Happy gnome appreciation day!
by Dan Crislip 
May 7th 2007 at 1:20PM
Today's comic brings the love to our short, semi-sweet, and often misunderstood friends, the gnomes.
Gnomes. Short, obnoxious, nauseatingly cute, and spunky. With their troll-doll-like neon hair choices, and their high-pitched chatter, they are one of the most endeared and picked-on race in the game. But with great ridicule comes great hilarity, as today has been deemed Gnome Appreciation Day!
The forums are abuzz with comments about our new holiday, bringing even the blues out of hiding to voice their love of the pocket-gnome. Many jokes about keeping gnomes as pets, having gnomes for dinner, or treating them like footballs have entertained us for years now.
But, lets face it, gnomes are important! They are our dps in raids. They are our vending machines, for food, water, and healthstones. They are the butt of our jokes, but they keep coming back. They are bait to lure The Beast out of his cave (which probably started most of the gnome-punting jokes). They are the best engineers in the game, which in the next patch may actually prove viable. "They're in ur raidz stealin' yur soul shardz."
They're everywhere, and they're here to stay! So lets take a moment to give a shout-out to the shorties, for it's Gnome Appreciation Day!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
chaz May 7th 2007 1:37PM
i have to say, as a fervent Horde player - Gnomes are my least hated ally race. Dwarves I'm kind of fine with too, and I haven't figured out my position on the Draenei yet.
Nelfs and Humans can all diaf, though. Seriously, you play a human in your virtual life? -50 DKP for no creatvity.
Kompost May 7th 2007 1:57PM
Oxhorn put it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPrFgFOTW0&NR=1
Really, this just sums out my relationship with gnomes. They're aren't /horrid/, but... geeze.
Spoink the Mighty!!!! May 7th 2007 2:12PM
I Spoink the Mighty, King of the Gnome Pimps do praise and worship this most holy of holidays!!!!
Fear the Gnomes, Worship the Gnomes, Hug a Gnome, we give candy!
Atie May 7th 2007 3:14PM
of the Alliance...indifferent to Humans, Night Elves or Dwarves. Draenei look...silly to me.
BUT the only good Gnome is a dead Gnome. I wish there was a vendor in one of the Horde cities that offered a variety of cooked Gnomes...Fried Gnome Ears, Gnome Burgers, Gnome Brauts, Gnome Cordon Blue, etc. It would be satisfying for my hunter alt to be able to feed their pet Gnome meat! :-) *big evil grin*
blackscreen May 7th 2007 3:32PM
To quote a good in game friend of mine:
"Every time a gnome dies, an angel gets its' wings"
'nuff said.
SPAZ May 7th 2007 3:42PM
To all gnomes...
I would love to take you to my basement where I would tie you to a old splintered chair, from there I would would take an old rusty fish gutting knife out from my cabinet. On your cheek you will feel the cold sensation of the blade running up till it stopped at your temple. You feel the anxiety of fear trembling through your spine as the pressure from the blade gets stronger, and stronger. As the knife slides in just under the surface you let out a scream that would peel the paint off the walls. Farther and farther it goes. Once it slowly passes your eye socket your vision will turn red with blood ozing out your eyes, nose and mouth. Your body twitching till you pass out from all the pain. From this, you will never wake up.
Happy hunting.
FOR THE HORDE.
Swiftlydead May 7th 2007 3:57PM
Yay for gnome killing!
Quoi May 7th 2007 4:11PM
@ 6
Get help. Seriously.
Kabitzin May 7th 2007 4:46PM
@6
Sorry, but Gnomes have Escape Artist.
Yippster May 7th 2007 4:46PM
@6... ZOMG! you do need help!
Either you have been watching too many horror movies or are a serial killer, sounds like you enjoyed writing that a little too much.
Besides this is supposed to be gnome appreciation day WTF?! It's ok tho really, gnomes don't need the support of the other classes, we're fine. Imagine an undead or tauren putting up with the riducule we tolerate every day? Yea right! They'd all quit!
Gnomes have the best /lol and the best /cry in the came.
prax May 7th 2007 4:50PM
@6 Un-funniest thing I've ever seen posted on a WoW forum. Get counseling now.
Wartooth May 7th 2007 5:14PM
@6 very creative. i hope that does happen to gnomes :P stupid gnomes boil them alive and eat their eyes.
Dracula Jones May 7th 2007 5:29PM
@6: You mean the basement in your mom's house? The one with the stack of pizza boxes and rolls of multi-purpose (toilet) paper strewn about? That basement? The one with the really smelly chair? Oh, is that the chair you're going to tie a gnome to? The one that no matter how many times you Febreze it, it just won't stop smelling so you learn to live with it? What happens when in the middle of torturing the gnome your mom has to do laundry? It's your laundry isn't it? Your mom does your laundry. You suck soooo bad.
GO GNOMES!
Dracula Jones May 7th 2007 5:38PM
Also, you use that fish-gutting knife to cut open your Hot Pockets, don't you? Yeah, you do. They're so hot when you take them out, right?! Oh man, you need to release some steam, but you'd have to go all the way back up to the kitchen for a knife.
That's not even rust, is it? It's dried Hot Pocket tomato sauce, isn't it?
GNOMES RULE YOU. GO TELL YOUR MAMA.
SPAZ May 7th 2007 5:48PM
I make allot of money at my daytime job. Have a very nice house... and the basement im talking about is the one below my house that no one get get to unless they can unlock the 4 deadbolt locks. In my basement there are no pizza boxes or stinky chairs. Only bright florets lights with chains and hooks hanging from the roof. Everything down there is stainless steel with a surgical table in the middle, and freezer in the corner to save my work for later. The best part about it is everything is white marble tiled with a drain in the center of the room. Makes for easy cleanup. I know its a little cliché, but it really fits my needs when im down there. Its also very comforting it smells allot like my childhood. My father was a meat butcher for the family business.
Quoi May 7th 2007 5:52PM
Dood, you're feckin weird.
Dracula Jones May 7th 2007 6:05PM
You're not fooling anybody. We can all smell your chair from here. The one you sit in when you play Warcraft in your mom's basement while she does laundry. I have no doubt there's a freezer in the corner, but all that's inside is 50 boxes of Hot Pockets and White Castle cheeseburgers. Oh, and good call with the drain. Now you don't even have to go upstairs to use the bathroom, either!
GNOMES KIDNAPPED YOUR DOG AND HE LIKES LIVING WITH THEM BETTER. YOUR MOM WAS IN ON IT. SHE'S PART GNOME.
Connor May 7th 2007 6:29PM
Gnomes live in denail... Its quite sad really. We really need to help them out. If everyone leads them into the cam... *pause* "special living comunities" we set up, everyone will enjoy life to its fullest. What do you say?
Yippster May 7th 2007 6:59PM
SPAZ Aww arent you cute with your little imagination.
Jeffrey Dahmer had a freezer in his basement too.
You really do need help, and apparently you are an experienced killer. Thank god for the anonymity of the internet otherwise I'd be terrified of having any dialogue with you whatsoever.
Turn yourself in please, or at least get some anonymous counseling.
honkhonk May 7th 2007 7:36PM
lick us, we taste like stawberry ^^
at least the ones with pink hair. Green is for booger taste D: