Caption Prof. Stephen Hawkins Visiting an Exotic Dancing Establishment [ The UK Sun is there]

UK Sun ^ | Jul 7, 2003 | staff report

[ewing]

Science genius Stephen Hawkins popped into Stringfellows after Colin Farrell and fell for a blonde dancer named Tiger.

Professor Hawking famed for his best selling book, 'A Brief History of Time' watched her during a string of steamy dances.

They then shared a cuddle.

A guest said, 'Steven watched the girls all night, he said she was wonderful.'

[SouthParkRepublican]

Wanna come back to my place and help me work out my unified theory?

[austinTparty]

Bongos on the beach in Brazil!

[onedoug]

More likely not.

[bourbon]

Hawking did divorce his wife and the mother of his three kids to take up with his nurse. That's correct. What I didn't know is that his wife had also been having an extended affair. That makes his divorce much more understandable.

[searchandrecovery]

Visit contributed to the good Professor's latest research -the "Big Bang in my Pants" theory. Sorry, apologizing in advance.

[Glenn]

More likely not.

He's a pretty smart guy, don't you think?

[sd-joe]

>> "No no, it's the "g-string theory"!"

Ah yes, the theory that ties all the forces in the universe to gravity as the basic force, or was it Guiness, I forget?

[David Hunter]

Apparently, their marriage was very troubled and his wife also wanted to end it, but she felt she would be scapegoated by the media et al. if she did. I'm not excusing him going off with his nurse, however, by doing so he did set his wife free. Besides, marriages where one partner is profoundly disabled and completely physically dependent on the other usually don't last a lifetime.

Here's an extract from a review of her book - from here:

But as is revealed in Jane Hawking's new tell-all, "Music to Move the Stars," their marriage was much more complicated than anybody knew.

Published in Britain by Macmillan, the 610-page tome of woe hits the shelves on Friday. In it, Jane Hawking chronicles the hardships of marriage to a famous genius with a famous degenerative disease. She is startlingly frank about her feelings, calling her ex-husband an "all-powerful emperor" and a "masterly puppeteer." She notes at one point, "It was becoming very difficult -- unnatural, even -- to feel desire for someone with the body of a Holocaust victim and the undeniable needs of an infant."

Desperate for emotional and physical fulfillment, she says, in 1985 she began an affair with a family friend, musician Jonathan Hellyer-Jones, whom she had met in 1977 after joining a local choir. Her husband gave tacit sanction to the relationship; the pair married in 1996.

As a stressed-out caregiver, Jane Hawking suffered huge bouts of depression. "A brittle, empty shell, alone and vulnerable, restrained only by the thought of my children from throwing myself into the river, drowning in a slough of despond, I prayed for help with the desperate insistency of a potential suicide," she writes. But she felt she had no option but to stick with the relationship. "I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had."

[dark_lord]

Professor Hawking cannot walk, stand, feed himself, speak, or write. He has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, hence you can hardly criticise the state of his teeth!

I am quite aware of that, which is why my comment asked why anyone doesn't brush his teeth, not why he doesn't brush his teeth. After all, his handlers dress him and wipe his butt, they can at least brush his teeth!

[Servant of the Nine]

Golly! Doesn't anyone ever brush his teeth???

He's English. That is brushed.

It was the very poor diet through the war and early post war years.

SO9

[Servant of the Nine]

He thinks we live in a Godless universe.

That's funny, he is on the Vatican's advisory board of Catholic Scientists.

SO9

[onedoug]

"...a pretty smart guy...."

Smart enough to have attended a Caltech lecture once by Hans Bethe on "The Making of The Atomic Bomb". I wouldn't have missed it, either.

[David Hunter]

Sorry chum, I didn't see your post citing the same webpage that I cited in my reply, until after I posted my reply to your previous post.

[Dilbert56]

He harbors no ill will toward his ex-wife. She put up with an awful lot during his illness. He doesn't blame her for leaving. As for "taking up" with a nurse - that's a bit of a stretch given his paralysis. He needed continuous nursing support after his tracheostomy.

BTW his books are funnny and he works hard not to make you feel stupid. The latest book of his I read was called "Black Holes and Baby Universes". There HAS to be a caption for the photo in that title but I'm afraid to left my mind wander there.

One telling chapter described how he and his wife were visiting Geneva. He contracted pneumonia and the doctors didn't want to treat him since he was terminal anyway. They had to fly back to Britain to get treated. This was in 1985 and all his work since would have been aborted by a doctor's "quality of life judgement". The slippery slope of euthanasia and cost-focused socialized medicine are linked byu this concept.

[dark_lord]

Yeah, I know. My initial post was joking. Lots of the Brits from that era have discolored teeth. Actually I suspect some of it is from mineral deposits from the water.

[Amelia]

Isn't a thread making fun of a crippled person rather tasteless?

[Dilbert56]

Hamkings, from his book: It doesn't make much difference whether this determination is due to an omnipotent God or to the laws of science. Indeed, one could always say that the laws of science are the expression of the will of God".

[David Hunter]

Well, I, and everyone I know in Britain brushes their teeth regularly, so you will have to ask his nurse/wife why she doesn't brush his teeth.

I am aware that there is a strange disapproval of British oral hygiene in the USA, but you're really scraping the barrel by trying to use this article as proof for that prejudice!

[StriperSniper]

Stringfellows

There used to one in NYC, nice place with great food.

(They have a website with a three minute broadband video of Tiger ;-)

[BlazingArizona]

Twenty-six posts and nary a mention of his interest in heavenly bodies. Shame on you guys!

...or black holes.