Hobos

[Echewta]

Though they are no longer around, they seem to stay in mainstream comedy. Is it because of the word hobo? I wonder how many people know what an actual hobo is.

When you think of a hobo, do you picture a sad clown hobo or a man who hasn't shaved in awhile and his clothes are down on their luck? Or do you think of a southern whore?

[Nuzzolese]

What makes someone a hobo? Do they have to ride the rails or can they be a transient of any modus?

[b i o n i c]

in ny, 'hipsters' get called williamsburg hobos

[MC Moot]

I picture a grizzled man, riding the rails…dodging the train thug coppers who would beat him to a pulp or even kill him…he’s made a campfire under a bridge and is eating sardines with a toothpick and warming a tin of beans in the coals…he’s wearing an old crumpled fedora with holes in it,a tweed like jacket with the elbows out and trousers held up with a rope…he has woolen gloves with the fingers cut out and a blanket made of potatoes sacks…he has a three legged mutt for a companion with whom he shares a jug of muscatel and all his earthly woes…he dreams of Woody Guthrie,the Dillinger gang,a paying union job ,the day’s when he still had teeth and a sweetheart named Clemintine…he will die of Spanish influenza brought on by exposure and finished by pneumonia…

[b i o n i c]

you always know hobos from the stick with the polkadot sac at the end they carry on their shoulder

[kaiser soze]

wannabe clowns (n)

[ericlee]

They (http://www.realitista.org/files/681efac2062353391dac9a8e4c1faf55-117.php) still exist.

[Helvete]

I learned of hobos from a Simpsons episode.

[MC Moot]

From a list of 700 notable historical hobo names, included in John Hodgman's (http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/) "The Areas of My Expertise" (there are much better ones in the book)

#15: No-Shoulders Smalltooth Jones
#16: Sistery Brothery Nabob
#63: Lil' Jonny Songbird, the Songbird-Eater
#128: Spooky-Night Spooky Day
#220: Honey Bunches of Donald
#274: Tom Falselips Realteeth
#335: Crispy Whiskery
#399: Applebee O'Bennigan McFridays
#440: Thor Hammerskold, the Mexican
#489: Pantless, Sockless, Shoeless Buster Bareass
#513: Most Agree: It's Kilpatrick
#550: Douglas, the Future of Hoboing

The paperback has 100 more, and so here are six:

#730: Stump Tongue Mumbler
#742: Double-Entendre Dick Penis
#750: Crackles Spineshaker, the Hobo-osteopath
#772: Acid-Blood-and-Spit Lionel Stander, the Spitter
#774: No-Credit/Bad Credit Bobby Hassle-freeloan, Mortgage Specialist of the Rails
#790: Voweltooth Jenkins, the Man with the Scrabble Tile Dentures

http://www.e-hobo.com/

[jabumbo]

i think of this local legend (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DfqxfLpOnKY/SCeYbKy7nOI/AAAAAAAAAAs/kfuYxQW20-8/s1600-h/obama_sombrero_man.jpg)

[paul jones]

They (http://www.realitista.org/files/681efac2062353391dac9a8e4c1faf55-117.php) still exist.

fuckin ell those cunts need a wash!

[Echewta]

They (http://www.realitista.org/files/681efac2062353391dac9a8e4c1faf55-117.php) still exist.

Those aren't hobos, those are vagabundos.

[MC Moot]

I remember this guy...Hobo Killer...quest que cest,fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better,run run run run run run run away… (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Maturino_Res%C3%A9ndiz)

[DandyFop]

What? What mainstream comedy are they in?

[TurdBerglar]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33531981/ns/us_news-weird_news/

[Echewta]

What? What mainstream comedy are they in?

John Hodgman's book, 30Rock, and more imporantly, a number of jokes I share with friends and family. Since you've hung out with me, you know I'm mainstream.

[insertnamehere]

we have a lot of panhandlers and homeless folks in my area. i call 'em hobos. rolls off the tongue a bit better than panhandler.

except the guy that lives in the grocery store parking lot. his name is the predator because he has dreads that look like the predator. they interview him for sports picks sometimes in the school newspaper. i came into possession of a hot fresh pepperoni pizza once that, well its a long story but i didnt need the pizza and i got it for free and i was walking down the street and woke him up to give him said pizza.

i gave another hobo part of a pizza once except it ended up giving me food poisoning. oops. but hes a hobo so he probably has a stronger stomach than i do.