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Socks In The Bed Wednesday, February 19, 2003 • read strip Viewing 82 comments:

Nothing like making whoopee with your socks on

Mallrats reference?

socks-on banging is the webster's definition of classy .

Have you ever heard of sock-style?

It is absolutely possible.

nothing like making whoper with your socks on

I have had whoper (sic)

See ya, Tina. You won't be missed.

I am from the future ! Beware fuckyoufriday, for SHE RETURNETH!

hahaha this is such a good comment.

i am not a fan of New Tina i don't think.

Tina is a shit, but I'd love to watch her bug the crap out of Ray and rag on Beef and see her get a come uppance... or none at all, depending on the Onstad whim.

I must admit, New Tina's a lot funnier than Old Tina (so far). She seems like a low-class female Ray. Still doubting her validity as a long-term character, but I should know better than to second-guess Onstad by now. Plus I'm always sayin' how this strip needs some more lady characters.

However, if she gets her own blog, it's all over. You can quote me on that.

"A low-class female Ray"? This description implies that Ray could possibly be described as high-class. Ray is and has been many things, but "classy" has never been nor never will be one of them.

He has impecible taste in food and wine and comes from presumably blue-blood/ Great Outdoor Fight-winning stock. If that ain't class, what is?

Old Money Genes, New Money Styles.

Damn, I hate how the internet doesn't forget anything.

I am THE INTERNET!

The internet is a series of elephants.

Wearing socks during sex is hella weird. I tried once and I had to take them off (it was awkward)

yeah you need to let your feet breath for sure. but some people prefer sox on... yeah it surprised me too.

it freaks me out. it's just not right to be naked and wearing sox.

A comment left by epicurus was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by FVVS, Overmedicated, rowboat, catgrl131)

I'm with Ray on this one. If it's such a Thing with you, there's something deeper and more sinister amiss.

This comment screams "ethnic cleansing" to me.

Racist. Or... Maybe some alternate form of sexist.

Step right up, folks! Today's show is concluding that I'm a racist/sexist based on the fact that I don't like people who wear socks during sex! Five dollars a gander, steeeep right up ladies and gents!

Heh, I wasn't labelling you. Just saying the comment could be taken that way. I've read some of your other comments as I have perused the archives, and I must conclude that you're a very reasonable, intelligent person, and not a racist or a sexist.

It could only be "taken that way" if you are a retarded walrus with an enchilada for a brain. The only thing that can be concluded from reading epicurus' comment is that he is a 'people who wear socks during intercourse'-ist.

And there needs to be a 'final solution' for people who aren't 'people who wear socks during intercourse'ist.

Look, I didn't mean I took it that way. I don't really feel it necessary to either defend or despise myself for something I meant in jest in the first place.

Chubbied for "retarded walrus with an enchilada for a brain", by the way. That's probably the coolest thing I've heard all day.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, hello? The fucking Holocaust? Making a joke about it? My grandma was in that shit! She just barely escaped with her life! What the fuck is wrong with you?

I know you wrote this comment months ago, but what country was your grandma in? You obviously don't have to answer, and I apologize if it is a sensitive topic, but it is one I have a lot of personal interest in/emotional attachment to.

Well, she lived in Poland at first, but after she was running across all of Europe. And actualy, there's an amazing story about that: She and a group of people were running and had to find somewhere to hide, so they fled to the basement of an abandoned house. When the Nazis came shortly afterward, they took one look in the doorway and left, because in that short time between their hiding and the Nazis' arrival, a spider had spun a web across the whole doorway, and obviously, if anyone hed entered the room, the spiderweb would have been broken, right? So that's how she survived and that's why my family doesn't kill spiders.

that is such a good story.

dang it this strip is full of awesome comments.

chubbied and chubbied, catgrl.

Man... that kicks a lot of ass.

That is mindblowing...Baruch HaShem!!

dont make your final judgment until you read ALL of them...

i had a girlfriend that always had to wear her shoes. and encouraged me to as well.

strange, yes, but i didn't exactly mind it.

Hm, I think they would be okay on someone like a pretty girl wearing knee socks. But it is definitely never acceptable on guys. Ever.

Pretty girl , yes. On a female old enough to buy alcohol it would just look like she's in denial about the fact that she no longer fits into her cheerleader outfit.

Depends on the age and what exactly she's wearing. There's a fine line between sexy and trying too hard.

There's also the Playboy Advisor column where a dude mentioned that he had issues with his girlfriend in her early twenties, IIRC, wanting to wear her actual old school uniform that still fit her well. I think the dude claimed to have issues with having gone to Catholic school or something crazy, but it feels more like he should have directed something that fake at the Penthouse Forum because if he's not bragging about how he's turning that down he's just wishing he would ever have the option available.

Because girls automatically stop being pretty when they turn twenty-one. That's what you said, right? Please tell me that I'm misreading something in that statement. In the meantime, if any twenty-one-year-olds in cheerleader outfits are giving you trouble, you can just send 'em right on to me.

