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What ever happened to this place?

slive — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:53:17 GMT

Aren't some of yous still wearing socks?

What, too good for unmatched socks?

Sorry I dissed on you before.

I guess the up side of unmatched socks is that those two socks are one step closer to becoming sock puppets. Though many are sadly given over to the rag regime.

One can only hope that they have become single socks because their mates became pirate sock puppets ,AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!

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Thanks for not caring!

slive — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:35:57 GMT

Thanks for not caring! That means more of the stuff me and my kin are made of!

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sock locations on/near Fisherman's Wharf

orangeboxman — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:30:32 GMT

I'm now working near the wharf.

Plenty of interesting socks down here.

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Magic Sock God

julie — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:43:42 GMT

Does anyone else believe in him? Has he revealed himself to you through good luck when you wear green socks? Have you noticed that he prefers stripes? Do people at your corporate job have disdain for you because of your religious practice of stripe sock wearing? This isn't a joke. Please be serious.

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new socks!

Shadarko — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:44:24 GMT

I just got a pair of hand made knitted socks! they were my friends first knit project so one is blue and one is sorta red green and they're different sizes! He truely loves me!

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rehabilitated-

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:40:52 GMT

all my socks have matched for about almost a year now, i used to be real bad kinda "ocd" about not having them match, and now its turning into the opposite, accept i cant bring myself to wear solid white socks yet, i feel like something will go wrong like i'll get in a car wreck or have a stroke- man am i the only one whos this silly about their socks?

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One foot a half-size different...

timbo — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:03:14 GMT

The other day I finally came to the conclusion that my right foot is, in fact, bigger than my left foot by a half-size. And that that has caused a lot of problems with my feet over the years. Either my right shoe pinches my ankle and top of the foot (too small on right) or I get blisters (too large on left). So, I've finally decided that I will get shoes that fit the right and try an undersock for the left to provide a bit better fit for my left foot's half-size too big shoe. Anyone else have experience doing this? Will this work? Is it a good thing?

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Sara has no brown socks!

orangeboxman — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:47:32 GMT

I must correct this oversight IMMEDIATELY!

I need to find some extremely vibrant brown ones that will maximally mismatch against her other socks. Especially against gray.

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popping back in to point this out:

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:28:54 GMT

check out bikerfox. he thinks he's hot. he has matched sox. communist sox even.

http://www.bikerfox.com/foxphotos2/pages/447.htm

and the rest here:
http://www.bikerfox.com/foxphotos2/

arent you glad there is no unmatched sox equivalent of bikerfox?

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Meaning of Lost and Unmatched Socks by Dr. Hal

squeeky — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:05:36 GMT

http://laughingsquid.org/blog/2005/01/09/mismatched-socks/

graphic in the album

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Well I've lost a few socks in my day........

StanMan — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:07:45 GMT

In fact I've got on a pair a of miss matched socks now.

I dunno who takes my matching socks but, its just upsetting sometimes

one day we will catch the culprit in charge of the sock theivery

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i'm new at this...

jolayne — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:23:38 GMT

ok. i have THE BEST sock collection i am aware of. like really ridiculous numbers of _pairs_ of socks. for years, i was always flaunting my cool socks to people, wearing my pants rolled up so people could see em, etc. i almost always was met with "oohs" and "aahs" and "where did you get those-s?" it was fun and made me fee, you know, cool and stylish in my own special way.

one day i was at a small gathering of friends and discovered that the tide had changed and left me and my lovely matching socks behind. i was the only one in the room with matching socks, cute and unique as they were... they all made fun of my out-of-date look, and laughed when i tried to impress them with the coolness of my pair of socks. i decided then and there that i would try to aspire to this new fashion height.

it has not been going well. i fold my socks in twos. i like them that way. i feel odd about wearing mismatched socks, even in the house...it makes me uncomfortable, like when someone's got hair in their eyes or an eyelash on their face. i just wanna fix it. even this morning, when i was about to dare to wear two mismatched dirty socks around the house as i puttered and computered, i found myself reaching for the other stripey sock i saw crunched up under the sofa and matched my socks yet again. so here i sit in my very cute but oh, so passe matching socks.

i do have ONE actual pair of mismatched socks that i wear proudly. they came out of a freebox, and though there were no pairs for them, they were tres cool so i had to have them (a black sock with red flames, and another black sock of the exact same size and thickness, with hannukah symbols all over it.) it was my first mismatched sock success, and i still have that 'pair', folded neatly together in my drawer. (does that even count?)

my boyfriend moving in has made matters much worse, because he is one of those guys who only buys the exact same color and make of socks, so he can't ever mismatch them, even in the dark.

i just joined this tribe to help me with my obsession with matching, and to try to find my mismatched sock-ability. please, won't you help me? send some advice for getting over the matching my momma taught me so many years ago? are there tricks? is it all about letting yourself lose one or two then matching them?

signed,
a sad sock matcher

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I'M THE NEW GUY!!!!

