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Posted by elanor roosevelt on March 14, 2008, at 22:44:54
To quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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, 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.
Posted by seldomseen on March 15, 2008, at 7:01:29
In reply to don't forget your towel May 25th, posted by elanor roosevelt on March 14, 2008, at 22:44:54
I love Douglas Adams.
Don't panic!
Seldom
Posted by Phillipa on March 15, 2008, at 12:28:11
In reply to Re: don't forget your towel May 25th, posted by seldomseen on March 15, 2008, at 7:01:29
What's wrong? Well don't know that person either. Phillipa
Posted by Poet on March 15, 2008, at 13:41:59
In reply to don't forget your towel May 25th, posted by elanor roosevelt on March 14, 2008, at 22:44:54
but what is the question?
Posted by gardenergirl on March 16, 2008, at 21:20:34
In reply to 42, posted by Poet on March 15, 2008, at 13:41:59
Posted by Poet on March 19, 2008, at 19:52:58
In reply to Re: 42---LOL! (nm) » Poet, posted by gardenergirl on March 16, 2008, at 21:20:34
This is the end of the thread.
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