Random Thread Pt. 2

[FPrefect61]

Originally Posted by Lorraine

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I'm going now. This place is getting too weird for me.

If you read the books, you'd know.

[jcantrell82]

That sounds like too much damn work, Chriss.

Just leave up the Christmas bat and use all the time you'll save on drinking.

[FPrefect61]

Originally Posted by UJCdream

Would that towel be wiping your ass from shitspraying your name on the lawn?

A towel is the most important thing a hitchhiker can have. It has many
uses: sleeping on, wind sailing on a raft, wetted for hand-to-hand combat,
hiding small wires and such, soaking in nutrients for survival, hiding
from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (very dumb, it thinks if you
can't see it, it can't see you), and, if its clean enough, drying
yourself. Some 'hikers weave complex circuitry into theirs. It's also
good for getting stuff. If a strag (a non-hitchhiker) sees that a 'hiker
has his towel, he'll be more willing to give him stuff he should have
had, but "lost." This has led to the expression, "He really knows where
his towel is," which is a high compliment.

[devilish@darts]

Kind of my thoughts - I will do that.

[UJCdream]

Originally Posted by FPrefect61

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta…wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat…wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes…any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it … win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Um. Ok, Tom. No problem.

*backs away from Tom*

[jcantrell82]

my leg went to sleep.

If i let it sleep all day, will it be awake all night?

[DreemingTree]

Originally Posted by jcantrell82

my leg went to sleep.

If i let it sleep all day, will it be awake all night?

[UJCdream]

Originally Posted by jcantrell82

my leg went to sleep.

If i let it sleep all day, will it be awake all night?

I'm not sure. But think about this for a while... if you were an amputee, this wouldn't be an issue.

[FPrefect61]

Originally Posted by UJCdream

Um. Ok, Tom. No problem.

*backs away from Tom*

Actually, here's the full text.

The Hitchhiker’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 vapors; 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 (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – 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: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, 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 hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker 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 know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

[greppson]

i need to put some tunes on. everyone else is in meetings for the rest of the day and i have NO work left to do.

[UJCdream]

My dad just informed me that, for the first time in my just about 23 years of life, as well as the first time in HIS life... we're hosting the big family Christmas dinner. Since my family is so large, that means they'll be taking over my apartment as well. I now have to start preparing for everyone trampling through my place.

Also, my immediate family (Mom, Dad, Sister..etc) will be postponing our Christmas til the 26th due to my dad having to work Christmas Day.

oy vey!

[Crush me Grey]

what ever happened to Bean/ Evan?

[FPrefect61]

He comes and goes, goes and comes.

[Crush me Grey]

hmm, i havent seen him since the end of the summer
i liked morning wood

[FPrefect61]

He's posted a bit since the Gorge/San Fran trips. Last I heard he's working on the Gap getting hit on by freshman girls.

[Crush me Grey]

Originally Posted by FPrefect61

He's posted a bit since the Gorge/San Fran trips. Last I heard he's working on the Gap getting hit on by freshman girls.

oh jeeze...

[batleon]

Wow, this thread grows fast. Fascinating...

[Barkeep]

Is it just me or is my clock at work moving really slow today?

[il bacio dolce]

I'm way behind now. Geez.


I love wine.

[Nautiest_monkey]

To the bitch stealing my sales

[il bacio dolce]

Come on now. Where'd everybody go?

I know myself I got bored enough to go over to DMBc and so did Tom.

[FPrefect61]

Seriously, a morgue has more life than this place.

[il bacio dolce]

[greppson]

I just got 8 tickets to 4 different sox games for $194 cause redsox.com thwarted a scalper on ebay.

i get to see the red sox get world series rings against the spankees on opening day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[UJCdream]

i hate you jason.

[il bacio dolce]

I need to start saving money for DMB tix as soon as Christmas is over with.

[UJCdream]

blah. i have to drive out to work to pick up my check and cash it. it sounds lazy, but my work is right across the street from the mall. on a friday night. a week before christmas. WITHOUT the christmas traffic the round trip is about 45mins to an hour... i can only imagine how long this will take.

[bron]

Originally Posted by il bacio dolce

I know myself I got bored enough to go over to DMBc and so did Tom.

It's so true..I only go over there when nothing is going on here.

[UJCdream]

yep. that's the only time i head over there too.

[il bacio dolce]

I'm soooo glad I get paid weekly.

I'm going to start just eating whatever is in the house whether I like it ot not. I have this habit of buying more food if I don't want anything that is already there. I will save money if I stop doing that.