He was sitting on the edge of the bed, bending to remove a sock.
Yet the most famous, Kermit the Frog, is simply a hand in a sock.
If you think it does, put your money in a sock under your mattress.
If I put my leg in a sock, how did it end up on one, two, three sides?
Now, a tiny, privately held company says it has a solution to the problem: Put a sock on it.
It's simple, it just costs more to seam a sock in the U.S. than it does in China or Honduras.
This year, the annual tour takes in diverse locations, from a squirrel conservation project on Anglesey to a sock factory in Carmarthenshire.
The socks do a good job of repelling "trail grime, " the combination of mud, sweat, dirt and pine needles that can cling to a sock, she says.
Baker tells me he can make a sock core just as cheaply as anyone in China or Honduras - the machine costs the same, so does the yarn, there's hardly any labor.
Each sock comes with its own RFID chip, which can be "read" by a NFC (near field communication) device known as a sock sorter, which in turn communicates via Bluetooth with an iPhone.
"Pinch a cup of porridge oats from the breakfast buffet, tie it up in a sock, float the sock in a hot water, then use as a puff to massage your body, " Coombe added.
Stance, a sock company based in San-Clemente, Calif.
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That ratio has collapsed from 17 early last year to around 9--meaning that money sits in a sock drawer or a bank account for about twice as long as it once did before being put to use.
The DIs wore their hair long and pinned up in "sock buns, " a Marine Corps specialty that required snipping off the toe line of a sock, rolling the fabric into a doughnut shape, and wrapping and winding a ponytail's worth of hair around it.
Once in a while he wrote brief letters to the editor using the name A. Sock, a wordplay on Punch.
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The office of lost bus objects was lit like a dungeon and smelled like a wet sock, its counter manned by a lanky kid in a floppy Santa hat.
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How can this be worse than sleeping on top of her parents' graves, saying Kaddish so many times the words ran together like nonsense, worse than sitting for days by the Pripiat River, watching for a little sock or Sophie's blue petticoat, sitting in the mud in only a nightgown and blanket, until the weather changed and Mariam came with the flier for America?
One A. Sock letter, an unflattering take in 1979 on the National Organization for Women, brought a sharp rebuttal letter.
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Convinced his cover was blown, Mr. Sulzberger wrote almost no A. Sock letters again.
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The ball was waiting for him in his locker, stuffed in a white sock.
She wore a brace on her left leg and a compression sock on her right one.
Now he had one bare foot and the other still covered by a pale-blue sock and a rabidly red moccasin.
Wearing a Darn Tough prototype for three straight weeks without a wash, "they basically smell like you've just grabbed them off the rack, " says Mr. Cabot, pointing to a multicolored ankle sock he was testing on a recent day.
On top of that is a thick wool sock, winter boots that are three sizes to large for me, and a waterproof overboot.
The fact that these wines often taste like a sweaty gym sock may, in fact, be no small coincidence.
For early boomers with exposure to the downturn (that is having two of these assets: housing equity, a 401(k) plan or an Individual Retirement Account), they need to sock away a median 7% more of their compensation each year, including raises, until they reach 65, says Jack VanDerhei, research director of the Employee Benefits Research Institute in Washington, D.
Friends hollering up from the street and you throwing the key down in a balled-up sock.
Just ask Jack Sock, a 19-year-old, who is one of the most promising young American players.
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