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Today's daftest Sock-related email

Being the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and having an email address to that effect, we'll occasionally get email that's not really tailored to our needs. Here's today's...

socks, pantyhose, tights,slipper /zhejiang figure knitting industry factory

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

We are a socks factory locate in zhuji, China, who has more than 15 years experience of producing and exporting different kinds of SOCK.

 

Our main products:

men socks, women socks, kids socks, toe socks, business sock, sport sock, horse riding socks, army socks, wool sock, bamboo sock, coolmax sock, anti-slip socks,  yoga socks, slipper,etc.

 

Our socks machine:

84N,96N, 108N,120N,132N,144N,168N,200N.

 

Our main market:

Germany, USA, UK, Sweden, Danmark, Japan, Russia, Canada, Australia, New zealand, Chile and so on.

 

Our service:

1. Do sock according to your original sample or your design.

2. Give you our best price with good quality.

3. Sample time: 3-7 days.

4. Delivery time: 30-40 days after receiving 30% deposit.

5. Terms of Payment: L/C at sight, T/T.

6. Port of Shipment:  Shanghai or Ningbo port.

 

Hope to receive your specific inquiry and cooperate with you!

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Best regards

 

Cathy

 

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Zhejiang Figure Knitting Industry Factory

Tel:  86-575-87730636   

 

Looks Like We Got Us A Badass Over Here - comics by kids

I've been mighty busy this past couple of weeks teaching kids how to write & draw comics, in schools in Ireland, North & South. Every one of my Comic Art Masterclasses gets a group of pupils, up to 30 at a time, producing a comic containing a strip be every single one of them, and a caricature by me. And a front cover, of course, with a title they come up with, after everybody has written a title on a piece of paper and we've voted to find the best. Don't blame me, this is what they've come up with this week (click to enlarge)...



These comics come from pupils in Dungarvan, Enniscorthy, Crumlin Dublin, Waterford, Ide (in Devon, that one's not from the Irish trip, how'd it get in there?), and Belfast. Here are some of the suggestions that they came up with from which we chose these final comic titles. And the celebrities they suggested when asked to come up with one for the "Steps On A Worm" demonstration were Psy, Eminem, Bob Marley, Daniel Craig, Paddy Doherty, Simon Cowell, Billy Joel and, offbeat suggestion of the week, Duke Special (a musician who's one of the pupil's Dads).

If you want to see more of this nonsense....

Keep Calm & OMG Panda! - comics by kids June 2012
Kid Afro Spaghetti - comics by kids June 2012
Phil Mitchell Meets Patrick - comics by kids May 2012
Fartimouse Owl - comics by kids May 2012
I ❤ Gingers - comics by kids May 2012

If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades in my patent Comic Art Masterclasses, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Fabulous Crabulous - comics by kids

I've been mighty busy this past couple of weeks teaching kids how to write & draw comics, in schools in Ireland, North & South. Every one of my Comic Art Masterclasses gets a group of pupils, up to 30 at a time, producing a comic containing a strip be every single one of them, and a caricature by me. And a front cover, of course, with a title they come up with, after everybody has written a title on a piece of paper and we've voted to find the best. Don't blame me, this is what they've come up with this week (click to enlarge)...



These comics come from pupils in Belfast, County Kildare, Wexford, Finglas Dublin, Dungarvan, & Enniscorthy, and included the most delightful thing of the season when two of the pupils at Aquinas Grammar in Belfast who had come up with "Fabulous Crabulous" came back after break to show me, and the rest of the group, a Fabulous Crabulous dance they'd devised. These were Year 9s (the equivalent of Yr 8 in England, 2nd Yrs in Ireland & Scotland), an age at which that kind of freedom of expression nearly never happens. So if your kids are lucky enough to be at that particular school, where it would seem the Tall Poppy Syndrome has been avoided, count your blessings. The following day I was teaching at a secondary school in Dublin where such behaviour would have got your head flushed down the toilet at the very least (Two Inch Killer is a much more typical title for 2nd Years to suggest). Here are some of the suggestions that they came up with from which we chose these final comic titles.

The celebrities they came up with in the "Treads On A Worm" demonstration were Keith Lemon, The Stig, Eminem, Chris Camara, Bertie Ahearne, Michael Jackson, 50 Cent, and my favourite of the week Albert Einstein.

For more examples of comics by Masterclass pupils, check this lot out:
Looks Like We Got Us A Badass Over Here - comics by kids in Ireland, Nov 2012
Granny's Back - comics by kids Oct 2012
The Hairy Bottom - comics by kids July 2012
There Are Idiots - comics by kids in Hanwell, July 2012
Help I'm A Superhero Get Me Out Of Here! - comics by kids April 2012
Dr Ghenki's Super-Ethical Happy Fun Time - comics by kids April 2012
Bilal's Mole - comics by kids March 2012
Who Stole Batman's Potty? - first comics by kids of 2012

If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades in my patent Comic Art Masterclasses, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Out of the mouths of babes, the kids ideas...

As part of my Comic Art Masterclasses, I get every pupil in the class to come up with a title for the group comic which they'll take home at the end. Up to 30 ideas are handed in on bits of paper, and we vote on them until a winner is chosen.  You'll have seen some of the finished comics, bearing the winning titles, but as for the other suggestions they always wind up in the bin. This week, in Ireland, I've been hanging onto them. Here, for your edification, are the suggestions you get if you ask a collection of various First Years to name a comic book...

