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If they were really into it they probably didn’t notice and even if they looked over the door was shut so they probably continued thinking it was just outside noise. I’m sure this came as a surprise for him and he’s courteous enough to leave a sock on the door so no one else disturbs them.
It seems like it would require you to pack up a necktie specifically fro this cause while forgoing the rest of the suit that you won’t need. Socks are more convenient. Everyone has socks.
Before I read your comment I had not seen that Joe put the sock on the doorknob and I thought the joke was that he was going to joik it using the sock.
Reading of the rule:
All roomates shall hang any artical of clothing on door knob when getting your freak on as a universal sign of “Getting My Freak ON”.
Socks and neck ties are perfered as they have built in ability to hang quickly.
This is because hardly any college people wear neckties, especially those who are likely to focus on this sort of thing more than their studies (nothing against them, I just don’t have a shot so I don’t worry about it)
I may be seeing it wrong, but that looks kind of uncomfortable. I hope they’re on the lower bunk as well, because otherwise it also looks like a potential double suicide, riding the edge of the bed like that.
according to yesterday’s strip, billie is on the top bunk and danny is on the bottom bunk. this caught danny off guard because he is used to sleeping on the top bunk.
Judging from the shadow, the probably angle of the lighting, and the position of the lower bunk in relation to the viewer’s position, I’d say Billie is a fan of the Traditional Cowgirl. The Reverse Cowgirl wouldn’t show that hint of buttcrack in the shadow from this angle.
All this talk going on about Shadows and first place my mind jumps to is season 3 of Babylon 5.
Nothing wrong with that I don’t think. Just kind of odd tangent.
And I lived in a coed dorm for two years and I don’t remember seeing any socks, neckties or other garments hanging on doorknobs. I’m sure there were folks banging each other senseless-just never saw any overt signs of it going on.
Just as well I never got laid during college since I didn’t know there was a ‘notification’ system anyway. Probably kept me from making an embaressing mistake that would have made college suck worse than it already did.
It’s bad form for the party of the third part to enter while a merger is being negotiated between the party of the first part and the party of the second part. There could be sensitive dictation going on.
The scariest thing is this. Why does Joe need a spare “Puppet” on his person at all times? Don’t most people “Make Puppets” in the privacy of their own rooms? Does Joe just run around “Making Puppets” whenever the mood strikes him?
Think of it as training, the more times you are exposed to TVTropes, the easier you will be able to leave if someone links to them when you need to log off or do homework in a hurry.
Case in point: I now automatically assume a link in DOA comments is going to lead to TV Tropes, so I hover the mouse pointer over it first, to check. If I see “http://tvtropes.org/*” I muster up all of my willpower to not click the link, no matter how much I want to read just that one article.
See, if you keep this up, you will be able to click on the link, quickly scan the trope to find out what it is about and look at a few examples and then leave like I can (most of the time)
My browser window isn’t quite wide enough to see the whole strip without scrolling. In this case, at first glance, I had enough of Joe’s speech balloon to fill in the blanks (“Good thing I always c- spare sock for emerg- such as these”), but couldn’t see the sock on the doorknob, and… yeah, that’s where my brain went, too. Then I scrolled sideways, and life was ten thousand percent better.
Seeing as how he was trying to get Danny out and back on the horse (or being the horse in this case) he’s probably very glad to see him getting something.
Oh socks is there nothing you cannot do, from making a puppet, to storing change, covering your feat, creating a makeshift weapon with a bar of soap, temporary mittens and of course indicating when sexy time is occuring.
Um, who is he putting the sock on the door for, exactly? I mean isn’t the whole purpose of the sock to let your roommate know that you are “busy” so they won’t walk in and interrupt. Do Joe and Danny have another roommate that would need to be informed?
Because he’s a true friend, and is helping Danny follow dormie/roomie protocol. If you’re having sexytimes, you put something on the door to let your roomie know not to just barge in. Danny forgot (or was too preoccupied to remember), so Joe did it for him.
We should all have at least one friend who looks out for us like that.
I thought that maybe Billie had noticed Joe walking in on them and is enraged, and Joe is setting up a ‘Danny-followed-roommate-protocol-and-Joe-just-ignored-it’ defence for Danny.
