Dr Brian Cox, doctor, may be recognisable to a great many of you who picture things in their minds when they hear noises and who were listening to Radio 4 in the UK in the evenings in January as the man who presented the three-part series titled "In Einstein’s Shadow" which may or may not have been about a time-travelling dog in a DeLorean. For the remaining 103% of you who didn’t catch those programmes Dr Brian Cox is a physicist who likes it high energy-style, works anywhere there’s a particle accelerator handy, and has appeared on television when complicated science is required and traditional bald, bearded, tweedy men might be considered a tad off-putting.
I collided with Dr Brian Cox recently (that’s a particle physics joke there, feel free to use it) and got to ask him a few questions about his work, his aspirations, his thoughts on the creation of the universe, his greatest achievement in the field of physics, and the meaning of life itself. Sadly, most or all of those questions didn’t make the cut.
ME: Dr Brian Cox – or may I call you Brian? – I see from your early life that you were in a band and toured with the likes of Jimmy Page, Gary Moore, Europe, and others. Tell me: can you describe the best bathroom in a hotel you stayed in?
BRIAN: Please do call me Brian, Mark, but, if you don’t mind, could we perhaps keep the questioning related to my work in the field of physics?
ME: Of course. Let me try again: I see from your early life that you were in a band and toured with the likes of Jimmy Page, Gary Moore, Europe, and others. Tell me: can you describe the best bathroom in a hotel you stayed in? Neutrino?
BRIAN: Well, we were supporting Jimmy at the time and I believe we were in Newcastle. Late 1988 I think. I can’t remember the name of the hotel but let me tell you this: mirrors on both sides of the bathroom! Luxury! You could look in one and see a reflection and a reflection of a reflection and so on. In fact I tried an experiment there by waving and seeing how long it would be before the most distant reflection waved back – it was a test of the speed of light and how drunk I was – but some of the reflections didn’t wave at all and I got scared. That’s when I knew I’d never watch Poltergeist 3 again. And the towels were really fluffy. Stole two.
ME: You’re from Oldham. Now, a lot of my readers in the UK will know that’s somewhere up north in the dark lands between the South Downs and Glasgow but for any overseas visitors and foreign scientist stalkers it’s probably easier to say it’s near the area where Daphne Moon from Frasier is supposed to be from. Can you do a Daphne impression? Higgs boson?
BRIAN: Eddie! You come down off that priceless antique before Doctor Crane comes home! Oh! Hello Doctor Crane!
ME: Haha! That’s brilliant! Do you do any others?
BRIAN: Physics!
ME: Sorry. Do you do any others? Lepton?
BRIAN: No.
ME: Great. I’ve heard a number of times that you have a rather remarkable resemblance to Willy Wonka. Can you elaborate on that at all? Anti-tachyon?
BRIAN: Yes, certainly. Basically it all started when I realised that kids simply weren’t getting to see inside CERN in Geneva owing to the general Swiss fear of small people. Well, I like kids – I used to be one – and so I devised a competition where we would place special tickets inside special bars of special chocolate and allow the winners to tour. It was a great success. All the children died in horrific ways – high doses of x-rays, falling in the particle streams, accelerating to near the speed of light, that sort of thing – but the smallprint covered us. The Swiss were quietly pleased. They don’t like small people. It’s those clocks where the small people come out, you see. There’s a collective terror in Switzerland.
ME: Sounds a scream. Physicists are often portrayed as dour loners but I’m sure that’s not true. What’s your favourite physics joke?
BRIAN: Haha! Okay. No. No you’ll like this. Okay … what noise do subatomic cows make?
ME: I don’t know.
BRIAN: Muon. Haha! Muon! It’s like moo but it’s actually a negatively charged particle! Muon!
ME: Right. Now, if we can get back to something a little more serious; you are the BBC’s "go-to guy", their "face of science", their "Philippa Forrester isn’t available or is having an uber-mumsy day dude". In urban warfare who would win: a leopard or a zebra with a chainsaw? Excited graviton?
BRIAN: Hmmm. My first reaction – I hope it doesn’t lead to a chain! – is to say leopard. It’s got teeth and claws and can climb trees. Of course, there aren’t many trees in urban scenarios. Now, the zebra has a fearsome weapon in the chainsaw but is it capable of hiding or stalking a born-predator? Sure, it could try to pretend it was some form of pedestrian crossing if black-and-white markings were the norm in this arena. But there’s not enough information. Urban, yes, but where? Does the chainsaw have any fuel in it? Too many unknowns so I’ll stick with my original thought: leopard. Occam’s safety razor with new vibrating option. Simplest answer.
ME: Wrong! The leopard was a pacifist thrown out of his tribe or herd or whatever the hell sort of group leopards hang around in. Meanwhile, the zebra was trained in hoof-to-hoof combat by 22 SAS Regiment and was out for revenge on the cat world after seeing its mother mauled to death by a lion. Now, as well as your TV appearances in programmes such as BBC’s Horizon and Richard & Judy you’ve also given talks around the world from South America to South Asia and some northern places too. If you were stuck on a desert island with a working gramophone what one album would you bring with you as an aid to escape the loneliness of life without a tevatron? Magneto-ionised photon?
BRIAN: I think most people would opt for something by Kate Bush as a means to entice in whales and dolphins and, from a member of the general public’s viewpoint, that’s an admirable choice. The problem is that, as part of the DZero experiment in Chicago’s Fermilab, we discovered that, once on land, whales and dolphins are extremely hard to move before dying. I’m not one of those old-fashioned doctors who likes the smell of rotting mammal-fishes so that’s out of the question. I think I would have to choose "Epitaph" by Front Line Assembly. Many crustaceans are drawn by industrial music and I could construct giant stilts from crabs tied one on top of another and then walk across the ocean bed to freedom.
ME: I like the way you think out of the box. I think when television bosses want a science presenter they should always come to you. Oh! Muon! That’s truly a king among physics jokes! I’ve just got it. Dr Brian Cox, it’s been a pleasure.
June 8, 2005
For brevity’s sake I had to omit the interesting chat we had about his Hollywood career where we both agreed that his performance in Manhunter should have earned him royalties from Anthony Hopkins for life and Brian admitted he was deeply hurt inside that William L. Petersen wouldn’t return his calls now that he’d hit it big with CSI playing pretty much exactly the same character.
June 8, 2005
I love you! Though, obviously, I love him more…
I’m sending a link to him right now. 🙂 You rule.
June 8, 2005
I do, indeed, rule. A little land I call Egocentricon-by-the-sea.
Thankyou Gia. I’m keeping a tab of these declarations of love and may one day call them in.
June 8, 2005
Gary Moore kicks ass on levels most mortals cannot relate….along with Jeff Beck. And you should be receiving your anthrax laden mail for even mentioning the band Europe, even in jest.
June 8, 2005
He can think about MY box if he wants! I love a man with a brain. Preferably in his head not his cock.
June 8, 2005
Becchah, I reserve the right to shoot, mame, dismember, disembowel (not in any specific order) any being I choose. The band (this term used quite loosely) Europe, AKA a really, really really, untalented Triumph, single handedly killed the metal scene hear stateside in the late 80’s. It had us all introspectively looking at ourselves saying: "Do we all really look that ghey?" Also I am jamming a spork in my left eye socket as we speak to try and stop that damn song from playing over and over in my head. Thanks a shitload there. If it were up to me, that band would be heading to Venus alright, IN A CARDBOARD BOX!
June 8, 2005
Why Mark why?
June 9, 2005
Sirrah! I tag thee! I tag thee thusly!
June 10, 2005
Hey dis ain’t the link to that Lady Sov or the jtina bird!
its sum Ancient portal, mirroring, long gone images of ‘celebs’ of a bygone musical era
I must have been sucked into a virtual worm’ole?
(or as is more likely, hit the wrong key. Still, why let that get in the way, of my drugged up bullshittin’)
June 12, 2005
Strange! gazing at that first picture of Dr Cox and his lady friend makes me wanna sing……
Everybody say..
oops upside your head, say oops upside your head,
(All the ladies say)
say oops upside your head, say oops upside your head,
(All the fellas say)
say oops upside your head, say oops upside your head,
(everybody say)
Groovy huh!
June 12, 2005
That ain’t no lady. That’s a stalker….:)
June 27, 2005
"That ain’t no lady. That’s a stalker….:)"
Be glad that’s all he didn’t mess with. You know those particle physicists can do a lot of funky things!
Muon! Haha! Muon!
June 27, 2005
I think she’s under the delusion she’s his online mistress LOL
June 27, 2005
Me thinks Doc Brian got funky with Miss Stress!
June 27, 2005
He seems too smart for that!
June 27, 2005
Gee a, let’s ask him! LOL
June 27, 2005
No need to. She would have told everyone if she did, his wife is safe 🙂
June 27, 2005
BTW, that group picture of Dare…reminds me of The New York Dolls…that hair, does anyone miss it?
Muon! Haha! Muon!
June 27, 2005
Mark, I’m not a troll. I’ve observed enough of the cyber-stalking discussions on multiple sites to base an honest opinion. I will apologize for offending you, though. 🙂
June 27, 2005
I’m rather curious about Dr. Cox’s idea that crustaceans are drawn to industrial music; several crabs I’ve known have been partial to reggae or even ska, perhaps because it matches their scurrying side to side nature. I realize that this is out of his field, though Kate Bush would be on closer target for the cetaceans, though classical music, in general, is more to their liking. The Brandenburg Concertos have been known to cause the blue whale to start breaching uncontrollably: we can only assume this is a sign of pleasure.
I just can’t agree with the industrial music/crustacean theory, however, even though Dr. Cox’s credentials are stellar!
June 27, 2005
>>It’s not an idea, it’s a fact. Have you had your face too close to the Hadron Detector during a near-light collision of basic particles and experienced an entire lifetime as a hermit crab in the time it takes an antiproton to be annihilated in our mainly matter universe?
