# Panty gremlins **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751 "2000-08-25T18:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/1 "2000-08-25T18:21:04Z")
I swear to god, my underwear is dissapearing! I had (among others) a half a dozen really comfie black cotton panties, and now I am down to one or two pair! I live with 2 kids, they arent taking them… I only take them off at home… Any theories? ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/2 "2000-08-25T18:23:56Z")
Check e-bay. i think I saw them listed. ---
**Author:** ![SILENT-BOB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@SILENT-BOB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SILENT-BOB)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/3 "2000-08-25T18:24:38Z")
😃😉 ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/4 "2000-08-25T18:30:25Z")
Okay…here are the options. 1. They aren’t making it to the washer–under the bed, behind the dryer, weird places like that. 2. They aren’t making it to the dryer–they’re being sucked into the sock-dimension. If they’re ‘little’ black undies, this may be the case. (and I suspect the guys around here would like to know just what they look like) 😉 3. They’ve gotten pushed back in the drawer and somehow pushed over the side of the drawer into the inside of your dresser. Yes, it happens. You’ll have to take out your drawers to find your drawers–so to speak. 4. The kids are using them for interesting things–doll blankets, etc. Strange? You’d be surprised. 5. That odd looking guy across the street is really sneaking in and nabbing them. Sniffing them. Wearing them…ugh. Forget I said that. 6. Underwear can be jealous. Maybe some of your ‘other’ colored undies are taking them out one by one. Not a common thing, but I’m running out of ideas. I sure don’t have them. If I see them, I’ll let you know. And you and my husband will have some explaining to do. He’s cute. He’d dig your black undies…maybe I’ll have to get me some. ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/5 "2000-08-25T18:30:42Z")
they’re running away with the single socks… ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/6 "2000-08-25T18:32:01Z")
my second simulpost - but why did struuter’s have to be more interesting? _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/7 "2000-08-25T18:34:59Z")
Make sure they’re not hanging from the ceiling fan or thrown over the bed posts. It’s been knkown to happen! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/8 "2000-08-25T18:35:26Z")
possibility A: A bleaching incident in the laundry room has made them now white cotton panties. possibility B: If you washed a blanket or sheet recently, check tp make sure they are not static clung to it. possibility C: don’t even think it, I never touched them. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/9 "2000-08-25T18:38:22Z")
Let’s think about this for a minute, the kinky black undies are running away with all the single socks, right? For what reason? To procreate? Why? To create some type of super kinky undy/sock hydrid? I wonder what the kids would look like? ---
**Author:** ![SILENT-BOB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@SILENT-BOB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SILENT-BOB)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/10 "2000-08-25T18:39:35Z")
😃😃😉 ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/11 "2000-08-25T18:42:04Z")
I just decided that I am going to start a motorcycle gang and call it the panty gremlins. Who is with me? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/12 "2000-08-25T18:43:09Z")
I can assure you (as the only gremlin I know of on the board) that I will NEVER reveal what I’m doing with your panties. I will, however, reveal that it’s damn fun! grem ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/13 "2000-08-25T18:44:07Z")
Oh, all right. I’ll give them back. You didn’t seriously expect me to resist black cotton, did you? Amp: wedding style garters? – “Whata haul, whata haul!” ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/14 "2000-08-25T18:45:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\*I just decided that I am going to start a motorcycle gang and call it the panty gremlins. Who is with me? \*\* I’ve only ever ridden a motorcycle once and I don’t have any black undies. But I’m game. I don’t have to have my nipples pierced or anything like that, do I? ---
**Author:** ![ShamaFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@ShamaFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShamaFrog)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/15 "2000-08-25T18:46:35Z")
Sign me up for the notorious and widely feared Panty Gremlins Motorcycle Gang. …uh, I have a Honda Elite 80cc scooter…can I still join? ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/16 "2000-08-25T18:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > That odd looking guy across the street is really sneaking in and nabbing them. Sniffing them. I am _not_ “odd looking!” ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/17 "2000-08-25T19:04:14Z")
you guys are a real scream! Now give 'em back! ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Sea\_Sloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sloth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/18 "2000-08-25T19:12:15Z")
I THINK I HAVE THEM!!! I cannot for the life of me - no matter how long I go without doing laundry - run out of my black cotton string bikini undies! I didn’t think I bought that many. Maybe it’s a mass exodus. Do they migrate in the winter? ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/19 "2000-08-25T19:21:09Z")
A guy I used to work with told me about when he was a kid, he and his family always wondered what happened to their socks and underwear after the laundry–always seemed to be missing at least one piece a week. You know how some houses have a little vent for the dryer’s exhaust? The vent was on the side of the house that no one ever went to. Well, somehow, the screen that kept things from flying out of the dryer was displaced… and one day, he was playing hide & seek, and went to this side of the house… and found a giant pile of socks and underwear, right under the vent. Have you checked there, yet? ---
**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASD)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751/20 "2000-08-25T19:31:48Z")
It’s the underwear gnomes from South Park (the only good episode of South Park I’ve ever seen). They sneak in at night and steal your underwear, it’s part of a big money making scheme. Step 1: Underwear Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panty-gremlins/30751.md?page=2)