Solving the mysteries of the universe with hands, feet, and everything else tied behind his back.
(Stephen Hawking)
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ROFL! LOL! LOL! … No, doesn’t work – I can’t even pretend to find the funny in this. :p
See here is the time to make a politically incorrect joke, but really it’s hard b/c the guy is in a wheel chair.
A true conservative wouldn’t let that stop him. Card, please.
Sorry but I believe the term you’re looking for is liberal, liberals make jokes, conservatives just make comments…. let’s get that right. (See Bill Maher, George Carlin, Jon Stewart, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Jack Black, Lewis Black, Jay Leno, David Letterman……..) all the conservatives have is Dennis Miller, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engrall, Larry the Cable Guy, and Bill White…. We’re totally outnumbered in the comedian department. But we do have you in the Pundit department….
I don’t know, I think a few of your pundits are actually our comedians. It’s hard to tell sometimes…
Well to us Air America is a joke.
Anyone see South PArk this week…. totally hysterical and Anti-Hippy.
I’m a little too prudish to enjoy South Park. I prefer the sophisticated humor of The Simpsons. (That said, I don’t have time to watch much of it, either.)
As for Air America, I don’t think I’ve even watched a single episode. That’s probably why we don’t have too many pundits…
Well I hope you didn’t watch it, b/c it was a Radio broadcast.
Sophisticated and Simpson humor does not compute in my mind.
*stares at radio*
ahh the 1940′s I miss dem days. Of course that was about 30 some years prior to my birth, but still those were the days…
*puts hair back in a snood, listens to Glenn Miller, and goes to work at an aircraft factory to help the war effort*
Yeah, I always thought it would’ve been an interesting decade to come of age in.
As long as you were white, that is.
“Interesting” might have been appropriate for the experiences of any non-whites too. :p
“May you live in interesting times.”
Well, yeah.
I heard some comedian on tv talking about how time travel is better for white people for that very reason, something like “…so, if you’re white, you go as far back as you want and you’re cool, but if you’re black, you don’t really want to go back too far.” Can’t remember who it was but I remember thinking there was some truth to that!
Unless you went back in time to ancient Mongolia. They didn’t trust outsiders. That or back in time to Zululand in the 1850′s. Especially without a REALY BIG and Fast gun with tons of ammo.
I don’t understand. I assumed my fancy designer clothes would clearly make me ‘cool’ in any society regardless of time period.
Ohmigod, those shoes are sooooo next week. Way to be completely fashion missing.
I suppose I was conflating Rachel Maddow (who you can watch) with Air America.
Wow your Pundits are nit wits too…. guess that’s a prerequisite.
while you might say South Park doesn’t appeal to the prudish because of its irreverence to naughty words and difficult topics, the idea that it is unsophisticated is just crazy. The complexity and subtlety of (almost) every episode may be difficult for some to see behind the smut but it is there. without sounding too condescending the best way to enjoy south park is with an open mind and a thick skin. then you may see the sophistication. Also whatever excellent humour used to be found in your average episode of the Simpsons is not often there in new ones, but hey, how many years has it kept us entertained?
Most sophisticated humour I reckon you can find in Arrested Development. RIP.
/rant
I agree with everything except Arrested Development(because I’ve never seen it). The Simpsons just needs to end. It’s no longer funny. I think it may actually be older than me. That’s more than long enough for a show.
Apparently they turn 20 today. Or yesterday, depending on where in the world you are, I guess.
I haven’t seen much of the newest episodes, but they can still be rather clever sometimes at least. I read the “sophisticated” in Nebton’s post as something of a joke – they might be sophisticated compared to South Park, but not compared to … all that much else.
Well, compared to South Park and compared to me. But no, not compared to that much else.
ILPB, do you mean Ron White?
Wait, I said Ron, b/c Bill is Ron, right?
Um… Please tell me you’re joking. I’m not in a good mental place to pick up on internet sarcasm with it being pointed out to me at the moment.
out. Without it being pointed out to me.
