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Happy Towel Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the wringing-out-the-wit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While Douglas Adams continues his attempt to set a new record for the longest extended lunch break, geeks all over the universe pay tribute to the beloved author by celebrating the tenth edition of Towel Day. Towel Day is more alive than ever. This year Richard Dawkins, one of Adams' best friends, has tweeted a Towel Day reminder to his numerous followers. The CERN Bulletin has published an article on Towel Day. There has been TV coverage and there will be a radio interview. The Military Republic of the Deltan Imperium, a newly formed micronation, has recognized Towel Day as an official holiday. In Hungary several hundreds of hitchhiker fans want to have a picnic together in a park. And there's a concert, a free downloadable nerdrap album, a free game being released, the list goes on and on."

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  1. Re:Idle's the right place for this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This year Richard Dawkins...

    especially since Richard Dawkins is mentioned.

    That guy is such a prick. I will not acknowledge Towel Day due to his involvement.

  2. Re:Idle's the right place for this... by mangu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    you invested considerable amounts of time in investigating stamp collecting

    No, it's the stamp collectors who invest considerable amounts of time trying to get me to collect stamps

    try to find flaws in the activities of stamp collectors

    I don't have to try, those flaws are obvious

    holding meetings to espouse the value of not collecting stamps

    Never done that

    constructing straw-man arguments to illustrate the futility of stamp collecting

    It's stamp collecting that's totally based on straw man arguments

    trying to assert that the bad behaviour of a given stamp collector ought to cause the whole of philately to be outlawed

    You are right there, it's only the bad behavior of 99% of the stamp collectors that gives a bad name to the rest

    wrote several books asserting that the possibility that a letter could be sent without requiring a stamp 'proves' that stamps do not in fact exist

    If no one has ever seen a stamp, it's the existence of stamps that should be proved first, not the other way round