa at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  No one claimed the Sun was prestigious :P  Prestigious news is never fun.
>
> The gnome creeped me out, if for no other reason than there's some little
> guy out there who likes to dress up in gnome clothes and creep around the
> neighborhood.  Even if it was staged, someone had to get the idea from
> somewhere, and then EXECUTE it!  How weird is that?  A pointy-hatted
> Scandinavian gnome in South America?
>
> This would be a HILARIOUS component for a ritual.  I want to see a whole
> group of adepts wearing pointy hats and doing a sideways mince-crawl through
> a neighborhood in the middle of the night.
>
> *"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other
> languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets
> for loose grammar." **- - -James Nicoll
> *
>
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> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:36:28 -0500
> From: ars.mysteriorum at gmail.com
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> Subject: Re: [UA] Gnome
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> The Sun is not a prestigious newspaper, but a tabloid with naked women on
> the third page...
>
> I dunno if the needle on my creep meter has even moved on this one...
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Tim Bisaillon <knightbane at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  A TOWN in South America is living in fear after several sightings of a
> 'creepy gnome' that locals claim stalks the streets at night.
> The midget - which wears a pointy hat and has a distinctive sideways walk
> - was caught on video last week by a terrified group of youngsters.
>
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article902014.ece
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