Lost Sock Lore
Posted on September 22nd, 2006
In western culture one of a pair of socks is popularly understood to disappear, usually at some point during the washing and drying process, leaving the owner with many socks without mates. There are any number of humorous theories to “explain” the disappearance.
- Wormholes open in the dryer, sucking socks into a different part of the universe, a planet that closely resembles ours except that socks mysteriously appear out of nowhere, while coat hangers vanish.
- Socks are the larval form of the coathanger. This neatly explains why there are always too few socks and too many coathangers.
- Socks are by nature cannibalistic, but they only eat their mates.
Read more humurous stuff about sock lore at the Sock Wiki page
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1. sarah | April 7th, 2007 at 8:30 am
There are a finite number of things in the universe, as demonstrated by the law of conservation (E=mc/\2). Therefore, when a sock disappears in this part of the universe, it reappears in another part. Heretofore, someone else in the universe has the same exact pair of mismatched socks as you.
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