Gnomes! In! Space!

[shunn]

An update on the Human/Gee-Gnome Project, if you remember my mentioning it a few weeks ago. This is our undertaking to mail my sister two garden gnomes a week for the twenty weeks leading up to her fortieth birthday.

This is Week 4 of the Project, and today I launched the fourth pair of gnomes on their way. I've received one somewhat puzzled email from my sister so far, thanking us for the gnomes and wondering what the game is and how she can play. I wrote back:

We're not privy to all the movements of the Gnoman Legion, but it's interesting to hear that after the weeks they've spent massing, they've begun to make their way out into the world.... What their ultimate strategic goal is, I can't say, but I gnow that with all things gnomish what starts out as inscrutable behavior usually becomes clear in time.

She reported, sadly, that one of the gnomes arrived critically injured, so I'm investing rather more bubble wrap in the Project these days.

We've also begun soliciting gnome sponsorships and the opportunity to gname a gnome from my mother and siblings. Everyone wants to get in on the act! Only three unclaimed slots are left.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

What's the proper nomenclature for naming a gnome Norm?

Gnomenclature

[shunn.livejournal.com]

LOL! But Norm is gnot a valid gnome gname. I can only demonstrate the proper technique by example. For instance, a well-formed pair of gnomes gnames would be Axella Ray Shunn and DeCella Ray Shunn.

Re: Gnomenclature

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Good thing you edited this comment to add in that "LOL!" or I'd'a been mortified, mortified I tell ya.

So, is D. Fenest Ray Shunn a valid gnome gname?

Gnomenclature goes out the window

[shunn.livejournal.com]

By Jove, I think he's got it! Let me be the first to offer my Khan Gratula Shunn.

Re: Gnomenclature

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

Norm may not be a valid gnome name, but Norma Liz A. Shunn might be.

(I have an aunt Norma, btw.)

Re: Gnomenclature

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

You could make that middle name Liza as well but my name being Liz/Lis I wanted to sneak in there.

Re: Gnomenclature

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I think "Norma Liz A. Shunn" scanns better.

Signed, Connor Bay Shunn.

Re: Gnomenclature

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Connor Bay Shunn is a great one. I, too, prefer names that scan well. Jenner A. Shunn is one of my favorites.

[keikaimalu.livejournal.com]

This is delightful -- gift concept and names both. I'm amazed, though, that no one has suggested Master Bay Shunn.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've been doing this a long time, and believe me, we all thought it!

[keikaimalu.livejournal.com]

I should have realized. I just figured you folks weren't as crude as I. :)

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Well, when Connor Bay Shunn was a lad, that's how his maiden aunt referred to him, much to the embarrassment of all concerned.

[keikaimalu.livejournal.com]

And I'll bet she never understood why the little Master blushed so when she did.

[karen-w-newton.livejournal.com]

Frickin' hilarious!