Towel Day!

Timmeh · May 25, 2006, 2:21am

Wear towels!

Remember:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical valueyou 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 youdaft as a brush, 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 [non-hitch hiker] discovers that a hitchhiker 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 hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker 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.

Pomegranate · May 25, 2006, 2:24am

lol.

thats all i have to say.

oh, and what day is it?

Timmeh · May 25, 2006, 2:26am

May 25

Pomegranate · May 25, 2006, 2:28am

really? is this a real celibration/holiday?

Timmeh · May 25, 2006, 2:30am

See troid’s sig for details >_>

Or google it.

Andreas · May 25, 2006, 5:39am

Those books are really insane. Insane in a good way. >

Troid92 · May 25, 2006, 9:23pm

Oh man, today was terrible. Yes, I did actually wear a towel with me all day. In a middle school. What a poor choice -__- … “LOL TWOEL DAY FUR RETARDS!!!1!1!!1” “DUDE UR SUCH A QUEER!!!11” “WTF loL Y R U WEARING TOEWL!!!1!1?1!?” … Middle-schoolers are so weird.

Only one other person in the whole school brought a towel, and he gave up halfway through the day. At least he managed to get a free pencil out of a teacher, whether it was the psychological reason or not.

I feel like Marvin at the moment.

Timmeh · May 25, 2006, 9:26pm

Harr.
People were asking me all day, too, so I just yelled at them for being fags and not celebrating Douglas Adams.

4 people had towels, not counting those who forgot, but wanted to.

Czar_Dragon · May 25, 2006, 11:54pm

Who is Douglas Adams?