This is the kind of history you don't get in public schools. Mark, keep speaking the truth to power!
John J. Simmins | 12.26.07 - 5:31 pm | #

The New Deal killed all the hobos!
Robert Miole | 12.27.07 - 10:28 am | #

How 'bout this funny headline on CW News: "Polish vicar resists in-vitro insemination."

Well, wouldn't you?
Hee hee | 12.27.07 - 12:38 pm | #

Yes, it is astonishingly funny...I'm laughing 'til tears and incontinence. Favorite lines: Only foreigners and the mentally feeble would suffer....a crucifix chopped into the side of a house meant religious talk would get you a free meal...Joey Stinkeye Smiles....soiling feather beds...Duke of all the West..wanted bent nails and pieces of string....
Zee | Homepage | 12.27.07 - 3:40 pm | #

"lakes of moonshine..."

"I will kill all the hobos..."
dpt | 12.27.07 - 3:52 pm | #

This is true somewhere.
Tracy Fennell | Homepage | 12.27.07 - 10:52 pm | #

I think you can buy them hobo nickles on ebay...
DRH | Homepage | 12.28.07 - 8:12 pm | #

update re: sister mary martha (or was it sister mary margaret?)

according to a website for episcopal new yorkers, the blogger author is faux:

http://eny.dioceseny.org/bloggers.html
othermm | 12.29.07 - 6:38 pm | #

"No one knows where they went or why.. some say they live on today.. awaiting the time their great chicken bone and moonshine empire shall rise again. Is it possible?"

Ah, as I wipe the wee off the floor about my pantleg, let me say that I normally don't share your sense of humor Mark, but this was just fantastic.

But to mark the half truth behind the jest, perhaps that emphatic "no" "Ken" answers the above question with is almost certainly (and thankfully, though in a tragic way) too quick?

But then again, that there's just probably the crazy hobo in me muttering nonsense..

Merry Christmas, anyway, y'all. Let's all go chalk that old crucifix up, just in case one of them old hobos wanders back by, in from the stars.
Charles Curtis | 12.29.07 - 7:38 pm | #

Ah, but does Jesus' head tilting left on the crucifix mean that the meal is vegan?
Ed the Roman | 12.30.07 - 7:36 am | #

A hilarious send-up!
steve dalton | 12.31.07 - 1:37 pm | #

The crucifix and the cat symbol (religious talk will get you a free meal, a kind woman lives here) aren't jokes. Those are actual hobo symbols.

Happy New Year.
Anonymous | 12.31.07 - 3:40 pm | #

Now my kids have started blurting out at random, "Gnaw on their bones!"
Margaret | Homepage | 01.01.08 - 11:36 pm | #