Comments on: Doc Socc

By: ejh

ejh — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:02:38 +0000

Justin – the touch-judge.

Hah, very good.

For the origins of “soccer” I’d like to refer readers to an article I wrote for When Saturday Comes nearly twenty years ago but I’m afraid that’s as accurate as I can be and I don’t think an academic blog will accept that sort of loose citation.

By: speedymom

speedymom — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:59:38 +0000

Stostoto—It’s not that Americans pronounce “football” as “soccer”—rather it’s Europeans who pronounce “soccer” as “football.”

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:12:49 +0000

“Wikipedia says “The Socs (pronounced soashes, an abbreviation of the Socials).””

So do I, I remember the fillum. Though I’m losing the “ghost electricity” battle.

Justin – the touch-judge.

By: mollymooly

mollymooly — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:59:58 +0000

How did Nancy Mitford pronounce “Hons”?

By: mollymooly

mollymooly — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:59:16 +0000

Wikipedia says “The Socs (pronounced soashes, an abbreviation of the Socials).” For caveats re: authoritativeness of Wikipedia, see other CT posts, and the interwebs passim.

By: ajay

ajay — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:51:01 +0000

6: indeed one can. Open the femoral artery and you’ve got 30-60 seconds left to live before you bleed out. Femoral’s awkward to put direct pressure on, too. Best bet is put a dressing over it and your boot on the dressing.
Popliteal artery, probably a bit longer, but not much. A sharp blow to the femoral artery can also cause unconsciousness.

By: ejh

ejh — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:49:25 +0000

How does one pronounce the “Socs” in SE Hinton’s The Outsiders? I’ve not seen the film…

By: mollymooly

mollymooly — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:13:53 +0000

stostosto: yes, and everyone pronounces “Sociology” as “Sociology”. But in “Doc Socc”, “Socc” is an abbreviation of “Soccer” which rhymes with “Doc”. Whereas if spelled “Doc Soc”, it might equally be an abbreviation of “Sociology”, provided that such abbreviation would also rhyme with “Doc”.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:56:43 +0000

Gilbert Gottfried will play the role in the movie version.

By: the cubist

the cubist — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:13:27 +0000

zarquon @12:

And so, after he loses his first ever game—to the resulting penalty shot—Doc Soc carefully places his hands over his ears and twists his own head down and RIPS IT OFF! Still in perfect form and on supervillain automatic, his leftover body drives a leg into Doc’s free head and lofts a high centering floater, a long, long ball here, out—it looks like it’s—up and out of the stadium….Yes! it’s headed for Space! … where he lives yet, a small buckyball in orbit, jostling in among the dead satellite debris, swapping tales with sputniks in the Elegant Graveyard of Lost Machines.

By: Zarquon

Zarquon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:33:29 +0000

And he would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for the kid with a red card in his pocket.

By: ejh

ejh — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:00:07 +0000

A what?

By: stostosto

stostosto — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:15:08 +0000

Btw, I think Doc Socc’s mortal enemy is a line referee constantly calling off-side.

By: stostosto

stostosto — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:13:29 +0000

mollymooly

Americans pronounce football “soccer”, so who knows.

By: mollymooly

mollymooly — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:09:58 +0000

Is there a pun on Soc = Sociology & Soc = Soccer? I have read that Americans pronounce SOC (as in SOC101) as “soash” rather than “sock”. In which case, no there isn’t.