who never changed his socks?
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Topic: who never changed his socks?
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Subject: who never changed his socks?
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 14:19
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This is really a slippery slope we're headed down...
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:15
I know. That's another resolution for 2006. Be glad that PA is only specialized in sights and sounds 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:25
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If you recognize my avatar, you can tell that my alter ego never changes any of his clothes Never changing your socks is sort of an outlaws' dream, as you can see in Country Dick Montana's lyrics from The Big Rock Candy Mountains (by country rock group The Beat Farmers): Big Rock Candy Mountains One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning Down the track came a hobo hiking, and he said "boys I'm not turning "I'm headed for a land that's far away, beside the crystal fountains "So come with me, we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains" In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright Where the hand-outs grow on bushes and you sleep out every night Where the boxcars all are empty and the sun shines every day On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees The lemonade springs where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay Oh I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow Where the rain don't fall, the wind don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind There's a lake of stew and of whiskey, too You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoo In the Big Rock Candy Mountains In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in There ain't no short-handled shovels, no axes, saws or picks I'm a-goin' to stay where you sleep all day Where they hung the jerk that invented work In the Big Rock Candy Mountains I'll see you all this comin' fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
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. About the changing of socks: how low can you go: literally? Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:25
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I had a saying as a teenager, which has served me very well ever since... "It's time to change your socks, when you can throw them at the wall and they stick" ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Moogtron III wrote:Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:29
yeah...I see what you mean... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:31
A friend of mine did that last week with the pasta he was boiling. "When you throw it against the wall, and it sticks against it, it's well-cooked." And that's exactly what he did, bon appetit People who have read this thread this far in good health must have a strong stomach |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:34
of course, if your friend was a student, he would then throw the pesto at the wall, onto the pasta, then chew it off... yummy... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:36
Ahhh, now I see your subtle joke! Yes, that makes it even more attractive
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:38
 ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:38
I'm glad he got his degree last year, so luckily it was only pasta. He's about to marry. I hope his future wife hits him with a roller pin if he does that once again. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:41
is she Italian by any chance.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:45
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:50
The City of Naples probably has the hottest women in Europe... unfortunately that also seems to describe their tempers, so such beauty is bought with a high price... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:52
I edited my last post, but you can surely read my mind! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:56
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yes, I'd much prefer an ugly old bag, on the basis that she gave me an easy life... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:57
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Naples doesn't have a volcanoe for nothing. That's why the Italians have volcanoes and we don't. It's the temper. Volcanic emotions. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 15:59
yes very true, and both their potentially live volcanoes are in the south... ...where in Belgium are you from? BTW, I'm one of the few Brits who actually thinks Belgium is a cool place... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:00
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The bluegirls have all gone away... in your dreams. To put it in Genesis-terms. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:02
yeah...too true.. I've reached the stage in my life where I have realised I can't pull anything more than an ugly old bag, so I have to justify it to myself somehow.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:03
I'm one of the few Dutch who think that Belgium is a cool place. I live in Menen, a town in Flanders at the French border. Close to Ieper, or Ypres, or whatever it's being called in English |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:05
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I think Ieper is an incredible place...I spent a couple of days there 3 years ago, with a lump in my throat... ...the cloth hall is an utterly awesome structure isn't it? at the time of its construction, wasn't it the largest non religious building in Europe? I'm from Herefordshire, on the welsh border. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:06
Old bags or never changing socks, which of the two is more pathetic |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:08
I can only get myself an old bag, because I never change my socks.... oh, and I suffer from a range of annoying personal habits... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:09
Yes, the cloth hall is amazing. Also amazing is that Ieper looks very old, but every building is from after 1918. As a Dutchman I never heard a lot about World War 1, because the Dutch didn't participate in the war. I'm learning very fast now since I live in West-Flanders. Have you been to The Last Post at the Menen-gate? You must have... |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:10
Me too, but I'm sort of a secret slob |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:12
That could be, I don't know |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:13
yes, and the Flanders Fields musuem, and Hill 62 museum.... it's an incredible story, how after the war, the Belgian authorities wanted to defy the Germans as much as possible, by recreating the town square in the original architecture, as if to say 'you can't beat us'... that in itself is incredible, as the cloth hall dates from the early 1400s.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:14
I'm afraid I'm actually sad enough to know that as a fact... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:14
we have a lot in common.....only I'm not so secret... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:18
Sometimes I unveil one of my habits, like the refusal to change my socks. I don't want to conform to much to these silly rules in our society |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:20
No, you may be proud of your knowledge.
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Chin up!Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:21
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^^
------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:23
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you mean, you'd rather unveil one of your habits than one of your feet.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:24
I come from Rotterdam, where the centre was bombed during World War 2, and there they decided not to rebuild the centre as it was, but to build a modern centre. So they did, with skyscrapers and some daring architecture. It's interesting to see how two cities handled the situation in a complete different way. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:25
Quite right |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:28
OK, I have been to your Art Gallery (very good), your Maritime Museum (superb...but then why wouldn't it be??) and your Turkish quarter, Falafel hunting.... are you impressed??? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:36
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I certainly am!!! 
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:43
never seen Feyenoord play, though... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:48
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Too bad, that's my favourite soccer team. What's yours? |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 16:52
I thought it might be.... ...for my sins, I support Leicester City.... ...I'll have you know I've supported them through thin and thinner...
------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 17:02
I believe you. Supporting your favourite soccer team can be as hard as supporting your favourite prog band. They don't peak every time. Sometimes they never recover I'm off now. Nice talking too you about socks and soccer
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 20:40
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I change my socks 3-5 times a week (cause I smoke em afterwards) Not addicted though... ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: December 23 2005 at 21:56
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socks stink because of the mercury accumulation in feet. (joke) ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 24 2005 at 01:07
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3-5 times a year
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 24 2005 at 03:15
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whether they need changing, or not... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 24 2005 at 03:27
quite so...and I use them in every occasions...in the house,when sleeping,at my recitals... -------------
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 25 2005 at 05:43
I'm not sure that sleeping in your socks is a great idea... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 18:30
Especially when you only change'em 3-5 times a year! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 26 2005 at 18:59
I once wore the same socks for three days in a row ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 01:02
OMG!!!OMFG!!!YOU'RE...weak... -------------
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 27 2005 at 04:15
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I hope you were out in the countryside on your own, and that when you returned, you burnt them in the trash can at the end of the garden... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |