#hobo nickels

[mumblelard]

one hundred forty-four leagues as a crow sails or the diabolical scientist mystified

on tuesday, i found a krewe of caesar doubloon half-buried in the mud on the banks of the chattahoochee river, a place forty years and five hundred miles from its home, but time has been so slippery lately, maybe space is getting in on the fun too

[sauvryn]

[usedcarheaven]

happy 2023! i made a lemon pig

[mikayesha]

you say "the whole world's ending"

honey, it already did.

[justwalkiingthedog]

[kathylbrownwrites]

40 Nickels: A Book Review Renew

Book Review Renew at the Storytelling Blog--40 Nickels: A Carnegie Finch Mystery Fiasco. Fun romp through 1950s Toronto as Finch fulfills his PI dream investigating a weird cult.

40 Nickels: A Carnegie Finch Mystery Fiasco from Shotgun Honey, an imprint of Down-and-Out Books. I’ve reviewed many books for this blog, some from the early days, when I had fewer readers. This year (2024), we’ll be rerunning reviews you may have missed. This review was first published on July 9, 2020. Recently, I had the opportunity to review 40 Nickels: A Carnegie Finch Mystery Fiasco for…

[midnight1nk]

So, this week's episode...

[Spoilers below cut]

oh my spaghetti gods.... they actually made the episode

Ha ha, I love that for them honestly. I figured that the Team would put out one of these after WOTFI, it would be either a regular silly episode, a "Mario Reacts", or a Remaster.

...OMG I haven't clicked on the episode and I just realized something: you know how at the end of WOTFI, Four proposed the idea of taking some of the abandoned stuff in Puzzle Park and bringing them to the Showgrounds? He can now have the teacup ride

that was slick as hell

(the following is my live reaction:)

of course, you GOTTA present the WOTFI merch

also james and luke just goofing around gives me serotonin :)

Mr Puzzles: "...Now you're 5% less disgusting to look at." :0 that has so many implications but I'm not gonna say it

ANYWAY That's-a so nice!

THE TEACUP RIDE

Alright, everybody who drew baby Four, we gotta get on it again

sorry,,, just them :)

also, Three, it was your idea dude

THE OATS "Now with less fun! :)"

just the way Four hid behind Three [*head in hands*] chat, I'm not going to make it by the end of this episode

The Star Trio (TM) everyone

...wait, does Three actually smell like peanuts or is it just for the meme? [*writes that down*]

Four: "My only suitable parental guardian!" Four, Karen's right there

I can't believe the retirement home is in America smh (like no seriously)

AY there's Old Man Hobo

this reminds me of that one scene from the "You Used to Be Cool" episode

(if you couldn't tell, Three's one of my favorite characters)

PFFT HAHAHAHA THEY KEPT THAT IN I'M DEAD DUDE

Three, why do you need medicine? you just got turned into an old man

MASTER OF DISGUISE

PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA?! MARIO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, ITALY IS GOING TO REVOKE YOUR ITALIAN CARD

the nurse jumping out the window... [*thinks back at Mr Puzzles' Clubhouse when Max jumps out of the window*] sorry WOTFI flashbacks

anyway, they're adorable

huh i guess prison-UH I MEAN- the retirement home has a basketball court, who knew

HE DROPS THE SOAP I'M SO GLAD THEY KEPT THAT IN

...wtf is that slop?

also blue goo- [*loud airplane noises*]

Three: "Meggy? Is that you? You look uglier than usual-" DAMN well, it's good to know that you're still Three

The two frames-per-second running animation, ah a classic

BINGO NIGHT (no no Ink, bingo night was last week) (aw man)

Three, it was your idea bruh

also you're in the SMG4 universe for how many years? plot convenient devices are the norm, Three

HEY SWAG

Hal's here too!

they do be scheming

...wait [*DRAMATIC GRASP*] THE SONIC X THEME SONG!!! 🎶ROLLIN' AT THE SPEED OF SOUND (MAKE TRACKS) QUICKEST HEDGEHOG AROUND, GOT OURSELVES A SITUATION, STUCK IN A NEW LOCATION WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION, NO TIME FOR RELAXATION-🎶 [*gets shot*]

despite everything, it's still you :)

if I had a nickel for every time an old guy says "No Mario, don't", I'd have two nickels. It isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

THE OATS CAME BACK FULL CIRCLE BABY

Frof the SnOATman :)

"On that day, the FBI learned the true meaning of Christmas: oats" SOMEONE MAKE THIS INTO A MOVIE

wait, FBI, you JUST noticed Four and the getaway car?

