gnomes
By the way, we don’t give nearly enough credit to gnomes.
They have captured a great number of our socks, an incredible feat as almost none of us have ever caught one in the act. They stow things away from where we have set them right before our own eyes, completely undetected. Things that were in the closet have somehow disappeared — at their hands. And, they operate elevators.
There’s an “Elevator Closet” right next to the basement lift here where I work. I press the button to go up, and a great din of clicking and whirring emanates from behind the heavy, securely locked blue door. Behind it, a great number of gnomes are pulling levers and pushing buttons. It takes quite a team of them, as gnomes are rather small and eleveators as you know are giant, heavy, unwieldy things. An incredible feat.
Not to mention all your missing underpants.
Okay, I guess I understand where you are coming from. But take into account all the other types of gnomes in the world. You only named a few to give credit too, but there are other gnomes out there that do not accomplish much in the way of technology? Such as garden gnomes. They merely sit in observation of a lawn, occassionally being stolen by a teenager. What is the skill in that? Or what about traveling gnomes? The ones that get pocketed and modeled in different places around the world? A leisurely vacation hardly seems worthy of such praise! Especially when they did nothing to pay for the flight! Now, I will admit, there is one gnome you have left out, and he deserves a great deal of credit, but still remains the exception to the rule of lazy gnomes. The one I speak of is David. As an accomplished doctor, he is certainly a progressive gnome. His achievements, however, do not speak for all gnomes, and perhaps you are being too easy on the little buggers.
Comment by Fishy McFisherson — October 26, 2006 @ 7:22 am