Umm, I don’t usually have that problem…. Unless I go to my mom’s for the weekend, then for some reason my laundry disappears…
I don’t know, but they probably go off on their own, and never come back. At least, I’ve never seen a sock come back after it was lost in a dryer. That is a great question….and somwhat random. – JN.14:27 Rom.5:8
underneathe the washing machine or in my sister’s sock drawer
some sort of other dimension, i think…
seriously. i have about 20 colored socks in my draw right now that don’t have a pair. grrr.
iono some kids in my dorm masturbate in lost socks
If I knew that, then I’d have an even number of socks.
An alternate universe is all I can figure…
ryc, yeah xangans go missing all the time.
In the sock-eating compartment of the dryer
In the sock gremlins belly!
Every dryer is made with a secret compartment that is attached to a tunnel that goes deep beneath everyones houses. The sock monster is able to open this compartment and pick a sock out that he likes. Humans have no clue about this compartment because o ur minds are so finite we cannot comprehend it, or believe it because our faith is determined by our finite minds. The monsters don’t mean any harm, or realize the trouble they cause us, they’re just monsters who enjoy socks.
The twilight zone is where I always imagine….
Candy
In a noisy kid’s mouth. Or a chew toy for a dog.
The problem will be solved if everyone in the world PINNED their socks before tossing them into a washing machine. Safety pins, people. Safety pins.
the washer eats it……
Out the dryer vent. I’m absolutely convinced.
heaven. heaven is where you get back all your missing things you ever lost.
Family members suffer from temporary hallucinations and think that their size 10 1/2 feet somehow fit in your size 6 socks.
If it’s a red sock, it probably got mixed in with the whites.
Oh, and thanks wabe for the pinning idea!
On your foot?
Or the fawn from Narnia takes it from you through the portal in the back of the dryer..
its in the same place that elvis, tupac and crystal pepsi went
So the question is: Am I sweet and innocent but have planned it too well; thus, I scare you? Or are you not surprised; in which case, I might seem a bit sadistic at all times? hmmm…
I went to the laundry mat tonight and came home with a sock missing its partner. I have no clue where they go.
On my foot.
Black hole
The Bermuda Triangle lol.
i used to think all disappearing matching socks eloped with one of the other vanished matching socks and were living it up some place nice however since a friend explained the scientic reason, i now know better…
in fact the washing machine/tumble dryer creates a vortex through which only a single item can fit through…this vortex connects through an intricate labyrinth of tunnels to all other washing machines/tumble dryers on this planet. Thus the single item gets sucked out through this vortex and can either randomly appear in another washing machine/tumble dryer or spend years lost in a labyrinth of tunnels. Thus a perfect scientific explanation of what truly does happen to the other matching sock and also perfectly explaining to me the random appearance of that thong once which belonged in size to no-one in our house!
i believe some universities are now offering grants to research this amazing new discovery with possible future plans for human travel. However apparently such new technology will be a long time in coming since scientists have not yet cracked how to send both parts of a pair which obviously would have a huge impact on human travel since we’d all appreciate arriving with the correct matching limbs or organs!
anyway i hope this scientific explanation helps clear things up for you
But I have an uncontrollable urge to make sock puppets. :
I was the sock monster for Halloween. Best. Costume. EVER.
Ideally, the matching sock goes with its match. But we don’t live in an ideal world, do we?
The chalengings steal them.
Canada =(
Women. They steal half of everything you own.
the sock monster, of course
they shrink & get left behind in an overly-linty laundramat dryer
where someone’s asian dad will mistake it for a baby’s sock
& bring it home to show to his teenage daughters
(true story)
I saw this commercial:
“Are you a sock? Are you bored and tired with your job? Do you need a break? Then come to Sockawi Paradise Resort! An all-day buffet, spa and swimming pool! Sockawi Paradise Resort! Where a sock’s dreams come true!”
He who can solve ths problem will control all of space and time. No problem has ever been posed so incapable of formulation, let alone solution. In bringing it to the attention of this august body you risk creating a rent in the fabric of space and time. Who is the unseen master behind you, that you can dare to ask this ultimate question?
i just buy about 20 pairs of the same socks, so that every sock matches every other sock, and if i lose one…well…i’ll just have a spare in case another one gets a hole.
problem solved.
china repackages them and sells them to wal-mart
I try to put the matching sock on the left foot.