He walked in on Beef cooking some steaks on a George Foreman grill, which is against the dorm rules (somehow counting as an “open flame” despite the lack of actual flames). He did that so he can score some steak later.
To those asking why he carries around an extra sock, think about it. He finds a girl, they retire to a random room in the random house party.. he needs a sock, but also his own so he can keep some semblance of decorum….
Ooorrrrr he has it for this purpose at house parties. No one really wants to walk in on that… and he’s just helpful.
She’s been feeling really down about herself lately, unattractive and lonely. And Danny was really nice to her and made her feel like her old self. And she’s kinda free and easy with her sexuality?
Because she’s not getting enough “alone time” now that she has a roomie who might pop in through the window at any moment. There’s tension to be released!
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He probably shouldn’t have gone through with it, but he’s kind of in shock right now. It doesn’t help that he’s so very obviously attracted to Billie either. It’s kind of hard to think straight when you find things are going as you might like, but not even remotely like you’d expect of them.
He’s a romantic, and a particularly starry-eyed one at that. She’s doing this mostly to reassure herself that she’s still desirable, he’s going to think it’s True Love. Once he realizes it’s not – which may take just long enough for her to say “Thanks, I needed that, now let’s get back to the interview”, he’s going to be upset.
It certainly won’t help. If she was just giving a cute boy a tumble becuase she was horny and he showed some interest, that would be one thing, but she’s turning it into yet another way to paper over her insecurities.
Couldn’t use this or the tie in college because everyone knew what that meant; catcalls and rumors about the character of the lady friend. My roommates would always get ticked off despite the fact that I would give them MORE time than they would give me for their own exploits. The guys at my college need a lesson from Joe on how to be proper wingmen.
My roommate once responded by shoving his speakers against the wall of the room next to ours and blasting “Sexual Healing”. Fortunately, the girl I was with thought it was hilarious rather than being embarrassed.
I know this is kind of beside the point, but–IU students are still using metal keys? Even my tiny liberal arts college switched over to key cards years ago.
My university is one of the pretty big ones in Canada (U Waterloo) but their residences are still all metal keys. Might be because they were built in the sixties and no one wants to fix what ain’t broke though.
Ohio State is keypass entry (the BuckID) to all buildings, and to the rooms themselves of at least one of the newest halls. I think that most are still on metal keys though.
I don’t think they’re on the floor. From the shadows, time of day, Billie’s expressed preference to positioning and the layout of the room, I’m guessing they are on the lower bunk bed, angling slightly right to left, center of gravity just a tad left of the bed’s centerline. Billie is engaging in a traditional Cowgirl with a bit of a lateral twist to the right.
Which was kindof funny in retrospect because our doors were flippin’ heavy ass lredwood doors from the 60’s or 70’s with metal frames. You couldn’t kick them in, but I’m willing to bet a determined individual could have Kool-aid manned through the wall.
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Joe DOESN’T want to watch??
or is he worried about accidentally seeing Danny instead
But Billie might not be cool with it and that would cock-block Danny. Joe’s better than that.
not to mention he kinda owes Danny one for a little lack of courtesy with taping a web cam to his foot.
surprised joe’s webcam wouldn’t automatically turn on at this point and start filming.
Who says it hasn’t?
Joe strikes me as the type who lives by the “bro code.”
Ie. he’s not going to interrupt Danny’s fun.
Also strikes me as more of an exhibitionist than a voyeur.
Joe watch!? That is creepy what the hell.
Five minutes he joins in though.
No, Joe will not watch. Joe has to much respect for the sacred act of bangin’ chicks for that.
Joe’s the best roommate.
And the best wingman a guy could ever have.
Joe is best wingman.
He could be my wingman anytime.
No homo, right?
All of the homo!
At this point I would take Joe home to meet my mother.
Leg-End!
AH! Another LittleKuriboh fan I see?
Halo quotes!
When the line appeared in HALO, it was actually a reference to Top Gun.
If Joe was really the best roommate, he would have closed the door gently and quietly, not with a big slam.
If they were really into it they probably didn’t notice and even if they looked over the door was shut so they probably continued thinking it was just outside noise. I’m sure this came as a surprise for him and he’s courteous enough to leave a sock on the door so no one else disturbs them.
Okay when did it become socks? I thought it was neckties?
This is the second comic this week to use socks.
