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Sock Solitaire 

The game of matching socks after doing laundry with the rarely achieved goal of matching.
Unlike a fixed deck of cards, sock solitaire involves the added thrill of overcoming entropy and chaos to have all socks reunited in a single batch of laundry.
Sock Solitaire by DrTortoise September 9, 2025
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Pull a sultan 

To kill a groundbreaking idea or concept in its infancy
Engineer at Kodak, 1977: "Look - I have invented a filmless camera. It captures pictures digitally. It is going to reshape how we make photos and even film in the future!". Corporate management: "That's cute, but we'll pull a sultan here and rather work on improving celloloid film".

George Lucas, filmmaker, 1973: "I have this idea of a sci-fi space opera version of Akira Kurosawas "The Hidden Fortress". I plan on calling it "Star Wars". Executives at United Artists: "That sounds interesting, but we'll pull a sultan here and ask you to focus on semi-biographic movies like "American Grafitti" instead."

Employee at Blockbuster ca. 1999: "There is this new technology that allows for streaming media rich content instead of having to rent it on VHS tapes and DVDs, and I have set up a server that will allow for Blockbuster to be in the forefront of the market.". Executives: "That is just a niche market. We'll pull a sultan and ask you to restock the Ghostbuster DVDs."
Pull a sultan by Flimmeren September 9, 2020

Ryan Sho Sugita

drives his signature nissan kicks and a amg tonka also the biggest bbl fein there is and has his own song dedicated to him on TIKTOK @birthday.king.vice.45
You are so beautiful, you stole my heart away, God made you as his precious child, beauty has a name, Ryan Sho Sugitaaa, Ryan Sho Sugitaaaaa, Hope you feel better

Sock-Puppet Solitaire

The person who has a team of alt accounts that she constantly uses to create pretend support, praise, and agreement "from others" for herself in forums and social media.
Oh, I see that she's back for another round of Sock-Puppet Solitaire again! It's so cringe and humiliating, I can't!

dealing myself a hand of solitaire

My therapist asked me what I did to keep myself busy when I was bored, so I told him that I was always dealing myself a hand of solitaire on Sunday afternoons.