That was sarcasm…. I don’t think many people are THAT dumb……
You might be surprised. ^_^
Ok, I’M not THAT dumb…. **holds out double barralled shotgun** No comments from the peanut gallery.
What? No one here said anything!
I might have, but with a shotgun pointed at me, I won’t even worry about how one spells barreled. Er, scratch that last clause…
(I should point out that I might have, but all in good fun. I don’t really think that ILPB is that dumb.)
**ga-clunk** You mean barrelled…….
I’m just amazed he can actually pronounce it so you can hear the difference between one l and two ll’s…
The double-l makes a y sound…
I rolled my L’s…..
He didn’t.
And Bill Engvall while we’re at it, if we’re on the correcting-ILPB-bandwagon again. (It’s a fun wagon to be on!)
Also, I’m not sure if fart jokes count as conservative humor…
Ron is a Democrat……. just got corrected, but Bill “Engvall” is conservative.
I know some Democrats and/or liberals don’t like it (or Republicans and/or conservatives, for that matter), but it is possible to be both a Democrat and a conservative…
Ron is a liberal, check out his Blog. Toby Keith is a conservative Democrat.
I’m not sure if you were being funny or not. When I search for his blog on Google the summary of the first hit says “The author of this blog, Ron White, is not the blue-collar comedian Ron White. You can find that entertainers Web page at http://www.tatersalad.com.” That site, however, isn’t a blog.
Dang moderation. Trying that again:
I’m not sure if you were being funny or not. When I search for his blog on Google the summary of the first hit says “The author of this blog, Ron White, is not the blue-collar comedian Ron White. You can find that entertainers Web page at [location removed].” That site, however, isn’t a blog.
It was sarcasm…
Ron White doesn’t let his politics be known…. but Nebs you get a gold star for doing your homework… **puts Gold Star sticker on Nebs chart**
Well, see, that’s not nice. I was looking forward to reading the real Ron White’s blog, liberal or not.
I think I can sum it up for you. Drank, smoked, petted the dog, farted, got pulled over said something stupid, and drank some more. Made fun of wife and dog, and farted again, smoked another cigar, and look more drinking.
Just be happy you got a gold star! I still haven’t gotten one. All I got was this lousy yellow dwarf star.
That’s not fair. He doesn’t do the fart jokes. That’s Larry the cable guy. Everything is spot on though.
Everything else….stupid else, sneaking out of posts when I’m not looking.
No, I wasn’t trying to jump on the band wagon. Just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a blue collar guy I was missing.
Conservatives did have their own kind of humor. It would be self described as “laughing at stupid people” or similar.
“Stupid people” could either be a group in society viewed as being intrinsically inferior i.e. who act “dumb” or “stupid”,
or it could mean those who don’t agree with a piece of received wisdom viewed as obvious or fundamental.
Here’s an old one:
What did Stephen Hawking say when his computer crashed?
Nothing.
I was leaning more towards the fact his make up job makes him look kind of like a Trans sexual hooker.
*in the Text to Speech computer voice*
My.. My… that was one Big Bang.
And you can see his hands!!!!!1111!!!!1
Although he’s just posing for a photo: maybe they have to tie his hands behind his back to get him to work?
While we’re at it, how does one tie “everything else” behind his back? Specifically, how would you tie his back behind his back? Does it involve Gödel, Möbius, and/or Escher?
There’s probably an equation for that, which Hawking could explain. Actually years ago I used some CAD software for 3d modelling where you could feed in whole heaps of coordinates for objects and it would draw them. If you got one in the wrong order the whole thing seemed to look inside out and back to front no matter which way you looked at it.
All three, with a hint of Picasso.
Yeah, he’s a hero.
I remember seeing a documentary about him a few years ago; apparently he was a jock with no interest in academics until being crippled with disease.
