Herblock’s Law is a bummer for anyone who, like Grant, loved the socks sold at The Gap fifteen years ago: “If it’s good, they’ll stop making it.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Herblock’s Law”
This eponymous law comes from Herb Locke.
He was the cartoonist at the Washington Post back in the day.
And it’s called Herb Locke’s Law.
If it’s good, they’ll stop making it.
Oh, yes.
You know?
Yeah.
I talked about this on our Facebook group.
There was a kind of socks that they made of the Gap like 15 years ago.
I loved them.
Yeah.
They stayed up.
The elastic didn’t overstretch.
Right.
You know, they were a cotton polyester mix.
Maybe your calves got skinny.
You know, they allowed sweat.
And then they stopped making them.
And I go back and I went back for years to say, do you have any more of those socks?
They’re like, no, we don’t make those.
Oh, don’t you hate that?
They were perfect.
Don’t you hate that?
And here we are 15 years later and I still haven’t found a good replacement for that particular sock.
Oh, oh, I feel your pain, Grant.
Remember Pilot is Expresso pens?
No.
Oh, my gosh.
Was it Espresso or Espresso?
I think it was Espresso.
It was the perfect pen for you?
It was the perfect pen.
It felt so good in my hand.
It moved across the page so sensuously.
And I used to buy them by the dozen from, you know, an office supply store.
And then they just disappeared.
And I’ve looked on eBay.
I’ve looked everywhere.
Wow.
You know, if anybody has a stash of those, I would.
There should be a corollary here.
We’ll call it the Barnette Barrett corollary, which is like, it’s the worst thing to do is like when they change the formula.
Oh.
Like Pears soap.
They just changed the formula.
I’m like, this is not the Pears soap that I knew.
No.
That’s right.
I want the original.
This doesn’t smell anything like it.
Are we sounding stodgy and crotchety?
Oh, get off of my astro surf, sonny boy.
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