28: Knock-Knock Joke

A weaponized pun, requiring its own section, is the Knock-Knock Joke, the gnomish comedic staple of kids everywhere, before they develop more nuanced senses of humor. Any adult doing a knock-knock joke should be lobbed from the roof of the nearest tall building, or at least marked as a gnomish agent.

27: Puns

Gnomes are all about puns, particularly bad puns. Really, really bad puns. What is gnomish about them? Everything. Their pointlessness, their silliness, and their annoyingness. Puns can get almost anybody to groan in irritation. Only gnomes (and their aspirants) take great satisfaction in puns, since they exploit ambiguities in language for (to gnomes) comedic effect.