As you may know, on Tuesday, I celebrated Towel Day. This is derived from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", one of my top 5 books. This is the passage from the book.
"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 knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
The holiday was started to honor the author's death, and now it's a big deal, even getting it's own website, towelday.com. I even plan on getting that passage framed and putting it in my dorm room, right next to my "Big Brother is Watching You" poster (1984, another great book!). Oh, well, I do want to eventually post part 3, but I just can't find time. But now, without the Core 40, I might. How did you do?
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i did pretty fair. i did skip one question because i didn't see it, though.
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