OT..sort of

garycrosby · Post by **garycrosby** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 1:02 pm

IMO ankle socks for casual dress and for sports are fine but they should never been worn to work (regardless of how casual your work environment may be).

Loren, good to see you back! I am curious though, you spelled the word "socks" as "sox" - is "sox" an acceptable spelling for "socks" in the US now? (note: please don't interpret that as an insult to your spelling - its a legitimate question from the "writer" part of my brain).

Lest anyone say this thread has nothing to do with whistles, I must add that I keep my whistles in my sock drawer of my dresser. I used to keep them in my wife's lingerie drawer (so my two favourite things were in the same place!) but she nixed that for some unknown reason ... hmmph ...

Mark_J · Post by **Mark_J** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 1:29 pm

. . .I am curious though, you spelled the word "socks" as "sox" - is "sox" an acceptable spelling for "socks" in the US now?

We have two Major League Baseball teams,
the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Red Sox. This spelling has been around, I believe, since before 1900 (I'm not a huge baseball fan, but I enjoy a good game now and then). Many other minor league teams use that spelling. I don't have much on the etymology of the word, but it was in a Bartelbys.com dictionary as a correct alternative spelling.

hillfolk22 · Post by **hillfolk22** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 1:32 pm

For some reason I have this strong urge to go into a Dr. Seuss tangent.

Fox and Sox... I had my 14 year old son who is home sick today pull out all of his Dr. Seuss books. Yep, he still has them safely tucked away in his memorabilia.

Any ways I was checking to see if there was such a book titled that or if was something mentioned in another book.

I have placed a whistle in a knee sock (I guess that would be considered a tube sock in guys language) and then tucked it into my guitar case before.

As for the ankle sock with the little pom poms... never seen it on a guy before. There is a reason for those little poms. If you have ever worn one with out a pom and had the sock roll down into your shoe. Very annoying!!!!

Laura

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 1:51 pm

On 2002-02-27 14:32, hillfolk22 wrote:
Fox and Sox... I had my 14 year old son who is home sick today pull out all of his Dr. Seuss books. Yep, he still has them safely tucked away in his memorabilia.

Any ways I was checking to see if there was such a book titled that or if was something mentioned in another book.

Yes, Fox in Socks is one of my all-time favorites...

Fox in Socks by Dr Seuss.

Fox
Socks
Box
Knox

Knox in box.
Fox in socks.

Knox on fox
in socks in box.

Socks on Knox
and Knox in box.

Fox in socks
on box on Knox.

Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with Bricks and
blocks and clocks come.

Look, sir. Look, sir.
Mr Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with
bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with
chicks and clocks, sir.

First, I'll make a
quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a
quick trick block stack.

You can make a
quick trick chick stack.
You can make a quick
trick clock stack.

And here's a
new trick, Mr Knox....
Socks on chicks
and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks
on bricks and blocks.
bricks and blocks
on Knox on blocks.

Now we come to
ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this
Mr Knox, sir....

Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.

Please, sir. I don't
like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't
quick or slick, sir.
I get all those
ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the
chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.

I'm so sorry,
Mr. Knox sir.

Here's and easy
game to play.
Here's an easy
thing to say...

New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.

Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.

Who sees who sew
whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew
Sue's new socks, sir.

That's not easy,
Mr. Fox, sir.

Who comes?
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow
sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.

Sue sews socks of
fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews
Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose
on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose
on Slow Joe Crow's nose

Hose goes.
Rose frows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.

Mr Fox!
I hate this game, sir.
This game makes
my tongue quite lame, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir,
what a shame, sir.

We'll find something
new to do now.
Here is lots of
new blue goo now.
New goo. Blue goo.
Gooey. Goeey.
Blue goo, New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.

Gooey goo
for chewy chewing!
That's what that
Goo-Goose is doing
Do you choose to
chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir,
choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose,
chew, sir. Do, sir.

Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it.
I can't say it.
I won't chew it.

Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another
game to play.

Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.

Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom,
Bim's bends,
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.

Ben's band. Bim's band.
Big bands. Pig bands.

Bim and Ben lead
bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs
and Bim's band booms.

Pig band! Boom band!
Big band! Broom band!
My poor mouth can't
say that. No Sir.
My poor mouth is
much too slow, sir.

Well then...
bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something
it can say.

Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke luck licks lakes.
Luke's duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks
in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks
in lakes duck likes.

I can't blab
such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't
made of rubber.

Mr. Knox. Now
come now. Come now.
You don't have to
be so dumb now....

Try to say this,
Mr, Knox, please....
Through three cheese trees
three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew,
freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made
these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made
these trees' cheese freeze
That's what made these
three free fleas sneeze.

Stop it! Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say
such silly stuff, sir.

Very well, then
Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's have a little talk
about tweetle beetles....

What do you know
about tweetle beetles?
well...

When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

And when they
battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle
beetle puddle battle.

AND when tweetle beetles
battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle
beetle puddle paddle battle.

AND when beetles battle beetles
in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle
is a puddle in a bottle...

...they call this
a tweetle beetle
bottle puddle
paddle battle muddle.
AND...

When beetles
fight these battles
in a bottle
with their paddles
and the bottle's
on a poodle
and the poodle's
eating noodles...

...they call this
a muddle puddle
tweetle poodle
beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
AND...

Now wait
a minute
Mr. Socks Fox!

When a fox is
in the bottle where
the tweetle beetls battle
with their paddles
in a puddle on a
noodle-eating poodle.
THIS is what they call...

...a tweetle beetle
noodle poodle bottles
paddled muddled duddled
fuddled wuddled
fox in socks, sir!

