Where do socks disappear to?

[SPKrazy]

I was talking to a dear friend this morning and we were talking about socks disappearing during the laundry process.

Where the hell do they go?



edited to give a new option

[lost-in-nj]

1. I truly believe this..... the aliens take them

*cough*

where else could the go????
down the drain ppfffftttt
thats impossible!!!


:silly: :silly: :hi:
:rofl: :rofl:


lost

[SPKrazy]

3. Well you do have a point...

down the drain seems unlikely as hell, I mean, surely the sucking of the water down the drain wouldn't be enough to make the socks leave the washer would it?


:shrug:






:rofl:



:hi:

[Connonym]

2. My theory, just a theory mind you,

is that lost socks are what is used to fill W's head. The vacuum in there is so strong that it constantly needs to suck more and more socks to fill the void.

[SPKrazy]

5. perhaps his head is actually a small black hole in the universe?

or a tear in the space time continuum at least :silly:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Narnia...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twyp_1kJpHQ

[Connonym]

6. oh dude! the fly is creeping me out!

stop!

[SPKrazy]

8. I know

i keep wanting to smack my screen

:crazy:

[SPKrazy]

7. Damn! That's it!

Narnia

why didn't I think of that :silly:



:rofl:


good one!

[skygazer]

9. About ten years ago, I started buying one style of sock

Plain white and all the same. Now I don't know if I've lost one and it makes me sleep better somehow.

[SPKrazy]

28. LOL

I've done that with dark socks, white socks, and i still lose them

:rofl:

[azmouse]

10. Whatever phenomena causes socks to disappear

is probably the same one that causes shopping carts to congregate on vacant lots.

[SPKrazy]

35. good point

they do congregate don't they?

:rofl:

[applegrove]

11. I like the theory that the sock didn't disappear. The lint just got together

and formed itself into a sock-like entity.

[SPKrazy]

36. Now Applegrove, that is truly original

:thumbsup:

even DUzy worthy!

[applegrove]

108. Heard that explanation on the radio and LMAO.

[CatholicEdHead]

12. They show up on other web boards under different names

;)

[SPKrazy]

37. ...

:rofl:

wait...

:wtf:


:spray:

:hi:

[Deja Q]

13. It's related to space aliens...

Certain cast members of "Star Trek" shove a pair down their trousers.

:hide:

[SPKrazy]

38. perhaps you have somthing there

:shrug:

[Deja Q]

58. Well, I had read this book on the making of Star Trek the Motion Picture

And it was said the costume designer made the outfits in such a way that prevented the men from doing that.

(Trivia note: Gary Lockwood tore his trousers in the making of "Where No Man Has Gone Before". It's never been said if he wore socks there...)

[mzteris]

14. they turn into hangars.

:rofl:

[lost-in-nj]

21. yeah but

the hangers disappear also.....

I can never find all the hangers that the shirts I wash come off of....

ah another laundry room mystery



lost

[mzteris]

22. they become an

unextricable tangle on the bottom of the closet, silly. :silly:

[SPKrazy]

39. wait a minute..

then where do hangers go?

:rofl:

[mzteris]

65. I guess they're at my house.

I don't BUY WIRE hangers.

I almost never, ever - have any drycleaning.

I leave those hangars that stuff comes on when you buy it - at the store.

I haven't bought hangars in probably at least 10 years.

Yet, every time I turn around - there are more damn hangers than I know what to do with!

[SPKrazy]

67. hanger magnet!

:grr:

i was just searching for more hangers

and you have them

i even use plastic ones so that they can't be magnetized :P

[mzteris]

70. that's me -

hangars and weirdos I can get, it seems.

[SPKrazy]

77. why you know that is why i talk to you

:silly:



:hi:

:hug:

[mzteris]

106. silly - I didn't mean YOU

I meant my NSETBE! and the first ex. and the - well, nevermind. Suffice it to say...

[krispos42]

15. Other: They are moved to the billion-lightyear hold recently discovered in the universe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x33318

[SPKrazy]

40. good possibility

I read about that elsewhere...

I'm sure that is the answer...


:applause:


:patriot:

:rofl:

[krispos42]

55. Well, nature does abhor a vacuum... :-)

[SPKrazy]

56. so do i

:silly:

:yoiks:





:hide:




:rofl:

[krispos42]

69. Ah, I see

So your experience with the Swedish Enlarger Pump WASN'T positive?










:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

76. no it was unfulfilling

:silly:




:rofl:

[krispos42]

83. Ah, you must like to cuddle afterwards, then!

:P

[SPKrazy]

84. yes i do

and the pump was not cuddly :P

[Roon]

16. Socks?

[SPKrazy]

41. ahhh, Socks the Cat...

miss u socks...

