Happy Towel Day!
How are you celebrating?
Date: May 25, 2007
Categories: Random craziness
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 25th, 2007 @ 07:28I never knew there was such a thing!!! I don’t know how to celebrate if I don’t know what it is!!!
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Kiki the Great
in May 25th, 2007 @ 07:43w00t! I missed last years, so I’m doin’ it today! YAYAYAY!
I’m going to bring a towel to school. If I had a H2G2 shirt, I would wear it. But I don’t, so I’m not.
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Koko du Pelle
in May 25th, 2007 @ 10:25“Towel Day”?
3rd post!
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Alice/Rhoda/Elderseventh
in May 25th, 2007 @ 11:38I have no idea what this is!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 25th, 2007 @ 11:48It was all explained this time last year.
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E2MB
in May 25th, 2007 @ 11:54I like towels. Especially when I come out of the shower.
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Alice/Rhoda/Elderseventh
in May 25th, 2007 @ 11:55Oh I see. Well, I’ve never
readfinished any Douglas Adams (don’t kill me!), so I wouldn’t know. Though I do remember the vitamin towel.
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Alice/Rhoda/Elderseventh
in May 25th, 2007 @ 11:586- Yeah, me too. Towels are extremely useful when you’re wet.
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Purple Panda
in May 25th, 2007 @ 14:26I basically stayed at home all day, except I went to play tennis this morning, and went to the dentist, so I brought a towel with me those days. I don’t think I’m doing anything other than that for the occasion, though. Is there really anything else to do?
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kiwimuncher
in May 25th, 2007 @ 14:30Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. This is why everyone’s talking about towels!
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Julieb
in May 25th, 2007 @ 14:51I brought a towel to school. Nobody seemed to notice. It was sort of surreal. Though because of a terrible transportation accident, I was carrying a scooter on wednesday, so maybe everyone’s adjusting to my newfound reputation as being slightly odd.
The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an intersteller 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 vapors; 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 around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you- daft as a brush, but very 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: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit, etc. Furthermore, the strag will happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker 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 know where is 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.)Apparently, Douglas Adams got the idea when vacationing in Greece. After loosing multiple towels, he decided that anyone who could keep their towel with them after traveling was someone who really knew what they were doing.
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Glassboro
in May 25th, 2007 @ 15:04You do know the reasons to keep a towel with you, don’t you? My favorite’s the one so that you can’t see the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, which is so mindbogglingly stupid that it believes that if you can’t see it it can’t see you.
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Glassboro
in May 25th, 2007 @ 15:10Darn it. I hadn’t refreshed the page when I posted my last comment, so I posted that.
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emmatheduck
in May 25th, 2007 @ 15:49I couldn’t carry a tangible towel with me today, but I am mentally carrying an imaginary one.
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Der Wachtelschlag
in May 25th, 2007 @ 15:50I have a big pole. With a towel. Like a flag.
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Jadestone
in May 25th, 2007 @ 16:05I’m taking mine (only a hand towel, unfortunatly) to the movies with me (going to see PotC with some friends, I’m not terribly excited but its the begining of summer and I should spend time with them. More things to do with your towel:
Poke 2 holes in it tha you can weave a pencil through. Sew on a secret pocket to hide stuff. Poke more holes that you can weave headphones through so it plays music when you plg an ipod/cd player into it. Add the wires. Add a batery if you want. Sew on another peice of towel that’s the same color/texture and hide a memory stick inside it with all your precious data (might be helpful to include a waterproof lining). Write important things to remember on it (in washable marker). Add very important things to it in perminant marker. Keep safty pins attached in case you need them. Put a sewing needle and thread into a corner that won’t poke you. Maybe a button too. Attach a compass to a corner so you know where you are. The possibilities are endless. Or very near so.
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Paul Baker (Administrator)
in May 25th, 2007 @ 16:09I counted all the towels in my immediate vicinity, established and logged their postions, dimensions, colours and mean densities.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 25th, 2007 @ 16:24Here is part of my towel, draped over a door:
And here’s Rebecca’s. (Note the “Mostly Harmless” mug from Musery in the background.)