In a black hole, of course.
Does it ever make it into the wash as a pair in the first place? I have 3 boys and I think they keep one for a snack during the night or something?
It’s the matching one you’ve got.
The fairies wisk them away after they enter the dryer… Sometimes they return them later, but most of the time we never see them again.
It goes to the same place the light goes, when it goes out . . .
I think it a conspiracy began by the large sock manufacturers to make you buy more socks
I bet it goes into another world, maybe the one with the lion and the witch.
Narnia, that is
under the bed
uhmm my sister. we do our laundry together and when we separate clothes things get switched. kinda sucks that she lives 40 minutes away too.
they run away so that your creative side will be able to shine in the morning when you are picking out your socks :O
I know how to find them, never fails **** just throw away all the unmated socks and viola, the bad boys suddenly appear….grrrr
Behind my dryer.
laundry hell
I am afraid that the missing sock was eaten by a small creature called a skekmer (minutis skekmesis) that subsists upon lost pets, teeth left for the tooth fairy, things put away in special places, lost socks and pocket change left on the night stand or lost in the sofa. Your missing socks have long been digested into dust bunnies (skekmer waste) and left in hard-to-reach places under heavy furniture.
The dryer eats it….
I saw this commercial:
“Are you a sock? Are you bored and tired with your job? Do you need a break? Then come to Sockawi Paradise Resort! An all-day buffet, spa and swimming pool! Sockawi Paradise Resort! Where a sock’s dreams come true!”
Oops, wrong user. That was me on my sister’s site.
To a land far, far away.
According to a book at the library where I work, the ‘Sockmunster’ coaxes them out of a hole in the back of the dryer to go to his land. The book is also in the nonfiction section, so I’m pretty sure it’s true.
i wish i knew!! i have 4 black socks, none of them with a match, grrrrr
i think the dust bunnies just hold them hostage under my dresser
I’m convinced the underpants gnomnes take them because they don’t want my underwear.
Nooo clue! Missing socks are annoying, though. haha
i’m convinced that the dryer eats it!
I don’t know, but I’m wondering why we end up with socks I’ve never seen before…and only one of them. I’m inclined to believe there is a labyrinth of tunnels connecting all washers and dryers in the world and that they go whereever they want to go.
Of course, it would help if the kids wouldn’t fling them across the room when they take them off….probably lots behind furniture…
I have two clothesbaskets full of years of single socks without partners. I think I’ll auction them off on e-bay.
Oh, and that thong that showed up at someone’s house? It’s probably from a sleazy jr. high girl who stuffed it in your son’s pants pocket without his knowledge. It happens.
I don’t know, but I’m wondering why we end up with socks I’ve never seen before…and only one of them. I’m inclined to believe there is a labyrinth of tunnels connecting all washers and dryers in the world and that they go whereever they want to go.
Of course, it would help if the kids wouldn’t fling them across the room when they take them off….probably lots behind furniture…
I have two clothesbaskets full of years of single socks without partners. I think I’ll auction them off on e-bay.
Oh, and that thong that showed up at someone’s house? It’s probably from a sleazy jr. high girl who stuffed it in your son’s pants pocket without his knowledge. It happens.
it sublimes into sock gas. i think it might be possible to depose all the sock gas in the world and get everyone’s socks back. i mean, the gas is just hovering around the dryer, so it wouldn’t be that hard.
by the way, the formula for sock gas is SOCK2.
bend over and I’ll show you.
They’re floating along Saturn’s rings along with all the lost baggage from airlines, Elvis, and slinkies.
Back in the dryer until it manifests a mate?
I have heard that when the drum spins in the washer, socks fall into the gap along that top edge. I’ve never taken a washer apart to find out if its really true.
Oh my god…
You mean you don’t know?
As a clinically diagnosed obsessive compulsive, I take laundry very VERY seriously.
Lost socks are always in the washer stuck to the inner rim. You have to spin the surgilator around a few times while running your hand along the inner rim, which you cannot see.
You will always get stray socks, and you should be so lucky as to have me do your laundry. Housecleaning is almost as good as sex when I do it…
To a magical land deep inside the washing machine, and if it ever explodes for whatever reason, millions of socks will come flying out of it.
