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Reports from Towel Day celebrants throughout the galaxy — at Ebeth’s request.
Date: May 24, 2006
Categories: Life, The Universe, Things We like
COOL TOWELS!!
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Me just took a bath. It was a blue towel.
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TOWEL DAY IN ONLY 3 HOURS!!! Aproximatly.
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Towels?????????? I would ask, except that would make me feel not too bright..
Anyway, I like towels!! Yesterday I used a purple one!
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Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just took a shower!
It was a blue towel!
I shall carry a towel to school!! (a small one)
I shall freak people out by saying “Happy Towel Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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I used a pinkish-yellow one. Go H2G2
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i have a towel w/ duckies on it…my whole bathroom is decorated w/ duckies, actually.
shut up. ducks pwn.
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5- I totally agree with you. My friends Sara and Molly are both H2G2 fans, so they’ll know wha I’m doing. I still have to convince them to go on Museblog, though.
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Okay, first day of summer vacation for me. But, I’m going to the beach, so I’ll have loads of towels! YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!
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forgot my towel at home. boo. at skool now. theres a sub. boo. got to go. is a paper towel acceptable?
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i never read hg2g due my moms strict orders not to. will someone explain?!
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In the books, the one big piece of advice for galactic hitchhikers is “never go anywhere without your towel.” The reasons are never explained, but the characters do find uses for towels in all sorts of unlikely situations. At one point, they even suck on vitamin-impregnated towels when they run short of food.
When Douglas Adams died a few years ago, it took two weeks for the news to get around. Then fans in various cities held gatherings to mourn him and, naturally, brought their towels. Eventually they decided that May 25 would be Towel Day in his honor.
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9-Lucky. I leave for camp on the 22nd, before school is out.
10-In a pinch.
11-H2G2 is the repository of all hitchhiking wisdom ever. It is my goal, in later life, to hitchhike alone from the very tip of Argentina up through the Yucatan peninsula, and possibly through Australia if I still feel fresh enough. Why won’t your mother let you read it? It’s very appropriate. The radio series not so much, but there’s nothing bad in it.
12-A towel is the most massively useful thing a hitchhiker can have. (You all know the rest so I won’t bother to type it.)
I’m being authoritative on this topic because I am the blog’s official Douglas Adams expert. Here is the Vogon poetry to torment strags (non-Hitchhikers) with:
O freddled gruntbuggly…
…thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee,
my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwards with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don’t!
That was from memory. Zarquon, I am obsessed.
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oops. forgot it this morning! I’ll carry it around now though!
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TOWELS.
I took a shower. And used a towel.
I brought a towel to school.
And convinced my friends to commandeer some of our homeroom teacher’s paper towels. He thought it was funny.
YAY TOWELS.
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I brought my towel! I got menny odd looks in the hallways. Yesssss. Only two other people did-Jacob and Andy. Jacob because he’s a frood, and andy because i stole his calkylator and wouldn’t give it back until he showed me his towel.
And even so, it was a washcloth.
Loser.
However, to his credit he was very disappointed when the world didn’t end around lunchtime today. You have to admit it’s the perfect time-International Towel Day falls on a Thursday this year.
So. Latin wasn’t very exciting-i fell asleep and used my towel for a pillow. Use Of Towel Throughout The Day #1. In history, we finished Hotel Rwanda, but before we started featherstone was like “does anybody have any questions? Life? The Universe? Anything?” and andy and i looked at each other and started cracking up. I’m not sure if he actually knew about towel day or if that was just a coincidence. Anyway, smothered laughter with towel. Use Of Towel #2. Gym, i didn’t use my towel at all, i left it in my locker. *gasp* Although that would be a class it’d be useful for. However, i actually didn’t do anything that day-Welsh left so we all just sort of stood around pretending we were doing something. Anyway. Band, same as gym, left towel. At lunch, towel was incredibly useful in smacking people. Specifically wiseman (who returned from the dead today), weckstein, phillip, and occaisionally jacob. In math, no use towel, although it was there, ready and waiting. English, towel lay ignored as i feverishly scribbled random guesses onto my Dreaded Grammar Test. (although it actually wasn’t NEARLY as bad as i thought it would be. Only one page of the clauses and whatnot, rest was comparatively simple) Science, hit andy with towel menny times, and slept on it during boring movie about how asteroids are gonna hit the earth and we’re all gonna die.
I only lost my towel twice-once to weckstein, who beat phil with it before i stole it back, and once to david, who merely asked if this was a h2g2 thing, shook his head, and handed it to me. Strags. Stealing my towel. Hmph!
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14- same.
got teased at skool. *hug towel*
aaah, now I feel better.
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Towel Day!!!
I used a purple towel today!
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i have a blue towl with a fish on it, but today i used my pink one. GO HGTG!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
11- that STINKS. and i thought the hallibuts i was hitting myself with smelled…
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9- you already have summer vacation! no fair i still have 17 days left of skool. then i go to Alaska where i can use my towel to scare bears and keep away the mosquitos
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ebeth- oooh, man. nobody in my whole skool has even READ h2g2. man.
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ditoe
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I used a Snoopy towel. I got a lot of weird looks..heehee.
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MERDE! I forgot!!!
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13-
Actully I quite liked it.
Oh yes, I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particulary effective. and well im to lazy to type the rest.
