Towel Day

Well on the momentous occasion of Towel Day (which incidentally is 42 days after no particular day) i thought i'd spend a few minutes on the reason behind this day, or in simpler words Douglas Noel Adams (DNA). So while going through Douglas Adams on wikipedia i thought what better way to pay tribute to the great author than by blogging down some of his one-liners which have been but one of the several cornerstones of his writing. If you are a fan of DNA i'm sure this will put a smile on your face and if you aren't then i'm sure this will make you a fan and thereby put a smile on your face.

1. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980).

2. AALST (n.): One who changes his name to be further to the front. - The Meaning of Liff (1983)

(Eeshan in full towel day attire)

3. SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.): The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom. - The Meaning of Liff (1983)

4. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. - The Salmon of Doubt

5. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

6. [The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

7. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

8. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

9. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.

10. The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy

11. Arthur: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
Ford: Why, what did she tell you?
Arthur: I don't know, I didn't listen.

12. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.




(here Eeshan is seen fully enjoying the benefits of the towel)