# just the socks or the entire feet and everything? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 13, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207 "2013-12-13T00:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [December 14, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/21 "2013-12-14T21:40:44Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Argh!I’ll stop, then. Well played, sir, well played. I gusset’s over now. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/22 "2013-12-14T22:59:24Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I’d say it’s evidence he lacks a darned sole. I’ve haddock with the footwear puns. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/23 "2013-12-14T23:53:27Z")
Me too. I’m just gonna go off to look for some Nehi now. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/24 "2013-12-15T02:09:48Z")
Yer all a buncha knit pickers, if you ask me! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/25 "2013-12-15T02:23:40Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I’d say it’s evidence he lacks a darned sole. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’ve haddock with the footwear puns. So you’re going to try to use that one to sneakily transition to FISH puns? Nuh-uh. No way. Shoo! ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/26 "2013-12-15T13:12:12Z")
Salmon says: Fish puns okay! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/27 "2013-12-15T23:48:33Z")
The dryer ate my post. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/28 "2013-12-16T00:51:09Z")
Check the wardrobe, it is a well documented fact that socks are the larval form of coat hangers. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/29 "2013-12-17T14:17:49Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Check the wardrobe, it is a well documented fact that socks are the larval form of coat hangers. There’s a hole in your argument. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/30 "2013-12-17T14:26:01Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > We want to ensure that these people do not meet with sockcess. Oh, geez, you really stuck your foot in it that time. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/31 "2013-12-17T16:13:05Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > There’s a hole in your argument. Dear Liza, Dear Liza! There’s a hole in your argument Dear Liza, a hole ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/32 "2013-12-17T16:19:45Z")
> [@Jake](#): > > Salmon says: Fish puns okay! I don’t want to carp; I’ll play along just for the halibut! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/33 "2013-12-17T16:36:54Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > I don’t want to carp; I’ll play along just for the halibut! That one just smelt. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/34 "2013-12-17T16:45:05Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That one just smelt. What a crab! ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/35 "2013-12-17T17:41:17Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Dear Liza, Dear Liza! > There’s a hole in your argument > Dear Liza, a hole Well, darn it. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/36 "2013-12-17T18:10:56Z")
Fish puns are off-topic, to say nothing of being fishy. The combination, sadly enough, would be that an eight-legged hosiery sea-creature is a socktopus. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207/37 "2013-12-17T18:13:17Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > Fish puns are off-topic, to say nothing of being fishy. > > The combination, sadly enough, would be that an eight-legged hosiery sea-creature is a socktopus. Next SyFy movie! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-socks-or-the-entire-feet-and-everything/676207.md?page=1)