Someone said that you can tell Torontonians who come from the Maritimes because they always wear white socks! That's true in my case. I guess we got into the habit back in our school days when you had to wear which socks in gym class.
I remember a scene in Death Wish where Charles Bronson filled a sock with coins and used it to blackjack street predators. That was a pretty goofy movie--watch for Jeff Goldblum as the hoodlum wearing a Jughead cap!
Einstein stopped wearing socks because he couldn't see any logical reason for doing so.
The word "sock" can also mean hit. I remember the TV show Batman where in the middle of fight scenes they'd show the words "POW!" and "SOCK!" on the screen. Remember the idiot sitcom It's About Time, about two astronauts who end up in the Stone Age and meet a family of cavemen? The schoolboy version of the theme song went, "It's about time, it's about space, it's about time to sock your face!"
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