Fun socks aren't fun anymore
Summary
Fun socks have lost their edge. A straphanger declares they're over, and Kareem couldn't agree more. The turning point? When bookstores started hawking socks with phrases like "Mommy needs wine." They argue fun socks became corporate armor for unfun executives who flash wiener dog patterns at meetings, then get buried in more wiener dog merchandise until "he's buried in a wiener casket." The guest admits he once owned fun socks but now wears solid colors. Kareem fires back that his companion sports fun laces and a fun hat, still clinging to self-expression. The real truth: fun socks were developed in a lab for people who aren't actually fun at all.
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So, what's your take? Fun socks aren't fun anymore.
100% agree. When they started selling them in bookstores, that was the end of fun socks. It's the beginning of the end, for sure. I mean, why does every bookstore in the world sell socks all of a sudden?
That's a really good question because bookstores are for books. That's what I always thought. That's what—that's why it was when I was a kid. You go to the bookstore for books and now you go there for socks that say like, "Mommy needs wine."
Right. It's so true. I—I don't know. I mean, I want to empathize with the bookstores. Maybe the bookstores are struggling and they're like, "We need to sell merchandise for idiots." Well, I want to just say that I own a lot of fun socks.
What are you wearing today? I'm wearing solid colors now.
Well, I just don't find it to be fun anymore. I—I hate to say it, but you have uh, you have fun laces.
Well, fun laces are the new thing. Fun laces are where it's at, Jeff. I—you got a fun hat.
I don't know what you're talking about. You got a fun hat. You got fun laces. A lot of accents on the body. You got to make up for the—the—the demise of the fun sock. You still need to signal to people that you're fun.
But if you wear fun socks, I think you're signaling to people now. You're signaling that you're—you're not fun. I think that they were developed in a lab for people who are actually not fun at all. And you can purchase the fun part of your outfit and now you go to a meeting. "Oh, I'm a CEO. I'm an executive." And you go like this.
Your socks are really, really not fun. I'm not fun at all because I'm a fun guy. I don't need to have this. You don't need to prove it to anybody.
But then you go, "Wow, did you see the CEO? He has uh, wiener dogs on his sock." And then people go, "Uh, that guy likes wiener dogs." And so he ends up with like 40 pairs of wiener dog socks and like wiener dog ties and stuff like that becomes part of his identity and he can't shake it and he's buried in a wiener casket.
That's an interesting cut you've got there. It's not quite an ankle sock. It's not quite a knee sock. Yeah, I think it's a too small sock. I think that I ordered the wrong size.