Talk:Towel
From Academic Kids
Towels are usually provided in hotel and motel rooms for the guests to use.
Actually, I suggest to remove this sentence. Towels are usually bought in shops and/or found in bathrooms, kitchens or beaches, which is too trivial to write it down. At least until someone finds out where towels really come from. Their existence in hotel rooms is not particularly relevant either. Ravn 15:54, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Yeah, it's kind of an artifact from an earlier version, where there was copy about the theft of towels from hotel/motels. Without more material about where towels come from and are found, the sentence can go. I'll just delete it. GTBacchus 19:56, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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Where on Earth did this come from? I've never heard such a thing:
- Note: unlike the above-mentioned items, a kitchen towel is not made of fabric but rather is a perforated roll of absorbent paper normally fixed to a wall-mounted horizontal rod a little longer than the width of the roll.
Is this a British or Australian thing? It sure isn't American. If someone said "kitchen towel" to me, I'd assume he or she meant a dish towel. jaknouse 00:20, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Sounds like what I've always called a "paper towel"...
- GTBacchus 14:00, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- It's certainly a term used in Britain. Personally, though, I keep mine vertically. Average Earthman 10:40, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
"Cultural significance"
About a third of this article seems to be devoted to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. While this is entertaining, it does not seem to me that towel references in the Hitchhiker's Guide comprise anywhere near a third of the important information about this topic, and certainly not all of its "cultural significance." I think most people would agree that, much as we would like Wikipedia to be the Hitchhiker's Guide (or Encyclopedia Galactica, etc.), it isn't; it is about Earth. I am amused to see a supposedly serious encylopedia claiming that towels are soaked with vitamins for an emergency food source, but I believe that Ford Prefect is the only person (er, life form) to have done this. Let's be serious and rename the "cultural significance" section after what it's really about. Then, perhaps, someone will have something to say that is real rather than fictional.
