Where do ALL the socks go ??!!!!!!!!

[Paulus]

I have a large carrier bag of single socks to, I clear them out once a year when it is impossible to match them up.

 

[Arch]

I live on my own and I don't have odd missing socks so that is true.

However, when I have a lot of clothes in the dryer and, say, 10 pairs of different black socks in there and I want a pair of socks out of it, how is it that I have to pull out 11 single black socks before I have a pair?

That sounds like a Maths probability exam question....

I feel very odd. I don't tend to suffer odd socks, apart from the odd occasion when one gets down between the end of the bed and the blanket box I 'store' my in use clothes on.

Of course, doing my laundry by hand probably helps, as there is more stringent sock matching at all stages of the laundry process.

 

[chillyuk]

All my socks are either black for normal wear or white for when wearing shorts. I cannot tell you wether I have an even number of socks or an odd number.

 

[tyred]

This is why I only ever buy black socks of the same brand.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I have a theory. Inside washing machines there can exist a rip in the spacetime continuum. It is called a Needs-Darning hole. These N-D holes have a polarity exactly opposite to that of socks. However once a single sock enters the hole it closes. A pair of socks have matching polarity (this why your feet do not stick together when wearing them) and so the matching sock will never get pulled through the N-D hole should it open again.

 

[biggs682]

my odd socks like the idea of a sock matching or dating agency , please send all odd socks to


sock agency
1 toe road
big foot
od5 0ck

 

[Silver Fox]

My washing machine eats socks, it's some sort of global conspiracy for machines to take over. Today it's our socks, tomorrow, who knows.

 

[Speicher]

Sounds like you need a SOCO to investigate this.

 

[MossCommuter]

they are like caterpillars...

...the sock is the larva of the wire coat-hanger

 

[captain nemo1701]

Angelfishsolo is possibly correct. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy mentions the same thing happens with biros that slip quietly through wormholes in space to a biro planet. I'm sure there's an odd sock planet out there somewhere, maybe near that asteroid the Clangers live on...

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Angelfishsolo is possibly correct. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy mentions the same thing happens with biros that slip quietly through wormholes in space to a biro planet. I'm sure there's an odd sock planet out there somewhere, maybe near that asteroid the Clangers live on...

Ahhh that might have been where the idea sub-consciously came from.

 

[Beardie]

Douglas Adams did actually postulate that one sock in each pair is the larval form of a wire coat-hanger, neatly explaining two mysteries in one.

 

[Cardiac]

I blame the Sock Goblins. I think they may be a distant relative of the Underpants Gnomes (the latter featured in an episode of Southpark, IIRC).

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've just realised! All your disappearing odd socks have been reappearing in my laundry basket.

 

[Archie_tect]

Do what my son does, he doesn't attempt to match them and wearing odd socks doesn't bother him in the slightest.