The IQ test debate in another thread, reminded me of a BBC program that I saw a couple of years ago about different types of intelligence and how to test them. One question sort of got stuck, mostly because I gave a completely different answer then all the people that were tested on TV. I’d love to see what you people make of it. Here’s the question:

In 1 minute, can you list as many things as you can come up with that you can do with a sock?

Interesting question, isn’t it?

Do they have to be legal?

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And please understand that, for reasons of decency, I refuse to mention several uses I could mention, while posting in a public forum.
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nope, anything goes.

Ok, here goes:

1.) make mittens
2.) wear them, as intended.
3.) make a snake-sweater.
4.) make a tourniquet.
5.) stuff it into my brother’s mouth when he irritates me.
6.) use it to strain peaches. (don’t ask)
7.) make a muffler for your kitten/puppy.
8.) store loose change.
9.) Bludgeon someone with said coin filled sock.
10.) {BUZZZ! Time’s up!)

( that last one, when time ran out, was fill the sock with sand, attach fishhooks, and use it to catch bats. I was an e-vile child. )

Interesting, can I take it you used things that you remembered you saw or did once?

On advice of counsel, I respectfully refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me.

Dave Morton - Mar 20, 2011:

On advice of counsel, I respectfully refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me.

It turned out on the program, most people did just that: try to remember things. A few did something different, they simply began to list everything hey could come up with, anything (one was a University physics professor, the other a young piano virtuoso who had begun composing from a very early age).

Here was my initial response:
everything! just use the following algorithm:

In the program, it turned out that, overall, the fighter jet pilot was the smartest (he was really really good in reading people, which surprised everybody except the pilot. His explanation: in combat, you better be damn good in reading your wingmen’s state of mind.

1 put on foot
2 make a hand puppet
3 put on door knob for assorted reasons
4 fill with a door knob and use as a weapon
5 roll up and use as a dog ‘ball’ toy
6. use to wedge a drawer shut so kids can’t open
7 play “grrrrr” with dog
8 use for a dust cloth
9. Use as glove to keep lotion on hands for beauty treatment
10. Use as a tie to keep the wires “neat” in back of your computer and hope that dog doesn’t think it’s a toy.
11 Use as emergency toilet paper when camping.

Patti Roberts - Mar 22, 2011:

11 Use as emergency toilet paper when camping.

Patty….... TOO MUCH information !

Someday you will be out in the woods and thank me.

I’ve already been in that situation, and was forced to use worse. But still… Euw!

As for #10, I think I would cut the toe end of the sock off, and pass the wires through the tube, thus presenting less of a temptation to old Fido.

There was a reason mom always said wear clean undies, never eat yellow snow, bring extra socks, and don’t touch anything strange in the woods.  As for #10, if you used the socks with a hole in the toe, you would need the scissors

That should have been WOULDN’T need scissors..

True enough.

Hi,
I actually observed this last weekend. So it doesn’t make me smart. =)

A 17 year-old girl, with very long hair, had placed about 8 socks in her hair as curlers.  I saw her later and I must say it worked.  She looked very funny, and it made her head look like some strange antenna we would have made in the 70’s and 80’s for our wireless experiments…using aluminum bits here and there.

Regards,
Chuck

Smell it taste it hear it touch it see it dance with it make love to it argue with it tell it a joke go on a date with it confide in it buy it flowers almost as good as having a wife