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Onlooker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 04:59 PM
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Poll question: What do you do with an unmatched sock?
Edited on Thu May-27-04 05:00 PM by Onlooker
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:01 PM
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1. I draw eyes and a mouth on it & make the next Republican
presidential candidate. :P
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:03 PM
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2. stuff it with catnip and give it to the kitties
then a few months later I find the mate and well...it's too late by then.
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:03 PM
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3. I have a mesh bag I keep them in, then once a month
I empty it out and find matches :-) I leave any unmatched ones in there. You never know when you are going to run out of socks and mismatched ones are better than none at all :-)
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:03 PM
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4. use it to dust EVERYTHING
stray sock...it's not just for blinds anymore.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:07 PM
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12. Yep
And when you're done, you just throw it out. <--- Either I don't dust very much or I have a lot of stray socks. Draw your own conclusion. ;-)
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:19 PM
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22. undeclared gender
joke o' the day, PU
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:28 PM
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25. Oh, I missed it
I'm a woman, BTW. I guess I should change that one of these days. I just like the idea of people taking my ideas for what they are, not tied to my gender.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:04 PM
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5. I just wear it
Edited on Thu May-27-04 05:04 PM by slavkomae
I don't expend any effort to actually match the socks I'm wearing.
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madaboutharry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:07 PM
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10. We should nominate you for the next
episode of What Not To Wear, the BBC version were they really tell it like it is!!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:05 PM
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6. Tie it around my dick like a pig in a blanket
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:07 PM
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14. LMAO- EWWWWWWWWWWW!
that pic is nasty!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:05 PM
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7. Tie it around my dick like a pig in a blanket
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:08 PM
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15. LMAO- EWWWWWWWWWWW!
that pic is nasty!
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:06 PM
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8. I figured out where a lot of them were going
it isn't the dryer that eats them - it's the damn WASHER. They sneak up over the lip of the tub and get caught in the no-clothes-land between the washtub and the washer housing. Periodically, you should dismantle your washer and get all that crap out of there.

It happens particularly with very full loads - the water washes up near the top of the tub and the smallest items vanish up and over the side. The reason I discovered this is that I opened the washer once to add something and busted it in the act of attempting to eat a sock. When I dismantled it, I found an entire colony of abandoned socks and panties.

They make the lint filtration less efficient, too, so they should be removed every so often.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:06 PM
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9. I wear it like I'm Flea.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:09 PM
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16. I wear it like I'm me.
:shrug: I don't know what that means. . .
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:10 PM
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17. You don't know who you are?
Don't worry, you're just 23. You'll learn eventually! :D
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:16 PM
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20. Straighten out that 3.
And you'll have it right. . .

You're right, I am very confused, sometimes. (You have done this to me, for the most part.) Sometimes I just wear a sock, to say -- HEY -- I am OKAY!! :D
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:18 PM
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21. 21?
I thought you was 23? Who the hell is 23?

Or am I just getting senile in my old age?

Oh well, at least you can have a beer.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:22 PM
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23. It's just my astounding maturity ...
Everyone thinks I'm 2 years older, what can I do? :D

And I can have more than one beers, by the way. :beer:
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:25 PM
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24. I could drink you under the table, little girl.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:30 PM
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27. Hey, while you're drunk and under the table...
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Paranoid_Portlander Donating Member (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:07 PM
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11. I have no matched socks.
Well, maybe I do, but I'm not going to spend time looking for them. I never wear socks that match. Why is wearing unmatched socks not listed above?
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Onlooker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:11 PM
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18. In answer to your question ...
Because we're trying to isolate you, Paranoid Portlander.

(Just kidding.)
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:07 PM
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13. Fill it with catnip et voila! New cat toy!
They love them.:D
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madaboutharry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:14 PM
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19. I read this solution to the sock problem
somewhere: Throw away all your socks and go out and buy 10 pairs of EXACTLY the same socks. You will always have matching socks!
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happyending Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:28 PM
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26. Abu Graib
I send my unmatched socks to Abu Graib where they are tortured until they reveal the location of their mates.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:31 PM
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29. LOL!
Best answer yet.
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 05:30 PM
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28. Get out the vaseline and find a microwave!
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