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Subject: Re: clothes hanger metamorphosis - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 16:43:00 EDT
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trsvax!gm    Jun 20 15:43:00 1984

An article from a year ago should answer this question:

***** trsvax:net.misc / pyuxjj!rlr / 12:34 pm  May 19, 1983
Socks disappear in dryers because superior beings from another dimension
have lost odd socks of their own, and discovered our planet to be a
regular source of socks.  The space warp produced by a spinning dryer,
combined with the intense heat, opens an interdimensional portal through
which alien beings reach in and 'mine' for socks.  Other alien races are
subjugated by these beings and forced to work in the 'sock mines'.
Occasionally, a subjugated alien miner falls through the portal, and this
explains why weird people are often found near laundromats.  The Inter-
Dimensional Police are powerless, since Reagan will not sign a treaty with
them to extradite the aliens to the other dimension.  This is why they
must work undercover to find these escapees on our planet.  This is extremely
difficult, since they must repeatedly go back to the laundromat to put dimes
in the dryer (otherwise the interdimensional portal is sealed up). Got it?

(People claim that they never lose a complete matched pair of socks in such
interdimensional transactions, only unmatched pairs.  But then, how would you
know if a matched pair was lost, if you didn't find a sock that didn't have a
match?) (HUH?)

						Rich Rosen
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