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    Happy Towel Day! Hope your trusty friend is in hand when you need it! Don't Panic!

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    Gack! I sent out text messages to my associates in town, but missed all my wingers on the Forum. Bad me.
    Thanks for straightening me out, Dave!

    Happy Towel Day, all you hoopy froods!

    Definition:

    A really hoopy frood
    In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, hoopy is defined as "a really together guy."

    A frood is defined as "a really amazingly together guy."
    An example from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which discusses the importance of towels is as follows:

    "Hey you, sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is!"
    by ZaphodB July 05, 2005
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    "Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
    "Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59

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    Quote Originally Posted by grumpybear View Post
    What is towel day?
    Happy towel day!
    I've been toweling the entire day!

    Darell.
    Follow this link.

    Or this.

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    Please click on word link.
    I've tested it. It links.

    And the answer is 43.

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    Thumbs up

    Well they missed the best Towel photo of all!
    Katie from the Blue Max.

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    Somedays...I really just do not want to know......

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    dont forget the salted peanuts!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post

    And the answer is 43.
    Beat me to it, but the Euro exchange must have changed the value

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    Happy day after towel day.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Happy day after towel day.
    Rob.
    Happy Towel Day everyone.

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    I didn't panic.

    I knew where my towel was (I kept it with me all day).

    I hope everyone else had a happy Towel Day.
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

    Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

    This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

    And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

    Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

    And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

    Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

    This is not her story.

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    Ahhhh Douglas, so many unfinished stories to tell . . .

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    Brilliant Ken ... What a fantastic opening quote that is. Ages since I first read it though so good to be reminded of it again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonx View Post
    Brilliant Ken ... What a fantastic opening quote that is. Ages since I first read it though so good to be reminded of it again
    Indeed, a daily delve into any of the books at total random keeps me smiling . . . I have the series as well as his others on random play in my CD player . . . : )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    Please click on word link.
    I've tested it. It links.

    And the answer is 43.
    Surely 42 Quim


    I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
    Coming down is the hardest thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Helmut View Post
    I didn't panic.

    I knew where my towel was (I kept it with me all day).

    I hope everyone else had a happy Towel Day.
    Certainly did , and listened to an hour of Vogon poetry later in the evening


    I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
    Coming down is the hardest thing

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    Quick poll
    Which do you consider the best.
    1 The radio series .
    2 The BBC Tv series
    3 That horrendous Hollywood thing they did pertaining to be based on the book ..


    I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
    Coming down is the hardest thing

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    1. Radio.
    2. Book.
    3. I actually quite liked the film.
    4. TV bottom of the list - Sandra ****inson as Trillian killed it for me - spectacularly miscast....

    [Laughs at over-zealous language filter again....]

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    Tough to rate, each came with its own aviance, each it's own breath. Douglas himself liked to watch it evolve and devolve. So far my collection is larger than I like to admit. My Precious is author read cds. . .
    Last edited by clipper1801; 05-26-2016 at 10:08.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tikkifriend View Post
    Surely 42 Quim
    It took you a while to see the mistake... One would think that a super-computer would be needed to find the small typo I inserted in my post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tikkifriend View Post
    Quick poll
    Which do you consider the best.
    1 The radio series .
    2 The BBC Tv series
    3 That horrendous Hollywood thing they did pertaining to be based on the book ..

    1. The books.
    2. The BBC radio series.
    3. The books read together with my sister when we were kids.

    I never seen the BBC series cannot judge it.

    I don't think that the horrid movie should be in the list. It's too bad to be put there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    It took you a while to see the mistake... One would think that a super-computer would be needed to find the small typo I inserted in my post.
    Comes of not being a Pan Dimensional super being, or a white mouse.


    I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
    Coming down is the hardest thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    1. The books.
    2. The BBC radio series.
    3. The books read together with my sister when we were kids.

    I never seen the BBC series cannot judge it.

    I don't think that the horrid movie should be in the list. It's too bad to be put there.

    Try here Joaquim for a little taste.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTNuldPhP20


    I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
    Coming down is the hardest thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by tikkifriend View Post
    Comes of not being a Pan Dimensional super being, or a white mouse.
    Please, Paul. Do not say a white mouse. They don't like that. It's racist... Say Rodendus Magnificus, please.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tikkifriend View Post
    Try here Joaquim for a little taste.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTNuldPhP20
    I have to wait until the weekend... Or else I won't stop.
    Thanks for the link.

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    You will enjoy it.


    I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
    Coming down is the hardest thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by tikkifriend View Post
    You will enjoy it.
    I will trust you on that.

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    See you on the Dark Side......

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    EXACTLY!!! Chris. That 43 is definitely the answer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken at Sunrise View Post
    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

    Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

    This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

    And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

    Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

    And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

    Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

    This is not her story.
    well at least weve moved past the digital watch thing..........

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    Quote Originally Posted by tikkifriend View Post
    Quick poll
    Which do you consider the best.
    1 The radio series .
    2 The BBC Tv series
    3 That horrendous Hollywood thing they did pertaining to be based on the book ..
    1 the books.
    2 bbc tv series
    3 the movie- i actually rather enjoyed it for the most part.
    4 cant really rate the radio series as ive never heard them.

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    SO LONG! and thanks for all the fish!

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    For me
    1. radio series
    2. Book
    3. BBC tv
    4. film, though did not particulary like this except for Allan Rickmans voice

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boney10 View Post
    For me
    1. radio series
    2. Book
    3. BBC tv
    4. film, though did not particulary like this except for Allan Rickmans voice
    1-3

    There was no 4!!!!!

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    I assumed everyone had read the book so didn't include it


    I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
    Coming down is the hardest thing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackronin View Post
    It took you a while to see the mistake... One would think that a super-computer would be needed to find the small typo I inserted in my post.
    I am sure it was a translation error. If he'd just have put the fish in his ear first......

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Manley View Post
    1-3

    There was no 4!!!!!
    What he said!

    The film was unmitigated s***e!!!!!!
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    Must admit I'm surprised by all the hate for the film - maybe it's an age thing, but I vastly preferred it to the TV series....

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    I thought the last film was okay. But, for me at least, it didn't capture the Hitchhiker's Guide feeling. More of a different movie in a Hitchhiker's Guide setting with similar characters. Still okay or good for many just not a good representation of the books.

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    Smile The Ultimate "Towel Lady"!

    Back to Towel Day,
    Here are two of the most famous Towel Lady in movies----Ursula Andress.

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    I wonder if there is washcloth day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gully_raker View Post
    Back to Towel Day,
    Here are two of the most famous Towel Lady in movies----Ursula Andress.

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    There are things that are universally beautiful.
    The towels, I mean.



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