odd one

[kato]

this is an annoying one about a homeless person or a traveller's things. what is the proper name for the little back pack thing they have. it's a stick with everything they own inside a knotted hankerchief attached to it. in movies or ads they are usually spotty. can anyone help?

[JackDanielsU]

A bit if a discussion here on the topic

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl =ja&u=http://groups.google.co.jp/group/sci.lan g/browse_thread/thread/b7c42dc6373e0e71&sa=X&o i=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3 Fq%3Dhandkerchief%2Bon%2Ba%2Bstick%2Btramp%26h l%3Den%26rls%3DHPEA,HPEA:2006-34,HPEA:en%26sa% 3DX

[Ethel]

A knap sack

"pitiful knapsack dangling from a stick (like in the cartoons, and in woeful mono)"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/member-reviews/ A1BO9DGX9K3ZC6?ie=UTF8&display=public&page=3

[Coobeastie]

Its called a bindle.

[jokerism]

It is called a Bundle I took this from a site

Published: 21 December 2006

In the current pantomime at the Barbican in London, Mark Ravenhill's Dick Whittington & His Cat, there are certain scenes that press familiar buttons in panto lore: the slapstick "slosh" scene in which characters get covered in gunge; the troop of merry citizens dancing by a painted dockside; the principal boy (played by a girl) flashing her thighs and carrying a red bundle with white polka dots; the flying Good Fair; the evil Rat ascending from below in clouds of vapour.