# How do you spot socks? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054 "2020-01-27T16:21:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/101 "2020-01-30T03:21:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I, too, thought this thread was going to be about laundry. > > I guess in a manner of speaking, it is. Didn’t occur to me this was about members playing silly buggers either. I came here to say “by examining feet”. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/102 "2020-01-30T04:32:41Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > If I made a sock, then I’m very sure I’d be spotted immediately. Or maybe I’m just too familiar with how I write and assume it is distinct. I think it would be sadder if I wasn’t spotted immediately. _beep_ Ooof, when I’ve thought about it, I always imagined I’d be spotted by my parenthesis abuse if I were compelled to become a sock after banning. But now, I imagine a sadder outcome. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/103 "2020-01-30T19:05:42Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Like Penn and Teller on _Fool Us_. > > Kind of lame for my 10,000th post, but oh well. You wasted a milestone on replying to me, certainly you could have done better! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/104 "2020-01-30T20:03:01Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > If I made a sock, then I’m very sure I’d be spotted immediately. Or maybe I’m just too familiar with how I write and assume it is distinct. I think it would be sadder if I wasn’t spotted immediately. _beep_ I had a sock on the IMDb boards to mess with the 9/11 Twoofer trolls over there. My sock initially wrote like some poorly educated Midwestern person but that was too much of a hassle. ---
**Author:** ![leswax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@leswax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leswax)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/105 "2020-01-31T01:43:45Z")
Unusually long time to first post. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/106 "2020-01-31T02:01:20Z")
> [@leswax](#): > > Unusually long time to first post. You didn’t “burn a sock” for that, did you? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/107 "2020-01-31T02:04:15Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > You wasted a milestone on replying to me, certainly you could have done better! 😃 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/108 "2020-01-31T12:38:32Z")
nm. Wrong forum. ---
**Author:** ![leswax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@leswax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leswax)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/109 "2020-01-31T13:46:22Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > You didn’t “burn a sock” for that, did you? Is that the term of art? I would have thought “wearing a hole” in a sock fit better. And no, not a sock. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/110 "2020-01-31T14:33:11Z")
[They start threads about socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=889341) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/111 "2020-01-31T15:13:26Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > If I made a sock, then I’m very sure I’d be spotted immediately. Or maybe I’m just too familiar with how I write and assume it is distinct. I think it would be sadder if I wasn’t spotted immediately. _beep_ I notice you use subject-verb-object construction, which can be spotted a mile away. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/112 "2020-01-31T16:52:23Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > [They start threads about socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=889341) He’s just a kindly old moron and not at all a sock, or so I’m told. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054/113 "2020-01-31T18:02:20Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I notice you use subject-verb-object construction, which can be spotted a mile away. My own petard, I have been hoisted by. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-spot-socks/847054.md?page=5)