Didn’t occur to me this was about members playing silly buggers either. I came here to say “by examining feet”.
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.
You wasted a milestone on replying to me, certainly you could have done better! 
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.
Unusually long time to first post.
You didn’t “burn a sock” for that, did you?
nm. Wrong forum.
Is that the term of art? I would have thought “wearing a hole” in a sock fit better.
And no, not a sock.
I notice you use subject-verb-object construction, which can be spotted a mile away.
He’s just a kindly old moron and not at all a sock, or so I’m told.
My own petard, I have been hoisted by.