Not true. He’s always been interested in science. {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_hawking}
What is amazing, beyond just his mental facilities, is how long he has lived with a disease that kills most people within 10 years. He was only given a few years to live when he was diagnosed with the disease. He’s now had it for more than 40 years.
Many people die from it not because it kills them directly but because they don’t get medical care for what would be treatable conditions in non-disabled people. Most are told not to bother with ventilator support; most don’t get aggressive treatment for things like pneumonia. Basically, they get talked into thinking they can’t have decent quality of life if they’re paralyzed. Plus, lots of people don’t get communication devices like Hawking did–they have to try to communicate with yes/no twenty-questions type systems, or can’t communicate at all.
I know someone who got all of the care and communication devices. She still died.
Anyone else noticing an abundance of Janes? And none of them have the requisite teapot!
It’s not a funny post, it’s a win post. Though this guy through my ‘scientific theories’ of the end of teh universe down the drain with his theories.
*puts away sketch of bunny nomming universe cookie*
ok, wow… it’s late. Threw, not through.
theories. not theories’
end of THE universe
Man I suck
Late? You must be….elsewhere. It’s almost lunchtime here!
I like the bunny nomming universe cookie theory, though! Is the cookie attached to a string?
is it chocolate chip?
If you call THAT chocolate….
you’re making me sad ILPB… i just wanted a chocolate chip cookie.
Well yeah, but I was trying to hold out and get you decent chocolate chips for your cookies.
if i want decent chocolate i’ll get a candy bar (mmmm lindt – yes, i know that’s not exactly great chocolate, but it is yummy). when i want cookies… i want the little hershey chips that melt and get all gooey. *drool*
I was going to go with Godiva Chocolate chips, with the dark chocolate exterior and light fudgish chocolate on the inside….
Godiva? No, Ghiradelli is the way to go…
No way, that’s from San Fran… it has liberal stink on it..
Lindt. I don’t remember if they are Swiss or Belgian, so they’re either neutral or socialist. Either way, damn fine chocolate.
I’ve got some news for you about Godiva… (I find it hard to believe that a woman riding naked on her horse through town was a conservative. Libertarian, maybe, but of the liberal variety.)
Feel free to mail any you currently have on hand to me!
What news? All I saw was (some words)…. was that information? Trust me conservatives love horses.
And here I was expecting you to retort that she was protesting taxes (which she was).
Nah then she’d be dressed as an Indian….. And I’m talking “How!” Indian not Abu Indian.
You have to forgive her as she lived in the 11th century (by most accounts) and hadn’t yet heard of Indians. (Of course, it’s entirely possible that the whole story is apocryphal.)
You know I see your lips moving, but all I’m hearing is “Blah blah blah!!”
@herb Lindt are Swiss, Guylian is Belgian and they both have a couple of chocolate cafes here in Sydney that do some amazing things with alcohol and chocolate
And Belgian waffles with icecream and liquid chocolate *drools* however if I’m going to have chocolate chip anything though it’ll be a couple of these freshly baked choc chip muffins cooling on my plate
ghiradelli is quite yummy. i had an ex who sent me a gift basket of their chocolates for my birthday… smartest thing he ever did… it won over the girls in my office. lol.
The way to a womans heart is through her friends.
he then sent a basket of 3 dozen assorted cookies to the girls. they never wanted me to get rid of him. unfortunately, he was a loooooooooooooser. no more cookies or chocolates. BUT i did bag myself a much hotter, smarter, sweeter guy. so i’ll pass on cookies and chocolates.
Uuuhm no he does not. He has a great imagination and writes science fiction. Being a theoretical scientist (actually I think that is a contradiction in terminis) he only writes about stuff but never proves anything (nor solve any mysteries,… rather he introduces more mysteries).
I’m not denigrating his contributions at all, but I’ve always found it intersting that he’s more highly regarded by popular media than he is in academic circles.
Real science is useful, it’s also called engineering.
Real science is what you do if you’re not quite smart enough to go into business. You still produce something useful that those who did go into business can market.
