Socks

[PGit]

Is there some kind of creature that eats them, I keep running out?

[X-ray]

I don't know about eating them, but the first person I would ask about disappearing socks is our very own Bloodline  :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Well, I guess there are two probabilities:
first one is a wormhole alike vortex generated in the washing machine, where smaller things like socks dissapear. But ppl only notice it with socks since socks always are in pairs.

Another probability is a cult of sock-worshippers, who probably steal socks to sacrifice them in a most horrible way.

[Doobrey]

You're almost right. This 'creature' is normally seen wearing an AROS T-shirt, although it doesn't devour your socks, best not ask about that though (Lets just say be very suspicous if only one sock is dry :-o)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

some say the vortex in the washing machine leads directly to the sock god, but of course that's superstition, I guess the explanation can indeed be found near home, thinking of greedy sweaty hands which like to grab.

[Cyberus]

How many people do you share your house with? Socks have a habit of being stolen by other people living with you....you can only hope no sticky fate befalls them after that....

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Maybe he lives with a black troll and he even doesn't know it :nervous:

[X-ray]

When I was at boarding school there used to be a trick called a pie-bed. What they would do is untuck the top sheet on a dude's bed, at the foot end, then bring it up to the top and turn it back before tucking the whole lot in and putting the blanket back exactly how it was. I can't tell you how irritating it was when they got me with that, because I had spent a late night studying and I jumped into bed and found myself cooped up halfway down. It is quite a rude jolt when your feet meet resistance when least expected. No amount of kicking could free the 'pie' and I heard raucous laughter from around the corner.
In the same spirit, imagine if someone 'pied' your sock. By that I mean...imagine if they 'gummed' it closed halfway?  :evilgrin:

[odin]

I just discovered today I have 7 odd socks...on a total supply of perhaps 14 pairs or so. Amazing really..

[Dan]

The Eater of Socks!
It looked like a very small elephant with a very wide, flared trunk up which one of the Chair´s socks was disappering.

From the discworld book Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.

Read it, Terry Pratchett is better than even Douglas Adams.

[bloodline]

This is really weird, but a large quantity of socks have suddenly appeared in my sock drawer... I had assumed the G/F had ventured down the side of the bed and found my stash... but now I'm not sure :-?

[cecilia]

they are multiplying - after you have impregnated them.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

But only sock-incubi, servants of the great sock, can do such a thing

[iamaboringperson]

I keep getting holes in mine.

Is there a brand/model of sock that is better than all the others?

[X-ray]

I got several pairs of black socks with a blue toe line many years ago in South Africa. These things must be mil-spec because they survived three years of permanent night duty, all the shooting/tactical courses I went on, a good deal of hiking in SA and lately a lot of squash games. I haven't seen them here in the UK, but if I return to SA I will definitely be looking for them (I think I got them at Edgars).