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Subject: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: Jack the Sailor Date: 11 Jul 12 - 01:42 AM Always know where your towel is! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: GUEST,999 Date: 11 Jul 12 - 01:51 AM Keep a keyhole saw with you at all times. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: Jack the Sailor Date: 11 Jul 12 - 02:05 AM Not a Sawzaw! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: Jack Campin Date: 11 Jul 12 - 04:19 AM "The content is currently unavailable". If you're going to paste Facebook links, do what it takes to make them world-readable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: GUEST,999 Date: 11 Jul 12 - 08:09 AM Does this work, Jack? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: Bettynh Date: 11 Jul 12 - 08:46 AM I thought this would be about Don't Panic |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: Jack Campin Date: 11 Jul 12 - 08:51 AM Thanks, that worked. Poor guy. That was first reported a few years ago and it's still going the rounds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: GUEST,999 Date: 11 Jul 12 - 09:26 AM The oceans weren't meant to be swum in, Not when the shore's outta reach; Just ask the gal from the movies, Her head and her shoulders washed up on the beach. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: GUEST,saulgoldie Date: 11 Jul 12 - 10:00 AM Instresting. However, I am not going to that EUR site again. Their ads are persistent and annoying. Saul |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 11 Jul 12 - 12:23 PM Googling "mario visnjic" reveals that the story dates back to Aug 3, 2006 or earlier, but has been reported as latest news every summer since. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: CapriUni Date: 11 Jul 12 - 02:43 PM During the Q & A session at the end of a lecture Adams gave at the University of Santa Barbara shortly before his death,* he explained that he put that detail in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, because, whenever his friends invited him to the beach, he could never find his own towel... so he used that as shorthand for some detail that would show that a character really has their life together, and is organized and sharp. ... He fully intended to go back and change it in the final draft before publication... But the publication deadline hit before he had a chance to. This led me to come up with a slogan of my own: "I know where my towel is ... I just can't find anything else!" *(It's up on YouTube, here: Parrots, the Universe, and Everything -- hour and 27 minutes long, with an automatic ad at the beginning and end. Well worth the watch, in my not so humble opinion, if you have the time.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: frogprince Date: 11 Jul 12 - 03:06 PM If you visit the kinda resorts that we visit sometimes, you're well acquainted with the sitting-on-your-own-towel rule : ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: Don Firth Date: 11 Jul 12 - 03:12 PM From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams: 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 "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.Verily, forsoothe, and amen! Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: CapriUni Date: 12 Jul 12 - 01:06 AM Douglas Adams was, I believe, one of the world's great philosophers. Thank you for reminding us of the true meaning of towel-knowledge, Don, and raising this discussion above the level of genital pain. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Now I understand Douglas Adams Advice. From: JohnInKansas Date: 12 Jul 12 - 05:23 AM When the story went around a while back several genteel ladies suggested "they could'a just poured a bucket of cold water on him." John |
