Comments on: Buy Stephen Hawking's balloon basket

Buy Stephen Hawking's balloon basket

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:31:13 -0800

Balloon basket for sale. Low mileage. Only used by possibly the smartest man on the planet. [via linkdump]

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:39:28 -0800

also for sale.... Hookers Balloons

By: shepd

shepd — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:42:00 -0800

I don't know wether to laugh or cry. Can one do both at the same time?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:46:13 -0800

From: "Quonsar The Magnificent" <quonsar@meepzorp.com> To: <Graduate_Assistant@damtp.cam.ac.uk> Subject: broken html on the hawking site Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:38:37 -0500 you have malformed img tags on this page: http://www.hawking.org.uk/balloon.html this prevents the images from displaying in mozilla firebird. (they show up fine in IE, but hell, IE will parse ANYTHING!) here's the problem: <img src=3Dimages\bal3.jpg> <img src=3Dimages\bal2.jpg> <img src=3Dimages\bal1.jpg> your "\" should be "/" also, the filepath and name should be enclosed in quotes, but that's minor. one sort of expects better things from the site of the "smartest man alive". heh. "i don't think we're in windows anymore, toto"

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:48:43 -0800

now thats cold.

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:04:48 -0800

I wanted to do the same thing quonsar. I tried calling his house instead, but his computerized answering machine kept picking up the phone. I need to find what machine he has, after a few tries it told me take take my phone and cram it up the black hole of my infinitely expanding ass.

By: machaus

machaus — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:16:36 -0800

"Stephen Hawking can't come to the phone right now..."

By: machaus

machaus — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:18:31 -0800

He looks so happy here. That makes me happy.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:23:54 -0800

Wow, machaus, thanks for pointing that out. He really does. That made me a small moment of bliss, for perhaps the first time today. "Smartest man in the world" or not, do you think he'd trade it all in for the ability to walk up the stairs, or hug his children or his wife? I have no doubt.... I also hope the sale of this item indicates only an upgrade and not some impending bad news...

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:24:26 -0800

gave me, dammit. gave me a small moment of bliss.... I'm going to bed.

By: anathema

anathema — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:31:56 -0800

Well, he did "trade in" his first wife.

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:59:25 -0800

Wheelchair accessible ballooning. That'll also be good for guys like me who can't climb into one of those baskets without hurting my "nether regions"... But he's just selling the basket, right? I've got to get my own hot air bag, right? Oh, Miguel...

By: destro

destro — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:15:19 -0800

I really thought this was about the guy who strapped all those balloons to his lawn chair.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:47:17 -0800

I thought it was about the Wizard of Oz.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:56:06 -0800

Maybe it is.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:45:44 -0800

I tried calling his house instead, but his computerized answering machine kept picking up the phone. so, it's fixed? last week it kept answering the stove.

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 06:33:51 -0800

I smell an eBay! L@@K!!!! GREAT CONDITION HOT AIR BALOON BASKET W/PIC ONE OF A KIND LIKE NEW EXCELLENT CONDITION!!!! Smartest man in the world not included. Or maybe it should be put in the Smithsonian. In any case, great man, etc, etc.

By: stupidsexyFlanders

stupidsexyFlanders — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:55:48 -0800

I would never buy anything that the smartest man in the world didn't want anymore. There has to be a reason that we just don't understand!!!