Happy Towel Day!
If you don’t know what towel day is…
DON’T PANIC
Just grab a towel and go with it… they are handy things to have with you, you know..
And if you really want to know what towel day is all about go on over to my husband’s blog and check it out!
what do i do with my towel 🙂
I really need to read that book…
Other than hitting the kids with it and a bath, I don’t know what else to do with one….I think I’ll go chase the kids and try to “splank” them with it, hehehe
To quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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 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.
But wait… what made that particular day so special… Why was that day, THE towel day. That’s what I want to know!
Towel Day, May 25 every year, is a celebration in honor of Douglas Adams’ works. Douglas Adams wrote , amoungst many other things, “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” trilogy. Those five books have a popular following across the globe. A fit 49 year old Douglas was excercising at a local gym when a heart attack took him away on May 11, 2001. 14 days later, the soonest it could be organized, a world wide celebration of Douglas’s work took place in the form of the very first Towelday .
This year, 2006, is the fifth anniversary of Douglas Adam’s death. His faithful fans fly this flag as a fervent fairwell to this father of fine fiction.
Here’s to you Mr. Douglas Adams. Here’s to you!
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