They leave the planet in anticipation of its destruction by the Vogons.

/So long and thanks for all the fabric softener

Somewhere in the cosmos, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to Sock life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended Socks made their way, slipping quietly through wormholes in Space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely Sockoid lifestyle, responding to highly Sock-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the Sock equivalent of the good life.

Raging Thespian: They leave the planet in anticipation of its destruction by the Vogons.

/So long and thanks for all the fabric softener

Or this...either are equally plausible.

ISUZU!

/that had better not be obscure!
//if it is, I haz a sad

KingKauff: I would've chuckled.

You are a generous, kind and lovely person.

They turn into metal clothes hangers. I never buy them, and recycle em when I find them, but I continue to find them in my house.

The Dryer eats them.

Where do you think lint comes from?

They go to Eerie, Indiana.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/archive/index.php/t-253486.html?s=33dd0c c e06b3ae38fe73657f52bef6ac

It's a government stimulus project that dates back to the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

In other words, it's Obama's fault.

From the link:

07-17-2010, 10:07 PM
This is a good lesson from an old show I used to watch as a kid called Eerie Indiana. I have posted all 3 parts, but if you just want to skip to the point watch part 2. Basically The episode is about when the main character Marshal and his friend Simmon begin looking for his fathers lost briefcase and discover that their is a government agency of the lost. It's job is to collect random items from people such as socks, pen caps, toy parts, etc. The main character asks the head of the department why he is stealing the stuff. To which the guy replies, "I am not stealing it... I am helping the economy! Could you imagine what would happen if no one ever lost anything. There would be a stagnating economy. Sky rocketing unemployment, soup lines! How do you think we recovered from the stock market crash!"

I love it this is a perfect example of the broken window fallacy and why how stupid the government is. I could honestly see this happening. I truely could imagine a bureau of the lost.

Part 1:
YouTube - Eerie Indiana E4 The Losers (part1) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25CoaM6XHEc&feature=related)

Part 2:
YouTube - Eerie Indiana E4 The Losers (part2) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c8qatctEYY&feature=related)

Part 3:
YouTube - Eerie Indiana E4 The Losers (part3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRrSjT8RG4&feature=related)

Seriously. I am delighted that an old TV show like Eerie Indiana still holds up so well after all these years. Seeing as it was a children's show based on urban legends, myth, and conspiracy theories, no wonder that it makes perfect sense in the context of today's conservative politics.

Ron Paul! Ron Paul! President by acclamation. Don't say his name three times in a row, though, or he may appear and explain his political and economic theories to you, causing your brain to leak out of your nose.

DeQ: They fall down the side of the washing machine while you're tossing them in.

/oh, this wasn't a serious question?

Sometimes they get spun over the edge of the drum, or wrapped up under the agitator, too.

SnarfVader: I think there is a portal in my dryer.

Also, do want:
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The long-fall boot socks, or what they are currently attached to?

I should have distinguished between my comments that start with "Seriously." and the comments of the author of the post.

Eerie, Indiana was a good show and I have the DVD boxed set. I recommend it highly to those who like light-hearted takes on odd beliefs, which is to say, the majority of Farkers, Forteans, and other weirdos.

I noticed in college that every time i did laundry I had one fewer sock and one more coathanger. Ever since, I've assumed that the sock was the larval form of the coathanger.

I have three daughters and four cats, so I have a big bucket in the laundry room where I toss lots of odd socks. Sometimes a match comes up in a later load, but that's rare. The girls come down and instead of taking a matched pair from their stack of clean laundry to put on, they take two random socks from the odd sock bucket, and put them on.

Occasionally, the girls do he laundry. One recently told me she didn't know about the bucket (yeah, right). She said she just took the odd socks from the load she cleaned upstairs and put them in her drawer. That explains a lot.

One of the cats is a hoarder. That explains even more.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings: Ponzholio: You're at work and scratch your leg or something, and pull out a f*cking sock that was clinging to the inside of your pants. Do you- a) Put it in your pocket to take home and match it back up? b) Toss it in the trash can and know you now will have an unmatched sock at home?

c) I'm likely wearing pants with no pockets. Walk around stiffly and awkwardly all day so it doesn't fall out. Re-group back at home base.

so.... just roll it up and stuff it down the front?

MyNameIsMofuga: I use them to masturbate. I put them back when I am done.

Huh. So, you don't put them on your feet directly?