Happy Towel Day! Don't forget your towel!

Happy Towel Day, Douglas Adams fans! "On the 25th of May, carry a towel. Where? Everywhere! Proudly show the world you've observed Towel Day and upload a picture to Flickr, tagging it with 'towelday' or make a YouTube video."

Today is Towel Day. Don't forget your towel!

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Anonymous

Might hug my towel when I’m going to sleep tonight :D
Antinous / Moderator

Is this a follow-up to the cumsprite post?
zyodei

Huh…the last several times I went swimming in the ocean, I forgot to bring a towel and had to stand around shivering while I dried off. I like this holiday.
Anonymous

Pres: or perhaps some tzjin-anthony-ks, “which kills cows at a hundred paces”? :)

Happy towel day!!!
Anonymous

Aw crap, this frood doesn’t know where his towel is.

Someone needs to make a geek calendar with all the geek holidays on it for me to put in my bathroom. Forget “Columbus Day” and “Presidents Day” … I wanna know when Pi day, Talk like a pirate day, and Towel Day is.
Blinde Schildpad

Might we add a hollah to Terry Pratchett as well on this, the Glorious 25th of May?

Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And A Hardboiled Egg!

I feel a lilac towel would be in order.
chixon

I wish I had read this before coming to work. Now I’ll look like a fool for being completely towelless the entire day. Maybe I can run to the store during break…
TimDrew

Sass that hoopy Cory Doctorow? Now, there’s a frood who really knows where his towel is!
Anonymous

Huh… didn’t think about this yesterday, but fortuitously, was carrying a towel anyway.
GeekMan

Damn, Towelie was made for Ford Prefect.

… it would help if he could get high less often, though. I don’t think a stoner would make a very good personal assistant.
Axx

What!? This is freaking dumb. What…are we supposed to do some gardening? Huh? Dig a f’ing hole? Mix some f’ing GROUT? wtf. This day is stoopid! ;)
Anonymous

Don’t forget to bring a towel.
AirPillo

#1, #4, #8, #18, #21…

â™¥ â™¥ â™¥
PaulR

Or if you don’t have your towel handy, make sure you’re wearing your Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

One MUST look cool, eh?
Pres

This calls for an adequate dose of jynnan tonnyx!
- Roast Beef
  
  Jynnan tonnyx? Everybody knows you have to drink exactly three “lots of beer”s to survive the Vogon constructor fleet.
willy

“Don’t forget to bring a
willy

…or a towel.
proletariat

“Don’t forget to bring a towel!”

You’re the worst holiday ever, Towel Day.

Stefan Jones

Didn’t know about Towel Day until I started surfing.

Fortunately, I have a towel in my cube. Actually, two towels. And a bath mat. Seriously. Cower before my hooptitude.

Me, Towel.

Ichabod

Pangalactic Garggleblasters for everyone!

aformalevent

No, you’re a towel!

Steaming Pile

Wanna get high?

arikol

Carried a towel all day, and was wearing a bathrobe. Some strange looks ;)

Nicole Kekahili

Haha. I guess Towlie was right all along. ;-)

Anonymous

“look out! he’s got a towel!”