Towel Day 2008 Meet Report
Created | Updated May 22, 2008
As you may or may not be aware by now, the Scottish Researchers Group has an annual meet on or around May 11th1 to celebrate the life of Douglas Adams. This year's meet was held on Saturday May 10th, and keeping with tradition, drinks were partaken at the Standing Order on George Street, Edinburgh.
The following chronological log of the event gives an insight into the goings on...
- 1300 - No-one is here yet2.
- 1330 - Zagreb arrives. Finds no-one.
- 1400 - EV & Ku'Reshtin arrive. Table is bagged with relative ease.
- 1405 - Random couple sit themselves down at our table.
- 1409 - Jamie arrives at Haymarket and apparently decides to walk from there.
- 1415 - Jools & FC arrive.
- 1433 - Jamie finally arrives at pub and ignores rest of group.
- 1438 - Chair filching.
- 1440 - Phil & Metal Chicken arrive.
- 1519 - SRG agrees: meatballs in a roll are wrong.
- 1520 - Random couple finally give up and disappear.
- 1636 - Jools has a Wii. EV is jealous.
- 1641 - Jamie & Ku' are served women's drinks. Pink cider!
- 1643 - Zagreb is forbidden to do the helicopter.
- 1653 - Giblet curry is "pretty offal".
- 1656 - Frank Sidebottom impressions break out.
- 1657 - Cider smells like jello.
- 1657.2 - DD wonders, are we still there?
- 1702 - We're still here, although some of us are not all there.
- 1714 - Jools's car is full of Marvin.
- 1719 - Ku' wants a pair. If they don't have pairs, he'll have a pink one.
- 1740 - Jools brings a round to the table by proxy.
- 1744 - 2legs is an axe murderer! Randomness posted on h2g2.
- 1745 - The afternoon activity is cancelled.
- 1750 - Jilted John discussion.
- 1752 - Eric Clapton turns up.
- 1756 - Clapton heads off to bar, possibly to order a pint of Strange Brew.
- 1810 - Jools pretends to be a solitaire card and manages to bemuse everyone.
- 1811 - Still wild bemusement despite explanation.
- 1813 - DD turns up.
- 1818 - Eric Clapton still standing by our table, looking lost.
- 1825 - DD has a large pink one. Drink! I mean drink.
- 1828 - Ku' drinks something that's meant to be a mojito, but looks more like a frisky bison.
- 1907 - SRG flag has been lost to the bar staff - sorrow.
- 1908 - End of minute's silence over loss of flag.
- 1912 - Politics breaks out.
- 1915 - Daleks arrive.
- 1917 - CAKE!
- 1922 - Toast to absent friends.
- 1926 - A slice of cake is set aside for fords.
- 1937 - A toast to Humph.
- 1939 - First ever Marco Pirroni impression at a meet.
- 1941 - It's spelled "Ua-ua-ua-ua-ua."
- 1942 - "...only seconded by Will Powers' Kissing With Confidence."
- 1948 - Zagreb wants a big pink one.
- 1952 - Zagreb suggests pouring the "wifebeater" into the correct glass. EV does so. An incident ensues. "It'll dry out."
- 2015 - Drink up!
- 2025 - We adjourn.
- 2035 - Cafe Rouge - wine is ordered.
- 2144 - Wine drunk. No-one has taken any food orders, so we adjourn and head off into the night.
To help set the scene, why not try and match the time order with the photos which can be found at the following link; Towel Day 2008 photos.
1The anniversary of Douglas's death.2As far as we know, because obviously nobody writing the log was there at the time.