Hipys
Evil geniuses
Loser Hero Squad
The stupid molon
Galaxy Go Boom!
Did it Hurt?
Fuzzel Weasels
Dopey moron
Sir Pistol Smack & his Splendid Adventure
Bob the Destroyer of Nuke Town
The Xtra
The Hippie Who Got Drunk  (winner)

Cookie Monster
People Rule
Gangster Hampster
Fart Man
Home Sick
gboy
Sandwich Man
1B's Comics
The Legdens Return
Great Magnificent Comic
Gangster Hamster
Austin Powers
Dooms Day Times Day
Cereal Boxes
The First Year Frenzy
Sick Brain (winner)

Pippy Reads
Homer Simpsons Day At The Bar
Messy Madness
Barney The Killer Dinosaur
Boom
The Hardy Biscuit
Hiberian Insurance Pretty Good
Go Away
Trollololo (winner)

We Can Draw
Bark
Tiny Titans
Death
I'm A Weirdo, Don't Be A Faadoodle
Die Die Die
I Can't Draw
The Boys Are Back In Town
Woof Woof
Don't Be Two Faced!
Fizze Brains
The Adventures of Explosive
Tittans
The Mighty Farmers (winner)

Fantastico Fisasco
Canadian Panda
Yoky
Freaky Sock
First Year Fail
The Flailing of the First Years
Duck Man
Super Girl
Fustasco!
Yeah!
First year Fantasy
Fisasco
Bing Bomb
Toasty First Year
Phisasto
Cheese Gone Wild
First Year Funaza (winner)

The Flying Cow
Mades
Wexs Com
Super Story
The Simpsons
Snap It
Messi
Bad Men
Wexford Drying!
Bonic Man
Family Guy
Marvel
Loopy Loo
Splash Boom
The Boys
The Loopies
Boss Angry
Poo
Gidiggi Giddigi Gu (winner)

ET Returns
Gangdem Style
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Mental Mix of Madness
Assassins Deed
Homer's Duff Attack
Land of the Dead
Marge Kill Attack
Zombie Attack
Killer Aliens
The Zombie Killers
Susidle Bunnie Rabbits
To Be Or Not To Be
Superboy
Egghead and Wonder Woman Unite
Oh Bubby Yaghh X2 (winner)

I Will Kill You Because You Killed My Man
Puberty Paul
Pop
Mass Murder Magazine
Death By Itchy Nose
The Assassins Best
Awesome Sauce Superheroes
Crazy Animations
What's App!!!
Toes
WTF
Jimmy Goes Bad
I'm Having What She's Having
Jimmy Goes Mad
The Crazy Wazys
Looks Like We Got Us A Badass Over Here (winner)

2C Comic
EVC
Smiley Spongebob
Casablanca
Pig
?
The
Crazy Bob
Horse
Chiza
Strong Bob Hairy Legs
Egg Heads
Wdt vs Bots
Ducks Gone Bonkers (winner)

 I'm not sure how edifying these are. Still there are some, for posterity.



If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades in my patent Comic Art Masterclasses, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Schools, Exeter to Enniscorthy

Here is a sweet wee piece in the Exeter Express & Echo about my recent Comic Art Masterclasses in Rockbeare in Devon.



And the classes have continued in earnest since then, with travels far and wide. Over the last fortnight I've taught comic art at James Joyce & Michael O'Leary's school Clongowes Wood, at schools in Dublin, Belfast, then Dublin again, and this coming week sees me entertaining the pupils of Wexford, Enniscorthy, Waterford and Dungarvan.

It is always fascinating to see the differences and the similarities between the schools and the pupils I visit. For example last week I had the most delightful group of kids at what turned out to be a Grammar School, who came up with the most imaginative titles for their comics, and included a couple of kids (from year 8 this is) who even devised a little dance which they performed for me and the class based on the title of the comic they'd come up with (Fabulous Crabulous is its name, you'll see it in the blog next week). The very next day I taught at a school of boys for whom such fancy tweeness would have been unimaginable, reminding me what a luxury it is for a lot of kids to be allowed to grow up without being 'hardened' by their surroundings. Whereas the Grammar School year 8s (actually called year 9 in their system) were coming up with witty, ironic, occasionally gothic and overwhelmingly endearing titles, the college kids (also year 8s, known as Second Year) came up with titles overflowing with sexual innuendo and drugs references, the most acceptable being the winner Two Inch Killer (I know. When you see it, you'll see I managed to steer the cover away from the image they clearly had in mind).

Four days and 8 classes await me this week, I cannot wait to see what they dream up. Stay tuned.

Granny's Back - comics by kids Oct 2012
The Hairy Bottom - comics by kids July 2012
There Are Idiots - comics by kids in Hanwell, July 2012
Keep Calm & OMG Panda! - comics by kids June 2012
Kid Afro Spaghetti - comics by kids June 2012
Phil Mitchell Meets Patrick - comics by kids May 2012
Fartimouse Owl - comics by kids May 2012
I ❤ Gingers - comics by kids May 2012
Help I'm A Superhero Get Me Out Of Here! - comics by kids April 2012
Dr Ghenki's Super-Ethical Happy Fun Time - comics by kids April 2012
Bilal's Mole - comics by kids March 2012
Who Stole Batman's Potty? - first comics by kids of 2012



If anyone wants me to come and show their kids how to do what I've been doing for a living for the last two decades, drop me a line, a comment, a Twitter, smoke signals, the usual methods. Click below to see more, including video and contact details.

Socks in Glasgow March 2013 - on sale now

There's no time like the present to start planning your 2013 comedy calendar, so here's some news for starters. The Scottish Falsetto Socks play the Glasgow Comedy Festival for not one, not two but three nights in March 2013, with their brand new show Socks in Space.

The Friday night should be fun, we're up against Scotland vs Wales. So all non-football loving comedy fans in Glasgow that night, we're the show you're looking for. Shows are on super-early advance sale, so book now, you know it makes sense.