Happy towel day!

[enki_ck]

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 vapours; 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 hitchhiker 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.
Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

[kirk13]

I'll reply to this after a glass of that Old Janx Spirit,otherwise I'll be so unhip my legs will fall off!

Now where are my JJancta 2000 peril chromatic sunglasses and my sub Etha thumb?...

[enki_ck]

So did you carry your towel today?

[kirk13]

So did you carry your towel today?

I had lunch by sucking nutrients from the left corner.Turns out the stain that is actually a wheat germ complex was actually a stain

[Singh]

 

[AHB]

Nerds...

[Grathr]

Happy towel day!

Hitchikers guide to the galaxy is the only book I have  two  of. The first one is worn to pieces after beeing read so many times, the second one is a backup for when the first one is no longer readable 

[David]

So did you carry your towel today?

No, but I'm carrying a bandana.     

[Taxi Dad]

does that mean a 'towel' is classed as a multitool ?

[nuphoria]

Love it!

Happy towel day to y'all too

[Grant Lamontagne]

I was unsuccessful at throwing myself at the ground and missing. 

Def

[kirk13]

I was unsuccessful at throwing myself at the ground and missing. 

Def

You just need the right distraction

[THE_LONGBOW]

I just dried my hands on a towel and did not give a second thought. Wow to think what I am missing.   

[kirk13]

I just dried my hands on a towel and did not give a second thought. Wow to think what I am missing.   

Vogon poetry,if your lucky

[Reinier]

Don't talk to me about life...

[Grant Lamontagne]

Reinier the Paranoid Robot! 

Def

Sent from a digital multitool

[firiki]

I just dried my hands on a towel and did not give a second thought. Wow to think what I am missing.   

Vogon poetry,if your lucky

Now, I'm sure that's worse than I could possibly tell. Happy towel day everyone