Towel Day - A Tribute to Douglas Adams

[Morgana]

Aqui fica uma inciativa interessantíssima para leitores de Douglas Adams e da fenomenal trilogia em cinco partes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy, entre outros.

A esta adiro! Em baixo seguem mais informações.

You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was. You are invited to join your fellow hitchhikers in mourning the loss of the late great one. Join in on towel day to show your appreciation for the humor and insight that Douglas Adams brought to all our lives.

What do I do?

Carry your towel with you throughout the day to show your participation and mourning.

When do I do it?

May 25th, 2005.

Where do I do it?

Everywhere.

Why a towel?

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 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.

http://www.towelday.kojv.net

[Vogon [RIP 2013/06/29]]

[Einherjer]

*APLAUSOS*

[Mindwalker]

Eis a prova que só uma pessoa pateta usa T-shirts de bandas patetas.

Já alguém viu o trailer do filme "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? Eu vi, há uns tempos... e parece estar fenomenal.

[otnemeM]

Eis a prova que só uma pessoa pateta usa T-shirts de bandas patetas.

Já alguém viu o trailer do filme "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? Eu vi, há uns tempos... e parece estar fenomenal.

Eu vi e tenho os tres trailers

[Mindwalker]

Groovy! Links?

[otnemeM]

Groovy! Links?

Disponibilizo já

[Mindwalker]

Coolness.

[otnemeM]

So, long and...


quando já tiveres, avisa

[Mindwalker]

Done! Thanks!!!

Ainda só tinha visto o "Ever had one of those days?"... tão muito cool, thanks!

[otnemeM]

No prob, tambem gostei bastante.

Ainda assim o Sin City e o Batman Begins devem chegar cá primeiro, acho eu

[Vogon [RIP 2013/06/29]]

Eis a prova que só uma pessoa pateta usa T-shirts de bandas patetas.

Já alguém viu o trailer do filme "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? Eu vi, há uns tempos... e parece estar fenomenal.

qual ti-shérte

em relação ao filme, eu também já vi os trailers, e parece estar muito bom, se bem que não imaginava o Marvin assim tão "redondo", pensei que fisicamente era mais do tipo Benter do Futurama, ou na pior da hipóteses um C3PO... E o anel de transporte, aquilo parece muito Lord of the Rings, mas são pormenores que não interessam nem ao menino zesus...

Marvin: I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.
Mattress: Er, five.
Marvin: Wrong. You see?
The mattress was much impressed by this and realised that it was in the presence of a not unremarkable mind.

Genial...

[Morgana]

Methinks so too.