I recognise all those catchphrases and I was born three years after Laugh-In ended, in a country that, as far as I know, never showed it. And I have no idea how, except that I must have picked it up from the internet somewhere.
morleuca
There were definitely reruns and marathons if it played into the 80s.
I watched the first run of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on our Zenith B&W tv. If memory serves, they walked a fine line slipping things past the network censors – a prime time show was not allowed to say much about Vietnam.
I had literally never heard of Laugh-In before, and I still recognized the phrase just from general use in pop culture. I believe I saw it in an Archie comic, and was admittedly confused about the usage.
She may have (probably) has seen it a few times in the last 6 months, and asked Sarah or Dorothy why people were putting socks on their doors. Or she looked up the internet.
Capitalism aside, it’d be amusing if a sock company /did/ exclusively produce socks of that purpose with ‘fun’ patterns if not some kinda other sign like their signboards that’s a do not disturb with college students as their audience/customer base. Or like, a trojan pack came with a disposable sock for that purpose too for funsies XD
Well, she did befriend jennifer fairly early and joe’s put a sock on the door when danny and jen were in their room even tho he didn’t do anything so she probably has heard of it
or she’s read enough of ambers fanfics to know (tho, would a smut writer like amber rly bother with the ‘etiquette’ of stuff like that other than a one off comic relief joke versus just focusing on the dirty scenes lol)
If Amber’s any good at her craft she would. Anyone can write “and then they fuck” good smut is just as much about world building and details as any literature. I’m not gonna buy Bruce and Clark boning down in Amber’s DC comics college AU if the door to their shared half bath dorm is just wide open!
Angel
given how amazigirl is i can imagine she’s written stuff where there’s no metaphorical door to have a sock on to begin with/outdoors stuff but i guess it is al situational
Devin
That’s valid, not everyone is into exhibitionism.
Yotomoe
Clark has a whole ass fortress of solitude, why would he just fuck out in the open? Were you raised in a barn?…
Well barn adjacent.
i mean, pop culture, innuendo aside, do the dorm rooms not lock? other than being interrupted with a roommate who’d be the only one with a copy of the key, no one else would just come in unannounced, versus just avoiding knocking out of politeness/going later (tho they also had a half bath too right? they’d also have to have socks on those doors too lol)
I never lived in a dorm, but when I was in military barracks with semi-private rooms and shared baths, the doors into the bathroom had latches on both sides.
thejeff
Doesn’t that make it easy to lock the other room out accidentally? Or for that matter to lock someone into the bathroom?
I’ve never grasped how those shared baths should work.
I never lived in dorms, but when I had friends that did, they didn’t lock automatically and pretty much no one bothered locking them. this all seemed (seems) wild to me because yeah there is security to keep anyone from wandering in off the street, but anyone who lived in the building could get in there and creep through your stuff or whatever
Axel
but socks would be a thing anyway so one’s roommate doesn’t come in
McNitz
Wow, that is crazy to me. I lived in the dorms on what is rated as one of the safest campuses in the US, and still locked my door when I left. Just seems like such a simple and obvious safety precaution.
Sometimes, you decide socks are too visible and put a sticky note on the door instead and sometimes it falls off. Sometimes your roommate doesn’t see it and decides to come in. Sometimes they lead a conga line of 8 of you and your partner’s shared acquaintances/friends.
Basically, the sock is to protect your roommate and whatever massive party of people they’ve decided needs to be in your closet-sized room with them.
The sock is to stop your roommate from coming in. It’s just that everyone else can also see the sock and knows what it means.
PigmyWurm
I would be surprised if these days roommates just send a discreet (or possibly not so discreet) text. I was in college just as smartphones were becoming a thing and I don’t think I heard of anyone actually using a sock, it was just a general college meme people would reference (or maybe jokingly putting one on someone’s door as a small prank).
it takes time and effort to lock/unlock. So if someone knocks, you can just say “come in”, or your roommate doesn’t need to take their keys to go to the bathroom sort of thing.
