Ljusalfheim
10-05-2004, 19:51
"A towel, 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 moon 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 around 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 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 posession 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 know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking 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.)"
- The Guide, entry: "towel", page 31.
Tack för påminnelsen! Det blir handduk hela dagen imorgon
Hannele
10-05-2004, 19:53
Med 70 000 kr i skadegörelse - som dom sa i TV i går...?
Harry Martinsson skulle ha fyllt 100 år den 6 maj i år, vem tänkte på honom?
Ljusalfheim
10-05-2004, 19:57
CITAT (Hannele @ 10-05-2004, 20:53)
Med 70 000 kr i skadegörelse - som dom sa i TV i går...?
Harry Martinsson skulle ha fyllt 100 år den 6 maj i år, vem tänkte på honom?
Men Harry Martinsson skrev inte liftarens guide till galaxen.
Hannele
10-05-2004, 20:12
Men han skrev Aniara...
Hela Liftarens Guide har vi inspelat på engelska, BBC.
Tack för påminnelsen!
Lämnar inte huset utan handduk i morron!
Bara hoppas det blir fint väder då... Om vi ska springa runt i handduk.
pepparmynta
11-05-2004, 10:26
Jag har Liftaren på band. . . lyssnar på det minst en gång om året.
Med Johan Rabeus livfulla uppläsning är det en absolut toppenuplevelse

Oj, höll på att glömma handduken, men nu har jag den. . .

. . . är redo
har alltid med mig handuken.....ifallatt
lavendel
11-05-2004, 17:45
Aha, där har jag boten på min störtförkylning, fram med den gamla handduken och låt några miljoner hurtfriska bakterier från den slå ut min nya elaka lilla koloni.
mari_tres
12-05-2004, 14:50
Vill inte verka grinig, men.... Towel Day - May 25th
http://www.systemtoolbox.com/towelday/Fast då kan man ju få TVÅ Towel day´s i år