25/5 :: Towel Day :: A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

Today marks the 6th anniversary for Towel Day

The day we celebrate Douglas Adams , the brilliant Author of the Best Book written by man in the universe, The Hitchhikers Guide into the Galaxy , and The best Book I have ever read, This day is dedicated for Marvin, Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian, and The Guide itself !

Please take some time and visit The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy web portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Hitchhiker%27s

And For those of you, that are asking Why a Towel

Am going 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 Bug latter 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.

So Dont Panic , And have a glories Towel Day