Good morning! 
It is Tuesday, 25 May 2021
(W21 | D145 | 220 rem)
Today is: 
Towel Day
DONâT PANIC!! Today is Towel Day - be prepared and everything will be fine.
A tribute to Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikerâs Guide To The Galaxy, Towel Day sees fans of the author and the book carrying towels with them to work, to school and as part of their daily activities.
The most important thing that you need to remember in order to celebrate is DONâT PANIC. No matter what the day throws at you, draw comfort from the knowledge that youâre armed with your trusty towel.
Whether youâre a fan of high-tech, circuitry-enhanced towels with more features, bells and whistles than a supercomputer, or if your towel of preference is a simple, old-fashioned fabric hug, all that matters is that your towel never leaves your side.
The Towel Day commemoration was first held 25 May 2001, two weeks after Adamsâ death on 11 May of that year.
The importance of the towel was introduced in The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy original radio series in 1978. The follow-up book explained the importance of towels in The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy universe in Chapter 3, using much of the same wording as the original radio series:
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 canât see it, it canât see you â daft as a brush, but very 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 hitchhiker 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 âlost.â 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.
Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in âHey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? Thereâs a frood who really knows where his towel is.â (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)
â Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy
Be safe, carry a towel, donât panic, and have an totally awesome Towel Day Tuesday!
If you havenât yet, you really should. Read them now!
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