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Old 12-01-2006, 07:01 AM
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Its his friend's father, but that aside, I know that Nugent had the 1985 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society locked up and Hawking came and stole it while Ted was out on the Cat Scratch Fever Tour.
Which was the result doubtless of Nugent shooting a mountain lion with a sporterised semi-auto .50 cal BAR,since all of academe knows Einstein's theories of motion were liberally cribbed by Nugent,who based his trajectory and choice of weapon upon it,even had the effrontery to write a festschrift he presented to Caltech and Geneva,THAT really pissed Hawking off.

Boy was he hoppin' mad when he saw those wheelchair tracks in the mud.
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