Happy Towel Day 2011! Still enjoying the novelty (some pun intended) of being Americans celebrating a British author while living on Okinawa! And while no babblefish were harmed in our Towel Day 2011 celebrations, we did have fish for dinner. We may have to watch “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” this weekend while we’re stuck inside due to an impending typhoon. As the infamous book says, “Don’t Panic!” “Hitchhiker’s” make everything better, right?
And a quote from “Hitchhiker’s” about the importance of towels.
“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 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 mindbogglingly 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.”
Hope you all had a happy Towel Day!