Locking is what we did when we were leaving for an extended period of time and didn’t want anyone to steal and hide the door.
thejeff
No more effort to lock the door than to put a sock on it.
And the sock warns the roommate, who has a key and usually doesn’t bother to knock.
136 thoughts on “Sock”
Ana Chronistic
Sarah’s Lifehacks for Rooming with Joyce, vol. 1
Kyoulkoa
I feel at this point Sarah could probably write a set
Kaiyalai
She’s working on volume fourteen right now!
NGPZ
Remember, nobody wants to be a
SquidwardSarah! XDNGPZ
*plays “So Tired” from SpongeBob Production Music*
Stephen Bierce
I would have chosen something from Donnie Osmond. We are talking about SOCKS, aren’t we?
NGPZ
I can only think of Pajama Sam when socks are the focus.
I haven’t worn socks in years XD
Eric
‘that’s what it is’
brionl
Speak for your self. Squidward is my spirit animal.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Sock-It-To-Me!
jeffepp
You bet your sweet Bippy!
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Go to your room!
StClair
Verrry interestingk … but schtupid.
Otl1973
Is there an older group here than I imagine? Or is there a reason the youngsters know Laugh-In?
Daibhid C
I recognise all those catchphrases and I was born three years after Laugh-In ended, in a country that, as far as I know, never showed it. And I have no idea how, except that I must have picked it up from the internet somewhere.
morleuca
There were definitely reruns and marathons if it played into the 80s.
ValdVin
Coming this fall, “Joyce Brown, rated PG”.
But what rating is the Special Diector’s Cut with added scenes?
Makkabee
PG-13.
There are underwear scenes. And washing machines.
Mark
I’m old enough that I saw the entire first run of I Dream of Jeanie.
And that’s the truth. [raspberry]
Edwin I Callahan
I’m old enough to have seen the first run of Captain Kangaroo.
StClair
*drops many pingpong balls on EIC*
Vulcanodon
I watched the first run of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on our Zenith B&W tv. If memory serves, they walked a fine line slipping things past the network censors – a prime time show was not allowed to say much about Vietnam.
McNitz
I had literally never heard of Laugh-In before, and I still recognized the phrase just from general use in pop culture. I believe I saw it in an Archie comic, and was admittedly confused about the usage.
Allen Alberti
i’m 52, mostly remember it from reruns in the 80’s
StClair
Same.
Hof1991
I recommended DOA to my grandchildren.
shadowcell
Dumbing of Age Book 14: I REMAIN SAFELY RATED-PG (I Say Damn Sometimes)
LaGrosseLegume
Vote for that!
Sirksome
I’m surprised Joyce knows what the sock on the door means.
Mark Sebree
She may have (probably) has seen it a few times in the last 6 months, and asked Sarah or Dorothy why people were putting socks on their doors. Or she looked up the internet.
Angel
Capitalism aside, it’d be amusing if a sock company /did/ exclusively produce socks of that purpose with ‘fun’ patterns if not some kinda other sign like their signboards that’s a do not disturb with college students as their audience/customer base. Or like, a trojan pack came with a disposable sock for that purpose too for funsies XD
Pseudowolf
I’m…surprised no-one has done that yet, actually.
Hmm…
Angel
Well, she did befriend jennifer fairly early and joe’s put a sock on the door when danny and jen were in their room even tho he didn’t do anything so she probably has heard of it
or she’s read enough of ambers fanfics to know (tho, would a smut writer like amber rly bother with the ‘etiquette’ of stuff like that other than a one off comic relief joke versus just focusing on the dirty scenes lol)
Sirksome
If Amber’s any good at her craft she would. Anyone can write “and then they fuck” good smut is just as much about world building and details as any literature. I’m not gonna buy Bruce and Clark boning down in Amber’s DC comics college AU if the door to their shared half bath dorm is just wide open!
