Elemental's Excitingly Excellent Random Banter: No.CLXXVII (177)

[LaZodiac]

Question, but why is it Towel Day? Also what IS Towel Day?

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

I don't know why 5-25 is Towel Day, but Towel Day is the day that Hitchhiker Fans celebrate Douglas Adams by carrying towels around. It could also be considered a reminder to everyone that they should always carry a towel.

You might be curious why you should always carry a towel. Well, here is the reason as explained in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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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 miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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.

—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[LaZodiac]

Well, I do know why you should keep a towel around, just wasn't sure why today of all days was towel day.

[Triscuitable]

I don't know why 5-25 is Towel Day, but Towel Day is the day that Hitchhiker Fans celebrate Douglas Adams by carrying towels around. It could also be considered a reminder to everyone that they should always carry a towel.

You might be curious why you should always carry a towel. Well, here is the reason as explained in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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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 miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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.

—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

*Cough* Don't forget to *coughs* bring *coughing* a *cough* towel. *Cough choke gag*

[AtlanteanTroll]

They're an acquired taste.

Not even. Holiday in Cambodia popped up on Spotify and I fell in love.

Want to have jealouses?

Be what now?

I get to see Bad Religion AND Ceremony (and also a whole pile of bands that I'm tangentially interested in but will see anyways), FOR FREE.

And a bunch of bands I've never really listened to, like Oberhofer, Of Montreal, the Flaming Lips, and Good Riddance. But hey, it's free, so why not?

Maaaaaaaan. That sounds fun. I'm really upset I'm probably going to miss Warped. There's gonna be some crap, yeah, but Bayside, I Fight Dragons, New Found Glory, Patent Pending, Senses Fail, Streetlight Manifesto, The Used, and We the Kings make up for it. Still no clue why they're letting Blood on the Dance Floor play. I mean ... ****.

[Sgt. Cookie]

Am I the only one who likes the taste of hose pipe water?

[HalfTangible]

Am I the only one who likes the taste of hose pipe water?

nope.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Maaaaaaaan. That sounds fun. I'm really upset I'm probably going to miss Warped. There's gonna be some crap, yeah, but Bayside, I Fight Dragons, New Found Glory, Patent Pending, Senses Fail, Streetlight Manifesto, The Used, and We the Kings make up for it. Still no clue why they're letting Blood on the Dance Floor play. I mean ... ****.

Haha! Of all of those, I like The Used, and that's it. Oh, and I've heard of Streetlight Manifesto, but never listened to them.

Warped isn't my thing.

I do wish I was 19, so I could do the full NXNE, not just the free shows...

[AtlanteanTroll]

Haha! Of all of those, I like The Used, and that's it. Oh, and I've heard of Streetlight Manifesto, but never listened to them.

New Found Glory is amazing.

Warped isn't my thing.

It kind of varies in quality year to year. Man, I want to go to an Offspring Concert. That would be amazing.

ION, I'm a senior now. WOOP!

[CynicalAvocado]

Am I the only one who likes the taste of hose pipe water?

not at all

ION, I'm a senior now. WOOP!

senior year is best year.

[wadledo]

Hose pipe water is pretty boss.
Doesn't hurt that I'm on well water, so I get really tasty stuff.

Also, Imagine Dragons is painfully awesome.

[Amiel]

You might be curious why you should always carry a towel. Well, here is the reason as explained in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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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 miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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.

—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

And you can use towels as a communications device; a towel is more mobile than mobile phones and of course there is no loss of signal.

[DraPrime]

ION, I'm a senior now. WOOP!

Youngling.

[Amiel]

Youngling.

You whippersnappers, get off my lawn! and mow it!

[Elemental]

And this is why you replace your lawn with a field of clover.
When it flowers, no one will go on your lawn or feel the wrath of a swarm of bees.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Youngling.

This is a bad thing now? VIVE LES JEUNES!! Or something.

[Moonshadow]

Okay, Dragonball Evolution is on TV and it is so horribly bad it's kinda funny.


I have no idea who thought it would be a good idea to make a live action version, but they should be shot <_<

[factotum]

Well, I do know why you should keep a towel around, just wasn't sure why today of all days was towel day.

It's because the first one was held 2 weeks after Douglas Adams died, and the date has stuck ever since.

[LaZodiac]

Ohh, ok. Thanks Factotum!

[Triscuitable]

Okay, Dragonball Evolution is on TV and it is so horribly bad it's kinda funny.


I have no idea who thought it would be a good idea to make a live action version, but they should be shot <_<

It's been done.

[Cobra_Ikari]

Okay, Dragonball Evolution is on TV and it is so horribly bad it's kinda funny.


I have no idea who thought it would be a good idea to make a live action version, but they should be shot <_<

Really? I remember nothing of that movie except that I've seen it, so it can't have been THAT bad.

[Elemental]

Really? I remember nothing of that movie except that I've seen it, so it can't have been THAT bad.

Unless it's now a repressed memory.

I myself have never seen it, but I have no desire to, so I'm fine.

[Amiel]

Okay, Dragonball Evolution is on TV and it is so horribly bad it's kinda funny.

Dragonball Evolution clearly doesn't exist. Dragonball Kai is apparently pretty good; disclaimer: I have no basis for this other than the fact my friend says it's pretty good.

[LaZodiac]

Dragonball Evolution clearly doesn't exist. Dragonball Kai is apparently pretty good; disclaimer: I have no basis for this other than the fact my friend says it's pretty good.

Dragonball Kai is actually pretty terrible. The original may have a lot of filler, but atleast its faithfull to the source material.

[Cobalt]

ION, I'm a senior now. WOOP!

*now-a-senior five* I'm gonna walk around be like 'yeah i'm a senior' and people will be like 'whoa.' Or that's how I'm thinking it. Maybe not going to happen that way.
I actually still have to physically go to my school for over-summer activity stuff for the next few weeks. My summer starts on June 16th's afternoon, when it's all over and done with forever.

[DraPrime]

So yesterday I watched Highlander. Now I'm watching the 90's tv show. Oh man, what an awesome franchise. What a shame that it sunk all the way down to becoming a Sci-Fi original movie.

[Qwertystop]

Huh...

Pikmin 2 NPC is finally coming to America.


At this point, why bother? just get on with 3.

[LaZodiac]

Huh...

Pikmin 2 NPC is finally coming to America.

At this point, why bother? just get on with 3.

To tease us untill 3 comes out. Because 3 will be for the Wii U, not the Wii.

[Mutant Sheep]

I dunno. I don't WANT to use motion controls. So PLEASE give us the now-retro (So weird to say that.) GameCube controller option and let us play Pikmin 3 like it was one. Complete with a limited amount of time, I hope. (Or at least the OPTION to. Made it so much more fun.)

[LaZodiac]

I dunno. I don't WANT to use motion controls. So PLEASE give us the now-retro (So weird to say that.) GameCube controller option and let us play Pikmin 3 like it was one. Complete with a limited amount of time, I hope. (Or at least the OPTION to. Made it so much more fun.)

Uh...you do know that Pikmin 3 is probably not going to be using motion controls, right?

The way I see it, it'll have fourish modes. One, using the pad thing, allowing you to do tactical movements on the screen in your controller. Two, the beforementioned screen is just a map, and it plays like normal Pikmin. Three, it'll use the (actually really superior for the game type) Wii based controls. And four, Gamecube controls. Seeing as how the Wii U is confirmed to have support for Gamecube controllers, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case.