[Roon]

57. Isn't he wonderful?

I miss socks too!!

[bridgit]

17. Dot Knows!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fnU6POfXno&mode=related&search=

[SPKrazy]

50. Dot scares me bridgit

:scared:

:rofl:

OMG

[bridgit]

88. dude, IRL she's one'ah your people, she's a southern girl...

:shrug:

[SPKrazy]

91. hey, i don't claim every southern girl...

hell i was born in Illinois and grew up in Utah!

I'm southern by transplant :D

[FloridaJudy]

18. Every once in a while

A completely strange sock shows up in my wash - some cutesy thing with blue bunnies, or a lime-green and pink argyle number I wouldn't be caught dead wearing. So whatever system the aliens are using to hijack our socks isn't perfect. Occasionally one escapes and tries to make its way home, though - being a sock - its navigational skills are flawed.

[SPKrazy]

42. aha!

another piece of evidence that it is the aliens

[riona]

19. They attach themselves to other pieces of laundry

They're very clever.

[yellowdogintexas]

32. yes, the little sock hitches a ride on the blanket, which is on its

way to summer storage.tee hee, I'm sneaking away, no more smelly feet.

LOL I saw Seinfeld live when he was an up and coming standup comic, and he did this whole riff on the missing sock, including the hitching of the ride. He was opening for Andy Williams on a concert tour, and he was hilarious.

[SPKrazy]

43. then they run away?

:shrug:

[ashling]

20. I'm not sure where, but

wherever it is, I'm pretty sure they don't end sentences with prepositions. :evilgrin:

[SPKrazy]

44. oh hush

Where do socks go when they disappear?

:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

23. One-legged aliens

That's my sister told my niece. You should have seen the teacher's face when my niece gave her that little bit of wisdom. :P

[SPKrazy]

45. that's a good answer though

one legged aliens :think:


yeah

:woohoo:

[LydiaJ]

24. LOL! All of these answers are so........

hilarious! You guys are alot of fun which is why I finally deceided to come on board.

Obviously, I'm new so :hi: all!!!!

[lizziegrace]

25. Welcome!

:hi:

[LydiaJ]

26. Thank You lizziegrace!

Nice to meet you too! :hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

33. welcome, and enjoy this place for what it is: a really fun place to be nt.

[SPKrazy]

46. Welcome to DU

glad you enjoy this thread

usually we have sex threads but today we had a sock thread...

oh heck, there are lots of threads

the lounge is fun, and unpredictable, the rest of DU is good too :P

:hi:

[texanwitch]

27. I keep my socks tied so one of them can't escape.

It will either be both socks or none.

I also only wear gray socks, short in the summer, tall in the winter.

No sorting required.

[SPKrazy]

47. you tie them to each other...

no one escapes the Texanwitch!

:rofl:

that is creative...

[texanwitch]

61. My view is that only one sock whats to escape, so if you tie them together

that slows down the socks that want to escape.

I have lost to many socks in the past, this system works.

Now where the socks go I have no idea, maybe sock land where all the socks are free.

My socks are staying here, the brand I buy is hard to find.

[SPKrazy]

62. aha!

:shrug:

the system works...


:thumbsup:

[texanwitch]

63. I have not lost a sock since started using this system.

The socks wash the same, and it is easy to put them away.

I just leave my socks in a small clothes basket I found at the dollar store.

[RushIsRot]

86. Ya' know that ring around Saturn? I rest my case.

I answered a previous question on this topic with a similar response and killed the thread.

Bye bye thread!

P.S.

I also clip my socks together with rubber bands in the washer and dryer, and they do not stray like all yours do. Just a word to the wise.

[SPKrazy]

92. good ideas

and probably the solution to the rings of Saturn too!

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

29. They disappear to Narnia

"Gimme back my sock you goat bastard!"

[SPKrazy]

49. upthread...

same story

good one too

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

30. Underpants gnomes!!!!

[SPKrazy]

51. hmmmm

spreading to socks

:rofl:

[Initech]

72. Step 1 - collect socks. Step 2 - ?????, step 3 - profit.

That formula can apply to anything. It especially applies to Halliburton's World Domination Division.

[NMDemDist2]

31. other

either I find em stuck inside a pant leg weeks later when I put on the clean pants OR I find em after a couple years when I pull the washer and dryer out to repair or clean.

[SPKrazy]

52. bzzzzzzzzzzz

sorry, wrong answer

return to start!


:rofl:


:hi:

[NMDemDist2]

59. ooops was I being Logical again??

silly me :silly:

:spank:






:rofl:

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

60. if logic worked

we'd find the danged socks AZ

:spank:

is right!

:rofl:


:hug:

[NV Whino]

34. Other

They are turned into sock puppets at DU.