I’m still trying to decide if it’s the washing machine or the dryer that eats it. Or maybe it was me . . .
Nope, I just remembered, it was a spazoid that took it. Spazoid is something only known to me, and a spazoid is a small creature that likes to steal pens and shiny things. In addition, spazoids are pyromaniacs.
They take your socks and burn them!! Muahahaha.
To the 3rd dimension- the Twilight Zone- I have that problem in my house, alomg with Gloves & Mittens…
And Now a pair of curtins- Im goin nuts trying to find!
According the The Family Guy Mr. Tumnus steals them.
A mystery to mankind today…We may never know for sure… Well, I’ve always thought of the evil, invisible, sock-eating monster that hides within the washing machine that pounces when it sees a particularly fuzzy foot cover.
it becomes drier lint.
Into the sock black hole. Duh.
IONO BUT IT DRIVES ME CRAZY i get like 12 socks and then a week later i have 5 socks and they are all too small.
does anyone remember the arthur episode about pal and the underground dog sockmarket? because i do.
that safety pin idea is fuckin good, but being 50% scene and all, my safety pins are always going missing too.
by the way the third dimension is height, if you are a bit confused about the dimensions of the sock vortex, it has to be at least the 5th.
That’s just it, isn’t it?
No one knows.
The dryer *eats* it.
Mars. Really!!
The dryer eats them! It always has cravings for the good socks…the ones that actually match and have no holes! grrrr!
i only wish i knew…..living in the frozen tundra as i do, i have a million crazy knee-high socks and i am eternally losing them. however, as far as the poor remaining solitary sock….it becomes a part of the collection of mismatched socks i wear to sleep at night….
Tribble food
hell if i know
I’ve asked myself the same question.
the sock monster eats them, duuh.
the little sock gnome gets it
my kitten steals em and takes em to her “housing compartment” …
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Trolls take it!
Umm, I don’t usually have that problem…. Unless I go to my mom’s for the weekend, then for some reason my laundry disappears…
I don’t know, but they probably go off on their own, and never come back. At least, I’ve never seen a sock come back after it was lost in a dryer. That is a great question….and somwhat random. – JN.14:27 Rom.5:8
underneathe the washing machine or in my sister’s sock drawer
some sort of other dimension, i think…
seriously. i have about 20 colored socks in my draw right now that don’t have a pair. grrr.
iono some kids in my dorm masturbate in lost socks
If I knew that, then I’d have an even number of socks.
An alternate universe is all I can figure…
ryc, yeah xangans go missing all the time.
In the sock-eating compartment of the dryer
In the sock gremlins belly!
Every dryer is made with a secret compartment that is attached to a tunnel that goes deep beneath everyones houses. The sock monster is able to open this compartment and pick a sock out that he likes. Humans have no clue about this compartment because o ur minds are so finite we cannot comprehend it, or believe it because our faith is determined by our finite minds.
The monsters don’t mean any harm, or realize the trouble they cause us, they’re just monsters who enjoy socks.
The twilight zone is where I always imagine….
Candy
In a noisy kid’s mouth. Or a chew toy for a dog.
The problem will be solved if everyone in the world PINNED their socks before tossing them into a washing machine. Safety pins, people. Safety pins.
the washer eats it……
Out the dryer vent. I’m absolutely convinced.
heaven. heaven is where you get back all your missing things you ever lost.
Family members suffer from temporary hallucinations and think that their size 10 1/2 feet somehow fit in your size 6 socks.
If it’s a red sock, it probably got mixed in with the whites.
Oh, and thanks wabe for the pinning idea!
On your foot?
Or the fawn from Narnia takes it from you through the portal in the back of the dryer..
its in the same place that elvis, tupac and crystal pepsi went
So the question is: Am I sweet and innocent but have planned it too well; thus, I scare you? Or are you not surprised; in which case, I might seem a bit sadistic at all times? hmmm…
I went to the laundry mat tonight and came home with a sock missing its partner. I have no clue where they go.
On my foot.
