Towel Day

[Good morning blues]

I didn't even remember to bring a towel when I had a shower today.

 

[rokkolpo]

simply no room, or i'll have to dispose of my history textbook.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Always remember towel day, and keep it holy.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

simply no room, or i'll have to dispose of my history textbook.

Towels are more important than history tomorrow
I shall proudly and openly bear my towel on the morrow

 

[Yer man o'er yonder]

I might'nt bring it with me but I'll damn well know where it is!

 

[Quaxar]

simply no room, or i'll have to dispose of my history textbook.

Wear it 'round the neck like a man!

 

[Tzekelkan]

I tell myself each year I won't forget, and then promptly do. Thanks for the reminder, I'll be sure to grab a towel if I go anywhere tomorrow (which I probably won't so meh).

 

[Wayte]

Hm....I'm not sure. If I can I will, not sure how well that would fly durin classes >.>

 

[rokkolpo]

simply no room, or i'll have to dispose of my history textbook.

Wear it 'round the neck like a man!

actually i WILL!

i'm already THAT guy anyway.
so what the hell.

 

[tanithwolf]

If I go out tomorow I'll probably bring my bowling for soup hand towel. I doubt I'll be waving it around though as I'm likely to forget I have it with me.

 

[Icecoldcynic]

I'll bring a Rizla towel... That's the same thing right?

See noone is going to get that, this site won't be diverse enough...

Rizla as in the tobacco rolling paper?

OT: I will not be taking a towel anywhere because I really don't want to.

 

[person427]

Oh no! I forgot to order a towel that says 42 on it! Oh well, I guess I'll be bringing an ordinary one. But next year:

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Well, I will wear my "Have towel will travel Shirt"

I think that'll count =D

 

[Eerors]

I won't because I disliked the book and don't really see the significance behind the towel...

But if I did then I would be sure to seek out fellow towel carriers.

 

[Quaxar]

simply no room, or i'll have to dispose of my history textbook.

Wear it 'round the neck like a man!

actually i WILL!

i'm already THAT guy anyway.
so what the hell.

Well then... don't forget the textbook then and travel well. Oh, and don't forget to borrow random things and talk about dolphins disappearing!

 

[Nevyrmoore]

I won't because I disliked the book and don't really see the significance behind the towel...

Right, the towel is basically the hitch hiker's best friend. To quote 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-bogglingly 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.

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.

As for why a towel...it's because Douglas Adams got the idea whilst on holiday and found that his beach towel kept going missing.

 

[Dr.Susse]

Instead of a new thread I used necromancy.

Happy towel day.