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timeladies asked: I love you. I love your blog. I love your voice. Here's a towel. I know a pretty good restaurant at the end of the universe. Let's hitchhike together.
Thank you so much! And nothing would please me more. *grabs towel, activates The Thumb*

(that’s a towel in the shape of a heart by the way!)
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Some alternate uses for that infinitely useful device: the towel.
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams, Parrots, the Universe and Everything, a speech given at the University of California, 2001.
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A reading of a passage from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
Hope you enjoy!
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 hitchhiker can have. Partly because 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 that 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 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 brush, 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-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in the 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 hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker may 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 know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase which has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)
Apologies for the astoundingly rude and alarmingly long break in updates! I am deep in exam season here at the wonderful world of uni, so I anticipate that updates over the next 2 weeks will be sporadic at best.
However, today we find ourselves enjoying the most wonderful day of the year, a cultural festival far outranking the less popular holidays of Christ-mas and Eas-ter among Earthlings. Today is indeed the height of celebrations, where we all rejoice for that greatest of all inventions, the infinitely useful and spiritually fulfilling TOWEL.
Oh and there’s an author and his book series that are worshiped today too.
So go out, enjoy the day, and don’t forget: a true Hitchhiker/cool person/hoopy frood always knows where their towel is.

PS: submissions are open should anyone wish to share their towely experiences, anecdotes, or favourite Hitchhiker’s quotes!
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
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Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
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Infographic: Celebrating Towel Day - May 25, 2012
Lemon.ly has a hoopy little infographic about Towel Day which falls on this Friday, May 25th.
If you don’t know much about Douglas Adams, the most important
thing to know is that he wrote humorous and fun science fiction books. This May marks the 11-year anniversary of Adams’ death. Two weeks after his death, his fans decided to commemorate him by making May 25th, Towel Day, and it turns out Lemon.ly’s designer, Ana, is one of those fans.Great work, Ana, and one should always know where their towel is.
(via Lemon.ly)
Rule One:
Grow at least three extra legs. You won’t need them, but it keeps the crowds amused.
Rule Two:
Find one good Brockian Ultra-Cricket player and clone him off a few times. This saves an enormous amount of tedious selection and training.
Rule Three:
Put your team and the opposing team in a large field and build a high wall round them.
The reason for this is that, though the game is a major spectator sport, the frustration experienced by the audience at not actually being able to see what’s going on leads them to imagine that it’s a lot more exciting than it actually is. A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life-affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.
Rule Four:
Throw lots of assorted items of sporting equipment over the walls for the players. Anything will do - cricket bats, basecube bats, tennis guns, skis, anything you can get a good swing with.
Rule five:
The players should now lay about themselves for all they are worth with whatever they find to hand. Whenever a player scores a ‘hit’ on another player, he should immediately run away and apologize from a safe distance.
Apologies should be concise, sincere and, for maximum clarity and points, delivered through a megaphone.
Rule Six:
The winning team shall be the first team that wins.
~ Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
(I was going to put this up at some point anyway, so I figured reblogging this would work as well)
(via needlesslydefiantwithtea)
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
| Arthur: | You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and I'm about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. |
| Ford: | Why, what did she tell you? |
| Arthur: | I don't know, I wasn't listening. |
Douglas Adams Virtual 60th Birthday message from Neil Gaiman [x]
because i’ve only just seen it, and it’s still his birthday somewhere in the world
(Source: tomswaistcoat, via needlesslydefiantwithtea)
Douglas Adams
(submitted by ziggystarbucks)
Douglas Adams