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I like your shoelaces 

Tumblr code for when you find someone you think looks like they use Tumblr. The correct response, as Tumblr users should know, is "Thank you! I stole them from the president." "Thank you," however, is commonly changed to "thanks."
Guy: *Sees someone who looks like someone they saw on Tumblr* Hey, I like your shoelaces!
Girl: Thanks. I stole them from the president.

Shoe and Shoelace 

Anchor: "We now return to popular Russian cartoon, Shoe and Shoelace"

Narrator: "SHOE AND SHOELACE. One is meaningless without the other"
Shoe and Shoelace by syniconthetrack September 26, 2012

I like your shoelaces 

A phrase used by Tumblr users to detect another Tumblr user in the real world. Appropriate response is "Thanks, I stole them from the president!"
(Tumblr user out in public)
"I like your shoelaces"
(The respondent that is also a Tumblr User)
"Thanks, I stole them from the president!"

I like your shoelaces 

A Supernatural reference widely used to distinguish Tumblr users from non-Tumblr users, the correct response being, "Thanks, I stole them from the president." A conversation between Dean Winchester and Ben Braeden.
Person 1: "I like your shoelaces!"
Person 2: "Thanks, I stole them from the president."

judgemental shoelace 

smol snek that looks like a shoelace

he silently judges u

beware of the judgemental shoelace chirren

if you see a smol judgemental shoelace, give him a smol boop, (DONT KEL HIM) and run

The Shoelace Effect 

When things go wrong, they will be right again - all loose ends will be tied up.
"Hey, yesterday everything seemed to go wrong but today, everything that went to shit is good again! Weird."
"Yeah, that's the shoelace effect."
The Shoelace Effect by Phorx May 31, 2015