Happy Towel Day! Hope your trusty friend is in hand when you need it! Don't Panic!
Happy Towel Day! Hope your trusty friend is in hand when you need it! Don't Panic!
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
Mike
"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
Please click on word link.
I've tested it. It links.
And the answer is 43.
Well they missed the best Towel photo of all!
Katie from the Blue Max.
Finally in the know but lost my towel
Somedays...I really just do not want to know......
dont forget the salted peanuts!!!!!
Happy day after towel day.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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!
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.
Ahhhh Douglas, so many unfinished stories to tell . . .
Brilliant Ken ... What a fantastic opening quote that is. Ages since I first read it though so good to be reminded of it again
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
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....]
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.
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
You will enjoy it.
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings
Coming down is the hardest thing
43 is the answer for auto-racing fans: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Roadrunner.jpg :)
EXACTLY!!! Chris. That 43 is definitely the answer.
SO LONG! and thanks for all the fish!
For me
1. radio series
2. Book
3. BBC tv
4. film, though did not particulary like this except for Allan Rickmans voice
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
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....
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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