I’ve only ever heard of it as socks.
maybe cos not as many people own neck-ties as they used to???
I figured that was the point, though. You use a neck tie because you should never actually need to WEAR it.
If you never wore it, why’d you have one?
Though, to be fair, I’d only ever heard the necktie one(socks were something else, which mislead me on the joke).
Personally I have one (1) necktie which is worn only for job interviews.
yeah but freshmen don’t generally have job interviews. i know i didn’t have a tie freshman year, but i always had socks
It seems like it would require you to pack up a necktie specifically fro this cause while forgoing the rest of the suit that you won’t need. Socks are more convenient. Everyone has socks.
When you need the sock on the door, you don’t need to be wearing it
I’ve heard both.
Maybe not everyone want to touch dirty socks?
Before I read your comment I had not seen that Joe put the sock on the doorknob and I thought the joke was that he was going to joik it using the sock.
Reading of the rule:
All roomates shall hang any artical of clothing on door knob when getting your freak on as a universal sign of “Getting My Freak ON”.
Socks and neck ties are perfered as they have built in ability to hang quickly.
This is because hardly any college people wear neckties, especially those who are likely to focus on this sort of thing more than their studies (nothing against them, I just don’t have a shot so I don’t worry about it)
Good Ol’ Joe. Always prepared. :3
Joe must have been a good boy scout!
Bro Scout?
What… no iPhone????
And brew another shitstorm?
Good thinking Joe. Guess he’ll have to pass the time by visiting another girl’s room. Nah, he’ll only have to wait two minutes.
Dude, Danny’s not actually a virgin y’know.
Are you saying that only virgins finish too fast?
That’s the stereotype, and we have no reason to suspect the Danny’s from the “jizz in my pants” school of dork.
Everyone knows nice guys finish last.
/innuendo
and great guys wear silver condoms cos they always come second.
haha double entendre
My brain read that in Phil Ken Sebben’s voice….
I am so glad I’m not the only one.
Such a thoughtful (and probably both proud and jealous at the moment) friend Ol’ Joe is.
Good job, Joe.
Classy. Seriously, classy move.
Why is the billie and danny tags in today’s comic, I don’t see either of them.
Shadows, second panel.
I will have to take your word on that as I’m half blind IRL. If there is a shadow, it is too low contrast for me to spot it.
I may be seeing it wrong, but that looks kind of uncomfortable. I hope they’re on the lower bunk as well, because otherwise it also looks like a potential double suicide, riding the edge of the bed like that.
according to yesterday’s strip, billie is on the top bunk and danny is on the bottom bunk. this caught danny off guard because he is used to sleeping on the top bunk.
Ah. Well spotted.
Judging from the shadow, the probably angle of the lighting, and the position of the lower bunk in relation to the viewer’s position, I’d say Billie is a fan of the Traditional Cowgirl. The Reverse Cowgirl wouldn’t show that hint of buttcrack in the shadow from this angle.
sigh…. I could have sworn that was her ponytail not her attracting Danny tail
Huh. I thought that was her ponytail. Now I see something totally different.
Shadows? I used the CSI tool on Joe’s eyes in panel 2. Zoom in on the reflection and depixelate… and just whoa.
Oh they’re there, we just couldn’t see them is all.
All this talk going on about Shadows and first place my mind jumps to is season 3 of Babylon 5.
Nothing wrong with that I don’t think. Just kind of odd tangent.
And I lived in a coed dorm for two years and I don’t remember seeing any socks, neckties or other garments hanging on doorknobs. I’m sure there were folks banging each other senseless-just never saw any overt signs of it going on.
Just as well I never got laid during college since I didn’t know there was a ‘notification’ system anyway. Probably kept me from making an embaressing mistake that would have made college suck worse than it already did.
“Woo hoo?”
+1!
Joe did. -_^
How nice of Joe to not walk in when his buddy is attending to “business”.
He wouldn’t be much of a wingman if he ‘butted’ in.
It’s bad form for the party of the third part to enter while a merger is being negotiated between the party of the first part and the party of the second part. There could be sensitive dictation going on.
+1 for high-brow double entendres.
Shadows on the wall
Joe is actually being a decent friend here.
In a weird, “man” type of way.
wow, that’s like Batman preparedness, well played.
