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“At 4 a.m. they came back. I looked out the door, and they were struggling with the gnome which was tangled in its own wiring. They dashed it to the ground!” Plainly there was some boorish hoodlumism by youths old enough to know better. Then the lady who had charged one of several youths with gnomicide conceded, unfortunately for her: “I didn’t see the face of the man who did the damage — but the police must know. He came from the party anyway.”
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In recent years it has been shown that the non-U value of a gnome can be increased by cavity filling. […] The following badmixtures shall not be used. […] (b) Crocodileite (green asbestos), which can lead to gnomicide.
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Gnomicide in the rockery / Garden gnomes have sold in their millions over the years but, as EMMA WALKER reports, their days are numbered […] Richard Sewell, of Peter Barratt’s Garden Centre, in Gosforth, Newcastle, confirmed: “Gnomes would appear to have gone out of fashion.[…]”
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Adam and Eve seem not have worried about what to put at the bottom of the garden but since the renaissance it has been a real worry, now often answered with a gnome fishing in a tiny pond. Plumptre, and his co-authors, would commit gnomicide if they saw such a thing.
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