Towel Day, May 25th
Happy Towel Day, everyone!
Today, people all over the world celebrate the life and works of author Douglas Adams (1951-2001) by carrying a towel in his memory. Yes, a towel.
It all started with that wholly remarkable book Mr. Adams wrote, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It chronicles, among other things, the trevails of Arthur Dent, an Earthman as he tries to make it as an interstellar hitchhiker with his friend Ford, who comes from somewhere near Betelgeuse.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide, which happens to be a book within the book of the same name, has many useful nuggets of information about getting around the cosmos on less than thirty Altairian dollars a day, including that “[a] towel . . . is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have,” going on to list some of its many uses, including “avoid[ing] 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 . . . )” and convincing non-hitchhikers that if you know where your towel is, you’ve got all the more important stuff taken care of as well.
Stay hoopy, froods.