Today is Towel Day, for all of you who are the uninitiated in to the wonderful story of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.. go get yourself a copy of the guide as soon as you can - and, don't panic.

I grew up with the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. It helped me love books and I will always forever love Douglas Adams for that. Thank you DNA. PS: Dirk's sofa is still stuck in his stairwell.

"A towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker 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."