April 12, 2018
Volume 48 - No. 15
By Friedrich Gomez
If he didn’t like you, or was just in a mischievous mood, he thought nothing of running over your toes with his wheelchair. And he did just that. And members of royalty were no exception.
But by the official scorecard from media giants, Stephen Hawking had every right. As political analyst and senior reporter, Ashley Feinberg of the Huffington Post wrote: “One of my favorite things about Stephen Hawking is that he was mean to all the right people! They deserved it!” The The Paper Paper -- 760.747.7119 760.747.7119
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STEPHEN HAWKING WANTED US TO REMEMBER POWER OF HUMOR IN HIS LIFE. The recent passing of one of the most influential and recognized scientists of our era, Stephen Hawking, left our world in great mourning and sadness. World leaders eulogized the great scientist in glowing, but tragic and sad terms.
Yet, rarely, did our spinning planet of inhabitants remember his wish to embrace his legacy of humor after he left our midst. But his own flesh-and-blood progeny, Hawking’s immediate family, would not forget his comical wit and how it
seemed to have empowered him throughout his lifetime.
individuals whom he thought deserving of retribution.
World-renowned theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, always had a twinkle in his eye, and a sense of humor that earned him an impish charm, a mischievous glint in his eye, and a ready wheelchair at his command which he sometimes used to pass judgement over the toes of those
RAN OVER THE TOES OF PRINCE CHARLES. In the 2013
After his death, Stephen Hawking’s own surviving children knew how important humor was to their father’s life. Hawking, himself, was fond of repeating: “Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
And he did. Run over toes, that is. Putting dubious notches on his wheelchair as a gunslinger might put on his Colt .45 revolver. In essence, Stephen Hawking became a legendary crusader of sorts, but unlike Don Quixote who tilted his lance at windmills and imaginary foes, Hawking tilted his wheels at the real toes of people he encountered – people who may have annoyed him. Or so the story goes.
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