"dig a hole...poison the guards...KILL the the witness."

The hole, the poison, the old man being the "witness". Wow, Three's plan actually worked! Well, except for the "kill" part, the old man still lives. BUT STILL!

this part was actually emotional wtf

"Good to have you back, SMG3! ...SMG3?" aw 💙💜 (i ask for so little)

Three: "man, I think that was my dad..." Four, once again knowing they came out of USBs: "...ok"

CARNIVAL YAY you better not drop something on me bc (1) it's too soon and (2) you Team like to torture me

PFFT just putting Four's regular head on a baby body is everything

ferris wheel jumpscare

and AY james got to be credited for the writing (i mean, obviously)

And congrats to ggf0ur for having your art in the end credits 🎉

.・-: ✧ :--: ✧ :-・.

Another fun and silly episode, just what I needed after school work and WOTFI. Still can't believe they made it into an actual episode haha! Having the Star Trio in an episode is always a blast! I truly enjoyed this one.

As much as I find it funny that Four needed Three as a parental guardian to be on the teacup ride, it would be a bit better if the reason for the age gun was that they never got to be actual kids, unlike the rest of the crew. Then we could've gotten baby Four and Three, oh the possibilities. Maybe that's just me idk, but I'm happy with what we got.

And the Ferris wheel in the Showgrounds again, at this point it's a sign. I have to gather my thoughts together for my "Ferris Wheel Wedding" idea.

Fun Fact: for those who are wondering, the WOTFI website is surprisingly still up! Ofc you can't put submissions in anymore but I find it hilarious.

Fun Fact 2: the guy who made the faces for Mr. Puzzles has a proper Twitter now (link)! Go and show some support to the Team! I do want to bring it up because the Team may have made some editing/animation errors (like the subtitles having SMG4 instead of SMG3) and people are getting upset about that, but it's literally not a big deal. I know the Team is trying their hardest to bring out episodes every week. Besides, mistakes could go under the radar, it simply happens.

Now, if you excuse me...

DON'T BLINK, DON'T THINK, JUST GO GO G-G-G-G-GO GO (n-n-n-n-n-na, n-n-n-n-n-na) SONIC'S ON THE RUN, SONIC'S NUMBER ONE! SONIC, HE'S COMIN' NEXT, SO WATCH OUT FOR SONIC X! GOTTA GO FAST (SONIC), GOTTA GO FAST(SONIC)! GOTTA GO FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER FASTER- [*gets shot again*]

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

Hobo Nickel by Aleksey Saburov

[famousfor15]

Why are they called Hobo Nickels?! 🚂 During the depression, men traveling the railroads would carve Buffalo Nickels to trade for goods or services since they lacked any real funds!

[ask-hannah-blog]

Soo these hobo-clown girls that hang around my work have been barefoot for an entire week no and Ngl I turns me on. I’m thinking of shooting my shot but problem is my “tool” is VERY small. Any advice on if it matters to them? And if it does I’d there a way to make it bigger?

Naw give them a shiny nickel and they’ll slob on your teenie weenie as good as any bimbo. They’ll just be happy for the work.

Just look out, once you feed the cat once they tend to keep coming around!

[mumblelard]

googly eye obsidian hobo nickel or it was chilly this morning and i was wishing my slippers were by my bed but they were nowhere to be found

in a month i will be able to see sweet old two fry and holler for the first time in four years

in a week i will drive to the coast with my daughter for her birthday to see the wednesday concert

in eight hours both of my kids and my girlfriend will come over and we will hang out and drink dollar bucket nonsense and cook up a bunch of chicken sandwiches and chili dogs and fishcake dogs and french fries and tell tales tall and otherwise about our weeks

in fifteen minutes i will finish this cup of coffee and walk down to the river and look for messages from my double

[dxxxth]

The knocking and strange noises didn't stop; if anything, we started to notice them more and more. It became a nightly occurrence, and it was hard to ignore the sounds in our own house past midnight—sometimes thinking someone had broken in or that we had a squatter phrogging (that weird phenomenon where someone lives in your home without you knowing).

We jokingly chalked it up to living in a haunted house, though my one cousin always brushed it off as the neighbor making banging sounds. That is until one day, nobody was home, and he himself heard what he described as tap shoes running across the kitchen tile. When we got home that day, he was on the porch. We asked why, and he wouldn't say until later that day when we heard the basement door close while all three of us were watching YouTube in the living room.

Sitting down to watch "Soul Plane," out of nowhere, we heard what sounded like one of the stools at the bar sliding across the floor. All three of us slowly questioned our sanity. "Did you hear that, guys?" Jokingly, I responded, "What, the neighbors?" Sarcasm ran high in our family. If there was ever a funny time to gaslight each other, we would achieve just that.

