Rubbish!
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And here I was, thinking for a brief moment it was a premature April Fools joke ... he will be missed, for sure.
Thank you for that most incisive cross Garrincha.
I now owe it to you to head the ball into the net.
They should have allowed the guy to die in peace 40-50 years ago, when his time had clearly come. But they "loved" and "adored" him too much to let that happen. All swooned at a few mathematical equations and kept him on llife support for half a century, "adoring" how he coped with being in hell. clapping, cheering, crying tears of yet more adoration, telling each other about each latest thing that he had said. The poor guy just didn't know how to let them down...
YET an other Christ dying slowly on the cross... to please the maddening and adoring crowd...
I now owe it to you to head the ball into the net.
They should have allowed the guy to die in peace 40-50 years ago, when his time had clearly come. But they "loved" and "adored" him too much to let that happen. All swooned at a few mathematical equations and kept him on llife support for half a century, "adoring" how he coped with being in hell. clapping, cheering, crying tears of yet more adoration, telling each other about each latest thing that he had said. The poor guy just didn't know how to let them down...
YET an other Christ dying slowly on the cross... to please the maddening and adoring crowd...
How can one be sure that anything that came out of his robot speaker was truly his own words?
@Bandiman #13
I think you might have a problem. Who are "they" -- and what the hell are you going on about? (Because, if you read history, it becomes obvious to the casual observer that Dr. Hawking decided to live his own life on his own terms, not of "they" or people like you.)
@Oscillations
Ditto. -- Aside from the likes of satirizing Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory (scripted), Dr. Hawking had his own version of snark. (Such as commentary made during the Monica Lewinski scandal that nobody caught in reviewing his notes ahead of time; but was absolutely hilarious.)
Then again, it wasn't his voice. It was a computer speaking for him at his direction.
I think you might have a problem. Who are "they" -- and what the hell are you going on about? (Because, if you read history, it becomes obvious to the casual observer that Dr. Hawking decided to live his own life on his own terms, not of "they" or people like you.)
@Oscillations
Ditto. -- Aside from the likes of satirizing Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory (scripted), Dr. Hawking had his own version of snark. (Such as commentary made during the Monica Lewinski scandal that nobody caught in reviewing his notes ahead of time; but was absolutely hilarious.)
Then again, it wasn't his voice. It was a computer speaking for him at his direction.
Stephen Hawking was a good sport...He had a cameo or two on the Simpsons...In one episode, he told Homer that he was intrigued by Homer's theory of a "Doughnut Shaped Universe" :]
@MrCharles o, i was merely having myself a game of good cop/bad cop (#10 + #13). may it inspire people all around the world.
I never met mr hawking and basically don't know who he was, really.
I never met mr hawking and basically don't know who he was, really.
Well, fine, if we're having fun with things upon the death of someone I admire ...
... I've still got a few signed, first edition copies of "A Brief History of Time" laying around if anybody wants one. Just PM me with your address; I'll ship them on a first-come, first-serve basis; but I'm keeping 5 for myself.
... I've still got a few signed, first edition copies of "A Brief History of Time" laying around if anybody wants one. Just PM me with your address; I'll ship them on a first-come, first-serve basis; but I'm keeping 5 for myself.
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Just PM me your name and address. They're free. Just counted them. There's 35 in the box, and I'm keeping 5 copies for myself.
Note / Edit: First Edition, second printing (1988).
Note / Edit: First Edition, second printing (1988).
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