liefhebber
25 mei 2007, 13:05
Velen onder u staan er waarschijnlijk niet bij stil maarrrr.....
Wij als ijsberen zijn waarschijnlijk de grootste aanhangers/vierders van "Towel Day"
Diegenen onder u die de film "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" hebben gezien of het boek van Douglas Adams hebben gelezen weten waarom!
Citaat uit het boek:
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.
Helaas, helaas, is Meneer Adams er niet meer om de toepassing waarvoor wij de handdoek gebruiken toe te voegen in zijn TransGalactisch Liftershandboek.
Towelday is een teken van herdenking van de auteur Douglas Adams die op 1 mei 1952 geboren werd en op 11 mei 2001 stierf. Vele van zijn aanhangers lopen vandaag met een handdoek (soms met zijn gevleugelde raad "Don't Panic" of het getal 42 erop).
Zie ook deze link: http://www.towelday.kojv.net/
Happy Towelday,
Liefhebber
Wij als ijsberen zijn waarschijnlijk de grootste aanhangers/vierders van "Towel Day"
Diegenen onder u die de film "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" hebben gezien of het boek van Douglas Adams hebben gelezen weten waarom!
Citaat uit het boek:
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.
Helaas, helaas, is Meneer Adams er niet meer om de toepassing waarvoor wij de handdoek gebruiken toe te voegen in zijn TransGalactisch Liftershandboek.
Towelday is een teken van herdenking van de auteur Douglas Adams die op 1 mei 1952 geboren werd en op 11 mei 2001 stierf. Vele van zijn aanhangers lopen vandaag met een handdoek (soms met zijn gevleugelde raad "Don't Panic" of het getal 42 erop).
Zie ook deze link: http://www.towelday.kojv.net/
Happy Towelday,
Liefhebber