This week, we have been mostly enjoying the "Wonders of the Universe" series on BBC2, in which Professor Brian Cox springs from mountain top to to mountain top telling us that space is "BRILLIANT!" and that we're all made of dead stars, which is BRILLIANT!Despite being rendered almost entirely incapable by the Wonders of the Universe drinking game, there is one inescapable fact about the programme: Professor Brian Cox knows EVERYTHING. Everything about everything, including a load of stuff that you wouldn't think possible, like a Mancunian Chuck Norris:
Professor Brian Cox knows all the rules of Mornington Crescent AND Fight ClubThat's enough Cox.
Professor Brian Cox knows that if he gets angry, he turns into a huge, green rampaging Patrick Moore
Professor Brian Cox knows that Area 51 is a hoax. All the secret UFO shit happens next door at Area 53. Area 52 is, in fact, the creche
Professor Brian Cox didn't appear when D:Ream played "Things Can Only Get Better" on Top Of The Pops because of his strongly-held views on entropy
Professor Brian Cox knows that the actual answer is 42.0000000000001
Professor Brian Cox knows where they're hiding the real Nick Clegg
Professor Brian Cox knows what's love got to do, got to do with it
Professor Brian Cox knows who was on the grassy knoll
Professor Brain Cox knows who'd win a fight between a baboon and a badger
Professor Brian Cox knows the names and fighting capabilities of all 6,932 Pokemon. And he's caught them all, even the seven that are classed as infectious diseases
Professor Brian Cox knows the airspeed velocity of an unladen African AND European swallow , and that his favourite colour is blue. No… red…
23 comments:
Plz to change the comments to Spicy Cox in honour of today.
BRILLIANT!
Having said that, he is actually my hero.
I don't want to be a spicy cox.
BRILLIANT! Apparently he worked on the Large Hadron Collider ... but I never liked the Large Hadron Collider. I'm more of a Ferris Wheel person, or maybe the dodgem cars.
p.s. *Cough* you're not supposed to mention fight club *cough*.
He's only 18 inches tall, which is why you never see him with anyone else on screen. And has an embarrassing hygiene problem.
Heh @ Richard - me neither.
P.S. Quake Moves Japan Closer to U.S. and Alters Earth’s Spin:
Japan is “wider than it was before,” said Ross Stein, a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey.
Meanwhile, NASA scientists calculated that the redistribution of mass by the earthquake might have shortened the day by a couple of millionths of a second and tilted the Earth’s axis slightly.
Not all of Japan jumped 13 feet closer to the United States...
Read more at website of The New York Times,
13 March 2011:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14seismic.html?src=me&ref=general
Brian Cox KNOWS which side his bread is buttered.
It's the side that lands on the carpet isn't it?
Brian Cox still cannot find a shop that sells clothes WITH COLLARS.
Does Brian Cox have a better looking brother?
Does Professor Brian Cox know what time I had my shit this morning? Thought not.
Even poor dead Professor Stephen Hawking, who knows more than Brian Cox, wears shirts with collars on. He probably knows when Billy has a shit too, and if it had sweetcorn in it.
In fact, even our Dear Leader Kim Jong-il has shirts with collars on.
http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/post/2704147490/looking-at-a-factory
07:12 TO 07:21 NO SWEETCORN
Brian Cox may know everything, but does he know as much as Melvyn Bragg? And if he really does know everything, why doesn't he put it into song, make a smash hit, and attract a large following on Facebook? He could be more popular than Sting.
AND THAT LANKY, BACKLIT, BUM FLUFF SPORTING, MOP HEADED, IRRITATINGLY VOICED EXCUSE FOR A SHAGGY IMPERSONATOR TAKES IT UP THE BLACK HOLE DAILY. 100 PERCENT OF FACT.
One can never get enough Cox.
*ahem*
Sounds like Prof. Hawking is a bit jealous. This Brian character looks kind of cute in a "at least 30 years too young for me" kind of way.
On a far heavier note - Brian Cox was the name of a student of mine many years ago who topped himself the first week he got into middle school. Still hurts. He was such a sweet and mischevious little boy.
Nice to see Professor Hawking back on form - I wonder where he has been lately?
Shame about the slightly worrying permanent "special"/bodged cleft lip op smile.
And I've got to ask this - is his middle name "sux"?
And indeed, does the proff know that it's not actually sweetcorn that mysteriously turns up in one's motions - just in the same way that it's not sweetcorn in the contents of one's stomach that somtimes decide to exit through your mouth.
But did he get your excretory timing correct? Enquiring minds want to know ...
This blog entry inspired me to write my own. Here it is:
The Man Toucan
Regards, Rhys
@Debster: "But did he get your excretory timing correct? Enquiring minds want to know ...
I emailed him shortly after posting my comment. He replied later with the answer 10:12am. I wrote back to inform him the exact time was 10:21am - he came back with some excuse about forgetting to carry the one or something.
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