Don't Panic; it's Happy Towel Day....

My thoughts entirely, Jacey!

And mine. There IS life at the end of the universe! It's a restaurant

A fish restaurant?

crimson, . Writing it in my calendar for future years. Why is it 25 May?

The answer to your question Bags is '42'!!

Something about it first being celebrated two weeks after his death and has continued to do since then. Why did I know nothing about this till now? Parades in Edinburgh with people carrying towels and wearing dressing gowns etc. Why all this fuss about the Jubilee and something as important as this has been overlooked? Definately a party next year. And, if I wasn't on the codeine for my leg I'd raise a glass to him today; I know, I'll just take an extra tablet to celebrate. Not that it's addictive .....

Oh s*d the codeine! I take it too but I still drink . Cheers, crimson.

Not addicted to either.

Ok crimson ...I get the dressing gown reference but not the towel ...why towel day? There are so many other good links to the stories

After lunch, a nice cold Pymms to the memory of Douglas Adams will go down very nicely. Am taking such a lot of tablets, but have looked at instructions and don't think any of them precludes alcohol. Cheers!

Oh mine do preclude alcohol but I've ignored the preclusions for decades without it being a problem. One just needs to be aware and careful.

Pymms! What a god idea!

I know you're not supposed to take pills with alcohol ...so I take mine with water, then have the alcohol!!

But ...often it makes the medication stronger ...rather than preventing it from working ...or is that just wishful thinking?

It enhances the effects with some! Makes you very I'll with others.

According to the gospel that is wikipedia, someone who has their towel with them is in control and is highly respected within the hitchiking community. It also has a lot of uses and it's easier to carry a towel around for a day rather than wearing a dressing gown, which would look odd in some professions [some?].

Yes, I understand about the enhancing effects (central nervous system depressants, etc). I was extremely careful at first until I found out what the actual effect, if any, was on me. Like most advice, one treats it with respect . I expect that's why I'm still here to tell the tale.

oops, gotta check some burgers....!

Oh man; you'll have me a pill popping alcoholic by the end of the day ! I know that stuff you take for toothache should never be combined with alcohol [metronidazole?] but, ever since being told by my doctor that, if I did I'd wish I'd never been born I somehow keep wondering how anything could be that bad......not as bad as a barley wine hangover, surely, which I can still remember forty year later after a night of hanging my head out of my flat window thinking that someone was hitting me over the head with a hammer....

Oh yes! I remember barley wine hangovers......

Never had a hangover [smug]

Not something to put on your bucket list, Bags!