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HAWKING DISSES PLANET

Excellent call in comments: “I think more humor columns need to have Stephen Hawking calling the Earth a whore.”

Posted by Tim B. on 06/29/2006 at 01:03 AM
  1. Simply brilliant.

    The funniest thing we’ve read in ages!

    It was really well done!

    Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 06 29 at 01:29 AM • permalink

  2. Award winning stuff.

    Sheer, unadulterated brilliance.

    Gaia, Ares, and Selene finally speak, the truth summed in a single syllable: “So?”

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 06 29 at 01:52 AM • permalink

  3. The idiots been on RSVP again.

    Posted by MarshallD on 2006 06 29 at 03:41 AM • permalink

  4. Wonderful, brilliant stuff.  God, I’m still laughing. 
    Send it to all your friends;  especially if they lean left and kiss the earth five times a day in obeisance to Big Mama.

    Big. Fat. Whore. 

    HA! Great. Stuff.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 06 29 at 04:19 AM • permalink

  5. I enjoyed it alot too, especially reading Hawkings’ comments to myself using his computer-generated electronic voice.
    WHAT. A. LAUGH. HA-HA-HA.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 29 at 08:41 AM • permalink

  6. I’m surprized not much was made of Hawking’s “yellow fever” comments in China.  He seems to have quite a hankerin’ for the oriental girls. Is his nursey girl Chinese?

    Note:  I agree with Hawking on the Chinese Women question.  I just don’t go blabing about it in public.

    Posted by Dave in Chicago on 2006 06 29 at 09:35 AM • permalink

  7. Humorous like most of your stuff. But irrelevant to concerns about global warming. You are ridiculing a person - that is cute and clever - but otherwise not saying much.

    What does the ‘earth is a whore’ claim mean? Who is being paid? Does this whore want to be rooted? Who is answering the question. It dissolves.

    Posted by harryc on 2006 06 29 at 09:51 AM • permalink

  8. I thought we settled some time ago that Earth was a MILF.

    Posted by Andrew on 2006 06 29 at 10:09 AM • permalink

  9. #7 harryc

    I think you’ve been reading/writing too many haikus.

    Posted by Dave in Chicago on 2006 06 29 at 11:45 AM • permalink

  10. Oh for Gaia’s sake, harryc, you’re turning into the biggest ol’ stick in the mud.  I could ask what the hell is the point of Algore, too, but I don’t.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 06 29 at 01:05 PM • permalink

  11. I’m starting to wonder if harryc should be more accurately called academiahawk. If so, kudos, you had me fooled for a while.

    Posted by PW on 2006 06 29 at 01:08 PM • permalink

  12. Wasn’t it Stephen Hawking who came up with G-string theory?  He’s a dirty-minded little man.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 29 at 01:42 PM • permalink

  13. Is that story about Hawking’s wife parking him in a flower bed true? It sounds hilarious enough for somebody like Habib to have made it up.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 29 at 01:49 PM • permalink

  14. #13 It’s from a review of Jane Hawking’s 1999 book “Music to Move the Stars: My Life with Stephen.”

    Posted by Donnah on 2006 06 29 at 02:09 PM • permalink

  15. #14: Thanks, Donnah. Another instance of truth being, if not stranger, then at least funnier than fiction.

    Posted by paco on 2006 06 29 at 02:26 PM • permalink

  16. Q:  What is black and sits at the top of the stairs after a fire?

    A:  Stephen Hawking.

    Posted by Jimmy the Dhimmi on 2006 06 29 at 02:28 PM • permalink

  17. Does this whore want to be rooted? Who is answering the question. It dissolves.

    I’m with PW, although I think harryc is more on line with Witheld.  Here’s a sample of that worthy’s handiwork from “protein wisdom”, although you may have to scroll down to his first comment (the linking doesn’t always go to the comment).

