Mysteries of Sockmas REVEALED!
Dec. 30th, 2004 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmollyThe Source of Sockmas came caroling to our door the lofty Sockmas carol of old:
...On the fifth day of Sockmas, my good friend gave to me: fiiiiiive paaaairs of sooooocks!
Four pairs of socks,
Three pairs of socks,
Two-hoo pairs of socks,
And a pair of reeeally warm socks!
The men of the house were also gifted with many fine pairs of socks -- subdued in color, like the feet of most non-bicycling men, but still jaunty. We shared stories of socks and stories of stories of socks, and the Source of Sockmas shared sneaky tales of late-night stealth sock-dropping missions. D suggested we should have served some nice, warming, alcoholic socktails, but instead we ate tasty cookies.
Source, if you read this, you have done a truly brilliant thing.
...On the fifth day of Sockmas, my good friend gave to me: fiiiiiive paaaairs of sooooocks!
Four pairs of socks,
Three pairs of socks,
Two-hoo pairs of socks,
And a pair of reeeally warm socks!
The men of the house were also gifted with many fine pairs of socks -- subdued in color, like the feet of most non-bicycling men, but still jaunty. We shared stories of socks and stories of stories of socks, and the Source of Sockmas shared sneaky tales of late-night stealth sock-dropping missions. D suggested we should have served some nice, warming, alcoholic socktails, but instead we ate tasty cookies.
Source, if you read this, you have done a truly brilliant thing.
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Date: 2004-12-31 04:33 am (UTC)but yes. brilliant.
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Date: 2004-12-31 05:15 am (UTC)And I'm not talking Calvin and Hobbes "verbing weirds language" icky. I'm talking discovering you have intestinal parasites with the head and public speaking ability of George W. Bush icky.
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Date: 2004-12-31 05:19 am (UTC)I understand your pain: I always liked the pairs like give/gift, cleave/cleft, weave/weft(?), leave/left, bereave/bereft... and they always make me think things like "crave/craft? shave/shaft? live/lift!" and "is sieve/sift backwards?" and "huhuhuh LOAVE/LOFT huhuhuhh". And I always hated "to grow a business". But -- I don't know, "to gift with [x]" never particularly bothered me, and certainly not to nookyoolar extent.
But okay, I repent, and shall avoid it in the future.
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Date: 2004-12-31 05:25 am (UTC)This marks the second time I've used it in the last eight years.
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Date: 2004-12-31 06:29 am (UTC)(sockysockysockysockysockmas!)
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Date: 2004-12-31 10:09 am (UTC)Feet are warm,
Toes glow bright!
(but we all know the lyrics, why am I repeating them here?)
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Date: 2004-12-31 03:29 pm (UTC)Like a child catching a glimpse of Santa, you can say you've seen him but what grown-up would believe you if you told?
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Date: 2004-12-31 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-31 07:55 pm (UTC)I've kept up the tradition but changed the focus. Now I cruise the streets after midnight looking for homeless people to gift with wrapped stollen and warm socks. Earlier in the day there are too many pan-handlers faking the down-and-out. Late at night on the 24th is when you can find the truly lost.
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Date: 2004-12-31 07:58 pm (UTC)