# Stephen Hawking's Lap dancing visit **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964 "2003-07-08T09:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/21 "2003-07-13T06:19:08Z")
No, you got it backwards. The other scientist wanted the subscription to _Penthouse_. Hawking wanted a subscription to a detective magazine. Here is the text of the bet: > [@](#): > > "Whereas Stephen Hawking has such a large investment in general relativity and black holes and desires and insurance policy, and wheras Kip Thorne likes to live dangerously without an insurance policy. > > Therefore be it resolved that Stephen Hawking bets one years subscription to PENTHOUSE as against Kip Thorne’s wages of a 4-year subscription to PRIVATE EYE, that Cygnus X-1 does not contain a black hole of mass above Chandrasekhar limit." ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/22 "2003-07-13T11:34:41Z")
Actually, [Private Eye](http://www.kristenbrown.co.uk/privateeye.htm) is not a detective magazine; it’s a satire, like the Onion or National Lampoon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/23 "2003-07-13T21:34:22Z")
The segment on _Conan_ was hilarious. Hawking told Carrey not to waste his time talking to the public about the ekpyrotic Universe theory; the public has “brains the size of peas”. They actually ran through the skit twice, because Carrey thought it was so cool to have phoned up Hawking to participate in a comic skit, and have Hawking agree to do it. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/24 "2003-07-13T23:13:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > No, you got it backwards. The other scientist wanted the subscription to _Penthouse_. Hawking wanted a subscription to a detective magazine. Dr. Hawking lost that bet, by the way, and Dr. Thorne received his subscription to _Penthouse_. Mrs. Thorne was annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/25 "2003-07-14T01:09:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sleestak \* > \*\*Hey, Richard Fenyman was also a strip club regular. > > Maybe the atmosphere helps physicists better understand… > no…I won’t finish this sentence as it is really tasteless. > > Slee \*\* G-string theory? ---
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/26 "2003-07-14T01:43:09Z")
He was studying g-string theory… ba-dum-bum! ---
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964/27 "2003-07-14T01:47:27Z")
nice simulpun pesch! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-hawkings-lap-dancing-visit/186964.md?page=1)