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 29 at 02:42 PM • permalink

  18. Had a great laugh. Thanks for the link Tim B.

    Posted by chrisgo on 2006 06 29 at 04:23 PM • permalink

  19. #13 & 14

    null

    Posted by kae on 2006 06 29 at 06:05 PM • permalink

  20. now that’s weird, I called it Stephen Hawking assault 2003…

    Posted by kae on 2006 06 29 at 06:06 PM • permalink

  21. Dave in Chicago,
    Hey, what’s wrong with haikus?
    I rather like them.

    Posted by TimT on 2006 06 29 at 07:56 PM • permalink

  22. You know, I really can’t blame Hawking here.  The Earth is clearly at fault, for dressing all slutty and inviting in public like that, all those lubricious greens and blues…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 29 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  23. #19 That’s his second wife.

    Posted by Donnah on 2006 06 29 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  24. What a Hoar.


    Did you know that 50 years ago there were only two (2) strains of venereal disease.


    Now there are over 50 and increasing daily.


    I blame global warming.

    Posted by MarshallD on 2006 06 30 at 01:42 AM • permalink

  25. Speaking of whores, will y’all pitch in some money to get HarryC a b.j., god knows he needs one.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 30 at 02:16 AM • permalink

  26. Demeaning and meaningless.
    The naysayers must be getting pretty desperate when they sink to this level.
    Hawkings has more brains and integrity in his earwax than the author of this witty piece has in his/her entire body..
    Dragging a guys ex wife into a crude and childish pastiche for no real reason other than sheer mean spite (??) must be pretty close to the lowest you can get.
    New Low here Timbo..

    Posted by drpoll on 2006 06 30 at 04:51 AM • permalink

  27. Ah, drpoll. It really must be a chore being you, constantly searching for things to be outraged about.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 30 at 05:43 AM • permalink

  28. #26,
    drpoll,
    Yes, but I bet you laughed (or at least chuckeled).

    Posted by chrisgo on 2006 06 30 at 06:06 AM • permalink

  29. That’s chuckled.

    Posted by chrisgo on 2006 06 30 at 06:09 AM • permalink

  30. Oh, drpoll, go join up with those crankstaff Canadian Muslim wives.  You’ll fit right in.  “Is it funny?  Will people enjoy themselves? TIME TO COMPLAIN!”

    Posted by ushie on 2006 06 30 at 07:01 AM • permalink

  31. drpoll — I’ve met Steven Hawking.  He has a better sense of humor than you do.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 30 at 10:35 AM • permalink

  32. Just don’t tell him he forgot to carry the 2 in A Brief History of Time/

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 30 at 10:36 AM • permalink

  33. drpoll has a sense of humor?  I thought it was just a Gorebot, one of those AIs that emulate Gorezilla’s personality, and leave incoherent rants all over the INTERNET. 

    Color me surprised.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 30 at 12:40 PM • permalink

  34. JeffS - it’s worse - the Internet leaves rants all over itself.  It was invented that way by Algore.

    drpoll - the naysayers, in this case, have a point.  If Al et al pitched eco-friendly practices as a way to improve OUR lives, they may get somewhere - but that would be “speciesist” and “homocentric.”  Instead they pitch it as good for the environment, which could not possibly care one way or the other.  The environment has been both way hotter and way colder at various epochs in history, and somehow we’re still here to bitch about a half-degree here and there.

    Posted by Nightfly on 2006 06 30 at 01:55 PM • permalink

  35. #27, Daniel San, drpoll doesn’t have to search for things to be outraged about.  He’s pretty much outraged about everything.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 30 at 02:24 PM • permalink


  36. #27, Daniel San, drpoll doesn’t have to search for things to be outraged about. He’s pretty much outraged about everything.[RebeccaH]

    And isn’t that a waste of life?  It is one thing to be outraged at injustice, and quite another to be outraged at life itself.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 06 30 at 04:30 PM • permalink

  37. Thanks, Nightfly, I’d forgotten that Gorezilla invented the INTERNET. 

    Well, at least I know who to blame for monotonous drones like drpoll—GOREZILLA!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 30 at 05:43 PM • permalink

  38. I think Mr Hawkins would enjoy kinky sex with his wife. That’s how he invented Spagetti theory!

    mistle toe for tim

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 06 30 at 08:51 PM • permalink

  39. 38.. That’s String Theory and Hawkins didn’t invent it, Leonard Susskind did… Oooohhh..
    That was a JOKE??? Oohh… HAR.. HA. ha…
    There goes my primitive sense of humour again. Perhaps my over developed sense of the ridiculous is getting in the way??

