Dear Madbean, I never thought this would happen to me, but...

[icecycle66]

today I socketed a socket.

I always thought these forum stories were wild fantasies of deranged solder monkeys high on their own lead filled fumes.
But no crap, there I was socketing a socket.

[madbean]

Well, did you at least solder the socket to the socket? Cause that's how you win.

[matmosphere]

Aye, but have you ever socketed a socketed socket?

[AntKnee]

An IC with a view!

[Scruffie]

I did that once... I lost my wife, my job, all I could do was try and fit sockets in to eachother but they never slotted my heart together! *sobs*

[jtaormina]

I hope you put a socket condom on it. Never know, ya know.   

[nzCdog]

 Cannot be unseen!  

[Jabulani Jonny]

See, I heard that's where the tone comes from.  It's the second socket that does it.  Oh and card tables. 

[Haberdasher]

Nice going!  Once you go double socket, you never go back.  Unless you need the clearance.

[diablochris6]

Don't you know what it means to become a double-socket guy? It changes everything. I'd have to dress different. I'd have to act different. I'd have to grow a moustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and I'd need a new bedspread and new curtains I'd have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. I'd have to get new friends. I'd have to get double-socket friends. ... No, I'm not ready for it.

[alanp]

Maybe I'm being lazy, but why would you bother doing that?

[lightsoundgeometry]

I socketed a breadboard first time I BB'd an IC

[icecycle66]

Maybe I'm being lazy, but why would you bother doing that?

I needed to solder two legs of the IC together.
It's a semi-rare IC so I didn't want to mess with it.
Also since it's semi-rare I already had the socket in.
So I just soldered the legs of the second socket together.
We didn't know the legs needed to be soldered together until after the board was populated.

[lincolnic]

Don't you know what it means to become a double-socket guy? It changes everything. I'd have to dress different. I'd have to act different. I'd have to grow a moustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and I'd need a new bedspread and new curtains I'd have to get thick carpeting and weirdo lighting. I'd have to get new friends. I'd have to get double-socket friends. ... No, I'm not ready for it.

This is my favorite post of the past month.

[alanp]

Huh. Would have been easier to deliberately create a solder bridge on the bottom of the board (where the original socket is soldered in.)