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ResidentSadist -> RE: WTF is going on here? (11/13/2015 5:29:01 PM)
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^ Speaking of ignored socks . . . here is some stuff I had laying around on my desktop I was meaning to post but was too sick to finish authoring it.
-=Missing Socks=-
All those left foot socks that go missing are quite a mystery, so much so the government created Bureau of Missing Socks. It began as a company in the Union Army during the Civil War formed on August 1st, 1861. Joseph Smithson was assigned to the footwear division, Army of the Potomac, supply, where, after a short assessment of his capabilities, he was put in full and complete charge of socks, enlisted and officer.
Major Smithson’s first concern was not buying new socks for the army but maintaining and repairing the ones on the feet of the soldiers. He was the force behind General Order 48904S that required that each member of the North’s forces turn in a used sock before receiving a new one and document all those missing... his first brush with the missing sock phenomenon.
Well, I have solved the mystery. Those missing socks appear to turning up here at CollArChat. In the spirit of my promise to change the tone of my posts and in light of many socks that recently popped up to complain about CM, I give this perspective about Arpig [unfinished]
-=Mic Info About Socks=-
World's Oldest Fabric Sock - Roman Foot Wrap
Not actually a sock, but the sock's predecessor, a foot wrap, it has been carbon dated to the year 79 BC. Unearthed during the evacuation of Rome's subway it was presented to the President of the United States who lost no time in donating to the Bureau. Made of coarse linen, with blue markings, it most likely belonged to a freeman or slave and never saw the inside of the Senate. Foot wraps, which serve the same function as socks, are still in use today, notably in the Russian army.
World's Smallest Sock
Less than an inch long, these socks were made for Tsar Nicholas the 2nd of Russia's pet white mice to see them through Moscow's brutal winters. The art of micro knitting died with Olenka Lanskova, sock maker to the Romanov dynasty, who was assassinated in her work room by an enraged peasant who shouted "If the people don't have shoes, the Tsar's mice shan't have socks."
http://www.funbureau.com/
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