So called theoretical or “pure” science is a waste of time. Coincidence that so many so called “scientists” are liberals… I think not.
Of course. Which is why all the students who flunk out of the courses required for engineers go into business. /sarcasm
People with real intelligence (you know the kind you can measure in an IQ test) make things.
They make businesses like IBM or IG Farben. They create wealth.
Or they do real science that produces things that are actually useful. They are engineers.
And they are conservative and in the most successful economy in the world they are conservative christians.
Liberals on the other hand just like to talk and make grandiose claims and call it “science”. They’re lawyers and “lawyer scientists” who try and defraud us with so-called evolution and “quantum physics”.
Yes, that Warren Buffett sure is a failure as a businessman.
Warren buffett is a failed business man.
When he dies he goes to hell.
And he supports estate taxes so he wants the government to take his money when he dies.
That makes him the ultimate LOSER.
Conservative business men may have less money on some liberal lawyer’s piece of paper but they have JESUS in the world to come (assuming they die before the rapture) and their children will live a life of virtue in Christ by inheriting their money.
I like how all conservatives are God fearing Christians and all liberals and evil and going to hell.
Well they are.
Does this make ILPB a Democrat now? I mean, I like the guy and all, but politcally, I’m sorry, we aren’t taking him.
ILPB is the bus driver. I’m not sure where the bus is going, but you can rest assured that no matter where it goes, there will be misspellings and gramatical errors in its wake!
*thu-thump* Oh my God!(specifically any God other than the Christian God)! He just hit an apostrophe!
“liberals and evil and going to hell.” DU HAS to be a Democrat, making fun of someone for misspellings and grammatical mistakes while having some in another post. And HOW the hell did I get said to be a democrat? That’s worthy of a gagillion mispellings and grammatical mistakes as I yell at you!!!!!! Peanut Like Butter I not agreement with assassmant that he be libratard or demon cat……
Well, you’re a democrat now because all non-christians are Democrats, but we aren’t taking you into the party because of your complete lack of democratic ideals. So, um, I’m not sure what you are any more. Sorry.
And apparently they’ll get Rando. Poor Rando. He won’t be happy about that.
If the conservatives come for me, I’ll be waiting for them. *loads shotgun*
No! He’s got a gun! The conservative gun lobby has already gotten to him! It’s to late to save him!
Even better that you live a life of virtue in Christ, who denounced worldly goods, by inheriting wealth. Just like Paris Hilton.
Christ was blonde.
Um?
Oooo…I have it: Jesus is blonde; Paris Hilton is blonde. Therefore Paris Hilton does live a life of virtue in Christ. Right?
If that’s virtue, I’m sticking to my sin and debauchery. There’ll be fewer STDs that way.
The life of the virtue of Christ has more STDs than sin and debauchery?
It boggles the mind….
Don’t look at me. I’m just trying to determine the logical conclusion of Sqwirk’s post.
You’re silly. *giggles*
Would you like to come play with my quarks with me, DU? I have the charmed ones trained to fetch now.
Oooh! That sounds like fun! I’m in.
I suppose you’re just trolling, but I’ll bite. Theoretical science is real science. Stephen Hawking’s contribution in the field have been quite significant. Hawking radiation, for one thing, helped solve the problem of missing information/entropy in thermodynamic theories involving black holes.
As for casprd’s assertion that he’s more highly regarded by popular media than he is in academic circles, if it’s true, it’s only true because he’s very highly regarded by popular media. He didn’t get the Lucasian chair by his good looks alone, after all.
Everyone know to get the Lucasian chair you have to sleep with the whole committee.
I am not trolling at all. I really believe that this guy, and many other theororetical scientists are very overrated. Let me quote you:
“Hawking radiation, for one thing, helped solve the problem of missing information/entropy in thermodynamic [b]theories[/b] involving black holes.”
So he wrote a theory to strengthen other theories? Which in turn strengthen or imply other theories as well?