Yeah, knee socks or some cute above-the-knee or thigh high socks are totally awesome. So are, of course, various forms of hosiery except for pantyhose because those are both straight-up creepy and they get in the way.

In a few cases a girl can pull off other kinds of socks or even shoes (boots being a given, but cheap stripper heels are just nasty) if it fits the look and such otherwise.

My girlfriend, however, likes to sleep in socks. I also find it odd that someone would wear underwear beneath pajamas. If you're taking it that far and wearing maybe pants and a shirt of some type you're basically just still fully dressed albeit in what may very well be crappy, ugly clothes. That is so not acceptable.

If you're wearing socks, you ain't naked.
Both parties must be disrobed when engaging in matters of the flesh. Its a necessity.

Bottom line: unless you're squeezin in a quickie in the afternoon on your half-hour lunch break because that's the only time we get to see each other anymore, the only thing you should be wearing to bed is a jimmy hat.

Bottom line

Well, that's just not true, either. The hell this some kind of intersection of Haight and Puritan? Clearly there is far too little pornography happening here.

I live down the block on Haight from Puritan and let me tell you, is it WAAAAY wilder down here.

Haight and Puritan don't intersect. You must be thinking of Masonic.

So you're calling the line a stockings, garter belts, crotchless panties, sexy boots, short skirts, open-cup and peek-a-boo bras and basically everything else that's totally awesome?

Dude, sex is like the most awesome Halloween party ever.

I interpreted this thread differently from just about everyone else. When Ray said that "they let athletes wear leg warmers" i thought he was trying to say that he was an athlete and that he was wearing his socks on his penis just before he boned Tina, to make sure he stayed warm [just like how athletes try to prevent the muscle contracting from cooling.]

I soon realized that I had interpreted the strip wrong from Onstad's intention but I like to think I laughed harder.

If you apply that interpretation (where socks are worn on the penis) to some comments posted:

epicurus � pro 7 months ago
Wearing socks during sex is hella weird. I tried once and I had to take them off (it was awkward)

...it can hella freak a guy out for a second.

No, actually, I meant on my penis. Condoms are illegal in Canada.

Man what. If I'm abou to have sex, I'm probably not going to bother to take the time to take my socks off. It's not like they get in the way, and it lets me get to the mad rutty stuff about ten seconds sooner.

It looks extremely unappealing. Really and truly. It's OK to disbelieve, but the polls are pretty unanimous on this one. I sincerely suggest you take off your socks in the presence of a New Lady. You can roll them off as you remove your trousers, all Undercover Brother like.

What if I have terrible foot odor , huh, boredom_man? What then? You'd feel terrible, that's what.

Terribly... aroused.

i have friends with circulation problems and this strip always made me wonder if they had to wear their socks while they were doing the dang dooty

I actually finally set up an Achewood account today so that I could post [url="https://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15689447-13762,00.html"]this article[/url]. it is an important issue to me.

I was going to post something very similar to that, but you beat me to it.

The first budding protrusion of Ray's gut? I can't be bothered to track back a couple of strips and find out.

The most "HEY-OH!"-ific Achewood punchline ever?

I have a feeling that Tina broke up with Ray not because he was wearing socks during sex, but because he explained himself by saying "They let athletes wear leg warmers!"

Why can't Ray always walk like this?

There's only one cat I want to see wearing leg warmers...

Jesus. That is one slammin' cat.

dogg you are discounting cheetara completely

Yes Cheetara was the shit. she had hell of legwarmers and wore them most awesomely.

Smokin' Hot!

[[fans self]]
im speechless

This strip rings true with me on a personal level.

Ray is like an athlete, only in bed.

Panel four is enigmatic. I don't really understand the look Ray gives Teodor.

Well, it's like Teodor is looking for a reaction to what he said, and Rau is looking either like, why did you ask about her? or, what should I say about this touchy subject. I mean, there are pauses like that in a lot of conversations.

It's a very meaningful pause. Teodor's thinking "did I overstep the mark there? Better check for a reaction"; Ray's thinking "damn, did T just insult me or was he being sincere? Do I need to get pissy about this", but in the end a confrontation is averted when Ray decides to humbly concede that Teodor's right about his fickleness, and the conversation carries on like nothing happened.

That's how I read it, anyway.

Rock on with your socks on!

Panel four. PANEL FOUR.

Haha

Athletes Wear Leg warmers, Priceless

In winter socks sex it's okay

is okay... damn

I think the joke here is that Ray believes himself so good at the sex act that its like an SAT allegory
Athlete:Sport ; Ray:
a) sex
b) really no other options are needed
c) college isn't really important to me

When I went to bed with a lady for the first time, I totally had socks on. No one bothered to inform me that is considered most uncouth until I was in my early 20's.

I didn't know anyone cared until I read this strip.

I'm with you, man. If a lady has time to notice something like that, you're doin' somethin' wrong.

Ray likes to keep his socks on when it's business time...that's why he calls them business socks

That is a crossover I had never expected to picture, but picture it I can. Roast Beef all inexplicably appearing in the background with a guitar...