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Kiki the Great
in May 25th, 2007 @ 16:31Sah-weet. I brought mine to school today, but Sara and Molly forgot theirs. Mr. Sumerak, the drama teacher, loaned them some, and we carried them around all day and flapped them in people’s faces. It was totally awesome. And fr00dy.
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widdershins (e~a)
in May 25th, 2007 @ 16:35Gah, why do I always forget to bring one to school? *sigh*
Hehe, I like how a pic of Robert’s towel is in the background of Rebecca’s pic.
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Jadestone
in May 25th, 2007 @ 16:4718- Ooh, very nice. I like the way Robert’s calls attention to itself. A loud-spoken towel, that one.
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SuperSaiyajin424
in May 25th, 2007 @ 17:11nice towel, Robert. i like how the design goes into reverse, then back again. tis fr00dy.
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SupremeMuser2000, The All Mighty Queen of Museicalifornia
in May 25th, 2007 @ 17:3318- NICE TOWEL.
SM2K likes…..
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widdershins (e~a)
in May 25th, 2007 @ 17:43I like your towel, Robert!
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in May 25th, 2007 @ 18:01Whereas mine is hopelessly drab. You’d think an artist would own a more exciting towel. Maybe I need to design one….
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Beavo the Great
in May 25th, 2007 @ 18:09Love the towels!!
[Insert bloodcurteling scream here]
I FORGOT MY TOWEL!!!!!! NOOOO!!! I had to make up the disaster with a completely wacky shirt.
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agagabagabag
in May 25th, 2007 @ 18:10i’m giving my towl a wash. It deserves it after saving my life from that dragon yesterday.
25- Dont say that. Mine looks the same.
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'Dotty-kay
in May 25th, 2007 @ 19:0918: I think at my house we have the same towel that Rebecca does. Actually we have two of the same one. (Coincidentally, they’re the only two that match.)
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emmatheduck
in May 25th, 2007 @ 20:07I miss my fishy towel….and my watermelon towel…..why is it that hotels have nothing but plain white? It’s so booooooring…….but Robert’s is very froody! froodier than mine even! But i still love mine…….and I’ve been using way too many ……s recently……
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FrigidSymphony .:[Blackjack Guillotine]:.
in May 27th, 2007 @ 08:46I watched every South Park episode with Towelie, the towel who’s catchline is “You wanna get hiiiiigh?”
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E2MB
in May 27th, 2007 @ 09:4118 – Whoa! If you look at the computer screen, you can see a GAPA posting a picture! They have some sort of special software, it looks like.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in May 27th, 2007 @ 09:54(31) What you see on the computer screen is Photoshop. You see two images of Robert’s towel onscreen because the one on the right is for navigating.
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E2MB
in May 27th, 2007 @ 09:5932 – Oh. Darnit! Hey wait a minute…..what if Robert’s towel was white to start with and a certain someone made it better with a little help from a computer???
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in May 27th, 2007 @ 10:13(33) Mwahaha!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 27th, 2007 @ 11:07Nope, my towel is indeed particolored as shown. Rebecca’s towel is slumped in a chair in front of the monitor, envying its radiant splendor.
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purplefinch
in May 28th, 2007 @ 06:40Ah, you brave ones. I kept my mini towel in my backpack. And nobody else had one in my school…
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 28th, 2007 @ 15:15I was so confused about what the whole thing was about I didn’t carry a towel…but because I’m homeschooled I was in the house-near my towels!!!
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Margaret
in May 28th, 2007 @ 16:08Yeah, I didn’t have school, so there was nowhere to bring it other than the church yard sale where I was raising money to save African kids from malaria and in the car on the way to Vermont in the afternoon. I mean, I had my towel in the car, but still. Pointless.
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purplefinch
in May 28th, 2007 @ 17:48I was just in Vermont, today…
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Jadestone
in May 30th, 2007 @ 21:55I am almost positive they entioned towels somewhere in one of the comics. Eaither Fraz or Get Fuzzy.
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agagabagabag
in May 30th, 2007 @ 22:3535- Hey! Those towels are cool! Don’t insult them!
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biblioRose
in May 31st, 2007 @ 16:47I have never finished a Douglas Adams book either. My favorite towel that I own multicolored with lions around the border.
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Glassboro
in June 1st, 2007 @ 14:21My favorite towel is one with the Cross of St. George on it, and the crest (blue shield with dragons on it) sideways.
