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[Johnny B]

[Kitt]

haha nice... meg was asking me about your gnome obsession and I had no explanation for her ?!

[a13x]

bwahahah that's awesome. New avatar time.

[-jro-]

lolz love it

[mzdagrl]

I saw you setting up for that one and had no idea what to say or think.....it hasn't changed.

[reiobard]

perfect... just perfect!!!

[Pittenger5]

Hahahah awesome!

[Johnny B]

The original Rolling Gnome....

[nt650hawk]

For a second I thought it was BJ.


Nice addition Johnny

[palanon]

" The genetic experiments, though not quite successful, have had some interesting results "

[MissTwisties]

This is quite funny! Thanks for the smile...

[Johnny B]

haha nice... meg was asking me about your gnome obsession and I had no explanation for her ?!

Nick Kornfeld, the previous Starter, used to leave running practice to his assistant. He would rollerblade around the paddock all morning, socializing. It was The Don who started calling him The Rolling Gnome.

There was a race in which Jeff Wood and Doug Henry were going at it big time. Doug was leading, and Jeff was biding his time, waiting to make his move on the last lap. Nick went out to the line with the white and checkered flags behind his back. When they came around to start the last lap, Nick inadvertantly threw the checkers instead of the white flag, giving Doug his first straight road racing win.

So I got the first Travelocity Gnome and had him holding a white and checkered flag and put it on the wall. When Nick said that 2006 was going to be his last season, Fred Neergaard commisioned me to come up with a commemorative t-shirt to honor Nick. Here's the artwork:



The first gnome fell off the wall and broke his legs, so I got a spare after gluing the first one together. Then the full sized one came out. After that, the donations started coming in. The Don donated the Florida Gators gnome, Barbara Wood gave me some racing gnomes, I picked up some cheap ones from Harbor Freight for filler.

Recently, KB gave me the unpainted one with the pot of gold, and Oxx gave me the Batgnome last Saturday. I have also found some other good ones, like the one being stolen by aliens and Murray the Bastard with his bagpipes.

So this whole thing started out as a dig at Nick. From there it just got out of hand.

[a13x]

So this whole thing started out as a dig at Nick. From there it just got out of hand.

It ain't stopping anytime soon. I get a laugh everytime I see them. I was playing the awesome video game Fallout 3 lately and there are garden gnomes in the game you find. Post-apocolypic Washington DC wasteland you wander around and sometimes you find some beatup lawn gnomes. Even more rare are pristine ones. Guess who's been saving everyone he can find and stashing them in his virtual house in the game? Oh yea me, cause I'm like "What Would Johnny B Do?

[Pittenger5]

It ain't stopping anytime soon. I get a laugh everytime I see them.

[Johnny B]

It ain't stopping anytime soon. I get a laugh everytime I see them. I was playing the awesome video game Fallout 3 lately and there are garden gnomes in the game you find. Post-apocolypic Washington DC wasteland you wander around and sometimes you find some beatup lawn gnomes. Even more rare are pristine ones. Guess who's been saving everyone he can find and stashing them in his virtual house in the game? Oh yea me, cause I'm like "What Would Johnny B Do?

Hey Alex, I put out a call for the Jason DiSalvo gnome that popped up in the Yamaha pits a while back. He was supposedly placed there by the Yosh crew. You know anything about it?

[Johnny B]

Bruce Berlinger interviews Nick Kornfeld.



A visit from Sponge Bob Squarepants.



The whole crew in 2007.



Midget gnome with suitcase donated by Melanie (Left, upper row.) on my dashboard. The one holding the flowers (Second from right, upper row.) is from Wanda.



Democrat State Representative Jay Phinizy with the gnomes. Can you tell which one is the Republican gnome?



Angus McScruffie.

[Johnny B]

New avatar time.

No way in Hell, Alex. I gotta remind you punks that I was motard before motard was cool! (1981-1985)

[butcher bergs]

Post 12 = extremely enlightening for a newb

[Kitt]

nice! thanks for the story... now i migh just add to the collection if I come across a good gnome haha.

btw - what's the current starters name? nicest guy in the world, very friendly with him, but i forgot his name.

[The Snowman]

Post 12 = extremely enlightening for a newb

Thanks for filling us in. I wondered what the story behind the mysterious gnomes was. Did he ever wear something like this:

[Johnny B]

btw - what's the current starters name? nicest guy in the world, very friendly with him, but i forgot his name.

Paul Rooney

[GixerJockey]

Post 12 = extremely enlightening for a newb

Thanks for the story. I rolled onto hot pit the first day and was quite surprised to see all the gnomes. I knew about you and the collection, but didn't expect to see a whole family of them sitting the wall, greeting me as I rode by.

[Johnny B]

......but didn't expect to see a whole family of them sitting the wall, greeting me as I rode by.

Scary part is that you only saw about half of them.....

Diane actually found this one in the Skymall catalogue on the flight down to Daytona last month.

[Johnny B]

I'd like to acknowledge some recent additions to the Gnome Squad.

K.B. donated this one towards the end of last season.



Oxx donated this one at the first event this year.



And during my recent ten day stay at the track, five more donations! The pissed off looking twins were left on the wall during the LRRS riders meeting, the dude with the shovel was given to me by Peg and Dick White, photographers who cover the major events at NHMS, and USCRA scorer Barbara Ann Wood gave me the trumpet playing gnome and a "Paint Your Own Gnome" kit!
Thank you all!

[nt650hawk]

Dumb ass was not out there last race weekend. What happened to him?