Day 4 — Sock-of-the-Month club membership

Is there anything more suitably exciting for a dull man than receiving a new pair of socks?

How about making a dull man happy at least one day each month by giving him a subscription to a Sock-of-the-Month Club?

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New York Times article “Sock-of-the-Month Clubs Rise Online, Bringing Subscriptions to Feet” [December 3, 2013] tells us much about these sock clubs.

A word of caution: many of the socks from the sock clubs mentioned in the article are too exciting:

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We found one that has socks for us, www.soxiety.com/t/socks/men, and there may be more when you search in the other clubs:

Albert Einstein
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness”

~ Albert Einstein
Edward R. Murrow
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”

~ Edward R. Murrow
Hoagy Carmichael
"Slow motion gets you there faster"

~ Hoagy Carmichael
Marilyn Thomsen
"While it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfilment in being ordinary"

~ Marilyn Thomsen
testi 1
“We’re giving a good name to a four-letter word — dull”
testi 2
“Glitz and glam — not worth the bother”
testi 3
“We don’t try to keep up with the Joneses — who are the Joneses anyway?”
testi 4
“Time is a great invention — it’s what keeps everything from happening all at once”
Will Rogers
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there”

~ Will Rogers