Towel Day, Did anyone participate? |
 May 26 2005, 01:36 PM
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 E=Fb Musicians Theory of Relativity  Group: Member Posts: 711 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 109,045  |
So Towel Day was yesterday, much to the joy of many of my friends and myself. We participated and had a blast. I got so many strange looks from people for carrying around a towel in the mall (and into Star Wars III, but I don't think anyone there really had any room to be giving me strange looks :P), but it was worth it. This one random guy actually came up and quoted Hitchhiker, and thanked me for reminding him that it was Towel Day. Fun stuff.
If you don't know what Towel Day is, it is a day set aside informally by fans of Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy five-part trilogy. On Towel Day fans are supposed to carry their towels with them all day, everywhere. (http://www.towelday.kojv.net/) My question is, did you participate? Did you know about it before now? QUOTE 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. -HG2G |
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| *paul murphy* |
May 26 2005, 01:38 PM
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Sounds like less fun than eating poo while looking at an old lady taking a sponge bath
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May 26 2005, 01:42 PM
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 Another ditch in the road... you keep moving Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152 |
hush, paul
haha! dude that rocks. i SO owuld hav edone that. dammit i wish id known |
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May 26 2005, 04:31 PM
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if i had known about towel day, i would have done it.
 sadly, i know nothing.
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May 26 2005, 04:33 PM
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to hell with you Group: Member Posts: 2,547 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,506 |
i remember that part in the book. i wa slike "wow..is he random or what?" i wanna participate in towel day!!
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May 26 2005, 05:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,098 Joined: May 2005 Member No: 143,687 |
woah and people actually walked around with their towels.. hopefully they were clean eghh thats weird =D
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May 26 2005, 05:54 PM
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 HAAAAAAAA. Group: Member Posts: 4,472 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 75,068 |
Towel day? I haven't heard of it until...now.
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May 26 2005, 05:55 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 2,881 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 132,134 |
oh cool; didnt know bout it till now.
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May 26 2005, 06:23 PM
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 Take advantage of me. Group: Member Posts: 912 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 43,792 |
Buncha nerds...ahahaha. No I`m jk...kind of...haha
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May 26 2005, 06:45 PM
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 yeah. i'm kevin. Group: Member Posts: 1,399 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 38,782 |
I have no idea what towel day is, and I never heard of it until now.
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May 26 2005, 06:58 PM
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E=Fb Musicians Theory of Relativity Group: Member Posts: 711 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 109,045 |
QUOTE(miszSERENiTY @ May 26 2005, 6:23 PM) Buncha nerds...ahahaha. No I`m jk...kind of...haha  Hey, I'm proud to be a nerd. ;) ...and a geek... and a dork... |
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May 26 2005, 07:05 PM
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 ^-^ Group: Member Posts: 1,676 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 107,668 |
haha, lol, I didn't know it was towel day but you knwo my freinds dad is OBSESSED with hitchhikers guide to teh galaxy and took a towel to the opening night of the show. actually, he saw the show three times already and took a towel to all three. haha. and he wrote "don't panic" on it.
I bet anything he carried his towel around on towel day. lol. 
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May 26 2005, 07:05 PM
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 TOISU!! Group: Member Posts: 1,996 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 92,516 |
No. I didn't know about that. I would've done it though.
Oo lala. I saw Episode III. Hayden Christiensen. 
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May 26 2005, 07:08 PM
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 whatever d00de Group: Member Posts: 1,349 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 63,060 |
i wish i had heard of it before so i could have carried my towel =]
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May 26 2005, 11:42 PM
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 skaters gonna skate. Group: Official Member Posts: 6,861 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 6,336 |
I never heard of Towel Day until I read this.
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May 26 2005, 11:44 PM
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 Retired Member Group: Member Posts: 879 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,843 |
aw that's pretty awesome
heh I just might try that next year |
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May 26 2005, 11:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 785 Joined: May 2005 Member No: 143,525 |
i have never heard of this until right now...interesting though i guess
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May 27 2005, 03:52 AM
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 boo Group: Member Posts: 5,512 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 71,765 |
You learn a new thing everyday.
I didn't know about that, until 5 seconds ago. |
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May 27 2005, 04:12 AM
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 :hammer: Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,849 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,700 |
Aww man, if someone told me it was going to be Towel Day, I would've brought a towel. Hahaha..
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May 27 2005, 04:49 AM
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no but i wish someone would have told me about it =/
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May 27 2005, 09:15 AM
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 yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
wow, i just learned something new.
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May 27 2005, 10:17 AM
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 Grrrrrrr Group: Member Posts: 801 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 123,696 |
i never knew that there was a towel day
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May 27 2005, 11:23 AM
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 ...and this is me.. Group: Member Posts: 3,518 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 57,899 |
Now I know.....
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May 27 2005, 11:25 AM
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 kristin Group: Member Posts: 5,705 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,985 |
Haha! No, I was unaware of Towel Day =p
That's funny though..hah |
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| *tweeak* |
May 27 2005, 11:33 AM
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no, dammit, we went to hitchhiker's saturday and star wars yesterday- we should have done it backwards!
but it was pretty funny, because my friend's father had stuffed towels into her hood (she was wearing a jacket around her waist) before she came, so a couple of them hadnt fallen out and she had them with her to the hitchhiker movie. we were amused |
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May 27 2005, 11:55 AM
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 aiko Nakamura at your service Group: Member Posts: 1,518 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 18,144 |
hahah wow that seems fun. next year i guess ill participate O_O
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May 27 2005, 12:07 PM
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 RiKACHANtEL Group: Member Posts: 3,876 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 51,230 |
umm..no i didnt do that.
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May 27 2005, 12:37 PM
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E=Fb Musicians Theory of Relativity Group: Member Posts: 711 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 109,045 |
QUOTE(HoodieObsessed @ May 26 2005, 7:05 PM) haha, lol, I didn't know it was towel day but you knwo my freinds dad is OBSESSED with hitchhikers guide to teh galaxy and took a towel to the opening night of the show. actually, he saw the show three times already and took a towel to all three. haha. and he wrote "don't panic" on it. I bet anything he carried his towel around on towel day. lol. All my friends brought our towels to the movie, and they came in handy (it rained). :P The band's graduation present to me was a towel that the entire band signed and wrote messages on. It said "Don't Panic" at the bottom, and "So long and thanks for all the fish", and "42", et cetera. It was awesome. XD |
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| *tweeak* |
May 27 2005, 01:01 PM
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wow. even the people i know aren't that obsessed
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| *jooleeah* |
May 27 2005, 01:57 PM
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No way. I even watched that movie....if I had known, I would've done it. Rawrrr
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