Towel Day??
 

Did you guys know May 25 is the Towel Day? It appeared on our firm calendar!

The day is in commemoration of the late Douglas Adams.

I wonder, how is it celebrated? Anybody even heard of this "holiday"?

http://www.towelday.kojv.net/

What: Carry your towel with you throughout the day to show your participation and mourning.

Why: A quote from "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.

The towel of the True Believer will have the number 42 monogrammed upon it.

Anonymous, what if somebody will think this is the year I was born :))

Carry a towel... I wonder if my co-workers will understand :-?

Faina - I'm certain that at least half my co-workers would. Then again, we're all a bunch of engineer geeks who regularly tell each other that the answer is 42 when someone says "I have a question for you" . . . :-p

Well then,
I guess, <font color="blue">Happy <font color="red">Towel <font color="green"> Day </font> </font></font> to you!!

((^)) &lt;@:) #o

JLM, NO!! The answer is the code ID ten T, do you know this code?

Faina,
I can't believe we dropped the ball on this one this year! #o Why I'm downright miffed that my calendar did not have that information and so I was not properly notified! X-(

Well, we now have the heads up and so every Fodorite, old or young, must celebrate next year's Towel Day by donning a towel in proper celebratory fashion! ;-) [-X

Does carrying a &quot;<font color="black">TERRIBLE</font> <font color="gold">TOWEL</font>&quot; count? As long as I don't wave it in Seattle?

Everyone, take a deap breath and re-read my post. Pay attention, Jagril, it's MAY 25. It's April now.

You have over 3 weeks to run out and buy a towel, then take it to the signage place and ask them to print something obnoxious ;)

Kal, which towel? The one you brought to the GTG in Yountville?

OOOOH...
Well, you know...always looking for some reason to celebrate something! :)
Well, now we simply must start a post called, &quot;what to wear on Towel Day in Paris&quot;

Faina,
Can you tell we're all half starved for silliness?

F2,
I brought a crying towel to Y'ville since I knew you were going to be there.

:O)

JAgirl, that's why I am here :))

Kal: and I thought it was a white flag!

I didn't want to insult you and wave the Black Flag at you. :-&quot;

Well... if even Kal doesn't want to play a pirate with me... :'(

How about wrapping it around your head and trying to breeze through airport security? There, I kepy it travel related :-)

Even better yet, let's ask Muffin if she thinks wearing a towel is an appropriate special plane riding outfit? :-d

I can never wear a towel in public because it won't stay on. I have tried putting on a towel after a shower, but it always falls off within minutes. But that's OK, DH doesn't complain when I'm in the bathroom, having a towel movement. :-)