Where do missing socks go?

[Dumbass 0]

Why do socks always end up missing when you are done with the laundry?  I have about 9-10 socks that I can't pair up, and everytime I do launday the situation gets worse.  What is very frustrating is after I bite the bullet and throw out the unmatched socks their counterparts turn up and I have to throw them out as well!

 

What is your theory as to why this happens?  Mirror universes?  Alternate realities?  Wormholes?  Temporal vortexes?

[Guest STSF Dacotah]

Or the unwillingness to clean out under your bed?

 

Dac

[Atragon9 0]

Naaaah, just follow Martha Stewart's lead and wear the mis-matched socks deliberately, proudly, start a new trend!

 

Then, when the hiding socks realize you don't care, realize that they are not being missed, they will willingly show themselves in their plea to be taken back and forgiven!!  Trust me, this works - how often do you try to recall an event or fact or person and fail miserably - then, after you move on to something else, the memory pops into your head all by itself!  It stopped hiding, since you weren't looking for it anymore.

[AndrewLyon 0]

I'd just look at the edge of my bed, since allot of nights I roll of the socks after playing cubie! ::Looks at his Gamecube with love for giving it such a cute nickname::

[LoAmi 0]

It is a little known fact of physics that the rotational frequency of washers and dryers corresponds to two of the quantum frequencies of all matter in the universe.  The centrifugal motion causes a rupture in the local manifold of the space-time continuum.  Conicidentally, socks are near optimum energy density to initiate a tunnelling phenomenon through the rupture.  There are multiple theories about where they go.  Some say, they travel through space, others through time.  The truth will remain a mystery until someone actually finds that they have more socks than they started out with, an event calculated to occur one time in twice the age of the universe.  So much for experimental science providing answers.  As a side note, underwear is known to be close to a the second, weaker resonance, and so, it disappears with a lesser frequency than socks.

 

How's that for an explanation?

[AndrewLyon 0]

Too complicated, Me Grimlock say too complicated.

[spg 0]

It is a little known fact of physics that the rotational frequency of washers and dryers corresponds to two of the quantum frequencies of all matter in the universe.  The centrifugal motion causes a rupture in the local manifold of the space-time continuum.  Conicidentally, socks are near optimum energy density to initiate a tunnelling phenomenon through the rupture.  There are multiple theories about where they go.  Some say, they travel through space, others through time.  The truth will remain a mystery until someone actually finds that they have more socks than they started out with, an event calculated to occur one time in twice the age of the universe.  So much for experimental science providing answers.  As a side note, underwear is known to be close to a the second, weaker resonance, and so, it disappears with a lesser frequency than socks.

 

How's that for an explanation?

Sounds good to me!  :cool:

[Images 0]

There's a certain quote from blackadder i would use in this situation but i won't cos it's too naughty. anyway i agree, there has got to be some sort of sock goblin!

[Cptn Moose 0]

A9!  How many times do I have to tell you to keep out of Van Roy's laundry room?

 

Put the socks back.    :wink:

[Atragon9 0]

A9!  How many times do I have to tell you to keep out of Van Roy's laundry room?

 

Put the socks back.    :wink:

But my mural is almost complete!!!

[Dumbass 0]

Looks like I'll need to guard my suitcase at Shore Leave 25 VERY carefully!!   :)  

 

LoAmi brought up a good point about underwear.  I have often found underwear in my laundry that I SWEAR is not mine, although I wouldn't mind meeting (or remembering) the rightful owner   ::D:

[Captain Huff 0]

Looks like I'll need to guard my suitcase at Shore Leave 25 VERY carefully

Don't worry, we ain't going near it.  :)

 

(Make sure to include the "West" in "Shore Leave 25 West" references so not to confuse it with the "Shore Leave 25" convention that happens in lovely happenin' Baltimore.)

 

I suspect that socks get sucked out my washer drain somehow, because I win the award for unmatched socks.  I would bet I have close to 50.  I'll count next time I have nothing else to do.  I refuse to throw them out, and I won't wear them unmatched.  I used to give them to a pet mouse I had, but when he kicked off from old age (not asphyxiation), there went the "feed them to the mouse" strategy.  A couple got made into sock-ball toys for the dog, but alas she lost enough teeth before she passed away to end that game too.  So I guess I either need new pets, a new washer, or counciling for seperation issues.  Maybe all three.  

 

How does this relate to Star Trek?  Well, we did have some sentient socks on the Hood some time back, and I suspect they are still loose somewhere on the ship.  Beware.

[Dumbass 0]

How does this relate to Star Trek?  Well, we did have some sentient socks on the Hood some time back, and I suspect they are still loose somewhere on the ship.  Beware.

Don't be surprised if 50 pairs of unmatched socks magically appearing next to the now-divided QoB~Lakota!!

[Vex Xiang 0]

I know what you mean Dumbass. My socks always end up in the weirdest places, on top of the fan blade, behind the bed, strewn in a line from the door to the bed. Then I get them all mixed up with the woman's socks. It's a real pain. They should make socks with magnets so they stick to each other.