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We're all guilty of wearing these items right down to the bone, and in many cases throwing them in the garbage because it's really difficult to donate your old ratty socks that have holes in them to your local thrift store.
Or they'll have a gym sock stuffed with other gym socks to try to recreate the shape that once was; and that, to us, is not thriving.
Of course, there will be time for all that later in your life, after you come out of your room and begin to blossom, or at least pick up all your socks.
He wore black and white: slippers over socks, pilling sweatpants, a piebald sweater, a striped ski cap pulled down to his forehead.
The shop where I buy my socks says I may take them back, and they don't ask any questions.
They take them back and give me the money or give me the pair of socks of the color I wanted.
In such a world, we'd have most reason to wear black socks instead of pink socks, to eat cereal instead of donuts, to live in the city rather than the country, to marry Betty instead of Lolita.
The tradition is that in the winter, in that city, you wear your socks on the outside of your boots.
That if you wear your socks on the outside rather than the inside, you're much more likely to survive and not slip and fall.
Testing the device on a number of patients made me realize that I needed to invent solutions for people who didn't want to wear socks to sleep at night.
And so, what you've seen today is less than a fraction of one percent of what is in here, and in the TED Lab, we have a tour that was created by a six-year-old named Benjamin that will knock your socks off.
Tristan, a West Point track star, who always ran and road marched with no socks, and had shoes whose smell proved it.
And what kind of super socks and super shoes is he putting on his feet to withstand all the friction that results from dragging his 5,400 pound body against the road when he runs?
But then, there were other things to get excited about, like poetry and knitting socks and conjugating French irregular verbs and coming up with make-believe worlds and Bertrand Russell and his philosophy.
And then I remember my high school chemistry teacher with really long socks at the blackboard, drawing diagrams of bubbles connected to other bubbles, and describing how they vibrate and collide in a kind of frantic soup.
Ironically, that object was made by the Killarney process, which is a brand-new process here for the 21st century, and I can hear Greg Lynn laughing his socks off as I say that.
It could be a pair of socks, it could be a light bulb.
By the way, he creates that by wearing wool socks under his robes.
I felt like I was floating, floating on the love and prayers of all those who hummed around me like worker bees, bringing me notes and socks and flowers and quilts embroidered with words of encouragement.
But this time we collected their odour by making them wear socks, nylon stockings to collect their body odour, and we brought them back to the UK, and then we handed them to this charity to run the experiment.
Now, three of the socks had been worn by children who were uninfected, and just one of the socks was worn by a child who was infected with malaria.
And we're just going to have four pots that are containing socks from children that had no malaria.
These socks have been in the freezer for a couple of years now.
And we went out to the Gambia and did some more odor collection on children that were infected and uninfected, but this time, we collected their odor by making them wear socks, nylon stockings, to collect their body odor.
Now three of the socks have been worn by children who were uninfected, and just one of the socks was worn by a child who was infected with malaria.
Now Sarah is going to actually change the pots around a little bit, and she's going to take the one with malaria away, and we're just going to have four pots that are containing socks from children that had no malaria, so in theory, Freya should go down the line and not stop at all.
These socks have been in the freezer for a couple of years now, and this is a tiny bit of a sock as well.
It's like, as many times as the virus changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure we get the body to really hate those socks.
The production values are superb but the resulting movie is a waste of time; wash your socks instead.
All I can say is next year this person is getting slipper socks from me.
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