Thread: Do you know where your towel is?

I always keep a towel with me.

It's in my briefcase

Alright, then, smartass. Where is it?

Originally Posted by Taosaur

No you're a towel!

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels...
"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."

In my bathroom.

Hitch Hiker's Guide is lame....

No it's not.

MoS will get you for that now...

MoS will have to forgive me. I read 3 or 4 of the books and only rarely found something funny ("throwing yourself at the ground and missing" was one of them).

Well you have to read all five and a half of them, in order, twice, lighten up, and grow a sense of humour to find them funny.

My towel rarely leaves my sight. As I type this, my towel rests contently beside me, in dire need of a washing but none the worse for wear. In fact, I have two. The only thing better than always knowing where your towel is, is always knowing where both of your towels are. It's never a bad thing to have a spare.

Originally Posted by 27

Hitch Hiker's Guide is lame....

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

No it's not.

MoS will get you for that now...

Originally Posted by 27

MoS will have to forgive me. I read 3 or 4 of the books and only rarely found something funny ("throwing yourself at the ground and missing" was one of them).

I do not forgive impudence. If you truly did not find HHGtG funny, then you sir have no sense of humour and should be taken out back and forced to listen to a Vogon poetry reading. Multiple times, if you survive the first.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go throw myself at the ground and miss with MoT.

Do you mean towel as in the towel you ejaculate in or the one you dry yourself off with?