Well, I'll try to explain it, but I'm going to meet a friend to share a bottle of wine very soon (yes, it's well after 5:00 p.m. here....hey, I do have my standards...)
OK, in the summer of 2007, another FReeper challenged me that I could get away with posting the most useless vanity I could think of and put it in Breaking News.
So, I came up with "I'm Wearing New Socks Today," as the title and even put some keywords like "hanes," "noholes" and stuff like that and posted it.
It was up about 30 seconds before it got yanked, but a few people saw it.
So, the next day, someone else posts a vanity that was every bit as idiotic and it stayed up. Therefore, we hijacked it and started having serious disussions about socks and posting pictures of all kinds of socks.
After that, we hijacked some other vanities with discussions and photos of socks and then it just morphed into its own thing.
I even had one of the Mods ping me to a vanity about a year later where someone was talking about socks and Iraq and we got all over that one as well.
I'm pretty sure that socks are never mentioned on FR these days without my getting a ping to it. ;-)
Those of you who were around when this all began, please chime in if I've left anything out.
I love that story...and the post that you wrote about your teeth itching! LOL! ;-)
At least no one knows about your habit of taking photographs of trash bags. :->
Now that is worthy of breaking news.
I missed the actual thread, but I’ve seen many references to socks and you FR handle attached.
Socks (2) - Ping to various mischievous FReepers/FReepettes and call to action to hijack an unsuspecting vanity or thread referencing socks. In 2007, Allegra was challenged with posting the most useless vanity and came up with "I'm Wearing New Socks Today". The post was quickly pulled but the following day someone else put up an equally useless vanity and it remained. Thus, a vindictive Allegra and friends hijacked it with serious discussions and pictures of socks. And, verily, vanities and threads referencing sock are no longer safe. (Allegra confirms)
That is hysterical! I do recall reading references to that thread..am sorry I missed the fun. :)