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ANSWERS: 47
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Look for them at the bottom of the Answerbag. They've been collecting there for some time now.
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The laundry trolls make nests of them
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Mine are black, so I just have to feel around abit and I always find it!
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It gets together with the one that never made it out of the washing machine.
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I think they go to the same place as the teaspoons, wherever that is...
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I don't think it's so much the washing machine I reckon they just get mis-matched and get put in the wrong place.
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ha ha i found 4 in the filter at the bottom of my tumble drier... not the door filter, they must have been there months, what a fire hazard.... ladies and gents clean those filters regularly
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I wish i knew where they went, i have so many odd socks around i is not fun. I reckon the dogs steal mine and put them in some hiding place i am still yet to find.
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The sock monster steals them and turns them into sock puppets.
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As soon as you decide to wash any pair of socks there's only one left! Right?
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They go to heaven with all the other stuff you lost. If you live a good life, when you die they will be there waiting for you to keep your feet cosy.
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No but that lil troll does, you just wait til I catch him. I just know I have a lil troll that snatches them out of my dryer or maybe the washer, could be that too. I put matches in but when they come out of the dryer...shazaaam theres always some missing. You wait til I catch him, I'll... I'll... pull his troll beard!!!
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Okay, I suppose this should be in the new religions category: When socks and occasionally other items of personal wear disappear from the washing machine you have been sacrificing to "The Sock God of the Eighth Dimension"! All Hail... There is a little known fact that the constant agitating and spinning of a washing machine causes a disruption in the space time contiuum and opens a blackhole to the Eighth Dimension through which small items, most notably socks and sometimes other small items of personal wear fall through never to be seen again. Although occasionally The Sock God of the Eighth Dimension will take pity on some poor supplicant who cannot find all their socks and send them a batch of un-matched socks. Of course, they may not be all the socks you sent in the first place, which is why you end up with a draw full of un-matched socks, some of which you have never seen before! Okay you have all been told now...All Hail the Great God of Socks....All Hail the Great God of Socks....(come on get with it if you ever expect to see your missing socks again....)All Hail the God of Socks...
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I would like to know!!! As soon as I throw the odd ones in the trash, the lost ones show up.
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Omg- I don't know. But aint it crazy?
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Checked all of the pockets of the clothes they went in with? Dont like socks in pockets
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The gnomes steal them. The same gnomes that crawl under your sheets at night and kick you in the shins. (You know those bruises you get sometime with no explanation of where they came from? Gnomes.)
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The other sock ate it. But if you check the other sock and its not there, aliens abducted it. seriously....one time i put my pants on from the dryer and went to the store and socks were flowing out of my pants...and it was so embarrassing I pretended a sock was stuck to my shoe, and leaving my socks on the ground.....weird I know.
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Only the dog knows for sure.
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I have a solution for this problem. Do not wear different socks. I have about 15 pairs of the same brand/size/color socks. Since I have adopted this practice, I have never lost a single sock. I *may* have lost pairs of socks (I don't count accurately enough to know either way), but I've never been left with an odd number while folding laundry. Of course, I managed to lose my entire sock collection about a year ago by mistakenly throwing into a dumpster, but that's a different kettle of fish.
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maybe both of them got stuck together...
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They become lonely men companions...
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that is so maddening when that happens ,i spent fifteen minutes the last time i took the clothes out of the dryer trying to find the match for one of my socks.after having shaken everything out i think it was in the sleeve of one of my shirts.
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They migrated to your closet and morphed into hangers.
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Check your washing powder's not sulphuric acid .
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That bloody sock fairy again.
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The Twilight Zone There they formed a coalition of mix-matched socks and were animated by a race of invisible shape-shifters. The symbiotic partnership is a thriving example of how entities can work together to form the formless and inform the clueless. That is my current theory, but it is in flux.
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1) Mischevious invisible imps steal the socks and turn them into gold. They are everywhere! Source: http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000118.html 2) Xarlaxians collect them: http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xarlaxians "Such books are popular among Three-eyed Gelatinous Slime-Monsters, who deal in left sock gathering and may often have some difficulties telling Not Socks apart from Socks." http://www.beaverandsteve.com/wiki/index.php?title=Socks_User_Manual 3) Here some other explanations: http://www.funbureau.com/ http://www.beerandbollocks.com/forum/showthread.php?referrerid=257&t=6420 http://72.52.162.205/~tccafe/forums//showthread.php?t=14434 http://www.frappydoo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=657 "Time travel was invented in 2030 by a research scientist at Maytag. He was researching why socks disapear in the dryer." http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=6002&page=2 http://www.passporterboards.com/forums/sunroom-fun-games-chat/44505-missing-32-socks.html http://www.badbadrubberpiggy.com/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-2639.html
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There is a special transporter in the back of the dryer that only appears when it is drying. It takes one sock or one sock from each pair or certain pairs. While going through that transporter, the socks turn into different clothing items: sweaters, overshirts, etc. The end of the transporter is in random classrooms around the country. The socks have turned into the unclaimed clothing items in the classroom. A solution that involves being able to wear different socks: safety pin your pair of socks together before washing and drying them and you won't lose them.
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Good question. I have at least 20 single socks now. Its a baffling mystery. They just disappear in there
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They fall thru to another dimension
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It never ceases to amaze me how modern day people can be so knowledgeable about the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and all these modern religions that people discuss here yet have lost all knowledge of the Sock Fairy. Poor soul, she seems to be the least known and least acknowledged - yet most powerful - of all the supernatural beings that affect our daily lives. We'd better start paying her a bit more respect before she gets mad and starts taking socks in pairs or, even worse, starts taking knickers half a pair at a time. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Whenever I get a sock with a missing pair I just throw it back in the hamper...they turn up eventually. and I get one really squeaky clean sock...lol
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It's the lint bunnies...you know the dust bunnies distant cousin. They get pissed when you throw away their friends from the lint trap so they steal socks to get back at you.
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The same place where the bread goes when you put it in the toaster, and toast comes out instead.
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Its the blooming sock troll. I swear one of these days he's gonna get it. I bet he's got a nice lil collection under his bridge sniffing them when he's not on here trolling for points & stealing them too.
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They morph into wire clothes hangers and end up in your front hall closet.
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actually, socks typically get lost in the washer. they float to the top and then go over the side of the basin.
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In our house it gets paired up with another sock. I deliberately wear odd socks now...after I buy them I mix them up. Though they match in so far as they're from the same set. It makes life more interesting, and generally solves the ''one sock'' issue.
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It becomes lint and clogs up your lint trap
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dryers are portals to other dimensions. Socks slip thru it easily because of their size and shape. In the other dimension, people put shoes in their dryers. That's why you see single shoes on the highway in the middle of nowhere all the time. Our socks are lying on highways in the middle of nowhere in the other dimension.
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The Sock Fairy
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they have a race ,,, and are de-feeted
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The key fairy, he takes a sock and leaves you a key. You wonder.......what the heck is this key to? haha
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I think the underpants gnomes take them.
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Quantum mechanics answers this, Any half integer spin particles such as socks cannot occupy the same state, this is why socks come in left and right spins. This is the Pauli Exclusion Principle. If you ever load socks in with a single of a pair, the sock probably would half-life decay into coins, paper money and things you thought you hadn't removed from your pockets. See, that clears up an unanswered question as well.
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I have a one legged sock monster. He always manages to leave me with one sock out of a pair :)
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