Will Knit Socks for Lobster

Back in the good old days when high school girls made socks for their boyfriends, I belonged to a group of them that did. I continued my knitting career over the ensuing years, making socks for all my boyfriends. As time passed there were less requests for socks and more for wily warmers so I designed a pattern (lotsa measuring) and knit willy warmers. It paid off generously.
 

Knight said:
Taking this literally & just for fun.

Seems like a nice idea but wool socks for lobsters might be investigated by PETA. Wool would soak up water to make movement really difficult & really accessible to predators

Curious.
Lobsters range in size & weight so where does one start for size for the socks?

I'll wait for dusty to explain
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First, get a lobster. Then get a tape measure. Hold the lobster securely while counting the legs. Measure the longest one. Use your phone to take a pic of it, but watch it!---they can get away. After measuring, gently lower the lobster in a tank of sea water. Start knitting the socks for the two largest legs. This should just take a few minutes. By now you should have named him...so take Vincient out of the sea water, put his new socks on, and quickly drop him into the pot of boiling water I didn't tell you about earlier. I didn't want to upset anyone. He will scream so be prepared. Now find a cookbook, because I don't cook. Carry on, and don't grieve over Vincient, there will be others.
 
dusty said:
Back in the good old days when high school girls made socks for their boyfriends, I belonged to a group of them that did. I continued my knitting career over the ensuing years, making socks for all my boyfriends. As time passed there were less requests for socks and more for wily warmers so I designed a pattern (lotsa measuring) and knit willy warmers. It paid off generously.
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A hand knitted willy warmer---I did not knit this one

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hollydolly said:
As I haven't been given the answer to my question...could someone else tell me what is a LOBSTER!
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This is a joke, right??? Please ... say yes!!!

It is a high in cholesterol crustacean. It is my favorite food of all time. But only when I live near where it has been caught. The meat is in the claws and tail and legs. Crack, remove meat, eat, repeat. There is also the tamalley, which is soft and green, and in the body. Everyone I know eats the tamale except me. Soft green things that look like a squishy malformed alien.


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hollydolly said:
What's lobster ?


I learned to knit when I was 7 years old in infant school... ...I've always been able to knit. Boring as it is...

I taught myself to crochet just soon after my daughter was born.... I prefer that to knitting it's faster..

I have OA in my fingers now, so it's too painful for me to do either...
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Lobster is a sea creature popular in the New England States of the US. It has very little taste so it gets dipped in melted butter before eating.

 
hollydolly said:
of course it's not a joke... I thought she meant she was knitting for some society by the name of Lobster... the joke is , that anyone would be knitting FOR a Lobster... YOU please tell me you don't think that's normal !
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WILL KNIT SOCKS FOR LOBSTER.
As C50 said, I think this is a play on the common expression, "Will work for food" that the homeless often display on placards round their necks here in America, don't know about anywhere else.
 
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dusty said:
First, get a lobster. Then get a tape measure. Hold the lobster securely while counting the legs. Measure the longest one. Use your phone to take a pic of it, but watch it!---they can get away. After measuring, gently lower the lobster in a tank of sea water. Start knitting the socks for the two largest legs. This should just take a few minutes. By now you should have named him...so take Vincient out of the sea water, put his new socks on, and quickly drop him into the pot of boiling water I didn't tell you about earlier. I didn't want to upset anyone. He will scream so be prepared. Now find a cookbook, because I don't cook. Carry on, and don't grieve over Vincient, there will be others.
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I think the scream is just air coming out of the shell. I have read about whether lobster's feel pain and generally I think the consensus is that they don't. Others may disagree, but first I think they ought to figure out the mechanism by which they feel pain.
 
WheatenLover said:
I never dip it anything. I am a lobster purist! Plus, the calories!
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My favorite is Lobster Roll that I had in Maine. Very tasty sandwich.

I grew up eating crabs at the shore in New Jersey. My Uncle would catch them and my grandmother would pull the backs off of them while still alive then throw them into a pot of boiling water. She would then make pasta in tomato sauce with crab meat. After a day at the beach, you were pretty hungry and the crab filled the air and tasted really good.
 
WheatenLover said:
I think the scream is just air coming out of the shell. I have read about whether lobster's feel pain and generally I think the consensus is that they don't. Others may disagree, but first I think they ought to figure out the mechanism by which they feel pain.
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The mechanism would be the nervous system. I would think that if a lobster can react to his surroundings, he has a nervous system, but what do I know? Nothing.
 
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