Frank and Ernest by Thaves for February 28, 2025

Don’t feed the machine, it’ll just want more

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Now all you will get back is the decoy sock and the rest will have disappeared.

The clothes-dryer Imp demands its tribute and is amenable to this wise compromise.

When it comes to laundry, Frank is a real pro!

I lose more socks to cats than I do to the dryer

Sock it to me.

It might work!

He probably has one just like it at home under the bed that he’s been looking for for months.

And end with two mismatched socks instead of one.

TV program Eerie, Indiana had a great episode covering the great sock vs dryer war. Very funny and about as likely as any other explanation as to how socks get selected for harvest.

Even better was the chapter on Forever Wear

Frank will be shocked when he finds the sock has been replaced with a bra…!

My wife pimped me out to help a neighbor lady whose dryer wasn’t working. The vent tube was full of lint and several socks.

We raised our daughter with cloth diapers. All went well until the pick-up/delivery guy missed a delivery.

I assume it’s the one left over from the previous wash. . .

Sock it to ’em, Frank! (or is that Ernest?!?)

Frank’s mastery of laundry obviously didn’t include a course in ironing

haha

I put the surviving sock through the wash again to give it a chance to find it’s mate.

If that would only work.

My hypothesis, which I call the Law of Sock Conservation, is that there are a fixed number of socks in the Universe, and whenever I find only one sock of a pair in my dryer it’s either because its mate has teleported into YOUR dryer or one of yours has teleported into MINE. Supporting this hypothesis is the companion Phenomenon of Sock-Valence Magnetism, which states that socks are attracted only to dryers that already contain other socks of the same size.

I’m seeking funding to investigate these hypotheses more rigorously.