Socks
Created | Updated Apr 17, 2002
Socks are made from the wool of antisocial sheep. The natural aversion of the sheep to the company of their peers has been selectively bred in by sock makers to the point where the animals have to be given a field each.
The wool derived from these animals is so infused with innate repulsion for anything ovine and foreign that newly purchased socks have to be firmly attached to their pair-mate.
This explains, at last, the phenomenon whereby a pair of socks placed into the laundry basket will immediately split up, one ending up on the washing line, the other in Bolivia.
Incidentally, the last series of 'One man and his dog' was sadly ruined for the purists by the use of a flock of 'sock sheep'.
The wool derived from these animals is so infused with innate repulsion for anything ovine and foreign that newly purchased socks have to be firmly attached to their pair-mate.
This explains, at last, the phenomenon whereby a pair of socks placed into the laundry basket will immediately split up, one ending up on the washing line, the other in Bolivia.
Incidentally, the last series of 'One man and his dog' was sadly ruined for the purists by the use of a flock of 'sock sheep'.
