carstairs Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Mark May 25th on your calendar - it's Towel Day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 excellent. you are a cool frood for passing this on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 On a Sunday?!?! Isn't that sacriligious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 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, 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol'Hickster Posted May 24, 2008 Report Share Posted May 24, 2008 Its the only thing that gets wet when its drying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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