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Something like ten days ago I stumbled on this news story that caught my eye. I've been way too lazy and unmotivated to post about it. Now I'm kind of glad for that. Now that I'm sitting down to flesh out the few hastily scribbled lines and pasted URLs that made up my rough draft, I'm thinking of and finding more and more foolishness to stuff into this.

I'm liking the way this has worked out. I should put off all of my posts for a week or so, just to see how many of them ferment into something more interesting.

Yeah, so, news story.

Stephen Hawking was in Hong Kong to give a lecture about the importance of space colonization.

Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking from the University of Cambridge, front, is accompanied by his nurse during a visit at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong Tuesday, June 13, 2006. [Emphasis mine.]

So that's his nurse, huh? I wonder if she was hired for her nursing ability or her cleavage. I wouldn't make Hawking a bad guy if he picked this young woman only because she's a pretty blonde who wears low cut tops. I mean, every guy has a naughty nurse fantasy, right? So Hawking gets to have that fantasy all day everyday. More power to him.

Of course it's entirely possibly she's Hawking's nurse solely because she's the best damn nurse in the history of nursing.

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I still can't help but be reminded of Christopher Walken in Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead.

She's a "10." She is a planet unto herself. She can't nurse worth a shit but I keep her on because, although I can't feel it, I know I have erections in her presence.

Hawking's nurse is no Jenny McCarthy, but still. I'm thinking the same principle applies. Can you picture Hawking spitting out some of Walken's lines in that artificial computerized voice of his?

You should check out a genuinely funny Stephen Hawking impression.

Now that I look back on this post, I think the whole thing sucks. It's muddled. It's unfocused. You probably shouldn't have wasted your time reading it.