700 hobo names

John Hodgman has a new book, in which, presumably among other things, he has a list of 700 hobo names. Rather than a take off on the Eskimo's 200 words for snow, which was the idea that originally popped into my head, this is a list of names Hodgeman made up for fictitious transients.

Some clever internet person thought it would be a wonderful idea to put up a site to display cartoonists drawings to match each name. Find it at e-hobo.com.

I was altered to this list by my co-worker Chris who heard Hodgman being interviewed on Twit. Chris claimed making such a list was about the stupidest thing he had heard of (at least in the most recent 24 hours) and there was no way such a list would be entertaining. He linked me with an mp3 of Hodgeman reading the list.

We spend the next tens of work minutes sending links to each other and guffawing.

My favorite was "Oregon Perry Hashpipe."