# Socks & Shoes: Left-Left, Right-Right, or Left-Right, Left-Right?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-shoes-left-left-right-right-or-left-right-left-right/91384>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 4, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-shoes-left-left-right-right-or-left-right-left-right/91384 "2001-11-04T02:15:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-shoes-left-left-right-right-or-left-right-left-right/91384/21 "2001-11-04T21:22:44Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TV time \*  
> \*\*When I am in Japan, it messes the schedule up since I can’t go sock-shoe, sock-shoe on odd numbered days. \*\*

OK, **TV time** , I’ll bite: Why?  
-Another

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**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-shoes-left-left-right-right-or-left-right-left-right/91384/22 "2001-11-04T21:30:54Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mudshark \*  
> \*\*I do it just like Archie. Sock, sock, shoe, shoe.
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> By the way, _All in the Family_ was on in the 1970’s, not the late 1960’s. \*\*

**Mudshark** , you’re right. I was torn about that, but too lazy to Google it. Was thinking it started while I was still in Jr High… was thinking wrong.  
-Another

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> \*Originally posted by Dopey Dave \*  
> **In the Brit version, the roles were reversed, and the son-in-law got the punchline, possibly because the actor had more ‘edge’ than Rob Reiner (Meathead), and could trump his elder with appropriate glee.**

Thanks, **Dopey Dave** , I didn’t know that! I don’t suppose the British show is still on TV (maybe PBS?)?

Glad to find some folks who also took that scene to heart.

-Another

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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socks-shoes-left-left-right-right-or-left-right-left-right/91384/23 "2001-11-04T21:56:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Another Primate \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by TV time \*  
> > \*\*When I am in Japan, it messes the schedule up since I can’t go sock-shoe, sock-shoe on odd numbered days. \*\*
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> OK, **TV time** , I’ll bite: Why?  
> -Another \*\*

Sorry, I didn’t mean to confuse, but I always stay with a Japanese friend at his home and I remove my shoes at the door and walk around in my socks. Therefore when it comes time to go out in the morning, I always have my socks already on.

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