A TENTACLE'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: TOWEL DAY

25 May 2012

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Today is Towel Day, in memory of science-fiction author, Douglas Adams.

Adams is best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science-fiction comedy radio series first pitched to BBC Radio 4 in 1977. The series led to Adams expanding the concept as a novel, and for adaptation to television. Today, 25 May, is unofficially Towel Day, celebrating Adams's life and his work in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was first set two weeks after Adams's death on 11 May 2001.

The original quotation that explained the importance of towels is found in Chapter 3 of Adams' work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.