h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Which is where the exams come in.

Which are nasty things

But worth it for the job!

Yes, as long as the grades are good enough

Oh, but I bet they will be.

I hope so anyway, or I won't be able to earn enough money to run a sock sanctuary

Oh, I can just picture it, happy little socks running around in the sunshine, going on the swings, sliding down the slides with a shout of "whoopee!". Some day, some day...

The day when socks no matter of their pattern, thickness or cotton mixture can live out the lives happily knowing that just because they have the odd hole they won't be condemed to the dustbin. There is a long way to go, but one day sockism will end.

Yes. I have a dream...

Well that's nice.

It's not actually about socks, you understand, but I felt I ought to say it.

With a few modifications I'm sure we could make a sock version out of it

I don't know. It was about me swinging about on a length of rope, and one of my friends being tied to a pole, and I tried to swing by to escape from whatever was chasing me, and accidentally got tangled around the pole he was tied to to which he exclaimed "Oh, typical!"

That was pretty much it.

Well, putting a sock on top of the pole would make a good start

Ok. And I grabbed it as I swung past.

But then what did you do with it?

I brought it to the Promised Drawer

darn it don't bin it

I didn't! I brought it to the Promised Drawer!

Someone promised socks a drawr?