Dia da Toalha

Caros leitores, hoje é o dia da toalha! Sim, 25/05 =)


Não usei minha toalha o dia inteiro, eu sei, mas eu fiquei em casa deitada estudando, não teria graça, mas de qualquer forma fiquei feliz que lembrei (foi por pouco!)

Imagino que tem leitores se perguntando "por que diabos ter um dia da toalha?" e, bom, aqui estão alguns belos motivos:

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, 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 clearly a man to be reckoned with."

Esse trecho é do livro O Guia Do Mochileiro Das Galáxias, o primeiro da série de mesmo nome de Douglas Adams.

Para a data em si ser definida foi um pouco complicado, uns sugeriram dia 4 de fevereiro (4/2, no formato de data usado no Brasil) ou dia 2 de Abril (4/2 no formato usado, por exemplo, nos EUA), e o resultado foi 25/5 (????) por ser uma semana depois da morte de Douglas Adams.

A única coisa que posso adicionar é não entre em pânico