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Once upon a time, I met a friendly lawn gnome named Willy<\/strong>. I happened upon him when trimming the bushes along the side of my house – nearly slashed the poor little guy with my electric trimmer. I quickly apologized,and asked him to come inside and have a beer with me. Willy graciously accepted, and inside my kitchen, I poured him a shot glass of Sam Adams Lager, and made some small talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So, have you always lived around here?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Where are you from?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“California originally. But more recently, New York City. Ah, but that was before I was a gnome<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What? Haven’t you always been a gnome?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Oh no – until 2002, I was Will Farrell’s sense of humor<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Eh… what do you mean?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Just what I said, me boy. I was Will Farrell’s sense of humor. I particularly enjoyed living in New York from 1997 to 2002, when he was on Saturday Night Live. Then, having been expressed, I now existed on my own. I found New York City to be expensive and crowded, so I eventually relocated to around here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You mean that you were his muse, his inspiration, right? I can make no sense of you being someone’s sense of humor.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No – not his inspiration, but his sense of humor, like I said – literally. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, me boy!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So… if you’re Will’s sense of humor, and you’re no longer in him, then it would follow that Will Farrell is no longer funny<\/strong>. But – he is! Haven’t you seen Elf? It came out in 2003.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I hope you know, there are no such things as elves! In any case, me boy, he expressed <\/em>me, yes, so that as of 2002 I was a gnome. But I didn’t ever say that Will had lost his sense of humor – pay attention<\/em>, boy!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Did you first come to exist in 2002?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Absolutely not.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Right – Farrell was born in 1967, so presumably by the early 70’s, he had a sense of humor.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Obviously.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I don’t understand how anything could be<\/strong> a sense of humor – or any faculty, power, or ability – at one time, and that same thing be a self at a later time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Me boy, you think too literally<\/em>!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, I’d offended him. Dropping his little gnome pants, he mooned me. Finishing his beer, he stomped back out to the yard, leaving me to ponder the mystery of Willy’s existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next time: what’s the point of the Willy story?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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