John Hodgman reads 700 wonderfully evocative fantasy hobo names in this very long spoken word song poem. Here's an idea -- 700 cartoonists volunteer to draw one of the 700 hoboes listed here. I'll do #134: "Yum Yum Sinclair Snowball Eater."
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1:16 pm Mon
Oct 24, 2005
700 imaginary hobo names
John Hodgman's outstanding Vacationland: now in paperback!
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Adam Savage and John Hodgman cosplay as 'Twobacca' at Comic-Con
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Learn MySQL painlessly with this online master class
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