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Don't Panic, It's Towel Day!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the he's-just-this-guy-ya-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today, as every May 25th, geeks all over the world celebrate Towel Day and carry a towel in honor of Douglas Adams. The popular author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy died in 2001 at the age of 49, but his work lives on. According to the book, a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Hence its symbolic role in this celebration. This year, for the first time as far as we know, Towel Day is being supported by the British publisher of Adams' books, who organizes a photo competition."

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  1. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    don't panic

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  2. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... by TheP4st · · Score: 2, Funny

    The rest of world don't have May 25th in their calendars, right?

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  3. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... by newcastlejon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think that your post is a Troll, but please recognize that there is more than one thing going on around the universe today.

    Of course. I mean the Universe is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

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  4. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, ten out of ten for on-topic reply, but minus several million for not respecting the dead.

  5. Re:Coincidentally by houghi · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is not a coincidence. It is just it has a very high improbability that it would happen. Apperently you dropped to a chance of 1:1. Now it is 365:1 (and falling).

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  6. Re:Percussion by terjeber · · Score: 4, Funny
    • Covering up the face of the ugly girl that goes for the percussionist while taking advantage of what she offers.
  7. If I don't post in this thread... by WSOGMM · · Score: 2, Funny
    If I don't post in this thread, I'll shoot myself.

    + bonus points to whoever gets my account name (WSOGMM).

  8. So long... by stonetony · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and thanks for all the fish.

  9. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... by s0litaire · · Score: 3, Funny
    They are not dead you insensitive clod...

    They just suffered a permanent existence failure... http://www.towelday.org/

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  10. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, a yank complaining about someone else being belligenerently xenophobic. Now I've really seen it all.