[SPKrazy]

53. there are a few here i hear

:rofl: :rofl:


good answer

:rofl:

[YankeyMCC]

48. Look you can't expect the Universe to be perfectly seal EVERYWHERE

the combination of dryer heat, spin and the molecular make up of lint on socks is just the right key to occasionally flip open the small imperfections in the fabric of the universe and they slip through to another m-brane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory) that is bumping up against ours...but of course there is conservation of small, soft, linty options across the full Brane metaverse so that is where all the odd mismatched socks come from, for each sock that slips out another one slips in...but the cracks are not fixed in space at least not within our perception of space so they appear somewhere else...in vacant lots, hanging from power lines etc...

[SPKrazy]

54. you may have something there...

with this happening, the idea of the particle collider scares me even more :scared:

we already have holes in the fabric of time and space and we are wanting to create a new universe :scared:


:rofl:

[momophile]

64. goddamn Laura Bush

just like your blood, she also wants to suck your socks.

[SPKrazy]

66. pffftttt!!!

suck my socks Laura!

:rofl:

[camero]

68. Alternate Universe

Somebody has a hell of a lot of socks.

[SPKrazy]

82. the sock puppet universe

full of sock puppets that are interchangeable and can travel through space in an instant :P

[angrycarpenter]

71. the explanation

in addition to being a carpenter I have in the past repaired appliances and I have found many things inside the cabinets of dryers. What happens is that the seal between the back of the drum and the case gets worn out and will permit things to go between them into the interior of the dryer. I have found many socks as well as paper money and other things that would fit through a slot.

[SPKrazy]

81. so is it an alternate universe there ???

i mean is it a small universe at least that they are going to?

[MilesColtrane]

73. Socks are the pupal stage of the life cycle of coat hangers.

Just think about it.
You're always buying socks, you never buy hangers, yet you always have more hangers than socks.

[SPKrazy]

80. i lose both

yet hangers seem to regenerate sometimes too...


:shrug:


:hi:

[TommyO]

74. I've never lost a sock doing the laundry!

I lose them afterwards, and the sock fairy has yet to leave a winning lottery ticket under my pillow as required by Section 3, paragraph 9, sub-section 14D on Reparations For Sock Thievery.

[SPKrazy]

79. i see...

:wtf:



:rofl:

[TOhioLiberal]

75. I think the dryer eats them...

...

[SPKrazy]

78. well maybe it is hungry

:shrug:

:eyes:

[DarkTirade]

85. Into non-being

which is to say, everything.

[SPKrazy]

93. too deep for me!

:rofl:

:hi:

[grasswire]

87. the HOZONE

Don't ya know?

[SPKrazy]

94. into the hozone eh?

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

[KG]

89. the land of dangling participles

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

95. I see...

well, we shall work on keeping our participles from dangling :rofl:

[riona]

90. Are you aware that this has become an international crisis?

According to this particular site, the Bureau of Missing Socks has existed for years. It's so comforting to know that we are not alone.
http://www.funbureau.com/:grouphug:

[SPKrazy]

96. we are not alone...

very comforting indeed...


:rofl:

:hi:

[MissMillie]

97. my cat "kills" them

and brings them to me in tribute

I'm serious. Millie is determined to rid my home of the sock infestation. She's pretty bad-ass about it too.

Here's the huntress now:

[SPKrazy]

99. viciousl little demon isn't she

:rofl:

sock killer!

:D

[raccoon]

98. The twilight zone.

" You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. ..."

[SPKrazy]

100. and of socks apparently

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[GenDem]

101. Maybe this guy has them

[SPKrazy]

102. aha!

the sock bandit strikes again!

actually i think it is a society of them. seem to have one here too.
:rofl:


:hi:

:hug:

[GenDem]

107. My sock problem has always been monumental

The laughing joke among my friends and family was the infamous "sock cupboard". An entire cupboard in my sideboard chuck full of nothing but the little rascals that I couldn't match up at the end of a wash load.

Then came the purging. The day, about once a year, that I would sit down and try to match them up. I would ultimately fill up an entire garbage bag for tossing.

Now, I have a sock cloths-basket upstairs in the hallway. It's really full -- hundreds of socks.

If I didn't find it so reprehensible and wasteful -- I would just buy socks every week and throw them away after wearing.

:hi:

[Deep13]

103. The drier does not loose a sock. It makes one. nt

[SPKrazy]

104. a threadloom

spinning yarn from lint, and fashioning them into socks...

yup, thats it !!!

:rofl:

[zanne]

105. Somewhere in the universe, there is a mountain of socks.

Every once in a while, one sock finds its match and a wedding ceremony is held. The marriage usually doesn't last, though, as socks are highly independent.