Date: Wed, 26 OCT 1994 11:21:16 -0500 
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle
Subject: Usenet Oracularities Digest #686 

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Selected-By: RICH MCGEE <MCGEE@nic.CSU.net>

The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:

> From: Chuck Arthur
> Why do I have so many orphan socks?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

} The answer is a simple one.  Socks are known to be cannabilistic by
} nature, and few people realize the need to feed their socks.  As a
} result, the socks, sitting beside each other in the dark drawer, are
} forced to eat each other...Of course, an entire pair of socks is never
} completely eaten because one of the two, upon demonstrating his/her
} formidable power by eating his/her partner, is never attacked by the
} other socks, because they fear for their own lives.
}
} Stop the cycle!  Feed your socks today!  They like spam...