Where do old socks go?

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:53 pm

so many intelligent people can't solve this one simple problem...

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:51 pm

Flutterbye_x wrote:

I clicked other... The washing machine always seems to eat mine or the dog... its a 50/50 tie! x x

Its the dog.... always that stupid god damn dog! it has a foot fetish or something. when it sleeps it dreams of dancing socks in leather. behind the couch, in its dog house, under the tables... wherever the dog carries out its devious sexual activities to the poor unsuspecting socks is where ill find them... all crying and violated. Shocked

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:01 am

Hello ... i have to make my forum post !
Socks are food for the washing machine.

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:38 am

i never loose socks.. am i weird? lol Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:01 am

Yeah, I always lose socks....I must have 4 or 5 pairs that have have a missing brother sock...of course I've always wondered where all the lint comes from in my belly button too. Maybe it eats my socks while I sleep. I'm gonna set up my webcam and try to catch it.

Quato-the sock eating belly monster.

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:25 am

lol, what a funny topic. i reckon when one developes holes the other is forgotten about and probably discarded without thought, its only a sock like.. one year is a long time to own a pair of socks btw, well done lol

***EDIT***

Anyone remember that episode of 'the young ones' when neils sock escapes from the laundry basket??lol just a thought...

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:51 am

This thread has probably the best opening post I've read to date. Just Brilliant. Way off the beaten path.

I love the explanation about the Aliens trying to tell us something. Laughing

Strangely I currently have exactly 8 socks too! Is that just coincidence, or does it have some meaning. Shocked

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:35 pm

Solved it!
FELINE felon Henry is an ace cat burglar — Sock-stealing cat burglar takes Lough borough by storm..

http://www.sockshop.co.uk/latest_news/april2009/sock-stealing-cat-burglar-takes-loughborough-by-st/index.html

Seriously, Where Do Those Missing Socks Go?

I have a drawer of mismatched socks in every color and size. There's boy's sports and girl frou-frou socks, men's argyle, ladies scrunchy and running socks, and even a few that don't even belong to our family.

After a couple of months of hanging onto mismatched socks, most people will simply give up and find some other use for them

then, there's the people like myself, who are eternally optimistic that eventually the missing socks will show up and can be reunited with their mates.

Socks really don't vanish into thin air, you know. They merely go somewhere else. That somewhere else is one of two places, neither which is a black hole or another planet.

How many times have you had to untangle a piece of laundry that has wrapped around the agitator? If you have ever run your fingers beneath the agitator ~ this is the big paddle in the center of the machine ~ you will notice a half inch gap. Your socks can easily slip through that space to wrap around the basket support.

I donated an old washing machine several years ago, I pried up the agitator and found nearly 20 missing socks. They had woven themselves around the rod, resembling something like a kindergarten art project.

The second place missing socks tend to go is really quite logical, when you think about it.

Socks are staticky little buggers. They stick to other clothing like glue, especially when run through the dryer. Socks can disappear up the sleeves of tee shirts, in pant legs, or in the fitted corners of your sheets. They also attach themselves to velcro strips and towels. When they disappear in another article of clothing, especially something that doesn't get worn that often, it could be months before you discover the missing sock.

The best way to prevent those socks from playing hide and seek in the laundry, is to wash them in a lingerie bag.

Socks aren't the only thing that disappear in the wash. Hankies, bandannas, and underwear can also go missing, to resurface under the agitator or other odd locations. Underwear is particularly fond of turning up in places where it shouldn't be.

A couple of years ago, I lost a piece of lingerie(my GF's); it had disappeared while doing a load of bright colors. I had shaken out the clothes, and examined everything quite carefully but it had simply vanished. The lingerie eventually did turn up 8 months later, attached to the velcro hood fastener on the back of my daughter's school coat. Naturally, I didn't notice my daughter had been wearing my underwear on her back, until after she got home from school that day.

So there is no monster or leprechaun or Sock fairy or even a black hole.there there somewhere.where is somewhere that's the mystery!

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:24 am

Souldragun wrote:

So there is no monster or leprechaun or Sock fairy or even a black hole.there there somewhere.where is somewhere that's the mystery!

What!

No leprechauns.

Of course there are leprechauns. And of course they steal socks. What else would they bury all that gold in. Come on, you really don't want to piss off the Irish, now do you? Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:43 am

On behalf of the guild of leprechauns, I must ask that you retract that previous statement.
Or they will be forced to file a lawsuit for punitive damages in your racists remark claiming they do not exist.

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:18 pm

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:26 pm

occasionally when down in the dumps... lost socks go here... drown their sorrows of missing their faithful companion in a scotch or 2 followed by a smoked meat sandwich

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:31 pm

again with the great pic,you friggin rule Schlomo Laughing

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:00 pm

The plot thickens yet again. What do you know, a bar called 'The Lost Sock'! Shocked

That's no coincidence. I'm certain that the leprechauns use this as their base to launch sock pinching missions. Of course they are in league with the fairies, who sprinkle fairy dust on all humans who come near, thus making the little buggers look like normal fellows to human eyes. Deceptive little gold diggers.

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:48 am

There's a magical portal to another world just through the holes in the drum where odd socks live in harmony.......... Laughing

Great question, Thanks x