When they get holes in them, we can sew buttons and make Lambchop .. puppets out of em also ... nothing ever goes to waste except chocolate that goes to my waist

Now, you can and this is true make a "prison match" with wool socks. This is how it works, you pick off fibers of the wool, scrunch them up into a loose ball, hit it with any spark and you got fire. Wool socks can be used for all kinds of stuff.

In a tear gas attack, wet a pair of wool socks, adhoc gas mask ...
see ask me anything you really didn't want to know and I can give you useless facts