Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Question - 545



What does this (non-exhaustive) collection of symbols represent?

Answer: The symbols are part of the Hobo code (made famous recently by the Emmy-winning drama, Mad Men). Divya Shankar, mekie, Jamie, Dinesh, and Iam got it right. Nicely done.

5 comments:

Divya Shankar said...

These are the hobo signs used for secretive communication, much used around the time of World war II

mekie said...

the hobo code

Jamie said...

it is a sample of the HOBO code

Dinesh said...

What an awesome question!!! Hobo code.

Iam said...

Hobo symbols (Don't ask me how I know this) -O->