Towel Day was a resounding success during the past years. People from all over the world celebrated Towel Day and many of them sent pictures to prove it. Feel free to post your own pictures on the forum A shred of evidence.
You guys sent so many
pictures this year I decided to split them up. One page for Europe, one
for the
rest of the world. Consider a long download time for these pages as they
are packed with images.
Josh B from Christchurch, New Zealand, sent these pictures.
Jonathan Stilts from Newcastle, Australia, writes to say:
It's already the 25th here in Australia, and I am moping around the house in my towel and dressing gown (dressing gown normal, it's winter here and I'm not currently working) drinking tea and looking out of the window where I can see the sea (complete with dolphins) and the park, complete with big yellow bulldozer ready to kncok down our house if it fancies.
I've just finished
hearing the final episode of the Quandary Phase of the Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4 via the web
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/hitchhikers
and have experienced my first pang of homesickness for England (I left
a year ago) as it had a deep and comforting sound I haven't heard in over
a year: the Speaking Clock!
Nicholas Kirkwood from Melbourne, Australia, writes to say:
Towel Day 2005 was
a roaring success - at least in our small area of
Australia. A few friends and I wore our towels proudly around every
second of the day (got some funny looks and questions of course),
often in the scarf-like fashion (Photo attatched).
The icing on the cake,
however, was when it poured with rain during
cross-country. Me and a friend (a rather odd, pschycotic fellow who is
nonetheless constantly funny) walked along yelling and brandishing my
towel against the relentless forces of rain and wind which tried in
vain to break though its impenatrable layers of furry blue material;
meanwhile the poor souls running past or sheltering under trees could
do nought but stare in envy.
Truly a wondrous proof of just how mindbogglingly useful towels are.
En and Min from Singapore.
Fabio Bettega from Brazil.
Kat from Ohio, USA.
Marina from Singapore.
Duque DécioZico95 from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Sheena from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Chad Vincent from Tallmadge, Ohio, USA, writes to say:
Desk in the IT department.
Looks like this frood left his towel behind.
(He can't have it on the production floor.)
Charles May, Belleville, Illinois, USA.
Jeff Rucker with daughters Jackie and Josephine from Los Angeles, California,
USA.
Bobbie Carpenter from North Augusta, South Carolina, USA.
Josh, Anthony and Brian, three of the hoopiest froods in all of southern California sporting their towels at work with such pride.
Douglas Johnson from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, computer engineer at Astronautics
Corporation of America.
Fabiano Neme from Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Lauren Alden from California, USA writes to say:
We are celebrating Towel Day at our health clinic!!! We are handing out towels to each and every employee. It was great to find your website so now we can elaborate on the details. Thanks for the fun reason to celbrate. We had a great time. These are all Scripps Clinic Encinitas California staff finding the best use for their towel. They all feel as if they can take on any adversity with their towel in hand.
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Lara A writes to say:
My brother, Eric, and I represented towel day here in Oklahoma. We proudly sported out towels as we were out and about town.
Josh K. and John D. at work in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Marko Susimetsä from Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
Franklin Tellez from Brazil.
Bridget, Jennifer and Wyndham from Akron, Ohio, USA.
Dave (aka Chiggy on afda) from the USA.
Deidra Haas from Tennessee, USA, writes to say:
Here you go...me and my towel. This is my favorite towel...it just like the stripes - and, it has serendipitously ripped itself a handy little hole in the corner, too.
Erik from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Daniel C. Hodges from Lexington, Kentucky, USA went to work (the U.S.
Air Force, Washington State) with his towel.
Michael Loebs from San Francisco, California, USA.
Mally from Oswego, New York playing Wiffle Ball outfield with her towel.
Jody Russell of the United States.
Joel from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in front of a club called "Zaphod
Beeblebrox".
Eric from Hanamaki, Iwate prefecture, Japan, writes to say:
I'm writing from Hanamaki,
a city in the boondocks of northern Japan, where I work for City Hall
and teach the
occasional English conversation class. I'm attempting to compensate for
the lack of local participants by celebrating
Towel Day all week, and in today's English class I explained the day,
author, Guide, and significance of towels.
S. Krystal in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Geraldo from Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil.
Freya Anderson writes to say:The staff of the Information Services section of the Alaska State Library, in Juneau, Alaska, USA, created a display for Towel Day and carried towels on May 25th. We also had pins that read:
DON'T PANIC!
