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April 01, 2006

War of the gnomes

Plastic, gaudy and above all cheap, armies of garden gnomes huddle at Polish roadsides near the German border waiting to be snapped up by bargain-hunting tourists from the west.
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A trade war has been raging between gnome manufacturers on both sides of the border since the early 1990s...
No, not because it's April 1, but a perfectly serious item sent to me apropos of this post. As the report is from a while back, an update on the state of the war would be useful. See also here. (Thanks: RB.)

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