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We'd much prefer to think that it may just be the case of these respondents receiving a string of gym socks, melted chocolates and other desirable gifts, resulting in this Scrooge-like behaviour.

When it's ripe and ready to eat, the durian can make a whole house smell a little like old gym socks.

The resulting attraction even keeps lockers stuffed with smelly gym socks and crumpled math homework looking good.

It does not seem possible that a small, white plastic ball could handle a pile of dirty washing, but it tackled teacloths stained with pasta sauce, sweaty gym socks and grubby towels without a hitch.

Except instead of the traditional morning list of gym socks, trainers, keys, briefcase, he wanted a piece of paper.

However, Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie, right, stole the show at Zootopia, in New Jersey, wearing a gymslip outfit complete with shorts and gym socks

Hitch's ultimate project is Albert (James), a timid man who wears white gym socks with loafers and turns mealtime into an adventure in stains.

For a month or so in 1963, the New York journalist, Gloria Steinem, posed as a Playboy Bunny and published a damning report of bizarre medical examinations, inadequate bosoms augmented with gym socks, appallingly low pay and constant propositions.

It's a haven of self-expression, complete with photos of friends and pop idols, the ever-essential hair brush or backpack, and the occasional pair of smelly gym socks.