Bum Farto

Look Mom “Bum Farto” is on the front page of Hacker News! The world is healing

516 people in Spain with Farto as first surname, 485 as second surname. None with both. Quite rare. You can check distribution out yourself in a map with this neat tool from the Spanish Statistics Institute https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml

As an aside, I spent some days last week around that zone and found out about the existence of the surname Pis, which has a similar distribution and rarity, and is even more unfortunate since it means "pee" in Spanish. At least Farto is only funny in English.

Since in Spain you get your first surname from your father's first surname and your second from your mother's first that sometimes also leads to unintended hilarity in names (example, real person, Luz Cuesta Mogollón, which roughly translates to "electricity costs a bunch"!)

> The shopkeeper said the t-shirts were purchased in large numbers, and he reported that his buyers were "probably kids who like to do a lot of coke", as well as Charles Addams.

There was a much better way to phrase that.

> "Where is Bum Farto?” It clings to T-shirts sold by Taylor-GIore a Key West novelty shop "I would say we sold 600 of them and we sent them all over the country” said storeowner Rob Glore Purchasers include cartoonist Charles Addams a lawyers’ softball team in Washington and composer Jerome Weidman Glore said the store began selling the white shirts with "El Jefe” on the front in big red letters and "Where Is Bum Farto?” on the back in March and was sold out by August Another 100 shirts are on ' order he said and there’s a waiting list of about 20 “I’ve been out all fall long”

That's far more informative and less of a joke at Charles' expense.

Pretty sure Bum Farto was my player name in a bunch of 90s games.

Also possible Star Wars character.

Is this just an experiment to gauge the puerility of HN upvoters? Because you got me.

>The Civil Service Board, which was headed by Fire Chief Farto's nephew

>He was brought to county jail with fellow narcotics criminal Manny Jones, the city attorney and son of the police chief.

small town vibes.

I would have done the same. I think in general world has too much prison and too little kicking the convinct off, even though monitoring that they dont come back is a problem.

Looks like someone's a Regulation Listener...

Man, this really sounds like the plot to a Cohen Brothers movie.

Or maybe it's just in Florida. (Checks) Yeah, okay, Florida.

> He was nicknamed Bum because he fetched the firefighters' coffee and shined their shoes

Yeah I am sure that's not why he got the nickname Bum, Farto!

How could the US Government justify declaring Bum Farto dead when he only would have been in his mid 60's?

The whole story reeks of good-old-boys-club dimensions from beginning to end. He had no education, and lived a sketchily and inexplicably ostentatious life. Outcome: Drug dealer.