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From: jeh@ohgua.UUCP (J.E. Hurd [Jim])
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: RE: Teleporting washers
Message-ID: <46@ohgua.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 10:05:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 10:05:46 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Jul-84 08:11:20 EDT
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Omaha
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>	I beg to differ, but washing machines do not eat socks!
>They are teleportation devices and exchange socks with other washing
>machines.  Don't tell me you've never found a single sock in the wash
>which no one else would claim.  This usually happens when one of a 
>pair of socks disappears.  Apparently an exchange takes place.

Actually, it's the DRYER that is the teleportation device. This was 
reported in the March, 84 issue of *ANALOG* magazine.