Towel Day!!

[Misty]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day

Hey all you HHGTTG nerds- come on out and celebrate! Don't forget to bring your towels!

[zombine]

Brought it to a amusement park, came up with quite a few uses,including pillow, garrote and seagull catcher.

Yeah....

actually,X ways to Y-ways to use a towel would be awesome

[Sieg Reyu]

Towel Day + Birthday + PotC III = [insert remains of over excited sieg here]

EDIT: Just found out now they are also celebrating Universal Day of the Jedi today.

[Misty]

Wow, happy birthday dude! Today just keeps getting more and more epic by the minute!

[Sieg Reyu]

Wow, happy birthday dude! Today just keeps getting more and more epic by the minute!

Yeah srsly. Next thing you know chuck Norris is going to materialize inside the forum. Eating an Epic steak. Ooh speaking of which, I need to make a thread.

[TheRocket]

My arms in a sling right now, maybe I should make a towel sling in honor of today!

[Matt]

...towel?

-m

[tak197]

...towel?

-m

apparently it's in reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It explains it in the wiki article.

[zombine]

...towel?

-m

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy itself defines a towel as "about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have". Its uses, as listed, include: wrapping it round you for warmth; sunbathing on it; sleeping under it; wetting it for use in hand-to-hand combat; waving it in emergencies as a distress signal (see below); and wrapping it round your head to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal because this is such a "mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you". You can also, of course, dry yourself off with it, if it still seems to be clean enough.

* Also noted is a towel's psychological value: "For some reason, if a strag [Hitch hiker slang: strag = non-hitch hiker] discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel, he will automatically assume that he's 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. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that might accidentally have been 'lost', on the grounds that anyone who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

[Captain_Anarchy]

apparently it's in reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It explains it in the wiki article.

Apparently?

[Sieg Reyu]

apparently it's in reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It explains it in the wiki article.

Apparently?

ly?

[RPGManic]

Mine was washed on that day, it now has a secret patch of emergency hair gel incase of a hair disaster.


*weilds towel* wo be wantin a piece o this whipass

[The Pious Flea]

...towel?

-m

What kind of a frood doesn't know the significance of the towel?

You'd think you weren't a frood at all.

[Tank_girl]

It was a vary big day

- Towel Day - a tribute day by fans of the late author Douglas Adams writer of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books.

- Nerd Pride Day, [proposed and organized since 2006 in Spain]

- Universal Day of the Jedi - a tribute day observing the Star Wars series

[Allen!]

Stop commenting about Matt's making fun of himself.

The "...towel?" comment was something referred to NUMEROUS times in the history of this forum, and you, in fact, are all a bunch of noobs for thinking that Matt, of all people, wouldn't understand the Guide.

Get out.

[The Pious Flea]

and you, in fact, are all a bunch of noobs

...noobs?

[emma]

That just makes you even more of one.

[blackdragontaz]

Wonderful, I missed the whole thing. Thank you crappy internets, thank you.