Shoc Posted May 25, 2008 Posted May 25, 2008 If it wasn't for you, I would have forgotten! I forgot Towel Day last year. Happy Towel Day! I shall be sure to take my towel out. :skull: Quote
Shadows Posted May 25, 2008 Posted May 25, 2008 And a Happy Towel Day to you too, one and all! It would be the height of ill manners for someone with a title like mine to miss out on an occasion of this magnitude and importance, and while I am certainly tall enough to reach such a height, I'll stoop to avoid it today. Quoth the Guide: 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. Quote
Siegfried Posted May 25, 2008 Posted May 25, 2008 Oh no; mines in the wash. (On a related note, I saw the movie last week; the books are far better. ) Quote
mammymarf Posted May 25, 2008 Posted May 25, 2008 I've never heard of it but Happy towel day! (I always enjoy these eurobricks holidays) Quote
maiq the liar Posted May 25, 2008 Posted May 25, 2008 (edited) Woah! ALREADY?! I was hoping i could take a towel to school, but oh well... *keeps his friends close, but his towel closer* Ford prefect ON! Edited May 25, 2008 by maiq the liar Quote
Corvus Posted May 26, 2008 Posted May 26, 2008 It's today?! I was hoping it'd be during the week... That's so fun to bring to work/school. Bath towel ON! Quote
Quarryman Posted May 27, 2008 Posted May 27, 2008 It's today?! I was hoping it'd be during the week... That's so fun to bring to work/school. Bath towel ON! Yes, Towel Day on a Sunday wasn't nearly as much fun as on a Friday (last year we were quite a few people carrying towels around campus on Towel Day. This year I only met one who did. (but several of my friends were ashamed because they forgot Towel Day, that at least amounts to something. One of them got order number 42 when we went to have dinner.. lucky bastard ) Oh well, next year it will be on a Monday, so that should be better Quote
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