A pair of socks. As a gift they fall somewhere between neckties and plastic bedding. But there's also something inherently funny in a pair of socks. Maybe it's the banality of the gift, the quotidian nature of the sock itself—or maybe it's the toes, (those dinky digits at the end of the foot whose purpose remains, for most of us, obscure). Uncover the truth of the matter with a pair of toeless socks.