The Queen and Stephen Hawking actually had a good joke between them once. At some event, following the launch of a new version of Hawking’s speaking device which allowed you to have a British accent as opposed to the American one he used, at which point the queen asked jokingly “have you still got that American voice?” To which Stephen replies “Yes ma’am, my system is copyrighted”
Mohammid Ali was a jokester too. My favorite was a story that shut him up though. There is a story told of Ali on a flight where he refused to wear his seat belt. When confronted by the flight attendant to put on his seat belt he replied, “Superman don’t need no seat belt.” To which she replied, “Superman don’t need no airplane.”
My fave Stephen Hawking practical joke story is he was on a TV set, and someone was unplugging a load of lights or equipment next to him, and he slumped over in his chair acting like he'd powered down...
In an actual interview when Stephen hawking was asked will there ever be a point will man understand every there is to understand he responded “I hope not, I would lose my job”
Today at work we had a one armed repairman checking our lights, he laid his tools on my desk and when he reached for them I asked without thinking if he needed a hand, co-workers looked at me horrified, then I said "'cus I have two and you only have one" dead silence, co-workers shocked , repair guy bursts out laughing. Showed me how to replace office light fixtures with one hand, cool guy.
I know this is about a year old now but seeing it I have to share this. A while ago now I was working in retail and this dude comes by asking for help finding a particular item. I take him to where it was and he looks at me, thanks me, and goes for a fist bump. I think "right on" and move to fist bump him and notice that the hand he had offered had been amputated and he was holding up a nub of a forearm. Not wanting to leave him hanging I go ahead and tap it with my fist. He just looks at me and says "come on man you can do better". So I bump him but a bit harder. He just says "dude come on" so I just go ahead and basically punch this dudes amputated nub. He laughs and say "hell yeah" and walks off and now I have "Punching an amputee in their amputated nub" checked off of my list of "shit I never thought I'd do"...
@@ShinM. If I remember correctly it was just below the elbow so I was a stump of his forearm. It was hard like punching another fist. I know sometimes how they do it it can be squishy
@@SentinelGhost ah yeah, thats more of the McNubbins type, ala Nick Newell. The other type is the one you mentioned, the squishy, balloon filled with loose mud type, and that's the weird one to me.
Many reports from GigaFactory Reno and the SF Bay facility say Elon Musk is a narcissistic psychopath. He will fire you and sue you for photographing him, has run through people for getting in his way regardless of whether he was actually in their way, just says completely unnecessary things about any employees he deems "barnacles". Mind you, GigaFactory Reno is 30 minutes outside Reno in a godforsaken desert. If you dont drive and get fired by him or any of his staff, you are left to get your own ride or walk. People have regularly been picked up by concerned citizens and police while distraught and hitchhiking back to Reno. Its not a good highway for anyone to be night or day. People go missing out there all the time. Im not saying Steven Hawking would have that capacity for callousness, but there is a connection with deviant emotional states and genius.
The best thing about the Olympic skit with Daniel Craig was that Danny Boyle (who directed the Opening Ceremony) only asked if they could film at Buckingham Palace. He was planning on getting Helen Mirren to play the Queen (because she portrayed her in the film “The Queen.”) But the Queen got back to him and said “ok, I’ll do it” and his reply was “do what?” He had not even bothered to ask if she’d be in it because he’d assumed the answer would be no. She then asked that her only condition was that Daniel Craig had to pose for a one-on-one photograph with every single Palace employee who wished to have their photograph taken standing next to him, which ended up being several hundred. She fucking rocks!
I also heard that no one told Daniel Craig that he would be filming with the actual Queen. He showed up expecting Helen Mirren and didn't find out until he walked onto set with cameras rolling
The cold empty vacuum of interstellar space is filled with the corpses of technically successful time travelers who failed to accurately account for orbital dynamics. Many of whom brought cake....
One time someone interviewing him said if there are infinitive alternate universes is there one where I am smarter than you and he responded yes but there’s also one where you are funny
Idk if it’s true or not but supposedly Stephen Hawkins was giving a lecture and someone accidentally unplugged his chair he was charging it and an alarm went off for low battery so Stephen played dead and made everyone think he sided on stage
So you're an asshole who physically assaults people you don't like simply because you can get away with it? I hope somebody calls you out on your bullshit.
My uncle lost his leg in fighting in Afghanistan . Well one time he went to a baseball game and they wouldn’t let him in cause he was walking weird ( he has a prosthetic leg and walks a little wobbly) and they thought he was drunk so he pulls up his pant leg shows his prosthetic leg and goes “ You’re welcome “
You missed a good one where Stephen and Kip Thorne had a bet about if Cygnus X-1 had a black hole or not. Stephen lost and the price, that he paid to Thorne, was a one year subscription to Penthouse. They made the bet in the 70's and Stephen paid up in the 90's. Edits: grammar
Story related by Kipp Thorn in one of his books. He, Stephen Hawking, and another guy were at a conference in San Francisco. At the top of telegraph hill, Stephen pretended his wheelchair had gone out of control, and went racing down the hill screaming at the top of his lungs. When his companions caught up with him at the bottom of the hill, he said "We need to find a bigger hill."
I made an error in this post, it wasn't Kipp Thorn, it was Leonard Susskind, and the book is "The Black Hole War. Very interesting book, you should read it if you're interested in science, and the personalities behind it.
@@davidioanhedges Well, it was Leonard Suskind, not Kip Thorn. Still given what little I know about them, this was rather mild. Leonard Suskind relates this tale in his book "The Black Hole Wars." I really like this as it gives a behind the scenes look at what goes on in the cutting edge research.
