While Douglas Adams was visiting Anchorage Alaska he gave a talk "An Evening with Douglas Adams" in 97/98.
After a rather lengthy soliloquay on his doings, mostly consisting of his in depth searches for very rare animals on the planet (dolphins in the Yangzee for example), he opened the gathering to question and answer time. Fortunately he'd apparently already alotted half the time to doing this cause lets face it.. Fans Have Questions.
A friend of mine stood up and thanked him for taking a side trip to our state (Alaska is Never on anyones route). Then she offered up her towel in the sign of the sworn follower and asked "Where is your towel?".
He kind of giggled then went on to tell the story of how the towel came about.
Before the radio show came into existance, he'd spent quite a lot of time hanging about the beach on the Mediterranean Sea. Rumor has it that he even spent some time there with Sean Connery at one point although I can't recall if he mentioned that at the time.
It seems that every day he and his chums would head out from their beach house to go for the swim. He pointed out that why on earth it was called a "beach house" was beyond him since it was over 2 miles from the beach. None the less it was all they could afford to rent for their holidays.
Nearly every day, he would find himself half way to the beach before he'd realize - in fact - he was totally and completely devoid of a towel.
After four or five days in a row of this, it became a fixture in their routine and then became a metaphor on life where in there were "the sort of people who knew where their towel was, and the sort of people that didn't"
"I of course", he lamented "was one of the latter - but its amazing that so many of you think that I'm the sort of fellow that knows where his towel is."
He was a brilliant orator, speaking much like he writes: Several paragraphs of amusing setup with one solid thrust to the funny bone at the end to make sure your no longer seated in your upright position. I will miss him always.
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I guess it will just become modified from "people will LICK your ass" to "people will KICK your ass" if they get the keys they want.
As Douglas Adams once wrote "Humans have the habit of continually stating and restating the very, very obvious."
While Douglas Adams was visiting Anchorage Alaska he gave a talk "An Evening with Douglas Adams" in 97/98.
After a rather lengthy soliloquay on his doings, mostly consisting of his in depth searches for very rare animals on the planet (dolphins in the Yangzee for example), he opened the gathering to question and answer time. Fortunately he'd apparently already alotted half the time to doing this cause lets face it.. Fans Have Questions.
A friend of mine stood up and thanked him for taking a side trip to our state (Alaska is Never on anyones route). Then she offered up her towel in the sign of the sworn follower and asked "Where is your towel?".
He kind of giggled then went on to tell the story of how the towel came about.
Before the radio show came into existance, he'd spent quite a lot of time hanging about the beach on the Mediterranean Sea. Rumor has it that he even spent some time there with Sean Connery at one point although I can't recall if he mentioned that at the time.
It seems that every day he and his chums would head out from their beach house to go for the swim. He pointed out that why on earth it was called a "beach house" was beyond him since it was over 2 miles from the beach. None the less it was all they could afford to rent for their holidays.
Nearly every day, he would find himself half way to the beach before he'd realize - in fact - he was totally and completely devoid of a towel.
After four or five days in a row of this, it became a fixture in their routine and then became a metaphor on life where in there were "the sort of people who knew where their towel was, and the sort of people that didn't"
"I of course", he lamented "was one of the latter - but its amazing that so many of you think that I'm the sort of fellow that knows where his towel is."
He was a brilliant orator, speaking much like he writes: Several paragraphs of amusing setup with one solid thrust to the funny bone at the end to make sure your no longer seated in your upright position. I will miss him always.