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Critus
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Joined: December 28, 2007
Posts: 52
From: kpo8914
|  Posted: 2012-05-25 11:31
Hi people, i saw its the towel day, can someone explain to me whats for? ty!
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GunsOfHonor
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Joined: July 31, 2011
Posts: 191
| Posted: 2012-05-25 13:05
Plz do
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Rain of Fire [O-XII]
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Joined: May 18, 2011
Posts: 71
From: South of Klaus, 14,000 gu from Insanity and 3,000 from Desperation.
| Posted: 2012-05-25 13:14
It's from both the book(and the not as good movie) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the beast and one of the funniest books in the world. The book where earth is destroyed to make a hyperspace freeway, and nuclear missiles turn into a bowl of pitunias and a sperm whale. 
[ This Message was edited by: Always Felt, Never Touched on 2012-05-25 13:14 ]
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Doran
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Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2012-05-25 13:55
critus thought it would be a good idea to post this in Fan Art.
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Rain of Fire [O-XII]
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From: South of Klaus, 14,000 gu from Insanity and 3,000 from Desperation.
| Posted: 2012-05-25 14:28
lol, looks like it Doran
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On 2012-11-06 20:23, Tael wrote:
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Blackjack [DBL]
Grand Admiral
Faster than Light
Joined: February 25, 2011
Posts: 344
From: The land of venomous reptiles.
| Posted: 2012-05-25 18:35
Quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar 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 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 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."
If you haven't read this book... go read it...
EDIT: The movie was terrible, the BBC mini-series was pretty good...
[ This Message was edited by: Loyalty *TO* on 2012-05-25 18:42 ]
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