Does this mean Joe is Amazi-girl?
Only if he has some kind of gender-bender curse happening.
Nah, it’s just his way of concealing his secret identity. No one would suspect that the cute, short, female superhero is a tall, hot man.
Cue the fanfiction authors!
Nah, he’s Amazi-Bang *wink*
Nein, he’s Amazi-Joe.
He’s amazin’ the women – with his penis.
Am I seriously the only one who sees the implication in Joe having a spare sock? Because Willis has just put horrible images in my head…
You saying that Joe’s little Joe might be even littler than we realise?
OH MY!
This is immediately what I thought. I was surprised he didn’t pull it out of the front of his trousers.
No. I wasn’t thinking that it was for padding. There are many horrifying things that men do with socks that I am not comfortable saying out loud.
Like make sock puppets!
Yeah. Sure. “Make Puppets.”
The scariest thing is this. Why does Joe need a spare “Puppet” on his person at all times? Don’t most people “Make Puppets” in the privacy of their own rooms? Does Joe just run around “Making Puppets” whenever the mood strikes him?
Sure! Everybody like playing with “puppets!”
OHHHH you’re refering to this obsessive gamer habit known as poop-socking.
……you. are. evil.
not so much for the link to poop socking. but for linking to TV tropes. barely managed to pull myself out, lol
Think of it as training, the more times you are exposed to TVTropes, the easier you will be able to leave if someone links to them when you need to log off or do homework in a hurry.
Case in point: I now automatically assume a link in DOA comments is going to lead to TV Tropes, so I hover the mouse pointer over it first, to check. If I see “http://tvtropes.org/*” I muster up all of my willpower to not click the link, no matter how much I want to read just that one article.
Sometimes I even succeed.
Hey, it works! I only spent an hour this time!
See, if you keep this up, you will be able to click on the link, quickly scan the trope to find out what it is about and look at a few examples and then leave like I can (most of the time)
*looks at the clock*
Damn you…
Thank you for remembering the ell.
In this case, I am perfectly willing to take Joe at his word that he carries one for just this eventuality.
My browser window isn’t quite wide enough to see the whole strip without scrolling. In this case, at first glance, I had enough of Joe’s speech balloon to fill in the blanks (“Good thing I always c- spare sock for emerg- such as these”), but couldn’t see the sock on the doorknob, and… yeah, that’s where my brain went, too. Then I scrolled sideways, and life was ten thousand percent better.
Clearly he keeps one on hand as a “Joe-ing in progress” signpost. Just good planning.
MANDIBLE CLAW
I seriously hope I’m not the first person to make the “other uses for the emergency sock” joke.
You know, Joe is taking the whole “walking in on your roommate doing it” thing surprisingly well.
I think Joe is proud that his best bud finally getting laid.
He’s beaming with pride inside.
I see it as sort of a golden rule situation – at this point, he probably owes Danny a few…
“he owes Danny a few?”
That’s another ship entirely!
Seeing as how he was trying to get Danny out and back on the horse (or being the horse in this case) he’s probably very glad to see him getting something.
Oh socks is there nothing you cannot do, from making a puppet, to storing change, covering your feat, creating a makeshift weapon with a bar of soap, temporary mittens and of course indicating when sexy time is occuring.
You forgot stuffing into a guy’s mouth ala Mankind.
You both forgot the #1 use of socks among me other than wearing them.
What is it?
Storing dice! Although I use a Crown Royal bag.
I bought one of those too. And it came with free whiskey!
All the best bags have free whiskey.
Also, without socks what would I use for polishing rags?
Why would you need to polish rags? O_o
As Harry and Ron could tell you, a clean tube sock is a simple, economical, and clean way to polish your wand.
Well, I do remember a guy using his sock as a blackjack.
I had a roommate a lot like Joe once. Dude was a true bro.
Backward hat and all?
No. but he did wear Kamina glasses.
Bonus points if you imagine Joe speaking with Foghorn Leghorn’s voice.
I say, I say Danny boy, that is one fine lil’ hen you got there. Good work boy.
NO NO! You’re doin’ it, AH SAY, you’re doin’ it all WRONG BOAH!
You gotta do it lahk THIS! And then, ah say, and then you gotta go like THIS!
That’s the problem with kids today! They never listen!