"Hah," he sighed. "Yeah, the neighbors… who are in our kitchen cooking up themselves a dinner platter." We all laughed because these incidents had become so frequent that we weren't too bothered by the noises and cracked jokes about them. That is, until we were finishing off the movie and out of nowhere heard a loud pop coming from the bay window.

All three of us jumped, wondering what the noise was—did something fall again? I moved the curtain aside to see if something had fallen or been blown over and saw nothing. "Nothing is here," I turned around and said. When I looked at my cousins, they were in utter shock, pointing towards the window.

I slowly turned around, and when I looked up at the window, I realized the entire bay view window was completely shattered. At this point, we just sat back down and didn't say anything until the movie was over. Though none of us said a word, I felt the tension building in the room. We all had something to say, just didn't know if it was worth saying.

The movie stopped, and I pointed towards the back door. We all went outside, releasing a large amount of air from our lungs as if we were holding it in since we first grew shocked over the shattered window. "What the hell was that?" my cousin said. "How did the window shatter? Let's walk around and see it from the front."

We walked around and got closer to the window. There was no initial impact—the whole glass was equally shattered, just waiting for a piece to move before falling inward. "How?" I remember saying. "There is no way for glass to just randomly crack, is there?"

"Not that I know of," my cousin replied. "I've never seen a window just shatter on its own." "Me either," I said. "Well, something has to be the cause."

It wasn't until months later, after fixing the window and dealing with random sounds and noises, that we found exactly what we had been looking for that entire time. After winter moved along and spring was here, it was time to cut the yard.

My cousin was weed-whacking the front yard when he stumbled upon a coin. He picked it up, put it in his pocket, and later held it up to show us what he thought was "pirate treasure" in our yard. When I got off work, I remember going upstairs to smoke and turn on my Xbox.

The munchies hit me, so it was time to raid the fridge when we stumbled into each other. I told him the yard looked like a million bucks, which triggered his memory of this coin he found in the yard. "The yard might look like a million bucks, but this might cost a million bucks," he said, pulling out and showing me a Hobo nickel just like the one I found in the hallway.

I remember laughing and saying, "Yeah, if that's worth a million bucks, then we both would be millionaires." My cousin went silent as I started to run upstairs to grab the nickel out of my wallet.

I went into my room, pulled open the drawer, and reached for my little Velcro zipper wallet. As I was coming down the stairs, I started to realize that the coin I had once found in the hallway was no longer there and questioned him.

"Where did you get that coin?" I asked. He laughed and said he found it while cutting the yard. For a couple of minutes, I didn't believe him. I was convinced he had gone into my room and stolen it from my wallet. "I asked again, 'Where exactly did you find it?'" He said it wasn't mine, "Follow me; I'll show you."

He took me outside where we found a crater in the dirt the same size as the nickel, verifying he did indeed find it outside. But I was unsure as to where my nickel went. So I grabbed it and realized, "This was my coin."

In confusion, I started to ignite my inner Jimmy Neutron and brain-blast some answers. This crater outside was in front of the window that shattered months ago. I never really looked for the coin around that time; I just left it in my room. If I had kept checking on it, would it have been in my wallet? Also, how did it get out of my wallet into the front yard?

Then I remembered… the window shattering… the coin appearing out of thin air. This must have been what hit the window, shattering it that time we were watching the movie. I went to hand him his coin back, explaining that it was the coin I once found in the house and it must be the coin that shattered the window, which then triggered him to drop it on the ground.

I leaned over to pick it up as he reached his hand out to block me and said, "DON'T-" I said, "What? It's just a coin." He replied, "There is something up with that coin, just leave it there."

"Fine," I said, "I'll leave it here… but tell your brother not to pick it up either." "Okay," he said, and we walked back into the house, leaving the coin on the ground…

[trickstertime]

Hello new followers. Someone popular rebloged one of my hand engraving posts and it's gotten about 2k-ish notes in a day.

I've gotten a lot of questions and comments about hand engraving. Unfortunately I can't show you anything I'm working on for work but if you've got any questions send them on and I'll do my best to answer

I have a website where I have some of the coins I engraved in 2020 while still learning. I'll update it with newer stuff if there's any interest in hand engraved coins?

[theblueiron]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage Fifty Four Fossil Hobo Bag.

[datainteg]

Check out this listing I just found on Poshmark: 🎉Host Pick🎉 Blue/Green Druzy Quartz Silver tone Bracelet NWT.