Towel of Temptation

The Towel of Temptation is an undersized drying cloth utilized by Lee Adama that leads many astray, including D'anna Biers. Like D'anna, there are many copies, and they might have a plan. 
== Overview ==
The Towel of Temptation is first beheld by civilians D'anna Biers and Bell, after they follow Louanne Katraine and Brendan Costanza to the senior pilot's quarters aboard Galactica. There, they see pilots, including Lee Adama, drying off after showers. (Flight suits are part of the Colonial Fleet's de facto water weight loss program, thus necessitating numerous showers, assuming sufficient water supplies are available.) As Adama runs cover for his pilots, the CAG finds that his cover itself slips, to D'anna's delight .
The Towel ranks up when Adama assumes command of Pegasus, appearing again as Adama takes a phone call when remnants of the Fleet begin planning the Second Exodus from Cylon-occupied New Caprica .
==Notes==
* “A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, 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-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can'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.”
=== The Towelman's Creed ===
This is my towel. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My towel is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my towel is useless. Without my towel, I am useless. I must dry my towel true. I must dry off straighter than my enemy who is trying to dampen me. I must dry him before he dampens me. I will ...
My towel and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will dry ...
My towel is human, even as I [am human], because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its threads and its weaves. I will keep my towel clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ...
Before the Gods, I swear this creed. My towel and I are the defenders of my colony. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is the Twelve Colonies' and there is no enemy, but peace!
== Behind the scenes ==
* Following the Towel's first appearance in "Final Cut," the Towel of Temptation appears in a photo shoot of Lee Adama actor Jamie Bamber circa 2006. During the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, Bamber offered three worn Towels of Temptation to those who supported the strike via the Pencils 2 Media Moguls fan campaign. Of note, Universal turned away a half-million of these Mogul-bound pencils by summoning class warfare specialists colloquially compared to swine.
==See also==
* Baltar's Sexy Treason Stubble
* Tyrol's Beard of Organized Labor
* Tigh's Guerilla Booze-Catcher
* Adama's Glare
* William Adama's Adamastache 
==References==
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