Black hole
The Bermuda Triangle lol.
i used to think all disappearing matching socks eloped with one of the other vanished matching socks and were living it up some place nice however since a friend explained the scientic reason, i now know better…
in fact the washing machine/tumble dryer creates a vortex through which only a single item can fit through…this vortex connects through an intricate labyrinth of tunnels to all other washing machines/tumble dryers on this planet. Thus the single item gets sucked out through this vortex and can either randomly appear in another washing machine/tumble dryer or spend years lost in a labyrinth of tunnels. Thus a perfect scientific explanation of what truly does happen to the other matching sock and also perfectly explaining to me the random appearance of that thong once which belonged in size to no-one in our house!
i believe some universities are now offering grants to research this amazing new discovery with possible future plans for human travel. However apparently such new technology will be a long time in coming since scientists have not yet cracked how to send both parts of a pair which obviously would have a huge impact on human travel since we’d all appreciate arriving with the correct matching limbs or organs!
anyway i hope this scientific explanation helps clear things up for you
all the best
I do not know but Spazmom40 is going to set up an online mating service for the single socks that remain.
http://www.xanga.com/spazmom40/572774112/item.html
Sock monster.
I don’t know about you all….
But I have an uncontrollable urge to make sock puppets. :
I was the sock monster for Halloween. Best. Costume. EVER.
Ideally, the matching sock goes with its match. But we don’t live in an ideal world, do we?
The chalengings steal them.
Canada =(
Women. They steal half of everything you own.
the sock monster, of course
they shrink & get left behind in an overly-linty laundramat dryer
where someone’s asian dad will mistake it for a baby’s sock
& bring it home to show to his teenage daughters
(true story)
I saw this commercial:
“Are you a sock? Are you bored and tired with your job? Do you need a break? Then come to Sockawi Paradise Resort! An all-day buffet, spa and swimming pool! Sockawi Paradise Resort! Where a sock’s dreams come true!”
He who can solve ths problem will control all of space and time. No problem has ever been posed so incapable of formulation, let alone solution. In bringing it to the attention of this august body you risk creating a rent in the fabric of space and time. Who is the unseen master behind you, that you can dare to ask this ultimate question?
i just buy about 20 pairs of the same socks, so that every sock matches every other sock, and if i lose one…well…i’ll just have a spare in case another one gets a hole.
problem solved.
china repackages them and sells them to wal-mart
I try to put the matching sock on the left foot.
In a black hole, of course.
Does it ever make it into the wash as a pair in the first place? I have 3 boys and I think they keep one for a snack during the night or something?
It’s the matching one you’ve got.
The fairies wisk them away after they enter the dryer… Sometimes they return them later, but most of the time we never see them again.
It goes to the same place the light goes, when it goes out . . .
I think it a conspiracy began by the large sock manufacturers to make you buy more socks
I bet it goes into another world, maybe the one with the lion and the witch.
Narnia, that is
under the bed
uhmm my sister. we do our laundry together and when we separate clothes things get switched. kinda sucks that she lives 40 minutes away too.
they run away so that your creative side will be able to shine in the morning when you are picking out your socks :O
I know how to find them, never fails **** just throw away all the unmated socks and viola, the bad boys suddenly appear….grrrr
Behind my dryer.
laundry hell
I am afraid that the missing sock was eaten by a small creature called a skekmer (minutis skekmesis) that subsists upon lost pets, teeth left for the tooth fairy, things put away in special places, lost socks and pocket change left on the night stand or lost in the sofa. Your missing socks have long been digested into dust bunnies (skekmer waste) and left in hard-to-reach places under heavy furniture.
The dryer eats it….
I saw this commercial:
“Are you a sock? Are you bored and tired with your job? Do you need a break? Then come to Sockawi Paradise Resort! An all-day buffet, spa and swimming pool! Sockawi Paradise Resort! Where a sock’s dreams come true!”
Posted 3/16/2007 1:12 AM by FaithlessK
Oops, wrong user. That was me on my sister’s site.
To a land far, far away.
According to a book at the library where I work, the ‘Sockmunster’ coaxes them out of a hole in the back of the dryer to go to his land. The book is also in the nonfiction section, so I’m pretty sure it’s true.
http://www.lost.eu/30369
i wish i knew!! i have 4 black socks, none of them with a match, grrrrr
i think the dust bunnies just hold them hostage under my dresser
I’m convinced the underpants gnomnes take them because they don’t want my underwear.
Nooo clue! Missing socks are annoying, though. haha
i’m convinced that the dryer eats it!
