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TOWEL DAY!; Ferget Queen V.
Topic Started: May 25 2010, 07:36 PM (1,139 Views)
FuzzyLobster
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It's also the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May, but that's a different author.
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"Few injustices [can be] deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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rubberchickenben
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I definitley fergot her
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Yay Towel Day! I brought mine with me today. ^^
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Bah, I only found out about it at around noon-ish.
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I just remembered it now.
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Happy towel day!

I actually remembered late in the morning. I'm proud.
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I never even knew such a day existed. But awesome! Fans think of such nice things.

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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.
Edited by nathanielandbartimaeus, May 26 2010, 11:52 AM.
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I has an IRON MAIDEN TOWEL w00t
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I HAVE A TOWEL-BATHROBE.
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I have a Pokeman towel. I win.
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I have a plain white towel. So I completely win =p.
(And a glistening palatinate blue one too. Which never absorbs water.)


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I has an IRON MAIDEN TOWEL w00t
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