h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: The art of getting dressed with a towel on your head - A16750811
Author: Dr Anthea - Ace / Artist / Assassin - U203430

don't think its been done yet, probably wrong though

HI
I remember many years ago (It was our honeymoon)In Siges my new naive beautiful and sophisticated wife had the unfortunate displeasure of seeing German gentleman? disrobing his person in front of her. All he had to shield his bits and pieces was a boulder about two foot high and a small hand towel. I was out swimming at the time and only heard this after I had Completed my swim. Of course I was very angry that some B*****D had acted in that way. The Year was 1966.Just after the World Football Cup.
But retribution has a strange way of appearing. That night at a disco in town we said this gentleman Twisting away on the dance floor My wife and I started to twist and as we got nearer and nearer, I nutted the B******D and as he went down I kneed him in the G****YS
Another victory in 1966.

Hi Dr.Anthea, just wondering whether you've put this in the right place, perhaps the under-guide or the AWW may be more suitable.

It would need a lot more work and fleshing out to stand any chance of going in the EG.

ST.

how exactly could it be fleshed out

and it is factual not fiction so althernate writing isnt really the place,
and of interest to the community if they need to find such information,
and there arent that many fun edited guide entrys any more

One possibility for fleshing out the Entry is to make it a general Entry about doing things with a towel on your head (and maybe a bit about getting the towel there in the first place).

... and perhaps about differnt towels - sizes, ones with buttons, etc? .. and how the effectiveness of drying is affected by the quantity/length of hair?

Just a thought.



W

you have towels with buttons!!

I'm going to disagree with some of the above - I think it's a great subject for an EG entry. You've made a promising start too. I think it needs a little more content and a bit of structure, but I'm sure it will be worth it. The title alone deserves it.

I can't advise you exactly what to add to a quirky entry such as this, but I'm not sure that writing about different towels is necessarily the answer. I was attempting it I would probably "top and tail" it with paragraphs which put the exercise in context (i.e. who is doing the dressing, and why they need to keep the towel on their head - some of this you've already done), and then another to close it. You've handled the "how to do it" parts well. Are there any other dressing-related or wet-hair tips you can add in? Perhaps you could mention that a hair-dryer makes this problem redundant.

Has anyone written an entry on how to take underwear on & off without removing the outer garments? I remember Rowan Atkinson doing this on TV once.

Icy

Now really, Icy, that's not worth more than two or three sentences: wear a shirt and a skirt/kilt or a dress

I prolly shouldn't admit this but we have these:

http://www.beautynaturally.com/microf.html

Then again we have long thick and superabsorbent hair that does not give up the water easily

That's just on the subject of towels with buttons, of course

Eh

I wanted to add that so long as you keep any discussion relevant to the title, you'll be great. So only discuss different towels (for eg) if at all, insofar as it affects getting dressed (or undressed, for that matter).

it is slightly different now,

perhaps i should put in a sentence or two about watter retention in hair but i dont think its nessassary....

actually i'm quite sure its not
as the title is getting dressed with a towel on your head
not getting dressed with a towel on your head and the properties of said towel in contrast to the water capasity of hair.

What about how to get the towel wrapped on hair in the first place, also reasons for needing it on like not wanting to waterstain your clothes. Advice on what to do in an emergency when it falls off as you bend to put your socks on.....just some thoughts on my experiences of dressing with a towel on my head.

I'm not getting this one I'm afraid.

Well the Entry probably speaks to those who wrestle with this problem on a regular basis (me) like, I'm sat here at my PC in a wet towelling gown and a towel wrapped round my head. I'm now going to get dressed because I'm lateand my hair isn't dry enough to start using the hairdrier.

I'm not sure if i should put something in about wet hair etc
I think theres something already along those lines....

You have already mentioned wet hair

Oh and I wrote this: A6951602 which you can link to

Personally I thinkt his is the exact type of entry we need in the edited guide and with a few typos corrected and by workign on some of the suggestions made already, I think this would be welcome on the frontpage

tjm

thankyou...

Typos?

sorry someone will need to point them out to me
*appologises*