I am not saying theoretical research should not be done, but the way these people work is really just embarassing. They sit around and think up stuff which can never be tested or experimented with at all. Black holes? Stars millions of lightyears away? String theory? They’re all just theories and nobody can prove them before the universe has cooled down (and that is only a theory as well).
Again, nothing wrong with someone who theorises about some kind of cure for cancer and then goes to experiment with the theory to craft it. A lot is wrong with these overimaginative story writers like Hawking.
Em, high energy cyclotrons (such as the Large Hadron Collider) are now proving or disproving the theoretical physics of 20 years ago. Perhaps you should look at this [http://punditkitchen.com/2009/11/19/political-pictures-large-hadron-collider-destroy-world/] page, and take the caption on board?
I just can’t think of how to say this without being rude: you are WRONG. Theoretical science most definitely IS science, arguably the most important aspect of science. It the area in which scientific research is done BEFORE the experimental scientists start work. For example, they sat around and TALKED about how to make an atomic bomb BEFORE they ever tried to build one. It has to be conceived before it can be tried.
Actually, I prefer to grope around blindly in a lab full of chemicals in hopes of causing something to happen without doing in planning at all.
Wait, didn’t you just describe the theory of evolution?
*runs away giggling*
Well, it sure isn’t intelligent design….
Wait a second, why does this giraffe have five legs?
*knocks over another beaker as she stumbles about blindly and hears a small explosion and the scream of a giraffe* What fifth leg?
Dammit, DU, now you’ve created Dark Matter. Stop it!
The book of Guinnesses 5:12
And Default User did mix two strangely colored liquids together and verily did create the waters of the oceans and seas and lakes. Thus were the lakes and oceans and seas and rivers created from the liquids of strange colors.
On the Fifth Day Default User did discover the stash of whippits and lo! The clouds and and sky were created with the sacred whipped cream.
“Let me ask you something: Has anyone ever discovered a hole in nothing with monsters in it? ‘Cause if I’m the first, I want them to call it a Fry Hole!”
“There is nothing to be concerned about. I must go. There is much to do.”
“I call it a Hawking hole”
“Hey! I discovered it”
“Who is the scientific community going to believe?”
Win to you both
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
The caption is not funny, and if you don’t know about this man’s accomplishments, at least look at his wikipedia posting. he is honored in academia, and was not a jock.
I think the comment was intended to point out the FACT that Hawking makes major-league contributions to science DESPITE his disability. And in my book, that makes him double the hero.
Most of the people on this planet will not have accomplished 1/10,000 of what he did, and without so much as lifting a finger.
His accomplishments are amazing, true, but it would be more a double hero if his disability effected his gift. Like say a one handed major league pitcher, a no legged marathon runner…
Exactly. He has “everything tied behind his back” except for clever brains that are suited to physics thinking, apparently, so he’s just doing the only thing he can do really. Big deal!
(… say I in a jocular tone but agreeing with the gist of your post)
Exactly! He’s playing to his strengths, like any disabled person does. This “disabled people can’t do anything and should be lauded as heroes if they manage to have decent lives” thing is just… weird. At least to me.
If you wanna look up to the guy, do it because he’s good at what he does, discovered a lot of interesting physics, and (this is the most amazing, at least to me) wrote a bunch of books about it that a high-schooler could understand. I know, ’cause I was a high-schooler when I read them, and promptly fell in love with science.
no legged marathon runner…
Marathon roller?
Not necessarily:
{http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/14/sports/main3707924.shtml}
Nebs, backing me up… WTF?!!?!? World ending….. it’s the aporkalypse.
Hey, what can I say? I love running!
I’m running the Strolling Jim in May. {http://www.tynesweb.com/sj40/}
I…I’m confused…Do you run it or do you um…stroll?
You run it, but in a strolling kind of way, since running 40 miles even at a marathon pace would most likely kill you. Of course “marathon pace” is relative. Those who win marathons finish in just over 2 hours (the record is 2:03:59, or a pace of 4:44/mile. My personal best is closer to 3:50, or 8:47/mile. This will be my first ultra-marathon, so I’ll be happy to finish it in even a 10:00/mile pace (6 hours, 40 minutes).
