<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 1, 2006, at 2:46 PM, René Schmitz wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">To avoid getting a cold, you need to put on two (preferably matched) pairs of socks.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yes, but what sock parameter do you match for? As we have already discussed, simply matching parts by color doesn't help if you don't know how they graded the lots in the first place. For instance, are they matched for linearity of Argyle patterns vs. temperature, or are they matched for breakdown of firmness of ankle support vs. time? And don't even get me started on how come we end up with all these single socks from matched sock pairs? Where the hell do those socks go??? And what are we supposed to do with all these unmatched discretes?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>