I sat, surrounded by flickering screens, images of wool futures, silk futures, glove derivatives, sub-prime support hose, sports futures, stockings and all manner of Spandex and Lycra garmentry flashing before my eyes... this was the lot of a busy sock trader, these days.

I gleefully offloaded 12 million pairs of left socks, Russian military, 1968, size 18.5 to a trader in China who wasn't aware that socks that size would make good peter- heaters for a bull African elephant. Heaven knows what he was going to do with them.

Now... how the hell was I supposed to get rid of 161,000 4.2 tonne bales of lint?
-- UnaBubba, May 08 2012

The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble http://www.juliango...rgeisa-goat-bubble/
Only tangentally related - a cautionary tale of goats, speculation and markets. [zen_tom, May 08 2012]

So, tell me again how the invention preceded the pun?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 08 2012


The international market already socks.
-- theircompetitor, May 08 2012


Well, my daughter is doing a school project on international trade, for her Year 5 studies, and she asked whether the local sock market affected our balance of payments. So, it wasn't so much a pun as a mistake that set it off, [Max].
-- UnaBubba, May 08 2012


Now we understand why the London Stock Exchange Index is colloquially referred to as the "Footsie 100" ...
-- 8th of 7, May 08 2012


I'm pretty sure you've nailed it, [8th]. Nothing to do with the Financial Times.
-- UnaBubba, May 08 2012


Damn, there aren't any more sock puns, are there. Not even winsock..
-- not_morrison_rm, May 09 2012


Oh, sure you'll see plenty of sock brokers clean up on the floor, but it's always the consumers who foot the bill.
-- Alterother, May 09 2012


//there aren't any more sock puns//

***must resist****
-- AusCan531, May 09 2012


Resistance Is Futile …
-- 8th of 7, May 09 2012


Puns are fast becoming [ubie]'s stocking trade.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 09 2012


Puns have always been my stock in trade, [Max]. I think in puns and double entendres.
-- UnaBubba, May 09 2012


Dirty hose!
-- UnaBubba, May 10 2012


If you buy a dozen socks do you get six pair, or 12 pair, or 12 socks ?

If your socks have a holes, are they holy socks ?

Male sock manufacturers passed on panty hose. The silly woman inventor had to keep the entire business to herself.
-- popbottle, Oct 18 2015



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