Today We're Celebrating....
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Today We're Celebrating....
Whilst looking for jolly japes, cracking wheezes and general excuses for silliness, Reg and I stumbled across this:
https://www.thereisadayforthat.com/calendars/2021/03
Forthcoming reasons to be cheerful include...
28 March = national black forest cake day in USA
4 April = international carrot day ...but only in UK
6 April = INTERNATIONAL new beers eve!
In , 12 April is national grilled cheese sandwich day, national liquorice day AND national Big Wind Day .
17 April, Italy = national espresso day ...day of the dangle mug .
1 May = international world naked gardening day .
There's plenty to do, just take your pick
https://www.thereisadayforthat.com/calendars/2021/03
Forthcoming reasons to be cheerful include...
28 March = national black forest cake day in USA
4 April = international carrot day ...but only in UK
6 April = INTERNATIONAL new beers eve!
In , 12 April is national grilled cheese sandwich day, national liquorice day AND national Big Wind Day .
17 April, Italy = national espresso day ...day of the dangle mug .
1 May = international world naked gardening day .
There's plenty to do, just take your pick
May you always have tail wind.
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Carrot Day could easily encompass 'Carrot Cake Day'
And toasted cheese and licorice mixed up is guaranteed to result in Big Wind Day
And toasted cheese and licorice mixed up is guaranteed to result in Big Wind Day
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The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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And the single most important day for fans of Douglas Adam's;
25th of May.
World towel day.
I do celebrate it with a tiny towel (when on a trip). Since the Highland Trail group start is round about then, I've some memories of sending mates photos with me and my towel during the event. Very spectacular.
25th of May.
World towel day.
I do celebrate it with a tiny towel (when on a trip). Since the Highland Trail group start is round about then, I've some memories of sending mates photos with me and my towel during the event. Very spectacular.
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May you always have tail wind.
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I didn't know that. That's my birthday. On towel dayAlpinum wrote: โThu Mar 25, 2021 10:41 pm And the single most important day for fans of Douglas Adam's;
25th of May.
World towel day.
I do celebrate it with a tiny towel (when on a trip). Since the Highland Trail group start is round about then, I've some memories of sending mates photos with me and my towel during the event. Very spectacular.
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You might want to keep that to yourself, should you want presents to retain the element of surprise .
May you always have tail wind.
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Great news, my birthday falls on INTERNATIONAL CABERNET SAUVIGNON DAY, SLINKY DAY and NATIONAL TOASTED MARSHMALLOW DAY. Itโs going to be wild
Years ago my brother and I had a wall calendar of wacky holidays like these, one particularly messy, well attended party was held in honour of Yak day.
Years ago my brother and I had a wall calendar of wacky holidays like these, one particularly messy, well attended party was held in honour of Yak day.
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That sounds like great fun, don't suppose we could swap?BigdummySteve wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 6:08 am Great news, my birthday falls on INTERNATIONAL CABERNET SAUVIGNON DAY, SLINKY DAY and NATIONAL TOASTED MARSHMALLOW DAY. Itโs going to be wild
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You might want to look up 'world towel day'.Verena wrote: โThu Mar 25, 2021 11:37 pmI didn't know that. That's my birthday. On towel dayAlpinum wrote: โThu Mar 25, 2021 10:41 pm And the single most important day for fans of Douglas Adam's;
25th of May.
World towel day.
I do celebrate it with a tiny towel (when on a trip). Since the Highland Trail group start is round about then, I've some memories of sending mates photos with me and my towel during the event. Very spectacular.
From from comment I left believing that you might not know the story behind it.
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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 vapours; 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 โ 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: 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.
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.)[3]
โโDouglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's been a while since I read the book, so thanks for the reminder. Brilliant. I must have intuitively known this, as I always carry a tiny microfibre travel towel when bikepacking
More importantly, 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.
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.)[3]
โโDouglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's been a while since I read the book, so thanks for the reminder. Brilliant. I must have intuitively known this, as I always carry a tiny microfibre travel towel when bikepacking
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Ok, swap a go my slinky for a towel
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I must be a hoopy frood 'cos I've still got my Don't Panic towel from way back. It doesn't come out very often. Still got vinyls and various other memorabilia too. There was a period when it went uncool to be into HHGTTG but his inventiveness and humour stands the test of time.
https://www.royal-plus.de/dna/indexE.html
https://www.royal-plus.de/dna/indexE.html
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The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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I had โDonโt Panicโ in large green friendly letters on my camper van, came in handy in far flung outposts of civilisation, in Croatia they called us the donโt panic brothers.
Was hitchers really ever uncool? The books as well?
Was hitchers really ever uncool? The books as well?
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I woke up this morning but Iโm still in the dark
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It's mean girls day on my birthday
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My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco
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Between Bill Day and Ben Day (*)whitestone wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco
(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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The flower pot men?RIP wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 8:15 pmBetween Bill Day and Ben Day (*)whitestone wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco
(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one
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Same here, so cheers to you too for the quote
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Verena wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 8:27 pmThe flower pot men?RIP wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 8:15 pmBetween Bill Day and Ben Day (*)whitestone wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco
(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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Ooh ooh
My birthday falls on nationial fish and chip day. Yay. I usually end up with a small battered sausage.
My birthday falls on nationial fish and chip day. Yay. I usually end up with a small battered sausage.
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Now that's an image to conjure with.....
"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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RIP wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 10:10 pmVerena wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 8:27 pmThe flower pot men?RIP wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 8:15 pmBetween Bill Day and Ben Day (*)whitestone wrote: โFri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco
(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one
Weโre all individuals, except me.
I woke up this morning but Iโm still in the dark
I woke up this morning but Iโm still in the dark