2008 Woodie Awards
Video related to this article is available below.Issue date: 2/9/07 Section: News
Traveling the world, gnome in hand
Garden gnomes - a graduate student's best friend
Paul Richards
Other Parisian photos included "Gnome in Gnude" and "Hunchback of Gnotre Dame."
But being the so-called adventurers that they are, they were bound to run into trouble eventually.
One gnome broke in half midway through the trip. "We glued [it] back together after Paris," Reedstrom said.
Another "died on a Switzerland trip," Cheung said. "It was a very precipitous fall."
Some gnomes take less-dangerous trips, like to the Alamo with Nicole Maurantonio, a sixth-year graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Annenberg School for Communication.
While there, Maurantonio was brought face to face with a major gnome-related GSC issue.
"I was asked if I worked for Travelocity," she said.
Staff at the Center, however, often have to clarify that their gnome pre-dates the Travelocity gnome, something they are very proud of it, Mastroieni said.
"Really, the Travelocity gnome is very stiff," Cheung added, noting that the GSC gnomes have a more amicable personality.
"We like to pretend [they have] a lot of friends," she said.
But being the so-called adventurers that they are, they were bound to run into trouble eventually.
One gnome broke in half midway through the trip. "We glued [it] back together after Paris," Reedstrom said.
Another "died on a Switzerland trip," Cheung said. "It was a very precipitous fall."
Some gnomes take less-dangerous trips, like to the Alamo with Nicole Maurantonio, a sixth-year graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Annenberg School for Communication.
While there, Maurantonio was brought face to face with a major gnome-related GSC issue.
"I was asked if I worked for Travelocity," she said.
Staff at the Center, however, often have to clarify that their gnome pre-dates the Travelocity gnome, something they are very proud of it, Mastroieni said.
"Really, the Travelocity gnome is very stiff," Cheung added, noting that the GSC gnomes have a more amicable personality.
"We like to pretend [they have] a lot of friends," she said.
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Um
posted 2/09/07 @ 3:00 PM EST
Grad students are odd.
Mike Tague
posted 2/09/07 @ 8:16 PM EST
I must take issue with the characterization of Travelocity's gnome as "stiff." I rather like to think of him as a kind wayfarer who guides us upon life's journeys. (Continued…)
Sydney
posted 2/10/07 @ 1:11 AM EST
They just stole this from the movie "Amelie." That's kind of stale...
Johan
posted 1/27/08 @ 11:11 PM EST
I don't think Sydney is one of those people who looks beyond what he/she's seen in a movie... Didn't the Catholics "steal" their idea of a Divine man from the movie "Superman", Sydney?
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