Comments on: May 8 is Lost Socks Day. http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:12:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: North of 49 http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/#comment-133727 North of 49 Sat, 10 May 2008 22:27:41 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=4516#comment-133727 Also "Or All the Seas With Oysters" by Avram Davidson. Clothes pins (larvae) to coat-hangers (pupae) to bicycles (adult). No mention of socks, though. Possibly a competing form? Davidson figured there'd have to be some kind of predator. Ah, of course. Dryers!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('133727','North of 49'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('133727','North of 49','Also \"Or All the Seas With Oysters\" by Avram Davidson. Clothes pins (larvae) to coat-hangers (pupae) to bicycles (adult). No mention of socks, though. Possibly a competing form? Davidson figured there\'d have to be some kind of predator. \r\n\r\nAh, of course. Dryers!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Also “Or All the Seas With Oysters” by Avram Davidson. Clothes pins (larvae) to coat-hangers (pupae) to bicycles (adult). No mention of socks, though. Possibly a competing form? Davidson figured there’d have to be some kind of predator.

Ah, of course. Dryers!

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]]> By: Treehugger http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/#comment-133687 Treehugger Thu, 08 May 2008 16:57:48 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=4516#comment-133687 Definitely gnomes.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('133687','Treehugger'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('133687','Treehugger','Definitely gnomes.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Definitely gnomes.
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]]> By: pale http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/#comment-133686 pale Thu, 08 May 2008 16:24:49 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=4516#comment-133686 It's a vortex. It sucks them up like a vacumn. Honest. Or it could be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park_episode)" rel="nofollow">gnomes</a><div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('133686','pale'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('133686','pale','It\'s a vortex. It sucks them up like a vacumn. \r\n\r\nHonest. Or it could be <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park_episode)\" >gnomes</a>'); return false;">Quote</a></div> It’s a vortex. It sucks them up like a vacumn.

Honest. Or it could be gnomes

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]]> By: balbulican http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/#comment-133683 balbulican Thu, 08 May 2008 15:31:51 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=4516#comment-133683 Lost socks form a nest wherein clothes hangers go through their larval form and emerge as tiny bicycles. Remember "The Third Policeman"?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('133683','balbulican'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('133683','balbulican','Lost socks form a nest wherein clothes hangers go through their larval form and emerge as tiny bicycles. Remember \"The Third Policeman\"?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Lost socks form a nest wherein clothes hangers go through their larval form and emerge as tiny bicycles. Remember “The Third Policeman”?
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]]> By: stageleft http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/#comment-133682 stageleft Thu, 08 May 2008 15:31:05 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=4516#comment-133682 Your hangers reproduce? In my closet I take things off the hanger and then, after laundry, there never seems to be a sufficient number to hang everything back up again.... could they be moving from one house to another via closet-holes -- do you have any dark blue ones you don't recognize?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('133682','stageleft'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('133682','stageleft','Your hangers reproduce? In my closet I take things off the hanger and then, after laundry, there never seems to be a sufficient number to hang everything back up again.... could they be moving from one house to another via closet-holes -- do you have any dark blue ones you don\'t recognize?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Your hangers reproduce? In my closet I take things off the hanger and then, after laundry, there never seems to be a sufficient number to hang everything back up again…. could they be moving from one house to another via closet-holes — do you have any dark blue ones you don’t recognize?
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]]> By: skdadl http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/#comment-133681 skdadl Thu, 08 May 2008 15:07:45 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=4516#comment-133681 I think there may be a connection between lost socks and proliferating clothes hangers. You know: you put the clothes hangers in the closet, close the door, and the next time you look, the hangers have reproduced? There was a discussion about how clothes hangers reproduce in the letters column of the Grope and Flail about fifteen years ago, maybe. I believe the general conclusion after several weeks was phlogiston. But lost socks may play a role.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('133681','skdadl'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('133681','skdadl','I think there may be a connection between lost socks and proliferating clothes hangers. You know: you put the clothes hangers in the closet, close the door, and the next time you look, the hangers have reproduced? \r\n\r\nThere was a discussion about how clothes hangers reproduce in the letters column of the Grope and Flail about fifteen years ago, maybe. I believe the general conclusion after several weeks was phlogiston. But lost socks may play a role.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I think there may be a connection between lost socks and proliferating clothes hangers. You know: you put the clothes hangers in the closet, close the door, and the next time you look, the hangers have reproduced?

There was a discussion about how clothes hangers reproduce in the letters column of the Grope and Flail about fifteen years ago, maybe. I believe the general conclusion after several weeks was phlogiston. But lost socks may play a role.

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]]> By: David B http://www.stageleft.info/2008/05/08/may-8-is-lost-socks-day/#comment-133679 David B Thu, 08 May 2008 13:38:26 +0000 http://www.stageleft.info/?p=4516#comment-133679 Looking for a mate for your one remaining sock? Check this site out http://www.milkthebridge.co.uk/socks/<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('133679','David B'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('133679','David B','Looking for a mate for your one remaining sock? Check this site out http://www.milkthebridge.co.uk/socks/'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Looking for a mate for your one remaining sock? Check this site out http://www.milkthebridge.co.uk/socks/
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