12 Responses:

1. gutbloom says:

   16 years ago at 4:34 am

   "Yea, it's me talking. I called you a schmuck. Schmuck. S-C-H-M-U-C-K. Me and my friend Giles here think you're a dirtbag. Got a problem with that?"

   • gutbloom says:

     16 years ago at 2:33 pm

     Did I miss a literary reference? Now I feel dumb but will leave my comment here, in all of its ignorance, to foster the virtue of humility which I so fervently desire.

2. telecart says:

   16 years ago at 7:33 am

   Haha, I remeber that line from Brief History of Time made me burst out laughing.

   Also, this picture rocks on so many levels.

   • josephgrossberg says:

     16 years ago at 10:56 am

     Hmm ... I thought it was during a Q&A with author Isaac Asimov ... or maybe that's what Hawking was citing.

     • telecart says:

       16 years ago at 6:43 am

       Actually I think he doesn't say.

3. duskwuff says:

   16 years ago at 10:32 am

   Or alligators, as the case may be.

4. hafnir says:

   16 years ago at 10:34 am

   Extra points if there's this really really tiny alligator (crocodile?) on the head of the little one. Fractalgators (Fractaldiles?)!

   • billy_goto says:

     16 years ago at 10:25 pm

     I don't know, they look much more like Paleosuchus trigonatus (a dwarf cayman) than crocodiles or alligators.
     Crocodile eyes seem more lateral and not bugged out like that.

5. encapsulate says:

   16 years ago at 11:18 am

   

   Not excatly the same, but there's a pan handler in Key West FL who has a dog, and on that dog, he has a cat, and on that cat he has a mouse.

6. solarbird says:

   16 years ago at 1:44 pm

   Perhaps a related phenominon..

7. p3rlm0nk says:

   16 years ago at 3:30 pm

   Small world, I know most of the people in that thread.

8. rearkick says:

   16 years ago at 10:17 pm

   Wow. I feel stupid. I thought that was a Frogger reference.

   -RearKick