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:27:14 GMT

And i wear pants, so usually ya can't see my socks anyways, thats my excuse, raise your hand if you've been called "punky brewster" for you sockal non matchidge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I'm taking it up a level

schwa — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:05:56 GMT

I'm not going to match my shoes anymore.
-schwa

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Its party night!

timbo — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:32:55 GMT

yep, its time to go party and I've got my party singles on...I love mismatched socks!

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decent striped sock alert

orangeboxman — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:24:49 GMT

I saw some pretty good color combinaions in stripes of dissimilar width in the window of a shop on Valencia.

I think it's called 'Dema' or something.

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merry holidays sock unmatchers!!

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:33:31 GMT

: )

hope you get some new socks for christmas!

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79 members

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:24:16 GMT

I cannot believe we have so many members. Thanks for joining this.

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so...

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 02:01:44 GMT

is everyone still unmatched?

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sock disorganization == sexy.

sarahboyd — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:19:04 GMT

oh wow. i can't believe no one has posted on this yet.

A study run by IKEA:
http://www.onlineorganizing.com/Study_IKEA.htm

"Men who organize their sock drawer had sex three times less per month compared to men who did not organize their sock drawer. Although, male sock organizers were five times more likely to cook a romantic dinner for their girlfriend or spouse compared to men who don't organize their socks. In addition, couples who have closet organizers argued three times more per month than couples who do not have closet organizers."

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I thought I was the only one!

mystressfyre — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:05:05 GMT

WOW! So very happy to have run into this tribe. I **knew** that there were others out there but none so addicted as myself. thank gawd I'm not alone!

I take care of small children a good portion of the time and they constantly tell me that my socks don't match (with great shock and exasperation!) I just smile and nod. Now the mother's will say 'So do you want Belva Socks today?'

People who know me well say that if my socks 'match' then something is wrong! Fortunately they never match,

I once read in a bathroom stall that "Matching socks are a sign of culteral compulsion"

I just discovered tye-dyed toe socks at Target. I now 'had' to own a pair of purple and yellow tye-dye socks.

Woo-Hoo!!!

Yay US!!!

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why match?

dax — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 04:02:14 GMT

simple question.

i never could find a reason why.

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Argyles on Mission

angrybutterfly — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:56:27 GMT

I remember someone posted looking for argyles for larger male feet, and I found a nice selection of argyles In the mission, one of the stores was "GIANT VALUE" but one of the little ones on the other side had more.

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How far will you go?

lorne — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 06:19:15 GMT

OK, where do you draw the line?

Mix solid colors?

Wear different argyles?

An argyle and a solid?

A thick heavy wool hunting sock and a silk calf sock?

Just exactly how unmatched is too unmatched for you?

Personally, I draw the line at pattern w/solid, and different thicknesses. But I'm only a little kinky.

- Lorne

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what if...

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 02:52:40 GMT

I decided to be a "matched sock wearer" from this day forward???

bwahahahahahahahahah!!!!!

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The Sock Monster!

angrybutterfly — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:21:30 GMT

Has anyone seen the commercail with the "sock Goblin" the little guy in the sock suit stealing socks, and he is like this little fat goblin guy? It's great!

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niceeeeee

Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:08:43 GMT

This tribe is too cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello. : )

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squaresville

manda — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 00:59:08 GMT

matching socks are for squares...

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stinky feet

christine — Sun, 07 Mar 2004 10:13:07 GMT

i wore unmatched socks and one pf them was thicker than the other and the thick socked shoe is not stinky but the skinny socked shoe is!!! my sister tells me i have stinky feet. this amesk me laugh! :) HI!

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black...ish socks

((joe)))) — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:39:52 GMT

I mean, come on, gray was black once right. can't I still wear them together?

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hello tribelings

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 05:43:11 GMT

How are you all doing??? And thanks so much for joining this group!

