i actually DO know how to sneeze so i made sure to not show this gnome trying that. when i was tennish years eld i discovered that i could force a sneeze by inserting an end of an unbent paper clip into either side, and touching or rubbing it toward the middle. i don’t know why i did that the first time. any similarly sized object will work but i seem to recall using that first, and also toothpick thickness bits of wood that were in the back of my mother’s car for some reason, maybe we had transported some terrible broken furniture recently, that seems like us. in those days i liked sneezing so i would do it so much that my nose bled, probably because i was using non-smooth-edged tools, and then thankfully did not develop a long term habit out of that. so the gnome has the right idea on the last attempt. ordinarily a finger is simply too big to be treated as a mild irritant that can be sneezed out, but on a nose that size it might actually work, but alas the gnome is pulling outward instead of pushing inward.