# When is a sock not a sock?

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**Created:** [May 21, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-a-sock-not-a-sock/622657 "2012-05-21T21:44:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-a-sock-not-a-sock/622657/75 "2012-05-24T16:45:06Z")

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> [@Sailboat](#):
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> It seems to me that the risk **TubaDiva** took in offering to allow **The Man with the Golden Gun** to remain because of 9 years of good behavior is clear: it sends the message that all you have to do to avoid a ban is to behave well for about a decade.
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> If that were allowed to become the rule, imagine – we’d have all sorts of people behaving well for decades, _and there wouldn’t be a damned thing we could do about it!_

The horror.

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