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*deep breath*
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
Still to lazy
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Auuugh, I forgot to bring my towel to school! To make up for it I displayed all of the towels I could find at home, thoroughly freaking out my H2G2-ignorant parents, lol. Fortunately, once I explained they didn’t mind. ^_^
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I brought my towel to skool. It was a boring white one. Jess and I dressed ourselves up in it and took pictures. We wore it as a turban, a toga, a boa, a scarf. Then in writing and lit she fell out of her chair and I helped pull her off the floor by giving her my towel to grab onto. After skool we all walked to Alicia’s house for an end of the year party. We went swimming and I used my towel to dry off. Then my oldest sister was bothering me in the car so I whipped her with it. Then we went to my other older sister’s high skool graduation and when her name was called I screamed and waved my towel. All in all, it was very useful.
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I had this big project due and it was time for dinner, so I walk in and my parents are both wearing their towels on their heads. I brought one to school, but wasnt allowed to bring it to class
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Towel Day? man, am i an idiot???? Apparently…Though i did wear a newspaper hat with a feather in it. Got many strange looks.
My towel is beige with geen and purple stripes on it…
TOWELS ROCK!!! -fuzzy towel fuzzy towel fuzzy towel fuzzy towel-
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29- Your parents? Seiously? Wow. Super suportive, they are.
*hums to self*
Heres a towel theres a towel
And another little towel
Fuzzy towel funny towel
towel towel duck
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AUGH! I forgot Towel Day! *pwns self*
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*pwns Quintessentia* I remembered! Plus I had swim practice so I had to bring a towel anyways… yeah!
Jadestone, that’s a brave thing you did. Yup. You messed with the llama song! Beware the fuzzy and funny flying llama warriors that attack anyone or anything that mess with the llama song!
Beware!
lol
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I once did HGtG as my book report. It was really cool because I was in third grade, and everyone was going and saying stuff like ” Wow! You actually read that book” and “But thats not our level of reading” or “COOL!” (I am a VERY good reader. I read collage level, even though I’m only in 6th grade.) For the book report we had to draw visuals and GUESS WHAT?* a bunch of people lean forward, and listen intently* I drew a towel! *the bunch of people lean back into their chairs, the excitement over* Isn’t that just cool or what?
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34-You cannot do a book report on H2G2. It’s a farce. LA teachers are brain-dead; they will not understand the true genius of Douglas Adams and the trilogy’s vast superiority to all other works of comic sci-fi literature. Tom Holt may be good, but he is far too short, far too boring, and far too afraid of creative similes to be an equal to Bop Ad. He is not the next Douglas Adams. And don’t tell me it’s his editor-if he was a worthy Bop Ad 2, he would stand up to this supposedly tyrannical person and have some backbone. Pengy, you really could have done better.
It’s spelled “college”. Collages are something quite different.
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34- same here. i read the 6th hp book in a matter of about 6 hours. i read that fast when i was 6 years old…
who says we are sitting? we could be standing… or kneeling!
lol, i’m jk… i’m crouching. not sitting. crouching.
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What’s strange is the steeler’s “Terrible Towel”. *jumps up + waves dirty, sweaty towel like a maniac* “Fear my terrible towel’s terribleness!” *does fangirl scream* Well, it’s an interesting idea, even if it makes no sense to some of us that washing the thing now and then could take away the luck. Like how we’re not supposed to wash our belts for Tae Kwon Do. But that doesn’t have anything to do with anything.
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35- ARE YOU SAYING I SHOULDNT HAVE READ IT???????????/
*starts to cry* i onlyn did it so my fellow classmates would know what they were missing. *starts to BAWL*
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It’s ok Pengy, don’t be sad. I don’t think she’s saying you shouldn’t have read it. Douglas Adams is just so untouchably genius, most teacher don’t appreciate it.
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Kali- STEELERS???? STEELERS????!!!!!! YOU LIKE THE STEELERS!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
*implodes*
PITTSSSSSSBURGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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34- I was reading college level books in 1st grade, PWN
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Not to be rude anybody, but nobody cares. Seriously. We’re musers, of course we can read. Let’s stay out of annoying fights about who’s a better reader, because 1-there’s really no way to judge 2-we’re above that (i hope) 3-It’s incredibly boring for those not involved, as well as annoying to have to scroll past and 4-it’s a complete waste of time. As i said, we’re musers.
DUDE! 42nd POST! I pwn this thread!
*waves towel*
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So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that
grow around you
So long, so long and thanks
for all the fish
The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve around you
(I don’t know the rest)
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i forgot about towel day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*goes and fells asahmed in a corner*
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44- So did I.
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43- Here’s the entire song:
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?
You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that
grow around you
So long, so long and thanks
for all the fish
The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve
Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your
pregnant women
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long and thanks
for all the fish
(yeah)
So long and thanks for all the fish
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?
(oh dear)
Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your
pregnant women
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long and thanks
for all the fish
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What about the part that goes “If I had just one last wish / I would like a tasty fish,” etc.?
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I didn’t read the 6th Harry Potter book. Not all of it in one sitting, anyway. I had to keep putting it down to vomit. My best friend and I took several hours to survive that one.
I agree with Ebeth on the 42nd post-I’m jalous that she got it, but there you have it. Let’s stop arguing over who’s the better reader, OK? Let’s just pick out a Kafka book to read and have a deep meaningful argument over that.
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i will change my name to… Darth Chibi Manga Fan Who Really Likes Hot Pink Bunnies, Star Wars, and TROGDOR!!! (and also a goth) wheres the smily page 
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I CANT FINNDDDDDD IT!!! -Veronica the elf who matilerized at the keyboard just as Veronica the human was trying to type…
(incase your wondering, “it” is the magic potion from D&D)
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could it be… IT IS! DARTH YODA!!!!!! Wherrrre WAS I??? Yes o Yes! I have RETURNED from the GREATNESS that is……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………DUENGEONS AND DRAGONS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
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YOU DELETED IT!!! YOU WILL DIEEE!
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zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts zzzts (the blue lighning)
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o wait… my mistake, admins, sorry
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