Talk:Towel/Archives/2013

HHGTTG Reference

Please let it be...:( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.85.58 (talk) 09:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

"... provided in hotel and motel rooms..."

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)

Kitchen Towel

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)

From an Australian: I don't use the term and haven't heard it. We have paper towel (which this seems to refer to) and we have tea-towels - which may be called dish towels elsewhere as they're used to dry dishes. RickMeasham 00:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

From an Englishman: Here, they're called kitchen towels or kitchen roll (compare to toilet roll). Here, paper towels refers to a thin, usually green, coarse and unabsorbant product found in schools and other such places. Liam Markham 01:07, 26 July 2007 (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.

wow. someone needs anger management classes, if you know what i mean. i mean really man, if you're that upset about it then WHY are you looking at the stupid articles on towels?? DUDE! hav some fun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.255.75.107 (talk) 00:35, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

What about paper towel?

I was rather disappointed when I visited the paper towel article to find such a small and insignificant one... It seems to me like paper towel is an item used daily by many people around the world and would deserve as good an article as this one (which is much better). Isn't there anyone who would like to write a bit about the history and significance of paper towel? --IronChris 23:27, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Towel Picture

We should change the picture to a towel on a hanger. This would show the texture of the towel, and where it is usually used - in the bathroom. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sh8301 (talk • contribs) 14:16, April 22, 2006 (UTC).

merge with towel day

Dont' know who suggested this. Wasn't me. I oppose it because I think Towel Day should be kept separate and expanded on if possible - it would be far too long to put it in here. As has been mentioned above this is about towels and, sadly, not a tribute to DNA. Iancaddy 16:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Merge with Towel Day? What the heck for? Both should remain seperate and distinct.(and now that I've signed in, I can toss my sig in here)Weaponofmassinstruction 22:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Must be a joke. I'm definitly opposing a merge of Towel Day with Towel, since those things have nothing in common except of the towel in towel day. --Addicted 15:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

OPPOSE: The two have nothing in common. One discusses a towel, the other discusses a tribute to a respected author. The only possible link being that the tribute involves carrying a towel. RickMeasham 00:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Oshibori

How do I say that oshibori (wet towel) is also given on airplanes that are going to/from Japan? Im not entirelly sure which airlanes offer oshibori, but probably every major flight that has many Japanese will also have oshibori. Shinhan 06:41, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Disputed - "Towel" as a term for a person

"Reportedly starting somewhere in Texas", apparently 'Towel' is a term for some sort of caddy or sports assistant. In the swimming world it apparently even means "cute, to good, to fun, to pleasurable", presumably (if I undertand correctly) in the sense of, "that was a really towel swim."(?!) "My lap time was really towel." (!!) This all sounds distinctly dubious (in fact, ludicrous) to me - can someone provide a source? DWaterson 21:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

History

It would be nice to have the history of the towel. -- RND  T  C  09:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Washcloths

"Washcloth" redirects here, but there's no mention of washcloths in the article. That seems problematic. Twin Bird 18:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Drying hands on bath towel

I dry my hands on my bath towel, because the shared hand towel that everyone else uses seems disgusting to me. Which is more gross? Opinions? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.213.141.241 (talk) 03:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Parts of a towel

I used to know the name for the part of a towel along the border that is woven in a pattern, but I forgot the word. Anyone?Diannef (talk) 17:50, 14 May 2009 (UTC)