MYTHBUSTERS: Send them Your Socks!

You know the routine: put two socks in the wash, pull one sock out. Put one sock in, pull three out. No, how does it work? There have been many debates about the infamous missing sock throughout the years, and now the Mythbusters are putting the lost-sock myth to the test.

The Mythbusters team is asking fans to send in pairs of socks to help in testing the myth. You can also send a story about the socks, a story about your sock-sucking washing machine, or any other sock-related story. Keep in mind, just like submitting your socks to your washing machine, these will not be returned, so don't send anything precious.

Deadline is February 18, just 6 days after the 2009 Gold Toe Award, so get busy! For more Mythbusters information, check out these links:
Details: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mailbag/socks.html
Video: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-send-us-your-socks.html

Sock or Banana?

The Basics

Socks + Monkeys = Sock Monkeys

Meet Derek and Toby. Derek is a tour guide at the Missouri Botanical Garden. His favorite flower is the Echinacea purpurea because it reminds him of Toby's head. Toby is a designer of miniature furniture. He likes his job, but just a little.

My good friend Erica made these cute as a button monkeys for me last year. Their cold weather gear--gloves, shoes, scarves, hats--inspired my own wardrobe updates, which I'll debut soon. They also taught me a thing or two about the importance of button placement. Thanks for the monkeys, Erica. They're always good for a smile.

Call for Entries: 2009 Gold Toe Award

As long as there have been starts, stops and high-fives, there have been exciting events and competitions, with the exception of dueling pianos. When I was a kid I concocted several competition ideas. Sure, I started out like every other kid, with activities like pickle-eating and staring contests. Looking back, however, I don't think the allure was in the actual competitions, but an eight year-old's ability to imagine things on a grand scale and stage: bike races, kick-ball tournaments, sock races, swinging festivals, wagon contests (in my Little House days), and domino contests. You name it. I made tickets, designed uniforms (lots of layering), recruited help from kids at school, scouted locations, even guaranteed motors to each participant of the 1983 backyard box-car race since my dad worked at Ford. The only thing I didn't do was follow through with most of the competitions, but damn, we looked good. Today I'm pleased to announce the first competition I've thought about organizing and announcing since 1987.

Official 2009 Gold Toe Award Rules:
Submit any sort of sock-related item, or any sorted/unsorted socks as long as they're clean. Jokes, stories, drawings and photos are also welcome -- keep those clean as well. Under normal circumstances, friends and family members of The Sock Artist would be ineligible for the 2009 Gold Toe Award. However, that would eliminate my entire readership so it's strictly open to friends, family, non-friends and non-family only. Official deadline is 12:00pm, February 12, 2009. Anticipating the massive amounts of entries I'll be receiving, the official winner of the 2009 Gold Toe Award will be announced at 12:01pm, February 12, 2009. Good luck!

2009 Gold Toe Awards
P.O. Box 21743
St. Louis, MO 63109
USA

or submit email entries here

Green Sneakers on a Green Sock Blog?

While this blog is primarily dedicated to socks, bananas, yellow or fuzzy things, I will occasionally examine things like shoes--or as I like to call them--sock covers. Leg warmers, the bottom parts of pants which touch socks, fake horses, and mandolins are also topics of interest. Oddly enough, many of these interests were found on one album cover at the Lawrence Record Shop in downtown Nashville, TN over the weekend.

Here are a few things about the cover that caught my eye:

10.Her first name is Robin.
9. Her last name is Flower.
8. The title is Green Sneakers.
7. There are 12 green sneakers on the cover.
6. There are rainbow socks in the upper left.
5. It's in the Square Dancing section.
4. I think they're riding on a fake horse.
3. There are leg warmers in the bottom right (I had to mention them).
2. It's only $8.99, but I didn't buy it.
1. There's a stampede of fake horse-riding, green-shoed teenagers heading towards her face yet she manages to pick that mandolin with a smile. Some people are into that sort of thing.