# Question about banning socks **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 4, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352 "2017-03-04T00:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/42 "2017-03-06T13:14:23Z")
This thread knocked my socks off. Well, somebody’s socks. (I was determined to get one last pun out of this!) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/43 "2017-03-06T13:15:05Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Fun fact about stocking horses: they don’t run. Are horse stockings anything like [pony socks](https://www.google.com/search?q=pony+socks&biw=1056&bih=518&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil2pLr-sHSAhWF34MKHaT1C1wQsAQIGQ)? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/44 "2017-03-06T14:57:26Z")
I’m going to toe the line and stop making terrible puns in this ATMB thread. I feel like a real heel. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/45 "2017-03-06T16:45:00Z")
Don’t feel bad, I’m sure the mods can take a little ribbing. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/46 "2017-03-06T17:42:19Z")
I think y’all have stretched this a bit too much-It’s gotten threadbare. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/47 "2017-03-06T17:59:03Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > This thread knocked my socks off. Well, somebody’s socks. Oh, I see — we’re in to violent sox, are we? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/48 "2017-03-06T22:37:15Z")
As much as I like puns, I’ll have to say this thread’s only hanging on by a thread now. Could a mod close it as the original question has been Answered? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/49 "2017-03-07T02:48:42Z")
In other words, fold it up and put it away ---- or send it to the Land of Lost Socks. Until ------- [![](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/23/bf/8a/23bf8a5240e4dccecdde3808dd7972d2.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/23/bf/8a/23bf8a5240e4dccecdde3808dd7972d2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352/50 "2017-03-07T03:29:51Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > In other words, fold it up and put it away ---- or send it to the Land of Lost Socks. Well, you know you don’t want things to unravel. > [@](#): > > Until ------- > > [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/23/bf/8a/23bf8a5240e4dccecdde3808dd7972d2.jpg](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/23/bf/8a/23bf8a5240e4dccecdde3808dd7972d2.jpg) Too late! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-banning-socks/781352.md?page=2)