Angel
given how amazigirl is i can imagine she’s written stuff where there’s no metaphorical door to have a sock on to begin with/outdoors stuff but i guess it is al situational
Devin
That’s valid, not everyone is into exhibitionism.
Yotomoe
Clark has a whole ass fortress of solitude, why would he just fuck out in the open? Were you raised in a barn?…
Well barn adjacent.
Fnord
There’s always solitude in the ass fortress.
Opus the Poet
“Oh no, we can’t have sexy times, I’m out of clean socks!”
Yotomoe
It means the doorknob is feet so everyone walking in the room is touching a door foot.
Sporky
Sock 2: This time, it’s not Sock 1
thakoru
Sock 3: The Search for Sock
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Sock 4: Behind the Dryer
Cmasta1992
Sock 5: The Empire Socks Back
Devin
Socky Balboa
Dean
School of Sock
Yotomoe
Red Socktober
Lars
Sockies may rule
clif
Lars wins the Internet.
Carla's #2 Fan
High Sock Musical
morleuca
Socky Horror Picture Show
Edwin I Callahan
Sock of Ages
Lumino
Dangeresque!
Angel
lol baby steps i guess but you’d think she’d not care if anyone knows other than maybe dorothy
Just an Armadillo
Good job Joyce, this is very convincing and not at all suspicious!
quark
nah, everyone in this hall knows that if joe was fuckin anyone the sock would be on the door immediately. he knows the importance of the sock
Angel
i mean, pop culture, innuendo aside, do the dorm rooms not lock? other than being interrupted with a roommate who’d be the only one with a copy of the key, no one else would just come in unannounced, versus just avoiding knocking out of politeness/going later (tho they also had a half bath too right? they’d also have to have socks on those doors too lol)
brionl
I never lived in a dorm, but when I was in military barracks with semi-private rooms and shared baths, the doors into the bathroom had latches on both sides.
thejeff
Doesn’t that make it easy to lock the other room out accidentally? Or for that matter to lock someone into the bathroom?
I’ve never grasped how those shared baths should work.
Axel
I never lived in dorms, but when I had friends that did, they didn’t lock automatically and pretty much no one bothered locking them. this all seemed (seems) wild to me because yeah there is security to keep anyone from wandering in off the street, but anyone who lived in the building could get in there and creep through your stuff or whatever
Axel
but socks would be a thing anyway so one’s roommate doesn’t come in
McNitz
Wow, that is crazy to me. I lived in the dorms on what is rated as one of the safest campuses in the US, and still locked my door when I left. Just seems like such a simple and obvious safety precaution.
Bittersweet
Sometimes, you decide socks are too visible and put a sticky note on the door instead and sometimes it falls off. Sometimes your roommate doesn’t see it and decides to come in. Sometimes they lead a conga line of 8 of you and your partner’s shared acquaintances/friends.
Basically, the sock is to protect your roommate and whatever massive party of people they’ve decided needs to be in your closet-sized room with them.
Bash
The sock is to stop your roommate from coming in. It’s just that everyone else can also see the sock and knows what it means.
PigmyWurm
I would be surprised if these days roommates just send a discreet (or possibly not so discreet) text. I was in college just as smartphones were becoming a thing and I don’t think I heard of anyone actually using a sock, it was just a general college meme people would reference (or maybe jokingly putting one on someone’s door as a small prank).
HueSatLight
it takes time and effort to lock/unlock. So if someone knocks, you can just say “come in”, or your roommate doesn’t need to take their keys to go to the bathroom sort of thing.
Locking is what we did when we were leaving for an extended period of time and didn’t want anyone to steal and hide the door.
thejeff
No more effort to lock the door than to put a sock on it.
And the sock warns the roommate, who has a key and usually doesn’t bother to knock.
HueSatLight
answer to “do the dorm rooms not lock?”
Yotomoe
He doesn’t even put the sock there. It just appears by his will.
miz
work smarter, not harder
Alongcameaspider
Joyce loudly denying it will only make people suspect it more