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By Kristopher Hernandez BRONZE
Lubbock, Texas

Never takes a bath He's a living dust bunny Leaves a trail of dust Friend of Charlie Brown Plays with buddies in the band Enjoys their company Dusty tattered clothes Sur...
Kristopher Hernandez BRONZE, Lubbock, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 1 comment

#206882 Poetry
By Philosophe BRONZE
Chino Hills, California
Philosophe BRONZE, Chino Hills, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;A towel 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 vapors; 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&#039;t see it, it can&#039;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.<br /> <br /> &quot;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 &quot;lost&quot;. 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.<br /> <br /> &quot;Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in &quot;Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There&#039;s a frood who really knows where his towel is.&quot; (Sass: know, be aware of, meet; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)&quot;<br /> &mdash;<br /> The Hitch-hiker&rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy

#206883 Poetry
By LovexSkterEpic SILVER
Brooklyn, New York
LovexSkterEpic SILVER, Brooklyn, New York
6 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
They say that I can&#039;t last a day in the real world, I say you wouldn&#039;t survive one night in mine.

#206884 Poetry
By elizabethjoy GOLD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
elizabethjoy GOLD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
17 articles 1 photo 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.&rdquo;<br /> Eleanor Roosevelt

#206885 Poetry
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By GreyGirl ELITE
Pohang,Kyungbuk, Other
GreyGirl ELITE, Pohang,Kyungbuk, Other
170 articles 122 photos 391 comments
#206886 Poetry
kenzie_treub DIAMOND, Orlando, Florida
60 articles 0 photos 11 comments
Resham Sharma BRONZE,
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#206888 Poetry
By ckinert BRONZE
Marysville, Michigan
ckinert BRONZE, Marysville, Michigan
4 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;life is easy, we just make it hard.&quot;

#206889 Poetry
By Anonymous
#206890 Poetry
By CWells_521 DIAMOND
Greene, New York
CWells_521 DIAMOND, Greene, New York
81 articles 0 photos 45 comments

Favorite Quote:
The best things in life are unseen, that&#039;s why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.<br /> What doesn&#039;t kill you, only makes you stronger.