    It is still a pointless and rather pathetic little piece. Serves no purpose other than to sneer. Why bother??

    Thinking this was a serious polemic forum, I have browsed this forum for a couple of weeks and gone back over some of the other posts, something has struck me..
    There is very little POSITIVE here.
    Lot of heads in the sand, lots of naysaying and some frightful name calling of people who ask difficult and uncomfortable questions or who dare to disagree (debate???) but no real feeling that anything of value will come of it. No feeling of true humanity or humility. You know, those qualities that are supposed to make us human.
    Couple of words of wisdom from The Oldest Man in the World,
    Why??
    What is the point?
    Do you think this TBlair is playing you all like puppets?
    Cos it seems a bit like that. He chucks in a juicey bone and gets the predicatable result. His own “writing” is pretty depressing and negative too.. Is his paroxetine wearing off..?
    Just a couple of questions..

    31. Hey, wonderful. So that means..?

    Posted by drpoll on 2006 07 01 at 08:47 AM • permalink

  40. drpoll, I don’t know what bug crawled up your ass, but if you don’t like it here you are welcome to quit reading and commenting on this blog. I can help you with the latter task.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 01 at 09:32 AM • permalink

  41. Apparently we’re all being “played like puppets”. Make me dance, Tim!, now walk me over to the liquor cabinet!.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2006 07 01 at 12:02 PM • permalink

  42. Drpoll, you have convinced me that you shouldn’t come here anymore. 

    Once again you disrespect your elders.  Is this the humility you are talking about?  Or is it the graveling you would have us do in the face of those who have displayed no critical thinking skills with which to consider complex questions, but who use their emotions as cognitive elements to conclude that the sky is falling?  Should we display the humility of one who wouldn’t know a governing priciple if it bit him in the butt?  Or perhaps the humility of one who is so fearful that any disagreement sends him into a spinning uncertainty of his own existence?  Oh, the humanity!

    P.S.  Paco is way more humble than you.  Hell, Huck is way more humble than you.

    P.S.S.  What a brat.  Comin’ here uninvited, throwing tantrums, and insulting our intelligence with every word he vomits up all over the screen.  No manners.  Go cut me a switch, boy, and I’ll teach you something about humility!

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 07 01 at 12:53 PM • permalink

  43. Do you think this TBlair is playing you all like puppets?

    Thanks for the big scoop, Clouseau Poirot: Tim Blair’s a left wing agent provocateur!

    It’s a pity we’ve disappointed the barely literate “drpoll” with the fact that this is not a “serious polemic forum”(?), and that we’re simply not positive enough for him. Sir, may I introduce you to DailyKos, where the regulars are insanely positive about a number of issues - such as their political influence. I reckon you’ll be with friends there.

    Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 01 at 01:51 PM • permalink

  44. Some here call the distaff commenters mignonettes, but no—we all of us are marionettes, jerked about by DarkTim’s evil fingers upon our strings, forced to comment on whatever DarkTim posts, rather than engaging superior beings like drpoll in valuable humble humanness.  My God, drpoll, you have opened my eyes, like whatshisname in The Matrix, and now I feel ready to take the blue pill!

    Or was it the red pill?

    Gee, I hope Tim posts more stories about polar bears soon.

    Posted by ushie on 2006 07 01 at 01:53 PM • permalink

  45. Evacuating Earth due to certain disaster faced by humans is Hawking’s justification for space travel.

    Also I just love how Hawking uses “objective science”  to communicate this impending armageddon. - we are in peril from “other dangers we have not yet thought of”

    Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 07 01 at 06:25 PM • permalink

  46. Evacuating Earth due to certain disaster faced by humans is Hawking’s justification for space travel.

    Did Hawking mention the Mine Shaft Gap?

    Posted by Dave in Chicago on 2006 07 02 at 11:39 AM • permalink

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