When did it all start?

[Henry]

Dave Morris was when he wrote : 
"You really want to stir things up, don't you. Let's let sleeping
sock-puppets lie (they do it so well)..."

Are you a sock-puppet, Ya Sam? <LOL> 
Welcome to the list.  Why doncha just, ya know, join in?

Henry "Scuffling" M[u(sashi)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ya Sam 

In general, the etymology is interesting. Why 'sock-puppet'? Not simply a 
puppet, not a marionette, not a dummy etc.?

<as we used to feel compelled to include, lest we be accused of incomplete quotation, SNIP>