I don’t know, but I’m wondering why we end up with socks I’ve never seen before…and only one of them. I’m inclined to believe there is a labyrinth of tunnels connecting all washers and dryers in the world and that they go whereever they want to go.
Of course, it would help if the kids wouldn’t fling them across the room when they take them off….probably lots behind furniture…
I have two clothesbaskets full of years of single socks without partners. I think I’ll auction them off on e-bay.
Oh, and that thong that showed up at someone’s house? It’s probably from a sleazy jr. high girl who stuffed it in your son’s pants pocket without his knowledge. It happens.
I don’t know, but I’m wondering why we end up with socks I’ve never seen before…and only one of them. I’m inclined to believe there is a labyrinth of tunnels connecting all washers and dryers in the world and that they go whereever they want to go.
Of course, it would help if the kids wouldn’t fling them across the room when they take them off….probably lots behind furniture…
I have two clothesbaskets full of years of single socks without partners. I think I’ll auction them off on e-bay.
Oh, and that thong that showed up at someone’s house? It’s probably from a sleazy jr. high girl who stuffed it in your son’s pants pocket without his knowledge. It happens.
it sublimes into sock gas. i think it might be possible to depose all the sock gas in the world and get everyone’s socks back. i mean, the gas is just hovering around the dryer, so it wouldn’t be that hard.
by the way, the formula for sock gas is SOCK2.
bend over and I’ll show you.
They’re floating along Saturn’s rings along with all the lost baggage from airlines, Elvis, and slinkies.
Back in the dryer until it manifests a mate?
I have heard that when the drum spins in the washer, socks fall into the gap along that top edge. I’ve never taken a washer apart to find out if its really true.
Oh my god…
You mean you don’t know?
As a clinically diagnosed obsessive compulsive, I take laundry very VERY seriously.
Lost socks are always in the washer stuck to the inner rim. You have to spin the surgilator around a few times while running your hand along the inner rim, which you cannot see.
You will always get stray socks, and you should be so lucky as to have me do your laundry. Housecleaning is almost as good as sex when I do it…
To a magical land deep inside the washing machine, and if it ever explodes for whatever reason, millions of socks will come flying out of it.
Duh.
the hose zone
send them over!!! i have a mating service.
http://www.xanga.com/spazmom40/572774112/item.html
I’m still trying to decide if it’s the washing machine or the dryer that eats it. Or maybe it was me . . .
Nope, I just remembered, it was a spazoid that took it. Spazoid is something only known to me, and a spazoid is a small creature that likes to steal pens and shiny things. In addition, spazoids are pyromaniacs.
They take your socks and burn them!! Muahahaha.
To the 3rd dimension- the Twilight Zone- I have that problem in my house, alomg with Gloves & Mittens…
And Now a pair of curtins- Im goin nuts trying to find!
According the The Family Guy Mr. Tumnus steals them.
A mystery to mankind today…We may never know for sure…
Well, I’ve always thought of the evil, invisible, sock-eating monster that hides within the washing machine that pounces when it sees a particularly fuzzy foot cover.
it becomes drier lint.
Into the sock black hole. Duh.
IONO BUT IT DRIVES ME CRAZY i get like 12 socks and then a week later i have 5 socks and they are all too small.
does anyone remember the arthur episode about pal and the underground dog sockmarket? because i do.
that safety pin idea is fuckin good, but being 50% scene and all, my safety pins are always going missing too.
by the way the third dimension is height, if you are a bit confused about the dimensions of the sock vortex, it has to be at least the 5th.
That’s just it, isn’t it?
No one knows.
The dryer *eats* it.
Mars. Really!!
The dryer eats them! It always has cravings for the good socks…the ones that actually match and have no holes! grrrr!
i only wish i knew…..living in the frozen tundra as i do, i have a million crazy knee-high socks and i am eternally losing them. however, as far as the poor remaining solitary sock….it becomes a part of the collection of mismatched socks i wear to sleep at night….
Tribble food
hell if i know
I’ve asked myself the same question.
the sock monster eats them, duuh.
the little sock gnome gets it
my kitten steals em and takes em to her “housing compartment” …
dont ask where that is …i cant find it lol
my kitten has a sock fetish
or my fiance accidently steals my socks..
where ever the first sock is.
in sock heaven