Happy Towel day :D (Hitchhikers Guide) in Memory of Douglas Adams

[Flying Ace]

to fans of the late Douglas Adams and his great book series hitchhikers guide we celebrate towel day!

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.

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

 

"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day

don't forget your towel! probably going to watch the movie today even if it's nothing like the book

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[Amaya]

What the forget.

[IsaacKronenFaust]

My words exactly, Amaya.

[Flying Ace]

seriously if you have not heard of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy you have not lived

[IsaacKronenFaust]

I dead.

[Kevdude]

[Flying Ace]

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basically the hitchhikers guide is a book series about the universe and how many ways it can make fun of said universe it's probably the
most hilarious book series you could ever read in your life, the internet is filled with references to it

for example Yahoo's translation program is called Babel fish which is a leach like creature that sucks on brain wave energy and translates whatever anyone says into your common language in the hitch hikers guide

[Amaya]

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What the forget.

[Night Fox]

yes.

[Flying Ace]

Amaya It's a joke dumbass in the book they are searching to the answer to everything and finally find someone who can tell them and all the robot says is '42' the entire book is a big 'wtf' but is amazing cause of it

yes.

that song is so awesome

[Kevdude]

basically the hitchhikers guide is a book series about the universe and how many ways it can make fun of said universe it's probably the
most hilarious book series you could ever read in your life, the internet is filled with references to it

for example Yahoo's translation program is called Babel fish which is a leach like creature that sucks on brain wave energy and translates whatever anyone says into your common language in the hitch hikers guide

I know it's a book hurr. I saw the movie and my friend told me about the book. Stop being so condescending and believing you are above everyone else

[Amaya]

It's a joke dumbass in the book they are searching to the answer to everything and finally find someone who can tell them and all the robot says is '42' the entire book is a big 'wtf' but is amazing cause of it

that song is so awesome

I already knew that so you can gladly shut up. kthx

[zackin5]

Gonna wear my "Don't panic and carry a towel" shirt today.

[Lørd Tøny]

Worst day, ever.

[fawkes..]

Best book series ever. EVER.