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 sneak away and climb into your walls. then jimmy carter comes along and gives you an award for energy conservation.

/most obscure reference on fark evar.

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.

Since I've lived alone for the last 12 years I haven't lost one sock. There's only one conclusion....

Something, something, your mom...

They are left behind by mistake in the Kaverns of Krock.

I always figured the Red Hot Chili Peppers break into my house and steal them.

Dogs eat them.
Dogs get their intestinal tract blocked by them.
Dogtors change $2k to remove the intestinal block.

The Dryer eats them.

Where do you think lint comes from?

Maechyll: I always figured the Red Hot Chili Peppers break into my house and steal them.

Oh, and I don't want them back thankyouverymuch.

Underpants gnomes are expanding their operations???

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

/oh, this wasn't a serious question?

My wife loses whole shirts in the laundry so I don't much worry about my socks. She has the memory of a gold fish too so when I ask her about where my shirt is and describe the shirt she has no recollection of me ever wearing it. Some days I think she is purposely attempting to make me go insane, one day I'll leave the house and then come back in and ask, "Honey where is my car?" and she'll deadpan, "What car?"

Dear subby,

Stop using socks to polish the rod into. Throwing one away here and there might start off as no big deal but after a few weeks you start to wonder where they all went. Use a tissue instead.

Hugs,
~Lenny

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=25CoaM 6XHEc&feature=related)

Part 2:
YouTube - Eerie Indiana E4 The Losers (part2) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c8qat ctEYY&feature=related)

Part 3:
YouTube - Eerie Indiana E4 The Losers (part3) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MRrSj T8RG4&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.

They go to the same place the Higgs Boson hides when nosy particle physicists poke around for it.

Only one way to find out. You'll have to learn to sew, and then create a giant sock. Once you've made the sock you will need to get some friends together. Have a volunteer get into the sock, the rest will lift the sock and put it into a large industrial dryer. Turn the dryer on and wait until the volunteer reports back.

Or turn on Facetime on an iPhone, slip it into a sock and see where it goes.

Whichever.

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.

Ponzholio: Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings: Mine usually get stuck in pant legs or sweaters. I've left the house on several occasions with all kinds of things stuck in my clothes that I don't know about.

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.) Roll it up and stick it down the front of my pants.

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?

Narnia...according to this guy

Your wife/mom/whoever does the laundry besides you throws out the ones with holes.

Egoy3k: My wife loses whole shirts in the laundry so I don't much worry about my socks. She has the memory of a gold fish too so when I ask her about where my shirt is and describe the shirt she has no recollection of me ever wearing it. Some days I think she is purposely attempting to make me go insane, one day I'll leave the house and then come back in and ask, "Honey where is my car?" and she'll deadpan, "What car?"

_{*takes notes*}

They get twisted and hardened by the drier. They are then called "hangers'.

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.

They get blown out the dryer vent and float upward in the atmosphere to about 15 nautical miles up where they float for eternity.

Its called the hosone layer.

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.

My theory...

The sock fairy takes them. Then, when you die, you get them all back.

The sock monster started eaing them once we stopped believing in The Hogfather.

Stimpy found all the lost left socks

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.

That's what the rings of Saturn are made of.

(Call your doctor regarding the rings around Uranus.)

It's a little known fact that starting in the 1950's, GE corporation began fitting the turbines in their dryers with particle dissapaitors, this was done in order to advance particle disintegration technology, as both a weapon and a power source. Basically the socks you loose have been subatomically disassembled and beamed into outer space.

/led by the Pentavorit, Col. Sanders and all.
/ closes the blinds...

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?

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

Maechyll: Maechyll: I always figured the Red Hot Chili Peppers break into my house and steal them.

Oh, and I don't want them back thankyouverymuch.

Gross!

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?

fuel

They go to the US Sock Exchange

I don't lose them because I use tissue

k9insky: They go to the US Sock Exchange

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

worst joke in thread award winner

Sock heaven.

The socks never existed in the first place.