[email protected] wrote:
On Feb 27, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:12 PM, J. Landman Gay> wrote:
But I still couldn't see where socks go after you put
them in the dryer. I'll keep looking.
Oh, that's easy, they migrate to boys boarding schools. Every time my
boys come back home they have innumerable single socks that they've
never owned before. I believe I'm fairly successful in returning them
to their rightful owners because most of them disappear after I've
washed and dried them several time;-)...
and while we're at it, what about paper clips? I'm always buying
more boxes of them -- where do they all go? My suspicion is that they
make their way somehow into closets and metamorphose in the dark into
wire coat hangers.... Jacque, have they confirmed this in 2020?
I believe the definitive paper on the reproductive and migratory
habits of paper clips was OR ALL THE SEAS WITH OYSTERS (A. Davidson, 1958).
I was going to mention that only I couldn't remember the story title. I
can barely remember the story (and no, I did NOT read it when first
published. :)) I have my own theory about this, which was probably
influenced by the story. Hangers breed and give birth to little paper
clips. Little paper clips go through a life cycle where the grow to
various sizes up to a point, when they migrate and begin to pupate in
your closet. They emerge later as hangers. If I remember right, the
story compared the number of hangers to paper clips over a period of
time and noted that one population decreased as the other increased.
It would be fairly easy to gather similar data in one's own home.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
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