Happy Towel Day!

Don't panic.

Wanna get high?

Mine is in the truck.

I always have one in the car

mad_machine wrote: I always have one in the car

You sound like a really froopy dude

Hey, there's a notice that there's a new highway going through....oh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1nOlSBUbDI

JoeyM wrote: You sound like a really froopy dude

That's Hoopy Frood.

Just out of interest, does anybody in our listening audience actually HAVE a Ford Prefect, hoopy or otherwise?

mad_machine wrote: I always have one in the car

Me too.

In reply to Stealthtercel:

My neighbor had a '59 Ford Perfect four door with a tiny flathead engine. Cool little car. He sold it to finance his meth lab.

fujioko wrote: In reply to Stealthtercel: My neighbor had a '59 Ford Perfect four door with a tiny flathead engine. Cool little car. He sold it to finance his meth lab.

The worst thing is it probably got turned into a drag car by now...

What manner of pop culture is this? I don't get it.

Ah, never mind. I am educated via the wiki. A way to honor some obscure deceased author, it seems.

1988RedT2 wrote: What manner of pop culture is this? I don't get it. Ah, never mind. I am educated via the wiki. A way to honor some obscure deceased author, it seems.

Spoken like somebody who knows where his towel is.

Obscure? OBSCURE??? You sound like Marvin.

please, don;t get me started on obscurity, when you have a brain the size of a planet...

I think he meant to say hilarious sci-fi author, environmental activist and atheist with seriously devoted fans

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/tattoos-that-are-basically-works-of-art

JoeyM wrote: I think he meant to say hilarious sci-fi author, environmental activist and atheist with seriously devoted fans

And introduced Dawkins to Lalla Ward at one of his parties.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-richard-dawkins-and-lalla-ward-1423554.html

I didn't know that Dawkins was married to a Dr. Who companion

In reply to JoeyM:

Yeah, he actually started GD with a story about how Lalla hated her school as a kid, but never told her parents until she was an adult. The name was familiar, but it took me a minute to remember who she was. The local PBS station was running Tom Baker era Dr. Who when I first deconverted (early 1980s), I had such a crush on her.

If I ever get the chance to hear the man speak in person, I still want to get into the question line on false pretenses, and then tell him I'm jealous. Bringing it back to Adams--reading H2G2 was probably the first time I'd ever seen any serious satire of theism at all. Looking back on that time, that crazy little novel had a lot more impact into my deconversion than I'd realized. I never ran across Robert Ingersoll's work in the public library in Swanquarter NC or Starkville MS.

EDIT: tl;dr version. Neither did I until 2006.