I made up a joke...

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I made up a joke, and tried it on a few friends, aquaintences and such. It seems to work well enough. I want to try an experiement with this joke; I want to watch how it spreads and mutates, so please feel free to spread it electronically, orally or however. Feel free to play with the style and presentation.

Comments, re-edits, improvements and such are appreciated. let’s try to keep it SFW, as it widens the vector path for the joke.

The Joke

***Its laundry day, and in the dirty clothes bin, all the socks are talking…

Baby Sock: “I hate being a sock! I belong to a 2 yr old, today she ran around in the back yard with out her shoes on. I got grass stains, she stepped in dog crap, and to top it all off she peed all over me! I HATE Being a sock!”

Mama’s Sock: “Today, I got crammed into a pinchy set of high heels, and got stretched, and pinched, and twisted all day long!” I am a fine cotton sock, I was never designed for this! I HATE Being a sock!"

Dad’s Sock: " I get punched into steel toe boots at 6:45 every morning, I get suffocated by tight laces, banged around in hot, stinking sweaty darkness all day…I HATE being a sock!"

A minor silence goes by, and one last sock balled up in the corner speaks…

“I belong to a fifteen year old boy…and I don’t want to talk about it!”***

Thanks! try the fish, I’ll be here all week!

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I don’t think ladies wear socks with high heels.

Did you mean for this to go in GQ?

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No, sorry, my mistake…
MOD, Please move to Mundane Pointless…

Thanks

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I think it’s pretty good. Meme-worthy, I don’t know, but certainly worth a chuckle.

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You got it.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

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My suggestion for improvement would be to have different, non-associated items of clothing discussing their relative hardships leading up to the punchline. In its current form I knew the outcome before reaching the end of the first line, and humour works better if unexpected.

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Agree with Captain Awesome. I also feel like the punchline could use more…punchiness. My idea:

*A minor silence goes by, and a white sock balled up in the corner speaks…

“I used to be brown, and it wasn’t because of bleach!”*

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I like the original punchline better. I think it’s fine as is.

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My thinking, too. ‘I’m a shirt belonging to an overworked investor and I get pit stains bla bla’ ‘I’m underwear and my owner eats a lot of dairy even though he shouldn’t bla bla.’ ‘I’m a sock.’ ‘So? Does your owner have stinky feet?’ ‘I wouldn’t know. He’s 14 and just discovered online porn.’

Er… or something.

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“I belong to a fifteen year old boy. Need I say anything more?”

Or, to borrow from Cat Fight, “I belong to a fifteen year old boy and he’s just discovered online porn.”

But yeah, I likes the joke, Full Metal Lotus. And your sig too!

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How about if they were all articles of clothing from the same boy, complaining about all the things 15-year-old boys typically do?

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I dunno. Pointing out the porn is explaining the joke too much, I think. Just the 15-year-old and socks should leave enough connections to hit the punchline, and the joke is more satisfying without it being completely spelled out for you.

I like panache45’s idea, too, but I think the original premise is fine as-is. The disparate items of clothing works, too. I personally didn’t see the punchline coming like Captain Amazing did, but that suggestion sounds like a workable one.

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Yeah, no socks with high heels unless the woman’s sock belongs to a ZZ Top fan.

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Sorry, but I didn’t get it (I’m a female who didn’t know socks were involved in a 15-year-old boy’s “personal” habits…) until I read everyone’s responses.

I think the way it’s written, you’re losing half your audience, i.e., females.

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I have worn, and have seen many women wear, trouser socks with heels - they’re heavier than knee high hose but lighter than “weekend” socks

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Last summer, a friend’s oldest son was turning 14, and his hormones were raging. I warned her about handling his socks before laundering. She had a dumbfounded look on her face, but she didn’t ask for further explanation.

She called me a couple weeks later and she wished I had explained what I meant. I laughed about it for the rest of the night.

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I was once a 15-year old boy, and socks were never involved in my habits. Only on one occasion have I ever heard of someone using a sock as a makeshift condom, and no one thought this was normal.

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If your joke involved hand lotion, it practically writes itself.

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Which started the whole world crying?

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Not bad but as soon as the first talking sock was presented and he was complaining I knew immediately where the joke was heading.