So... do you all know where your towels are?
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It's Towel Day again (25th May)
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Part-time Hitchhiker nerd and Douglas Adams fan here.
Would this celebration day mean that the reference is to the "Rule" that as long as you ( general you )have your towel with you ,people will lend you anything you need ?
If it isn't ,I'll get my coat ...!
( Might go rewatch that ep Tame is talking about .Or start a Lee/Towel thread.)The place to "Gate" to during Outages for updates and info:
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to quote from The Book:
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
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Yep .
Today is the day Douglas' fans decided on to pay tribute.He died on May 11 2001,so the decision was to commemorate him each year 14 days after his passing.May 25 therefore is "Towel Day".
If anyone wants to know more ,I found this article on Wiki that elaborates further.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
*Waves stripy towel*The place to "Gate" to during Outages for updates and info:
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ROTFL ! They changed it ? Ah well.We were early for next Towel Day then.
"Bob Ad" would have been so proud of us !
Actually..if we were 14 days late ....14x3 =42
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I'd green you but I'm out of green right now...
apparently it was only 25th May first time round... ever after it should be 11th May.
There you go... You know how the whole hitchhiker thing is anyway - changes with every retelling!
Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters all round!In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
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