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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Hobo Signs

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

By definition hobos are people who travel from town to town taking odd jobs as they go. But some towns are friendlier than others, and hobos developed a system of symbols they left one another to know what to expect from a town.

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0:39.0

Yeah, this is called Outdated Names for People Edition.

0:47.0

I guess so.

0:48.0

I love, so a lot of this came from the NSA, the National Security Agency,

0:54.4

the one that's been spying on Americans

0:56.3

for decades now.

0:57.3

Okay.

0:58.3

And they basically hid behind hobos

1:02.1

when they were talking about tramps and bums, which I assume is what you're talking about.

1:07.3

But they're like, according to hobos, this is what this means.

1:10.0

Yeah, yeah, these are old terms used back then, so just know we're not suggesting that anyone

1:16.2

call an unhoused person a bum or a tramp. No, but specifically the NSA says that hobos say But specifically that a hobo is a traveling itinerant worker who wants to work,

1:31.0

who also loves to travel, and the way that they put it is,

1:34.0

Hobo travels to work and works to travel.

1:38.0

Frequently, they're working so they can save up enough to tide them over through the

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