There was one time Obama went golfing and without his knowledge they cleared the area of people which included a wedding and when he found out obama went to apologize to them
Unlike all the other people in power, i dont know if Obama ever really understood what it meant to be the presedent. You'd think for safety he would know that you would need to clear people out if they havent had a security check.
My favorite Hawking banter was an interview by a comedian, where he was asked if there was a universe where the comedian was smarter than Hawking. His response: "there is also an universe where u are funny"
There is a episode of Star Trek TNG why hawking is apparently playing cards with one of the characters, rumour has it that he bumped into one of the writers a few years later and asks about his winnings.
There is one interview where the interviewer tried to be funny and said something like, "Dr Hawking, does this mean (parallel universes) there is a universe where I am smarter than you?" and the response from Stephen Hawking is, "There is also one in which you are funny" BURN!
I have a weird time travel theory. It’s probably been said before. Remember when Stephen Hawking held a party for time travellers? Good. I think that if time travel really is possible, and people actually showed up to that, he wouldn’t have told anyone about them anyway. As a lazy person, if I know already that something is going to happen, I will not try as hard to help it happen. So if people know that time travel will eventually happen regardless, they won’t try as hard to make it happen.
When I was at college on the first day of classes when everyone would stand and introduce themselves I always made the same joke in every class. I'd say from my wheelchair "please excuse me for not standing". One day one of my teachers asked the class who was going to be missing for the track meet the next week I raised my hand and said I was running the 100m hurdles. My all time favorite story I like to tell about being in the chair was this one time in sociology class we were on the topic of religion. I don't remember all the details of the conversation but the teacher was playing devils advocate about God and how does anyone know God's real, one guy in the middle of the class answered well you didn't wake up paralyzed this morning did you? I mentally jumped for joy, then I meekly raised my hand and said I did. The class went silent dude was white as a ghost after a few seconds I let out a chuckle letting everyone know I meant for it to be funny the class erupted into laughter. Dude was nowhere to be seen when class let out I wanted to both apologize for embarrassing him and to thank him for that perfect setup. I still laugh when I think about it and I tell it often.
I just started watching this channel a few days ago and I just wanted to say every video thus far has been a good time and informative. Keep up the good work :D
From what I’ve heard about Hawking in that chair, he apparently drove that thing around at high speeds with great precision, weaving around people on campus... so yeah, he probably crushed toes on purpose 😂
I subconsciously mess with people by taking out my hearing aid while they're talking which still messes with people despite my other ear having perfect hearing
When I was in college, Hawing randomly showed up for dinner in one of the undergraduate student houses (sort of a dorm) and joked with the students. He and one of the professors also made bets against each other all the time.
I'm disappointed that you've had an entire episode devoted to Hawking and his love of practical jokes and you didn't mention his love of The Big Bang Theory and feature his quote saying something like "if you spent your entire life in a wheelchair, you'd be bored too"
Trying to be normal while in power proves their acknowledgement of the weight of that power, which proves their discomfort with it to an extent by the way they acknowledge it. I like people who acknowledge their own power.
I once dated a girl with one arm. On our first date we went to a show and me being completely stupid, asked her why she wasn’t clapping at the end of it 🤮
My dad once tried to shake a quadriplegics hand and I saw his soul die that day as the silence was so tense until she started laughing it was so awkward especially sense my mom used to work with people with needs similar to this so it was the funniest moment ever I legit always give him shit about that never will forget best customer he has tho
My favorite Obama quote is “In the next 100 days, our bipartisan outreach will be so successful that John Boehner will consider becoming a Democrat. After all, we have a lot in common. He is a person of color. Although not a color that appears in the natural world. What’s up, John?”
Karl, I was surprised you didn't mention the (multitude of) bets he had... Including the one regarding black holes (I think) with the magazine subscription prize...
He never went to hang out with the writers of family guy i imagine. The episode were Brian goes back to college they made a character that was blatantly hawking but its so bad.
My favourite story was when he was in an office and some people were unplugging computers and lights. Then he slumped over as an alarm started. When everyone ran over to check on him. He was slumped over giggling to himself. And the alarm was coming from a computer
Didn’t know that about Hawkin nor about the Queen lol, always learn some new with these videos, and it’s always a god damn “fu*king” good luagh, keep it up mate, I got loads to watch but they are never boring even the ones I look at and go nahh not my thing but odd one I try and then I’m like ohh ookaaayy 🤓 lmao.
During an interview, a camera man tripped over and unplugged a wire, Steven Hawking pretended to slump and went silent. Everyone rushed to his aid and he started laughing. The wire was a light cable not his life support 😂 fair to say that camera man had the shock of his life
Stephen Hawking once played a prank on some people who were interviewing Hawking unplugged a cord to plug in improved lighting, and after pulling the plug a siren started blaring out around the room, and Mr. Hawling slouched over, making them think he had died. Turns out that was the alarm that his computer had been unplugged, and he had been banking on their incompetence
One of my friends Dad’s is blind. And we were at an event and my parents were there. Me and my friend left to go to stuff and when we came back my parents were gone. I said “where are my parents?” Friends dad “I don’t know, didn’t see where they went.” He had a massive shit eating grin. Another time, I was at the friends house and his mom started yelling at him. His dad was in the room just chilling. My friend and his mom started arguing. My friend made a point. The dad then says “I see where your coming from.” The argument ended because we all started laughing at it.
I actually work with a butler who used to used to work in Buckingham Palace, and I can confirm that drinking was heavily encouraged amongst a lot of the staff 😂
my physics teacher was a student at cambridge when hawking was there. he once almost knocked Stephen hawking out of his chair by crashing onto him on a bicycle good old mr sandiford
I honestly believe time travellers actually turned up to his party... A) Steven Hawkins throws you a party... your gonna go and B) if they tell him he cannot divulge the details of time travel, I think he'd actually keep quiet about it.
