It's not the frayedness, it the knottyness that's missing!
You need a good sheepshanking :P
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The only actual knots i could find
were attached to peoples socks, as the griped on their blogs about how they got a frayed knot in their soc etc.
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Thu 22 Feb 2007, 0:54,
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