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Som vanlig er 25.mai den intergalaktiske håndkledagen, som feires for å markere Douglas Adams' store klassiker The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Haikerens guide til galaksen). Dagen oppstod visstnok i 2001 som en markering for å hylle Douglas Adams to uker etter hans død. Dagen kan markeres på forskjellige måter, men de vanligste involverer en eller annen bruk av boka, filmen, TV-serien og hørespillet, eller et særlig fokus på håndklær eller tallet 42.

Hvorfor akkurat et håndkle? Jeg overlater herved ordet til selveste haikerguideboka, som har følgende å si om håndklær:

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 (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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 hitch hiker 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.

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.)


Så gratulerer med den intergalaktiske håndkledagen, folkens. Sleng håndkleet over skulderen før du går på skolen/jobben i dag, og husk: Don't Panic!

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Hvordan skal/har du feire(t) håndkledagen?
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzumishi krimpatul
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Nei faen. Glemte det igjen
Are you my mommy? // Je Vois Tout
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Kan hylle denne dagen ved å lese bøkene for ente gang. Igjen!
Evoking fear is, in itself, an art form - and nothing in the entire history of storytelling has explored it better than video games.
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Jeg har ikke tid til å lese bøkene igjen, men jeg skal på jobbintervju etterpå og tar vel med et håndkle vel.

Lagt til 2011-05-25 10:56:
Gratulerer med dagen btw.
                                                 ••• Abusus non tollit usum! •••                                                                                                      Moderatorsjef @ Gamereactor®                                          
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Don't forget to bring a towel... You wanna get high?
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RexRuudy: Oh, man...I have no idea what's going on right now...
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzumishi krimpatul
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Nynorskeksamen. Skulle ha sittet i bare et håndkle, men det glemte jeg.
"I'm not sure I can stomach another cover-based right-wing wank game."
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Aldri hørt om engang....
I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle
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Either I Elektro Banana...
"Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human."
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Siterer kvidogbleg:
Nynorskeksamen. Skulle ha sittet i bare et håndkle, men det glemte jeg.

Du må ikke skrive slikt, Kvidogbleg, jeg holdt på å sette kaffen i halsen da jeg leste kommentaren din. Joda, du hadde vist deg som en dedikert nerd da, det skal du ha.

Siterer Elektro Banana:
Aldri hørt om engang....

Siterer albaga:
Either I Elektro Banana...

Nå har dere det. Så kan dere lade opp til neste års feiring allerede nå.
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzumishi krimpatul
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Seff! I guess...
"Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people. It means they're human."
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