It's Towel Day

**Dave K** · 25th May 09, 11:20 AM

DON'T PANIC! It's Towel Day!

From the site
http://www.towelday.org/
"Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour. "

From The book;
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker 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 vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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."

In a pinch, you can make one into a kilt.

**Bugbear** · 25th May 09, 11:24 AM

I don't believe in towels anymore.

**BEEDEE** · 25th May 09, 01:26 PM

Hey! from another fan of Douglas Adams and the HHGTTG. My sailboat is called Forty Two since it's my answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Brian

:ootd:

**Deil the Yin** · 25th May 09, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by Dave K

DON'T PANIC! It's Towel Day!

From the site
http://www.towelday.org/
"Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour. "

From The book;
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker 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 vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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."

In a pinch, you can make one into a kilt.

Guid on ye!

**Wompet** · 25th May 09, 09:35 PM

I knew I forgot to take something with me to work yesterday ...

**Mipi** · 26th May 09, 01:15 AM

Damn, I forgot... We should be remained sooner.

By the way, it doesn't mean you've grown up if you don't believe in towels any more (like in Santa)!

**JolyStNicholas** · 26th May 09, 04:41 AM

You mean someone on here doesn't BELIEVE in Santa? Just point him out!

As far as towel day>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>If you lived down here you needed a towel on towel day, it rained again yesterday, a lot. 2 1/2" in less than an hour at my place.

**Jack Daw** · 26th May 09, 10:48 AM

In my first Kindergarten we were required to bring a towel for our daily nap time. Later, I changed K-school for another that had cots.

A towel also makes for a good make-shift superhero cape, if I remember correctly.