Do you know where your towel is? 2006 May 25 12:42
Posted by diamond in : Random , trackbackHappy Towel Day everyone.
Can i really?
They told me at the front desk i could have a puppy…
They told me at the front desk i could have a puppy…
Happy Towel Day everyone.
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Yes, I do. I have been educated. I’ve read everything [published] by Douglas Adams. To quuote the great man:
“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.”
May he rest with the Dollphins…
Exxxccuse the spelling. It”'’’s the influence of Pangalactic Gurgleblastersssss…
Typos in blogs have been found to have the same relation to reality as the Word Processor to Printing. You type a document, with spelling and grammaer perfect. When you click, or type, PRINT, the Evil Spirit of Asciimachtar Oh Oh Unicodarri converts your text but adds some creative juices, normally recognised as “typos”. This is very unfortunate. Many wars have started, and ended prematurely, throughout the multiverse due to this.
//this is an exact quote from the Guide when clicking the sub-etha link for “typo”//
…including a typo…
and now I’ve proofread it again. Recursion, see Recursion.
You’re clearly having too much fun -)
Steve
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