It sounds painful. Of course I don’t believe in running, it’s against my religion. Though there was a point where I could walk a mile in something like 6 minutes.
We must belong to the same religion, DU! What a coincidence.
I saw a t-shirt today that reminded me of you: a very cool skull and crossbones captioned “Love you for your body, but I want you for your booty.”
I want!
Okay, is it a little sad that I just thought, Aw, Mabs thought of me in the real world? heehee
Ooop. I didn’t have it quite right. (Or, as we say here in ‘Merica, Ah misremembered.
) “It’s not your beauty. It’s your booty.”
In my defense, I swear I sorted a few hundred pieces of clothing today.
But it is from NB, so how could I not think of you?
And it’s apparently the wrong religion, so you two can walk your way STRAIGHT INTO HELL!!!!!
*points at Rando and shouts ‘Republican’ as though it’s the worst insult ever uttered by man..er woman…er human*
*Joins DU in pointing and makes the Body Snatchers screech*
aporkalypse
is that where bacon rains down from the sky and hams run rampant in the streets?
No that’s heaven. Aporkalypse is when all the pork barrel spending overflows from Capitol Hill and drowns all Americans in the BS. Kind of like Global Warming but in Government Spending…. the scariest thing is when the congressional members (both parties) get strewn out, they usually take a few thousand each with them.
It’s when there is no more pork of any kind! When the only “bacon” available are those vile vegan Bacos!
*gasp*
I’m a vegetarian (well, technically I’m a pescetarian), and I won’t even touch Bacos. There’s not enough vegetable matter for it to be cardboard, though. I’m pretty sure it’s 100% mineral.
One of my daughters is a pescetarian! I’ve noticed it’s uncommon enough that a lot of people have no idea what it even means. I just explain that she’s a “vegetarian that eats fish,” which oddly enough people can wrap their heads around just fine.
Yeah, that’s why I usually just go with vegetarian. At least that way I won’t get served food I can’t eat.
My favorite was our ‘vegetarian’ friends who ordered chicken.
“We thought you were vegetarians.”
“We are, but we eat chicken…and fish…and sometimes pork.”
“So basically anything but beef?”
“Umm….”
I’m a vegetarian, except for chicken, and bacon, and pastrami, salami, corned beef, ham, peperoni, sausage, haggis and steak.
Note, I don’t do fish, hamburger or turkey.
That’s fine DU, I’ll take your burger, your salmon filet and your roast turkey! I won’t mind! I promise!
Care to share the burger with me?
Not at all, I still have salmon and turkey after all!
As I recall, you’re Jewish, which means you won’t be needing that bacon. I think it’s a fair trade for salmon, turkey and a hamburger.
One of my friends is going to start a production company called Bad Jew Productions. It’s symbol will be a Jew, In a yamulka, at a table eating a big plate of bacon. He said he got the idea from me after watching me eat a Baconator.
I’m positive that the term “aporkalypse” has been used in the name of more than one team at our big local BBQ contest.
So Lisa you don’t eat pork chops?
No
Ham
No
Bacon
No dad those are all the same animal.
Oh la ti da I’m sure there’s some magical animal out there that provides pork chops, bacon and ham, la ti da, that’s crazy Lisa.
Technically he’s got legs, more legs than the average guy. They just happen to be detachable.
(Still pretty awesome!)
They look like they probably give him quite a spring to his step too!
Apparently what the Olympic dudes objected to.
Don’t hate, Diss. You’re playing right into his hands!
Can’t help it, Froo, I’ve been rehydrating with Haterade!
His disability DOES affect his gift. ALS is an agonizingly painful disease. People in chronic pain can barely think straight. Yet Hawking is thinking in terms that most healthy scientists can barely follow.
