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"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker 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 world 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 round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, 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 possession 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 knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."

Remember, incase of zombie apocolyplse ALWAYS TAKE THE TOWEL

This thread smells, like Locksville, to me, but just in case I'm wrong, here's a towel

I this where we discuss what we believe is the most important item to have or do we just talk about towels?

Gentlemen... Behold! A wiener dog made of towels!

Now are we talking kitchen towel, hand towel, or bath towel? Or maybe something bigger like a beach towel?

Is this thread for discussing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, towels, important items to have, or something else?






Predicting a lock for this.

And also, if you're going to quote more or less an entire page of a book, at least include the name of the book from which the quote originated, (in this case Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams) and next time do it in a more competent and coherent fashion.

All you have managed to accomplish in creating this thread is to quote a page-long chunk of text, without stating any reason for doing so. I'm not exactly sure what that. . . thing. . lurking below the quote is supposed to be. I can only assume that it was an erroneous attempt at humor; my head is still reeling from the psychological trauma inflicted upon it by your lack of understanding of basic grammar and sentence structure.

You should be ashamed at what you have done here. You have improperly quoted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the most fantastic book on the planet, and your apparent lack of a fundamental understanding of English sentence structure has awakened the grammar-obsessed monster that dwells within the darkest reaches of my soul.

Why have you done this?

rubiksnoob wrote:Why have you done this?

4 t3h 1uLz

I thought the OT was getting a bit dull these last few days, and seeing as suddenly there is a bunch of locks....and this isnt looking good, yup, its getting flat around here

rubiksnoob wrote:Is this thread for discussing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, towels, important items to have, or something else?






Predicting a lock for this.

And also, if you're going to quote more or less an entire page of a book, at least include the name of the book from which the quote originated, (in this case Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams) and next time do it in a more competent and coherent fashion.

All you have managed to accomplish in creating this thread is to quote a page-long chunk of text, without stating any reason for doing so. I'm not exactly sure what that. . . thing. . lurking below the quote is supposed to be. I can only assume that it was an erroneous attempt at humor; my head is still reeling from the psychological trauma inflicted upon it by your lack of understanding of basic grammar and sentence structure.

You should be ashamed at what you have done here. You have improperly quoted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the most fantastic book on the planet, and your apparent lack of a fundamental understanding of English sentence structure has awakened the grammar-obsessed monster that dwells within the darkest reaches of my soul.

Why have you done this?

I predict a lock, on your cell so you and your suitemate can get aquinted. Have fun with Franz you grammar nazi.

The quote is direct from wikipedia

Hitchhikers guide may have been wrong. I have 2 favorite objects that have come with me on every expedition or distant road trip for the last 20 years or more: a backpack, and a CROWBAR. I actually think it may be some kind of +5 enchanted crowbar because it has come in handy so many times. I keep towels too (in the backpack) but never the same towel for very long. The backpack and crowbar are keepers though.

Crowbar?

yeah man. cars, doors, windows, climbing hook, potentially heads (though never needed for that, yet) balance cane, holds up a bookshelf or a table or a wall shelf as a prop, holds open windows, construction site shunt under a wall, and lastly, prying open manhole covers! I probably missed a bunch of them, but it is pretty awesome.

Crowbar is good, but an Ipod is my No' 1, no matter how bad it gets i always need my tunes.

In a zombie attack, I suspect a crowbar would be more useful than a towel, as you can smash them to bits with it.

In a raptor attack, take the towl. The scent on it can be used to distract them, and if you are quick enough you can chuck it over their faces then run like hell while they struggle to remove it with their stubby little arms.

What about a crowbar....wrapped in a towel?

thedarksaint wrote:What about a crowbar....wrapped in a towel?

What about a doomsday device made of towels?

WarOne wrote:

thedarksaint wrote:What about a crowbar....wrapped in a towel?

What about a doomsday device made of towels?

what about towles made of doomsday devices?

A crowbar-shaped doomday device made of towels? With weiner dogs?

The Amazon Kindle.

With a selection of over 775,000 titles to choose from and built-in Wi-Fi the one of a kind Amazon Kindle is the number one choice for today's hip fast paced life style.

Until a gentle breeze blows it out of your hand and it's carried off.

Muskateers lied to me

Leather couch.

box of Q-tips


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avantgarde wrote:The Amazon Kindle.

With a selection of over 775,000 titles to choose from and built-in Wi-Fi the one of a kind Amazon Kindle is the number one choice for today's hip fast paced life style.

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Is this an apocalypse/desert island scenario? If so i would want enough beer to spend the last few days in a haze of vomitey glory, Supertramp, spirits or even meths would suffice. Failing this i would want a kilo pouch of tobacco and some rizla to at least make survival tolerable. If this is a question of 'creature comforts' i would say my digital radio.

I'd want an army of nubile brunettes with no morals and even less clothing, but to each his own.