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Don't Panic, It's Towel Day!
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."
...and how many that American (I presume you mean the entire continent?) people killed?
I don't think you could fit 6 billion people in Greenwich...
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Blah blah blah, whine whine whine. You bitch and whine about the poor 1.3 million American military who died in the span of over two centuries for either a paycheck or whatever they believed in, while 6 MILLION Jews died due to an accident of birth and location in less than a decade. And where was the vaunted American military during most of that tragedy?
Or, you could accept that it's a big world and if we're going to have a day for everything that's important to some group of people, we just might have to share some of those days. Just be glad it's something like this and not something diametrically opposed to the theme of Memorial Day.
And now that I've Godwin'd your thread, I expect you to do the right thing and not reply.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
There is no "Ignorant" mod, so "Troll" had to do.