Boy, I say, I say boy, you ain’t a smart one are ya?
It helps if every once in a while you throw in a Jerry Reed “Now looky here, son!”
well I am now…
Thanks for that audible.
Boah Ah say boah you dun good this tahm.
right now I’m imagining his voice as Barney Stinson.
heh….
Where was Joe this early in the morning? and that well dressed.
A better question is where was Joe last night
Roz’s room, I think.
It does raises a question though. Why did Joe have a spare sock in his pocket?
For this exact purpose. Just in case.
He’s prepared, like a boyscout!
Never happened in my boy scout days.
Well, except for that one time there were girl scouts camping across the lake.
Best camping trip ever, or best camping trip EVER?
We lost half of our first years that way. The Sharks got em.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ETHANS!?!??!
Because Ethan hasn’t shown up in this strip for awhile an people need their Ethan Fix.
Because he senses Danny is having some sexy fun without him.
He may have it from returning from another room where he was using it. He was gone in the early morning, after all…
Um, who is he putting the sock on the door for, exactly? I mean isn’t the whole purpose of the sock to let your roommate know that you are “busy” so they won’t walk in and interrupt. Do Joe and Danny have another roommate that would need to be informed?
Maybe Joe has a really short attention span and knows he might forget without the reminder?
Because he’s a true friend, and is helping Danny follow dormie/roomie protocol. If you’re having sexytimes, you put something on the door to let your roomie know not to just barge in. Danny forgot (or was too preoccupied to remember), so Joe did it for him.
We should all have at least one friend who looks out for us like that.
I thought that maybe Billie had noticed Joe walking in on them and is enraged, and Joe is setting up a ‘Danny-followed-roommate-protocol-and-Joe-just-ignored-it’ defence for Danny.
Because you also don’t knock on a socked door? Think of it like a “Do Not Disturb” sign dialed up to 11.
He walked in on Beef cooking some steaks on a George Foreman grill, which is against the dorm rules (somehow counting as an “open flame” despite the lack of actual flames). He did that so he can score some steak later.
Good to see Joe practices Safe Socks.
Wouldn’t want anyone getting STD. (Stinky Toe Dirt)
Nice guy Joe: Sees friend getting laid, put sock on doorknob for him.
I just hope he didn’t slam the door too hard.
Indeed, it may cause a pause that pushed Danny over the edge. Or reminds Billie whos shes riding.
I trust they are swimming in enough lustful extasy to not care. for the next panel’s sake.
Joe knows. Sung to the tune of “Bo Knows”.
Joe is ALWAYS PREPARED.
He’s got Danny’s back.
At least that is what I hope is happening.
Of course. Joe is a true bro. And say what you will about some of their other qualities, they do care a lot about their friends.
And typing that makes me wonder what a letter to Princess Celestia written by a bro would sound like.
Dear Princess Celestia,
If the knob bears a sock, you better not knock.
That is all.
-Rex
To those asking why he carries around an extra sock, think about it. He finds a girl, they retire to a random room in the random house party.. he needs a sock, but also his own so he can keep some semblance of decorum….
Ooorrrrr he has it for this purpose at house parties. No one really wants to walk in on that… and he’s just helpful.
Plus, load it with change and it becomes a handy club!
… Er, for self-defense, that is. Yeah…
Smelly socks, because no one want to touch a smelly sock.
Joe, you are good people.
Finally Joe exhibits proper wing-man traits.
I hope to have friends like these in college.
That first panel is kind of symbolic isn’t it?
Could be seen that way.
Joe is the Keymaster.
Have we figured out why Billie is doing this, exactly? Or have I missed something.
She’s been feeling really down about herself lately, unattractive and lonely. And Danny was really nice to her and made her feel like her old self. And she’s kinda free and easy with her sexuality?
Because she couldn’t resist the manly draw of Danny’s Axe body spray.
Because she’s not getting enough “alone time” now that she has a roomie who might pop in through the window at any moment. There’s tension to be released!
yeah. she’s been on this campus for A FULL DAMN WEEK. NEED SEX NAO.
That may just add an element of danger and excitement to the whole affair…
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Sock Emergencies may include:
Impressing the Ladies
Stress Relief
Cold Feet
JoeBro is like a Boy Scout – always prepared.