Listen- I live in the SF bay area- and I need to find a sock store. One that just sells socks and tights etc...
Anyone know of anything such as this? I know there is one in Santa Cruz- but I need one in SF.
I need some new socks to unmatch...heh

what I would also like to find are those striped socks that are knee high- that have toes..you know what I am talking about from the 70's?

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Look- new pictures of mis matched socks!!

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 01:31:03 GMT

I particularly like the baby one..

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odd preference

Kels — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:43:14 GMT

I usually choose my socks randomly (the first two that find my hand), but which feet they go onto is not random at all. For some arcane reason I favor my left side. I sort of like it better. My left foot always gets the sock that I like more. Is this totally weird, or can some of you jibe?

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more on DEMA

orangeboxman — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:56:18 GMT

I was in there today. Stripes were in the window, but they had
some other stuff further back I liked even better. I got some pretty good florals for $11 a pair. Check it out.

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Stephen Wright

orangeboxman — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:49:39 GMT

'I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and said, "Hey, you have two different colored socks on." I said, "Yeah, I know, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness." '

-Stephen Wright

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socks...

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:03:27 GMT

do not need to match...

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July 5th

orangeboxman — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:44:37 GMT

July 5th is the birthday of David Hockney, arguably
the most famous deliberate unmatched-sock wearer of all time.

Should we 'do something' when it rolls around?

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Are they unmatched?

lordjeffrey — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:13:03 GMT

Here's the dilemma... I bought a 12 pack of white crew socks to wear in the winter. Even though they all look exactly alike, after I've washed them they are no longer with their origianl mate when I ball them into pairs (unless it's accidental). Matched or unmatched?

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The Country of Lost Socks...

VictoriaBellotti — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:00:20 GMT

Would someone like to explain where it is that all those lost socks go to? Every time I do my laundry I manage to end up with one odd sock, sometimes two. And rarely are they reunited with their long lost partner. I keep them in a drawer and I'm finding that there are beginning to be rather a lot of them. It would be very difficult to hide that many.

Are there such things as sock-specific black holes?

Is someone elsewhere finding all these new mysterious odd socks they've never seen before?

-- Perplexed of Bernal Heights.

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Happy Holidays~~~~

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 02:47:08 GMT

yay
I hope all of you have a great holiday, and thanks for joining my mindless tribe!!!
-Lisa

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Lick Bush!

Thu, 04 Dec 2003 05:02:07 GMT

America needs me.
The world needs mah leadership.
It is time for the King to re-emerge.

Ah will be appearing in Times Square, New Year's Eve.
Ah intend to drop the cloak of secrecy of the last 25 years.
Mah fans demand ah campaign fo' President and save the world.

See ya there.
Brang donuts. Brang drugs.
Brang signs so ah kin recognize mah supporters.

Be theah or be square.
Vote Bush and yore cruizin' for a bruizin'

Think of Tha Kang as Leader of the Free World.
Won't ya hep me? Can ah count on yo' vote?
Thank ya, that ya verry musch!
How bad could ah be?

Ah don't need enny campaign contributions. Afta all, ah'm rich.

Mah whole plan (platform) boils down to:
Make love, not war.
Make crystal meth, not Pentium chips.
Less taxation, less privatization.
More medication, more fornication.

Sincerely,
Tha Kang (who will soon become tha Prez)
PLEASE SPREAD THA WURD!!!

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pictures of your unmatched feet???

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:25:31 GMT

please feel free to post....

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therapy? or not?

Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:33:52 GMT

I realised that I just do not care about my socks matching. I went to a big thanksgiving party and when I took off my boots to get cozy, I realised my socks were indeed unmatched. I do not care- they were unmatched yesterday, and they are now as well as I write to you. I do care about thickness, but not colour or patterns.
Now, my mom would have something to say about this- me being from a nice socialite family and all. Where did I learn this reprobate-ish behavior? Mom quoted Shakespeare "the apparel doth not proclaim the man" as I was growing up, but she still asks me what I am wearing to job interviews and social functions. She even says I should cut my hair in a nice "bob."
I will never do that. (can you imagine?)
Mom means well, but do unmatched socks represent an unmatched life? Kind of like how our dirty house or car represents our lives to some people?

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Too cold for slip-ons

Fri, 07 Nov 2003 01:29:56 GMT

And so I find myself back to shoes and (shudder) socks.

I think my ex stole all my old socks and surreptitously replaced mine with her puffy girlsocks.

Now, I must buy socks. Great.

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