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Towel Day

Submitted by Mousumi Sepai, Last Modified on 2019-11-08

Towel Day

Douglas Adams
25th May is celebrated as Towel day every year as tribute to an English Author Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001). This commemoration started two weeks after his death, on 25th May 2001.


In this day, fans of Douglas Adams carry a towel publicly with them. This is in remembrance of the author and his famous book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also known as H2G2. In this book, author demonstrated the importance and usefulness of a towel with world famous phrases and caption.

Famous quotes

If you want to survive out here, you gotta know where your towel is

Don’t panic and carry a towel

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar Hitchhiker can have

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with

Only those of us who do not know where our towels are, would ever notice, that the cool people know where their towels are

Towel Day

H2G2 Books Cover

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hitch Hikers Guide

Hitch Hikers Guide

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