Towel Day...
Dirty_Harry_Potter
Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
<div class="IPBDescription">...this saturday</div> this saturday it's <a href='http://www.systemtoolbox.com/towelday/' target='_blank'>TOWEL DAY!</a>, so all HGttG fans(or others who like to show their towels) remember to bring your towel along you this sunday.
i'm going to see Matrix Reloaded that day <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Why a towel?
To quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
A towel 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 vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine soredly 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 brush, but 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 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. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->edit: though it was saturday, but apparently it's sunday.
i'm going to see Matrix Reloaded that day <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Why a towel?
To quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
A towel 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 vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine soredly 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 brush, but 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 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. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->edit: though it was saturday, but apparently it's sunday.
Comments
my towel has got a Tigger on it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->just hide behind your towel until the offensive people go away. (These people are mind-bogglingly stupid and think that if you can't see them, they can't see you-daft as a bush, but dangerous otherwise.)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
25th may............ thats my birthday!!!
I might be looked at weid if i have a towel with me playing laserforce, but oh well:P
How much do you want for it? Oh, and what's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I hear of it, but I haven't read it.
How much do you want for it? Oh, and what's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I hear of it, but I haven't read it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I HATEZ JOO!!1
And... why? Reasoning's fun.
Oh about Reloaded, when I went to see it with some friends, they were all wearing togas made out of bedsheets. They were going to wear trenchcoats but their parents wouldn't let them <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
And... why? Reasoning's fun. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->How much do you want for it? Oh, and what's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I hear of it, but I haven't read it. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Only one of the best books ever written. What did you think it was?
How much do you want for it? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I won't part with it for a penny less than $5,000 ^_^
The 25th of May has no DNA significance. Why did you pick that day to celebrate?
Towel Day was intended to be a wake. A way of showing respect for the passing of this most hoopy frood. It was first slated for one week after his death, but that didn't give us nearly enough time to get the word out. So we moved it to two weeks after his death.
This question also appears in the form, "But, why not 42 days after his death?" Again, it's all about timing, 42 days is a long time in the history of the Universe, so we were concerned that the enthusiasm would vaporize like a planet in the path of a Vogon Constructor Fleet.
Some people still won't just give up, and ask "But, why not on Thursday, since that's when the trilogy begins? Well, we didn't think about that until the idea had already exploded across the Internet. I could never get the hang of Thursdays, anyway.
If you have any other questions about why Towel Day is on May 25, instead of (insert date here), feel free to consult your Guide<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->