Fox in socks,
our game is done, sir.
Thank you for
a lot of fun, sir.

THE END

Long Live Tweetle Beetles!!!

Andrea ~*~
now that your tongue is all warmed up, go do that triple tonguing! :

:

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hillfolk22 · Post by **hillfolk22** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 2:05 pm

BRAVO! BRAVO!

Ah now there's some fine tongue twisting fun memories. The kids use to have that book. It must of gotten chewed on and destroyed.

It's a miracle that my son has 3 left.

Laura

Ps... would someone please let me in on the secret of the dancing smilies?

garycrosby · Post by **garycrosby** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 2:05 pm

Mark_J, I am familiar with the names of some of your baseball teams but I always thought the "sox" part of the name was slang for "socks". I did look it up in http://www.bartelby.com and sure enough "sox" is listed as "a plural of socks". Hmmm, who knew ...

Odd though, I don't ever recall seeing the spelling "sox" in Canda (except in Dr. Suess books) which is why I posed the question in the first place. I looked it up in The Columbia Guide to Standard American English which says: "Socks is the regular plural, but the variant spelling sox is also Standard, although most people prefer to limit it to proper names (Boston Red Sox) and Informal contexts." That probably explains it as written Canadian english tends to be a little more formal than written US english.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

As far as ankle socks are concerned I do draw the line with "pom pom" ankle socks for men - no man is every going to wear those (except maybe just once to please his daughter who got him a pair for Father's day)

thomlarson · Post by **thomlarson** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 2:18 pm

This somehow seems oddly on-topic for this oddly off-topic discussion. I recently came across this apparently long lost verse for the song The Parting Glass:


Do you like green eggs and ham
I do not like them Sam-I-am
Would you like them here or there
I would not like them anywhere

I would not eat them in a house
I would not eat them with a mouse

I would not eat green eggs and ham
I do not like them Sam-I-am


I seem to remember that it was written by some Doctor...

Thom

Graphics Guy · Post by **Graphics Guy** » Thu Feb 28, 2002 1:54 pm

Ok...PHWWWWEEEEPPPP time out. Loren, This was a joke, Nothing more, Nothing less. No one is implying that wearing a certain style of sock is "Unmanly". I wear Bullwinkle slippers (Even have a picture to prove it). This started sipmply as something
between Kari,Martin and I. Please dont take this seriously.
We now return to our very inane thread :roll:

Dan

paulsdad · Post by **paulsdad** » Thu Feb 28, 2002 2:12 pm

On 2002-02-27 14:00, BrassBlower wrote:
Ankle socks are pretty much de rigeur for all competition cyclists. I think the reason is (correct me if I'm wrong) that it allows more blood to circulate to the feet as well as more cooling air to reach the ankles, both of which can make a HUGE difference in performance.

Is this related to the practice of some male athletes of shaving (or is it waxing?) their legs?

Graphics Guy · Post by **Graphics Guy** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:04 am

PaulsDad Wrote,Is this related to the practice of some male athletes of shaving (or is it waxing?) their legs?

99.9% of Male Swimmers shave all their body hair with the exception of the head, And sometimes even that goes, When the margin for winning is measured in thousandths of a second, Any possible edge is explored

Dan

DanD · Post by **DanD** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 1:34 pm

...Any possible edge is explored

Not to mention that road rash (when cyclists fall down)is alot easier to treat and clean without hair in the way.

JohnPalmer · Post by **JohnPalmer** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 12:22 am

To stay astride of the topic of being off topic, I just wanted to sock this to you:

-an Incus is the middle part of the mastax of a rotifer.

-our trash pickup is on Thursday.

-you should change the batteries in your smoke alarms on 4/7/02.

-the Lakers ARE going to win the NBA championship, again.

-"aa" is a good word for scrabble, as also is "quayside".

-March 2, 1904, was Theodore Geisel's birthday.

-Spring begins on March 20th, at 11:16 AM, PST.

And finally,about whistles,

-fipples (a noteworthy whistle topic--sorry if I give them a plug) are hard to make.

-the blade (a whistle topic to split hairs over) is even harder to make.

-and the diameters of the holes of a whistle and their placement (not boring or flat whistle topics) are too deep and too hard to cover in such an unmatched topic, such as SOCKS!

I know what you're all thinking--"darn that man and his silly puns." That's OK. As I drink my Knee High soda, I have only this to say about your unravelling thread--"SEW".

JP

P.S. Remember, if you don't like my puns, then don't listen to my odd poetry--It's even verse!

Dave Parkhurst · Post by **Dave Parkhurst** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 12:38 am

If it is at work, I think it's a no-no, unless you are a tennis instructor. Fer crying out loud, I firmly believe in dressing as a professional...Italian loafers, dress socks, wool slacks, Camel's hair or wool coat and a good silk or cotton shirt... the only way to go.

Mastersound · Post by **Mastersound** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 3:41 am

"Spring begins on March 20th, at 11:16 AM, PST". Huh?

In Australia summer starts 1st Dec, autumn 1st March, winter 1st June and spring 1st September? How do you in the US do it? How about other countries?

hillfolk22 · Post by **hillfolk22** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 8:26 am

On 2002-03-02 04:41, Mastersound wrote:
"Spring begins on March 20th, at 11:16 AM, PST". Huh?

In Australia summer starts 1st Dec, autumn 1st March, winter 1st June and spring 1st September? How do you in the US do it? How about other countries?

I found this an interesting site.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/Season.html

Laura

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You may wonder why it takes to be 3 edits for one sentence and a link.

I tried the link out. To be polite, just in case I messed it up. Well I did. Now it is right!

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