Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Socks For Africa

Wool aisle be damned.
 
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Collect many thousands of leftover / orphaned / cheap socks and send them to remote villages in Africa, without explanation.

Just another example of confusing, inscrutable, misguided international largesse.

UnaBubba, May 08 2012

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       Somebody would weave them into shelters or animal traps.
normzone, May 08 2012
  

       They'd know. And then they would worship them.
blissmiss, May 08 2012
  

       I'm sure they would, [normzone]. I really like the wind generator a teenaged boy made from a bicycle and a few large tin cans.
UnaBubba, May 08 2012
  

       Dear Friend,
I am Cultural Minster of our country. I stand to inherit over 5 million pairs of socks...
FlyingToaster, May 08 2012
  

       Darn apartheid!   

       So we're charitably donating billions of socks to a continent that can be in part identified by the notable portion of its inhabitants who lack shoes?
Alterother, May 08 2012
  

       That's pretty much the whole point(less) of the exercise, right there in one sentence, [Alter].
UnaBubba, May 08 2012
  

       I think my socks already disappear to there.
RayfordSteele, May 09 2012
  
      
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