I apologise if this thread has come up before, but I am a fascinated, and after 24 hours, addicted newbie to this site. It covers a multitude of views on such a huge range of issues. There seem to a certain number of sceptics still out there. To them I would like to suggest the ultimate rationale/vindication/proof of existence for wonders such as; astral travel, extraterrestial visitations, multiverses and even angry demons.
What other possible rational explanation could anyone offer for the disappearing, or single sock, syndrome. Truely, has science ever been able to come up with a credible hypothesis, let alone any proof, to explain what happens to all those socks which disappear, leaving us with a drawer full of single socks.
I am not sure if women experience a similar phenomenum with stockings, but am open to advice on this. Maybe, being more sensitive souls, they became aware of the problem a generation or two before us and solved it by creating pantyhose.

There is a compartment in the dryer; you can only get to it from the bottom on mine ( it has to be on its side ). Anyway, I had my dryer worked on once and the repairman opened the compartment. Lo and behold, there were about 35 socks in there. I think that's where they all go...

I can't believe anyone has asked this... If you mate your sock's before you wash them... You'll find then later, try it i promise it work's......

I was told in my youth that the socks were being stolen by an alien race with only one leg whose world suddenly enterred an ice age, therefore creating the need for warm footwear. Laundry rooms are portals to another world.

How do socks get to this hidden compartment? I smell a conspiracy.

I have a beagle foxhound mix that can teleport himself into anyones home and he stoled all your socks. But sometimes he stashes some for later retrieval just in case the dryer is empty. He is also immortal and umm! can change himself into a wolf and lived in ummm a cave in Tibet at the former colony of ummm Atlantians with Mini foot (bigfoots little bro), a leperchaun, the Easterbunny,the Tooth Fairy, Jesus Christ,and 3 vampires. While there he learned his current skills from a Zen master. Have I not peeved anyone off yet?...........and uuum............Oh yeah. He can also make Psi Balls come out his rectum.


Lapi'che

Don't you need a license to mate your socks?

And, do you really have to take them to dinner first?

My theory is that in each pair of socks there is an Alpha sock and a Beta sock. They mate, produce a completely different offspring that you've never seen before, and then the Alpha sock eats the Beta sock, leaving you with two odd socks.

Also, if you leave two metal coathangers inside a closet on their own, they mate in the dark and the next time you open the closet you have hundreds....

Ohhhh... Davith says to say hi... He misses the pub crawls in Atlantis with the Tooth Fairy and Mini Foot... (although he did point out he doesn't miss the 3 vampires)

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Fission mailed .

'George the hound' returns the haloo! OH! and the three vampires are no longer there. The went to the Republican National Convention and never came home from Washington. The Jersey Devil is now the new roommate but he's always fighting with Jesus and pinching the Tooth Fairy's butt.

........and no JMPD1 you don't need a license to mate socks but you must a a big enough cage and keep it clean or you can be fined for animal cruelty.


Lapi'che

Thanks for all those interesting er um theories? Heres another mystery. I wrote this as a newbie, and then lost it. In fact i thought it had been removed for being too facetious. Having returned to the site a number of times I have just found the facility by which one can recall all ones posts. Low and behold I find not only my post but all these interesting replies. Made interesting reading on a slow day at work.

XD

I think I agree with this theory. I think it is the most beleivable.

seems some of the greatest minds of our time have pondered this mystery

The beureau of missing socks

I'm favouring the trouser shark explanation myself

Trouser shark caught on film

Are you serious? The disappearing sock phenomenon? Single sock syndrome?

Socks are just small things and easily get seperated and lost in heaps of clothes. When we don't find both of them at one place, we tend to thing the other one is lost. When we find the fisrt one in one place , we think the second one is lost, and, when we find the second one in some other place, we think it is the first one itself.

Or...maybe, they just elope.

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This thread has had its day and alas is now closed.