# It's May 25th, do you know where your towel is? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163 "2011-05-25T15:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/1 "2011-05-25T15:19:06Z")
Ten years ago the first towel day was celebrated in honor of the late lamented Douglas Adams who died far too soon. Is anyone celebrating, memorializing, etc? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/2 "2011-05-25T15:23:34Z")
I plan on setting out towels instead of napkins at dinner tonight. Just to see if anyone asks me why. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/3 "2011-05-25T15:23:56Z")
I appreciate Towel Day, but I’m more likely to remember The Glorious People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road on May 25th. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/4 "2011-05-25T19:46:14Z")
Ten years and two weeks ago, Douglas Adams passed from the Earth. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. But today is not the day to mourn his death. Today is [Towel Day,](http://www.towelday.org/) a day we celebrate his life! Unfortunately, I’m still in the process of moving my library from home, so I don’t have my Hitchhiker anthology, but I do believe I have my Dirk Gently books in a box somewhere. So, how will you celebrate the man? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/5 "2011-05-25T19:55:19Z")
In his honor, I have taken time to meditate on the precise location of _all_ of my towels (subject to Heisenberg limitations, of course). Also, I suspect that I will end the day by raising a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, or an unreasonable facsimile thereof, in a toast. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/6 "2011-05-25T20:04:21Z")
> **[It's May 25th, do you know where your towel is?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=609887)** > > Ten years ago the first towel day was celebrated in honor of the late lamented Douglas Adams who died far too soon. Is anyone celebrating, memorializing, etc? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/7 "2011-05-25T20:07:03Z")
I don’t know how I missed that. I’ll ask a mod to merge. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/8 "2011-05-25T20:13:39Z")
Are they really the same day? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/9 "2011-05-25T20:16:54Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I don’t know how I missed that. I’ll ask a mod to merge. You got it. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/10 "2011-05-25T20:20:10Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Are they really the same day? Towel Day and the Glorious 25th? Yep. Also, Star Wars Day. It’s like geek Christmas, except no one’s giving me any presents. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/11 "2011-05-25T20:53:31Z")
It’s Towel Day? I did not sass that. I will have to mix some ginnan tonix in celebration. I once drank 42 of them in researching the question of life, the universe and everything. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/12 "2011-05-25T21:35:00Z")
I not only know where my towel is [hanging on the back of my desk chair] I also have a sprig of lilac in a vase on my desk. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/13 "2011-05-25T21:37:53Z")
> [@filling\_pages](#): > > Towel Day and the Glorious 25th? Yep. Also, Star Wars Day. It’s like geek Christmas, except no one’s giving me any presents. Nah, despite it coming out on the 25th, Star Wars Day is May the 4th. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/14 "2011-05-25T21:44:12Z")
I know where my towel is (in my linen closet, of course!) I am a hoopy frood. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/15 "2011-05-25T21:46:16Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > It’s Towel Day? I did not sass that. I will have to mix some ginnan tonix in celebration. I once drank 42 of them in researching the question of life, the universe and everything. Ew, ginnan tonix? I much prefer jinnyan tonicks. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/16 "2011-05-25T22:27:32Z")
I can grok it. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-may-25th-do-you-know-where-your-towel-is/583163/17 "2011-05-25T22:45:53Z")
> [@filling\_pages](#): > > I appreciate Towel Day, but I’m more likely to remember The Glorious People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road on May 25th. > [@Yllaria](#): > > Are they really the same day? In case there is confusion, back before the threads were merged, the above comments came in the order you see them here. > [@filling\_pages](#): > > Towel Day and the Glorious 25th? Yep. Also, Star Wars Day. It’s like geek Christmas, except no one’s giving me any presents. Thanks. I must make a calendar note for next year.