Gallery II
Here are some more photos of gnomes in AD from Theo’s extensive collection. Most of the qualifications/awards illustrated are ones actually held by Theo himself, a most educated, accomplished and erudite member of the Clan of Academical Gnomes.
One problem with being a gnome is that you are short and ‘off the peg’ academic robes don’t fit. Theo sometimes has difficulty getting robemakers to make his tat to the appropriate size. Fortunately Dame Grizelda (q.v.) is an accomplished seamstress
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Theo is a Fellow of the CIL, a learned society for the study and promotion of AD and its attendant ceremonial. The FCIL hood is worn with an undress black gown, coz he can’t afford the gorgeous blue, Cantab doctors-style festal robe. (Academical gnomes are not wealthy. Originally they were the poore gnomes of Oxenfoord.)
Theo is modelling his father’s
HonCIL hood, which was awarded in recognition of his ground-breaking
work on the dress of the Order of St Barbera(sic), the world’s only order of bearded nuns
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Theo loves to wear this splendid crimson and purple silk FGMS (“Musicians and Sinners”) hood. Note the distinctive purple tassell on the cap.
Theo designed this decidely unofficial Leeds postgraduate hood for a friend because of all the stick he got about the Leeds PG scarf (see next picture).
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Here is Theo’s taller cousin Grondo modelling the official Leeds postgrad scarf. Why on earth did they choose this pseudo-masonic monstrosity instead of a decent simple hood?
Theo is wearing his BA(Hons) hood from the University of Wheatley City, a much under-rated non-traditional seat of learning.
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MBA(Huddersfield). Having completed his course, Theo decided that MBA stood for Much Buggering About.
Doctor of Gnomology and Hon. D.Univ. of Gnome University and Internet Correspndence College (Malaga)
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