Tune in next week for another thrilling episode of Joe Rosenthal: Coital Door Guardian!
Joe is considerate!
A part of me expected that Danny wouldn’t be able to go through with it for some reason. Guess that’s not the case.
He probably shouldn’t have gone through with it, but he’s kind of in shock right now. It doesn’t help that he’s so very obviously attracted to Billie either. It’s kind of hard to think straight when you find things are going as you might like, but not even remotely like you’d expect of them.
I’m not really seeing why Danny would have a reason to regret this in the morning (presuming that he’s taking the proper precautions).
He’s a romantic, and a particularly starry-eyed one at that. She’s doing this mostly to reassure herself that she’s still desirable, he’s going to think it’s True Love. Once he realizes it’s not – which may take just long enough for her to say “Thanks, I needed that, now let’s get back to the interview”, he’s going to be upset.
That covers the main points well. I’m not sure it was in Billie’s best interest either.
It certainly won’t help. If she was just giving a cute boy a tumble becuase she was horny and he showed some interest, that would be one thing, but she’s turning it into yet another way to paper over her insecurities.
Couldn’t use this or the tie in college because everyone knew what that meant; catcalls and rumors about the character of the lady friend. My roommates would always get ticked off despite the fact that I would give them MORE time than they would give me for their own exploits. The guys at my college need a lesson from Joe on how to be proper wingmen.
Joe is a bro.
My roommate once responded by shoving his speakers against the wall of the room next to ours and blasting “Sexual Healing”. Fortunately, the girl I was with thought it was hilarious rather than being embarrassed.
Love how random and weird this hook up is. It’s like most of my hook ups back in the Neolithic when I was in college…
I hope that’s not also his “special sock”
They will need to put a sign up,
“please wash hands before masturbating”
Joe doesn’t seem to *need* a special sock.
Nonsense. It doesn’t matter how much sex you have, there always comes a time that you just have to help yourself.
Tomorrow: Sweaty post-coital aftermath. Film at eleven.
Aha! So Joe did still have the video camera!
Webcams are amazing things. Compact, good resolution, some can even be tracked remotely from a smart phone. Easy to overlook, too.
I know this is kind of beside the point, but–IU students are still using metal keys? Even my tiny liberal arts college switched over to key cards years ago.
As far as I’m aware from Internetting, IU still uses keys for dorm rooms, but ID cards are used to swipe into the building itself.
My university is one of the pretty big ones in Canada (U Waterloo) but their residences are still all metal keys. Might be because they were built in the sixties and no one wants to fix what ain’t broke though.
Mine had combination locks.
Ohio State is keypass entry (the BuckID) to all buildings, and to the rooms themselves of at least one of the newest halls. I think that most are still on metal keys though.
Guess Billie didn’t change her mind. Also based upon the shadow and yesterday’s I’m guessing they’re on the floor.
Joe is well prepared in case of sexual emergencies
I don’t think they’re on the floor. From the shadows, time of day, Billie’s expressed preference to positioning and the layout of the room, I’m guessing they are on the lower bunk bed, angling slightly right to left, center of gravity just a tad left of the bed’s centerline. Billie is engaging in a traditional Cowgirl with a bit of a lateral twist to the right.
This is so making babies.
Well, that is the general point of the exercise, yes.
Dryly-worded reply with a twist of irony… delivered by Richard.
(wipes away a tear) It is a beautiful thing to behold…
He looks so noble in that last panel. He’s the hero this school deserves.
And that’s why Joe is a good friend.
We could call him BroJoe – or Joe the Bro?
Kosher B.R.O.
Brosher
Whoops. That was meant to be a reply to Drunken Nordmann…
wow, there’s some awesome Joe goin’ on in there, ya think?
Not gonna lie, I don’t understand the ‘sock on a door’ thing.
It’s basically universal college code for “DO NOT DISTURB, HAVING SEX.”
The walls were so thin in my dorms that the sock was not required. We knew. Not that I’d have needed to worry about using one, but regardless.
Which was kindof funny in retrospect because our doors were flippin’ heavy ass lredwood doors from the 60’s or 70’s with metal frames. You couldn’t kick them in, but I’m willing to bet a determined individual could have Kool-aid manned through the wall.
Joe is the true bro.
Joe’s sock was used for other emergencies too, let’s hope it was washed recently.