It's Towel Day!
May 25, 2005.See the staff posed by the display in our attached photo.
Front row (l-r): Linda, Sheri
Back row (l-r): Mendi, Freya, Sandy, Becky, Sue
Photographer (not shown): Aja
Lindsay sent a picture of Kyle at the James Madison High School in San
Antonio, Texas, USA.
Chris Dyal from the USA with his friends.
Randy Morris, Arizona, USA.
Amy from the USA writes to say:
My name is Amy, tho
my friends (and enemies) call me by my nickname, Havoc. I am a graduate
student at MSU in East Lansing, Michigan studying vertebrate paleontology
(specifically pterosaurs and dinosaurs). During the school year
i unleash my wrath onto poor hapless undergrads as a Teacher's Assistant
for geology classes, but now that the summer session has arrived I am
working at my alternate job here, as a paleobotany collections curation
assistant. Right now my main workspace is located in a dingy old basement
of the natural science building of campus, or the "dungeon"
if you will. That is where this picture was taken. My best friend and
I had stumbled onto your website a few weeks ago after seeing the movie
and decided we were all about the whole towel day thing. So yesterday
she and I carried around our towel of choice, and we both commented to
the other that we didn't see anyone else do it. Which is a shame. But
yes, I carried my towel (which somehow ive been able to hold onto since
i was seven) with me throughtout the entire day,
leaving at the crack of dawn to drive to a museum in ann arbor for research,
coming back, working in the dungeon a bit, schmoozing my mechanic to set
up a sweet deal for new tires for my fat ride, then working in the dungeon
some more before dragging both myself and my towel back home. In all of
those places, I didn't see anyone else carrying their towel, tho this
is probably mostly due to not realizing there is such a concept.
Here we see the towel is snugly carried on my trusty satchel, which too has come in handy more times than one could count. I clip things to it, beat people with it, use it as a counterbalance on uneven coat racks, and once in a while even put things in it. But you know what, it's no towel. So here's my humble contribution to a tribute to the most useful item in the galaxy and to more importantly, the man who first made this observation. May we avoid vogons to see many more towel days to come. Keep it froody. Havoc
Michael Clark in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA has his (well used) towel.
Joel Palenychka
and his friends were celebrating Towel Day at a pub named Limericks
in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Nimrod Peledd from Israel.
Netta Pressman from Israel didn't send a picture of her towel, but her
really cool tatoo.
Yuval Avrami from Jerusalem, Israel, writes to say:hi! I'm Yuval Avrami from Jrusalem, Israel. me and my friends love DA's works so we braught towels today to school. we tried let people know, and eventually 9 people came with towels - including my teacher! like you said. she really did surprise me. so, please put the pictures in your site ans write our names! in the big pictures it's: Yuval, Alon, Ayala, Mor and anna. when it's just two it's me (Yuval) and my twin brother, Alon.
!*happy towel day*we decided it is a happy day, because even though it's a mourning day, we're celebrating his life. not crying for his death. so - Happy Towel Day! Yuval Avrami of Jerusalem
Gilad from Kiryat-Haim, near Haifa, Israel.
Tania Gelfer, Yavne, Israel.
Beny Shlevich from Nazareth Illit, Israel.
Doron from Israel writes to say:
Hello and shalom. My name is Doron Calo, I'm from Israel and I'm proud to say that yes, Towel Day is held in Israel too! (although not by many people yet... maybe next year it'll be better). In hebrew towel day is called Yom Hamagevet. Anyway, I asked a friend of mine to take the two photos I attached. In them you can see me practice in the university (I'm a dentistry student at Tel Aviv University), along with a towel of course. Don't Panic!
Mercedes, USA.
Bruno from Salvador, Brazil.
Luis Paulo from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Doron Calo with Ido and Yuval, at the Avnat Mall, Petach-Tikva, Israel.
Matt from Australia.
Daniel Campos from Guarujá SP, Brazil, sent a bunch of pictures
of his friends and some dogs, all celebrating TD.
Chico from the USA.
João Otávio Ferreira Meyer from Brazil.
Christopher Smith from Seattle, Washington, wish to share his new tattoos.
Milton Souza (aka MaxDirty) from São Paulo, Brazil, and his poodle Pituca.
