October 25, 2004

Meaningful Swedish socks In remembrance of September 11,2001, I designed a sock which will climb the steps of hope and courage in our hearts. Single cylinder, methinks.
posted by fish tick 20 years ago
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  • SOCK??? /head explodes
  • As horrible as the event it remembers. Bleagh.
  • I thoughted it the worsted of socks.
  • CUFF! /knits brows
  • If I was going to design a sock, I wouldn't make it that ugly. I would incorporate a monkey, or possibly a banana. No, wait! A monkey AND a banana.
  • Ugly September 11 socks, yes. Swedish September 11 socks, no.
  • I want to be as polite as possible in the way I say this, but: Please realize that many people would see this as in incredibly bad taste. Their perception (like mine, to be honest) would be that using the 9/11 tragedy to sell socks is exploitative -- to them, you're trading on the memory of the people who died on 9/11 to sell . . . socks. If you were doing something with the profits -- donating a portion to some 9/11 fund, or something -- that might be different. But as is, not cool. Sorry.
  • which will climb the steps of hope and courage in our hearts I don't have steps of hope and courage in my heart. I do have an elevator of morbid curiosity and a ramp of apathy and nonchalance, but I usually wear flip-flops when riding those, since they both lead to the beach of satisfaction in my heart.
  • An elevator to the beach? Lazy American. ;)
  • Ah, the perfect thing to make sockmonkeys out of.
  • Apologies for mistakenly implicating Swedes in a scheme that so clearly smacks of Incredible Bad Taste and Exploitation and crass profit-seeking.
  • Thanks for correcting that, fish tick. After I saw that you'd stated they were of Swedish origin, in disbelief I checked the site. This is just tacky, and I hope Joslyn, whoever she is, loses her fingers in a tragicomic knitting accident as soon as possible.
  • HawthornWingo, you are such a CYNIC to think that! Coppermac, I'm with you on that. Or perhaps we could set a snare for the wench? Smallish Bear, eat your heart out. I have socks with Monkeys AND Bananas! Plead with me, and I'll post a pic.
  • So show us youir fancy fetlocks, BlueHorse, please. *cherishes the BlueHorse fairy godmother image*
  • Are they like these? Hope yours got feets, though.
  • Someday MoFi will grow so large that, like Metafilter, it will need to close registration. After a couple of years of gnashing their teeth on the sidelines the MoFi shutouts will go forth and build a *filter of their own. If they call it SockFilter I swear to Pan I will hunt all of them down, and all of you as well.
  • *runs off to register domain name*
  • the_bone cracks under the weight of sock posts