ALS means chronic pain? This is total news to me. Mental agony, sure, but pain? Could you give some source?
The ALS Association (als.org).
Neurologic damage does NOT equal numbness. ALS kills nerve cells one by one. The deterioration of muscle function is PAINFUL. The complications of paralysis are PAINFUL, often requiring multiple hospitalizations, surgeries, etc.
If my uncle were still alive, he’d tell you how agonizing it is to live with ALS. But blessedly, he is no longer in agony.
Get yourself educated on ALS so you can get your foot out of your mouth.
Way to turn your answer to someone’s polite inquiry from a chance to educate to insulting.
It sounded like a snarky request to me. If I misunderstood, then so be it.
So be it.
Fwiw, I had looked at a handful of sites and some said pain is not a regular symptom, others said nothing. What you suggest – als.org – doesn’t work. :/
Sorry. It’s alsa.org. My bad.
It’s the complications of the disease, rather than the disease itself, that causes the pain. The process of losing muscle function is not just weakness but includes spasms, muscle atrophy, and other muscles overcompensating. This can be very painful. In addition, multiple surgeries are often required, usually to insert ostomies, feeding and breathing tubes. Using and maintaining those can also cause ongoing pain.
So again, the fact that Hawking can do what he does, while dealing with this disease, is amazing.
Thanks for more explanation and info (and for the better-working link)!
I’d love to thank you for giving me more info, but … Yeah, bugger that.
Hee hee. Danbala said ‘bugger.’
It made feel dirty. So very, very dirty…
Oh, never mind, I confused it with just having come home from my riding lesson. :p
Pleasure riding?
Yeah. Or, well, we work rather seriously with dressage, but I don’t go for competitions and stuff atm.
Oh, sorry, my bad – I had completely forgotten the earlier pleasure/horses convo!
*sigh* Me failing at dirty joke making. I should have given a better hint.
Horse trivia: bison in Yellowstone most frequently attack people on horseback. (Second is probably cars with drivers stupid enough to argue right of way with a beast that outweighs their car.)
No, no – in this communication failure the receiver takes the whole blame.
Hee hee. You said “receiver”.
His accomplishments are remarkable for anyone, disability aside. He is a remarkable human being.
I wonder if his ex-wife would agree?
Actually, didn’t he get back together with his first wife at some point? I could swear I heard that.
Just because someone is “remarkable” doesn’t mean he’s perfect.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
I am, in fact, perfect and yet, completely unremarkable.
We think you’re remarkable. *hugs*
I aggre with u here =3
I’ve checked, but I don’t see anywhere in my math texts where “I aggre with u here =3″. Mabs? Ruling?
Fail in both subjects (math AND English).
eh, just some person who wants to see hir name on the internet for those few seconds of pretend fame
Well, those letters could all be variables that equal three when multiplied together.
Homework:
Iaggrewithuhere =3
Solve for I, a, g, r, e, w, i, t, h, and u
Actuallly, ‘with’ would translate from English into arithmetical expression as ‘plus,’ not times. So it would be: Iaggre + uhere = 3.
*marks points off on DU’s paper*
You can’t do that! I assigned the homework! That makes me the teacher! Hey! Get back here with my RED PEN OF GRADING™!
I’m allergic to red pen.
I solved for U and I… = WTF is going on?
*Gives ILPB a C+ and recommends he switches his major to business*
A person can be a genius and still be blind if they can’t see the existence of God in the universe.
And a God Squad troll – HOUSE!!!
I cannot believe that you people could turn a picture of STEPHEN FRAKKING HAWKING with a moderately-amusing caption into a “conservative/liberal” mudfest!! What in the name of famed radical liberal Abraham Lincoln is *wrong* with you???
You clearly have very little understanding of how the internet works.
Or, the internet that wasn’t created by the 13 Tribes.
WIN!
Biggest win evar.
He hasn’t solved a single universe mystery… Theories aren’t facts. His actual knowledge about the universe is as vast as his marathon running experience.