What? Have your towel with you. When? May, 25th, at 7.42pm Where? Aachen, market square, fountain. And why? Because the 25th of may is the 10th commemoration day for Douglas Adams, who died in 2001 and wrote the script for th Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy series. Well, and because a towel is the most massively useful thing to own. The original towel quotation from the Hitch Hiker´s Guide:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. On this little blue-green planet lived vom march, 11th 1952 until may, 11th 2001 the british author Douglas Noel Adams This Douglas Noel Adams one day starred at the stars while lying on a meadow in the austrian town of Innsbruck. While doing so he suddenly had the vision of wirting a science-fiction novel. As a result he created characters like Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox, as protagonists of the four-part trilogy in five tomes "The Hitch Hiker´s Guide to the Galaxy" that wow fans around the world for at leat 40 years now. Since Douglas Adams left this side of the world, fans around the world unite once a year to remember him and to celebrate the so called "Towel-Day" on may, 25th, when they all shout out: "So long und thanks for all the fish!" On may, 25th 2011 it´s the 10th worldwide Towel-Day anniversary!
We will meet on may, 25th 2011 at 7.42 pm at the "Karlsbrunnen" (fountain), market square, Aachen., N 50° 46.581 E 006° 05.020 - well, sum up the numerics of the coordinates - you will get 42 - the perfect spot for this event!! Please bring a hand towel, bath towel or beach towel with you and wear it with pride! Feel free to wear a bath robe if you like!
We would like to publish some pictures or videos of the event in the gallary and as well on www.towelday.org. Depending how many people will attend we would create a "42" made of towels or a group picture with all of you forming the magical cipher. Later we would like to meet at the "Café-Galilei" in der Milchstraße (Milky Way) at (N 50° 46.789 E 006° 4.715) to have some Gin-Tonic or Pangalactic Gurgleblusters while remembering DNA with a smile. Please watch out for further announcements! If you have further appropriate ideas , feel free to contact us! |
Links: Towel Day Artikel in der SZ Towelday.org Deutsche Towel-Day Seite Douglas Adams bei Wikipedia Towel Day bei Wikipedia Die Zahl 42 bei Wikipedia |
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