Eduardo (aka Fanho) from São Paulo, Brazil, sleeping with the towel.
Leandro (aka Sardim) from São Paulo, Brazil.
Leonardo (aka Xaxa) from São Paulo, Brazil, flying like a superman.
Prof. Daniel from São Paulo, Brazil.
Members of the Kilman clan (Dave, Noble and Marie of La Salle, Colorado,
USA; and Joe of Norwood, Pennsylvania, USA), while traveling the galaxy;
find themselves in Gettysburg on Towel Day. Dave reports the following
entry on Gettysburg for the Hitchhiker's Guide, "Mostly Carnage".
Bruno Buratto from São Paulo-Brazil, then Bruno and Max playing D&D.
Here are my Towel-day pictures for May 2005 They are hosted on Photobucket
so you can either link
to them or download the pictures to your server as you see fit. Each
one has a story behind it
Towel_Day-01.jpg this picture was taken in front of a local sports store. They have all these life-size metal cut outs of sports figures. The store is across from a high school so I attracted quite the crowd of kids when setting up this shot.
Towel_Day-02.jpg This one was in front of a travel agent in the mall (with their permission).
Towel_Day-05.jpg There is, believe it or not, only one Douglas Adams book on the shelf at the local branch of the Edmonton Library. The library staff was very helpful when I explained that towel day was to honour a popular English author. (None of them was familiar with Adams works, but one had heard about the HHGTTG movie.)
Towel_Day-07.jpg
The book store had a better selection of DNA books, but was less accommodating.
They
threatened to call Mall Security on me I managed to get two pictures
before I had to grab my towel and run
Towel_Day-08.jpg We hitchhikers must cherish and respect our towels. I took mine out for dinner.
E.B.C. Rennie
(Hieraco)
Natália Pacheco and Ernesto Andreghetto from Rodoviaria Barra Funda,
São Paulo, Brazil.
DarkStar from Savannah, Georgia, USA, writes to say:
Sorry for the delay...rolls
of film mysteriously disappear.
This year I traded in my old towel for a new one, mostly to make the
connection more apparent to other ape-descended, carbon-based, bipedal,
clueless life forms. To my immense satisfaction, this generated even
more questions and discussions and of course, lengthy explanations.
I won't bother to expound on how massively useful a towel is. Anyone
that has carried one for a few days will realize this is overly obvious.
What I will expound on however, are a few of the effects this day has...and
more importantly, why it should be more than one day.
1.) First it inspires conversation. Conversation is communication. Communication
is good.
2.) It transcends borders, and in doing so unites varied peoples and
cultures (at least the hoopy froods), also a good thing. And most important...
3.) A towel is a massively important thing to have...at all times.
Carry those towels...talk to people...and turn them on to D.A and HHGG.
See you at the Restaurant !!
Terry Hickman, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, made this display to educate her
benighted co-workers.
David Peachey from Brisbane, Australia, writes to say:
It's taken a while, but here's a photo from Towel Day in Brisbane, this year. We were both performing a theatre show that night, so we wore our towels onstage. I have long hair which is why my towel is wrapped around my head....
Mor Cohen from Jerusalem, Israel, sent these pictures of her friends
and herself.
Hadas, Mor, Ayala, Anna, Yuval & Alon
Alon
Oren
Daniel, Anna, Yuval & Mor
Emily Pattersson from California, USA, writes to say:
Aric, Lisa, Bruce,
and Emily catching a ride on the intergalactic highway, right around
the Earth exit.
Make a left where the North American continent used to be, and in another
life, you would find what we fondly
call Redding, California. Aric is a little thirsty, so he's using some
of the orange juice in his towel to rehydrate.
Jenni from Florida, USA, writes to say:
I'm Jenni, currently residing in Boca Raton, Florida in the U.S.A
These pictures are from the celebrations of my high school graduation - we drove forty minutes with towels to see a midnight show of the movie. I even wore furry boots and sunglasses that I thought Zaphod would approve of. My friend Rebec ca is the one donning the dressing gown.
Now, I would like to point out that technically these pictures are from the 21st of May, 2005 - I did observe Towel Day and faithfully carry my towel around with me as well, but because it was my first week of freedom from high school I d idn't actually leave the house and so didn't think pictures were necessary.
P.S. Sorry if they're really big!
Viva Towel Day!!!
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