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    Thanks @lawyervon for my new t-shirt. I don't usually advertise my Hobo-ness, but this one's worth wearing. Back-story's in the post...

    Thank you for my new shirt, John. Ted snapped a shot of me in it while I was asking him for a handout. Call it a Hobo, LLC bailout bill. Or maybe I have a case of the Wine Flu (H0B0 virus).

    Here's the full story....

    So, I was sitting in The Coffee Ethic seeing a poor fellow making his way around the room facing one rejection after another. When he finally made it to me, he asked if I would mind answering a question for him, and that he was having to gather some community voice for his bit in Go Magazine. I agreed, thinking I'd help the guy out. Turns out he was either a bit dim or spiteful, I'm not sure which. He quoted my answer as "The Grotto's mushroom and swiss burger" to his "What's the best burger in town" question, which was accurate. But when I declined to answer his "What is your occupation" question, he put "No occupation" in print. Putting to the world that I have no occupation led my friends to conclude that I must have a status of -- HOBO! And, so it continues today, ever snowballing into lowered career expectations and the gifting of Hobo t-shirts.

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    • 28 September 2009
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    Sep 28, 2009
    gigonaut said...
    If you are looking for a more complete hobo transformation, the book "An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by Me, John Hodgeman a Professional Writer, in The Areas of My Expertise" has an exhaustive compilation of 700 hobo names. With this publication Hodgeman has in fact set himself as the foremost expert in all matters hobo, and as a matter of fact, describes it as a lost occupation, but an occupation nonetheless. Link to the book on amazon: http://bit.ly/2WkGjo
    Sep 28, 2009
    Scott Bratcher said...
    @gigonaut This could really come in useful. Thanks! I'm thinking to purchase the "Hobo Laptop Case-on-a-Stick" to give my morning coffeshop-bound swagger that extra hobo occupational clarity.
    Sep 28, 2009
    Tobra Avery said...
    that's great! love this blog!

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