Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 16, 2019

The worst part about sorting socks is having one left. I have a dark red sock that I can’t find the other one for. I tore my room apart looking for it with no luck. I still hold onto the one I have, because I know that as soon as I toss it out the missing one will magically appear.

???

Miss Plainwell won that round.

Freedom has a cost. In this case, being mocked.

How many socks could a sock sorter sort, if a sock sorter DID sort socks??

I go with the simple approach. Buy the exact same socks in bulk. Don’t need to sort them, or worry about losing one, since they all match with each other

I just buy white socks. problem eliminated.

Arguing minuscule points seems to be a major occupation for many.

I like that Frazz is wearing a DeFeet shirt, whose main product is socks :)

Who know that socks could generate so much discussion?

Read the memo. people, read the memo. Some socks are only sock mimics, and are actually the larval form of a wire coat hanger. That’s why socks vanish and wire coat hangers take over the closet.

Danged gremlin infestation!

All my socks are identical.

I pin my socks together with a diaper pin. They come out of the wash already sorted.

If the left sock is missing, the troll took it.

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What was it, about a week and a half ago that Michigan State beat Duke in the NCAA quarterfinals? I remember watching the last part of that game thinking it wasn’t going to come down to which was the better team so much as which one happened to have the clock run out at the right time.

So it is with today’s strip. Miss Plainwell scores the final point on the right-hand wall of the final frame. Game over, Miss Plainwell advances. But there was still more discussion to be had, to wit, whether or not sorting socks serves a whole lot more purpose than talking about sorting or not sorting socks. Miss Plainwell was fortunate the curtain came down after two frames and six dialogue balloons. And, probably, so are my readers.

And if you wear the same pattern of socks all the time, there’s no need to match socks… Pair them, roll them, and put them away.

The Danish poet Piet Hein said: Losing one glove is certainly painful but nothing compared to the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

I’ve been like Frazz since I was a teenager. Only wear them when I have to.

“I’m convinced that every missing sock from the dryer ends up in the same place as the missing Tupperware lid.”

— Found this one online