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Glassboro
in June 5th, 2007 @ 15:1442- Heresy. You said that you hadn’t finished a Douglas Adams book on the 42nd post. Burn her!
My last post sounded really stuck up. Sorry, if anyone read it.
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purplefinch
in June 6th, 2007 @ 05:2044-Don’t worry…
No, you can’t burn her. Not unless she weighs the same as a duck, anyway…
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Glassboro
in June 6th, 2007 @ 19:57Details.
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Sobriquet (Julieb)
in June 6th, 2007 @ 20:4646-?
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Glassboro
in June 6th, 2007 @ 20:59I meant that that was a detail.
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MissSwann2223
in July 18th, 2007 @ 19:12I wore towels to school today, over my clothes. They’re names were Brandy and Kenneth. Next year I’m going to take it a little bit further, and not use the clothes… Julia and Merrion will be glad to contribute with B & K.
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MissSwann2223
in July 18th, 2007 @ 19:13Oops, did I write today? I meant on Towel Day.
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MissSwann2223
in October 16th, 2007 @ 13:49WOW no one cares about towels anymore
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Life is Purple
in May 25th, 2008 @ 22:19wow…dead-but-open thread…emphasis on the “dead” part of that.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 25th, 2008 @ 22:33There are plenty of no-longer-active threads on the blog. We suggest that you call attention to them only if you want to revive them. Otherwise, it’s best to let them rest in peace.
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AthenianPsycho
in March 15th, 2009 @ 13:15Or not. I once experimented on a dead-but-alive thread with posting a post every day. But then about 70% of my experimented just vanished into thin air, and the GAPAs denied doing anything. I was intensely confused…
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♫ Agrrrfishi {Aggie}♫, also known as Rosa, Zena, Klara, Jean, etc.
in March 15th, 2009 @ 13:38I love towels! Where would I be without them?
Um.
Wet?
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Luna the Lovely
in March 15th, 2009 @ 14:0355–yup. and naked on the walk back from the showers……not a nice thought.
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AthenianPsycho
in March 15th, 2009 @ 14:0856- Ever heard of bathrobes, people?
Bathrobes…towels that are conveniently sewn into clothing.
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Luna the Lovely
in March 15th, 2009 @ 14:2457–Yup. I’m just too lazy to get one. And either wandering down the hall to my room in my towel, depending on the time of day, or hauling my clothes to the shower is the preferred method. Although the latter means the hem of my jeans tends to get wet….
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♫ Agrrrfishi {Aggie}♫, also known as Rosa, Zena, Klara, Jean, etc.
in March 15th, 2009 @ 15:0458- It’s physically impossible for me to get dressed in the shower or after swimming, most of the time, because I hate putting on clothes when I’m wet. Which is why towels are my lifesaver!
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Midnight Fiddler (she of 2 spzdk, 500 PiePoints and 30 Muszey points)
in March 15th, 2009 @ 15:30Towels are grand.
I’ve been having towel appreciation lately at the Y after swimming. Generally I leave it in the locker room so when I get out I’ve dripped off by the time I get there, take out towels, dry hands and arms, take out bare minimum of clothes and soap, etc, hold all this in a bundle away form my body, dump into a dry chair in the shower room, take a shower, wrap up in towel, dry hair under hand blowers, wring out swimsuit, go back into the little dressing room and put on my clothes while standing on the dry bench. Wad everything up, wrap it in the towel and leave.Does knowing where I can find any one of a number of towels in use at the moment qualify me as a frood? Well, probably not. Oh well.
Bathrobes? Bah, I know not the meaning of the word! *looks uppity*
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AthenianPsycho
in March 15th, 2009 @ 17:41Once, this girl I know brought her clothes to the shower at camp and no towel. The problem was that she brought skinnyjeans, so that was a bit of a problem there…:)
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-*CTN*-
in March 15th, 2009 @ 17:55Towels are nice. Bathrobes… not as nice. So is Towel day on May 25th?
I am almost done with the HG2G trilogy… just the last book.
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FantasyFan?!?!
in April 11th, 2011 @ 14:52I am amazed this thread is still open for commenting. The places the random button brings me to resemble archaeological artifacts sometimes.
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