O Dia da Toalha é celebrado no dia 25 de maio como uma homenagem dos fãs ao autor da série The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (no Brasil O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias, em Portugal À Boleia Pela Galáxia), Douglas Adams.
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O Dia do Orgulho Lusista e Reintegrata celebra-se a 25 de maio e é um festejo lúdico criado em 2007 na Galiza por pessoas que seguem a linha reintegracionista para a língua galega, isto é, que defendem que o galego e o português são uma só língua.
A data foi escolhida em homenagem à série À Boleia pela Galáxia, de Douglas Adams, que assinalava a toalha como um dos utensílios imprescindíveis. É precisamente a toalha o motivo pelo qual muitos galegos travaram o seu primeiro contacto com as localidades do norte de Portugal. Por estas razões, o Dia do Orgulho Lusista e Reintegrata coincide propositadamente com o Dia da Toalha, reafirmando o caráter lúdico do evento.
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Towel Day 2005, Innsbruck, Austria, where, by his own account, Adams got the inspiration to write the Guide
Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute to the author Douglas Adams by his fans. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their appreciation for the books and the author, as referred to in Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death on 11 May 2001.
The original quotation that explained the importance of towels is found in Chapter 3 of Adams' work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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 miniraft 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 avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); 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 hitchhiker 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.
Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The emphasis on towels is a reference to Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe by Ken Welsh, which inspired Adams' fictional guidebook and also stresses the importance of towels.
The original article that began Towel Day was posted at "Binary Freedom", a short-lived open source forum.
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