When were socks invented?

[CaptainWacky]

Answer WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP and whoever gets closest to the right answer wins an image of a male or female celebrity of their choice.

 

[Dr Dave]

1722

 

[FBI parte due]

Antiquity.

 

[Sergeant Murder]

Socks have been around since antiquity.

No one knows when they were "invented".

 

[Dr Dave]

1522

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

They were invented by the first Duke of Argyle, Scotty McScotbreath, in 1099. On sale this week for 999.

 

[CaptainWacky]

FBI parte due: looks like we read the same wiki article!

I said without looking it up.

Unless you were reading about socks on wikipedia at some point in the past. Which I could believe IF YOU WEREN'T A SCRIPT KIDDIE.

 

[The Tomtrek]

I know it was on a Friday.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

And in an October when it started to get nippy.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Yeah no one would invent socks in the summer.

 

[headvoid]

They were originally invented as pockets.

 

[Cassie]

When was the most important use of socks discovered? SOCK IT.

 

[FBI parte due]

We're all sinners. Don't condemn me or I'll hack into the SECRET MODERATOR FORUM and release the headvoid/Laker_Girl cybersex transcripts.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Were socks invented before the skip?

 

[Ilyanna]

and who made the first sock puppet?

 

[CaptainWacky]

YOU ALL LOSE.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Something else was invented first, because the original name for socks was "foot prophylaxis".

 

[Dr Dave]

YOU ALL LOSE.

but..

but..

oh

 

[CaptainWacky]

Were sucks invented as a guard against tickling.

 

['Gear]

Socks were invented because shoes were made from leather that hadn't been properly tanned. When these early shoes got wet they'd expand as much as a half size.