Talk:Gonk

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I always had it in my mind that gonks (Gonks?) were conical and involved a cardboard centre, wool and stick on eyes.  A little like those circles of cardboard you'd wind wool round for ages before tying the centre off and cutting the outside of the circle, thus leaving a big fluffy ball, all ready for sticking eyes on.  Not that I'm a gonk expert.  Christ I wish I was though.

Skalham.

I don't think the pictures are of gonks. I remember gonks as being a ball of wiry/fluffy hair with eyes and feet and nothing else.( I think skalham is describing a version, and it sounds more like a gonk than the pictures) The article is correct in distinguishing beteen a troll and a gonk. Trolls are altogether different.

I wrote the original gonk article, which has been expanded by others, and my description of gonks as round shapes with no discernable arms or legs, but only having flaps of cloth is stil accurate, I believe. The pictures aren't really gonks because they have limbs. TBY.

Hey, here's a novel idea--instead of including images of objects that aren't gonks, captioning them saying that they are gonks, then including a disclaimer in the text that says they really aren't gonks, why not just remove the inmages? Calgary 20:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)