After swallowing that sentence, I certainly feel that way!
>>Have you lived for even a picosecond within the confines of a conch shell and listened to the melodic thumping of the bassline from KMFDM’s WWIII album?
Personally, no, I haven’t climbed into a conch shell, but we do know some crabs "knock" on existing shells before entering to make a new home for themselves. The adolescent percussion of KMFDM may mimic that "knocking" sound, but for the older crustaceans they know the difference–and let’s face it, crustaceans are pretty mellow, laidback creatures, until disturbed by said toe in their face…thus reggae.
>>Have you? Yeah, that’s right, you haven’t. Agree or disagree all you want in private but don’t you criticise me until you’ve raised a herd of crablets and shed a tear as they gripped hold of their first exposed human toe.
I have experienced many a crab attached to my toe, and I’ll have you know, I have studied them in their natural habitat extensively, and they don’t CARE FOR INDUSTRIAL MUSIC! Perhaps, you brainwashed your particular crablets…perhaps physicists can do those funky things, besides upturning faces on unassuming people, but if you are going to insist that they like KMFDM, I ask you to provide evidence, rather than hearsay, that may be tinged by your own prejudices for such music.
Muon! Haha! Muon!
>>Sincerely,
Dr Brian Cox, Really.
Somehow I doubt it is thee. If so, the resemblance to Johnny Depp in the new Willy Wonka movie is uncanny, which was a mad world, you know. 😉
June 28, 2005
This comment, "I have no need to prove anything to you," sounds a bit haughty, in light that I think as a scientist you do have the moral obligation to present the truth, or as much evidence as possible.
But I really don’t have a need to prove anything to you. Really, I don’t. I need to prove other things to other people in order to maintain funding, but you? Nope. No need. Sorry if that sounds haughty but, truthfully, you are a lowly shrimp with a limp to my mighty Kraken with go-faster stripes in the grand scheme of things. While I may feel morally obligated to present the truth it simply isn’t the case that I have a moral necessity to present the truth to you. The fact that I did is beside the point.
Your little hermit crab friend looks like he has been brainwashed like the Manchurian Candidate; perhaps you have kept it hostage with Naim and Royd in some hermetic existence, like an experiment run amok by a mad scientist! It’s downright abusive that you have subjected this crab to such confusing reverberations of an aggressive nature (at least someone above had the fortitude to recognize Jeff Beck, who mammals do think highly of).
The "look" to which you refer is called bliss, a state of pure musical enjoyment that comes around 9 minutes into "Get Down". It is no surprise that you do not recognise it since a typical reggae track induces nothing but stupefaction after the opening beat and you are forgiven for this error.
Notice this group of crustaceans watching TV in a mellow, laid-back state of mind. It is obvious they are pleased:
I see shells. Possibly seashells. Not on the sea shore though. The shells I see – the seashell shells – are clearly incarcerated. A crustacean Guantanamo is your idea of evidence of approval of Bob Marley? For shame!
Witness the effects of industrial music on these crustaceans:
Arms thrown wide with wide smiles on their little crabby faces! I concur: they look extremely happy.
Finally, the most compelling evidence is that crustaceans prefer reggae, because the Rastafarians don’t eat them.
A quite amazing deduction, although you fail to include any proof – anecdotal or more compelling – that Industrial Musicians do partake of our sea-based friends by way of contrast. By the same token can I assume that South American tree frogs favour German Oompah music and the deadly Canadian Moose-Eating Snake likes nothing more than to drift off at night to the beat of Indian tabla?
Still, it is part of their survival, and they live in harmony with reggae, unlike the aggressive, violence producing sounds of the likes of KMFDM and REVCO.
This is typical of the knee-jerk reactions that followed Columbine. Aggressive? Violence-producing? Sure, I’ve become aggressive and produced a bag or two of violence for public consumption after listening to music but that was Shania Twain! Sit me down with Front 242’s Im Rhythmus Bleiben and I’m as mellow as a pussycat doped to the eyeballs on various opiates. Just like crabs.
Perhaps we will merely have to agree to disagree on this issue, unless you disagree.
Sincerely yours,
Dr Brian Cox, Really.
June 28, 2005
hmmmm, I think there is something fishy about these mailings
June 28, 2005
But I really don’t have a need to prove anything to you. Really, I don’t. I need to prove other things to other people in order to maintain funding, but you? Nope. No need.
I have little time to address your continued delusions on the matter of crustaceans; it appears this site would be easily blocked, though not due to it’s language content, but the fact that some of its participants, mainly you, are living in some other dimension–or lets say you’re short a couple of leptons, but I forgive you for this, since after all, you’re only human. But yes, when continents collide, you do have an obligation to prove, and Front 242 is just more evidence that your eardrums have been categorically demolished by Industrial Music. Perhaps, a week of some, say, Classic Rock, will bring you back to the fact that there is no longevity in IM, and therefore, crustaceans, especially crabs have no use for it. Yes, you may be allowed your delusions, but the carbs know better.
Sorry if that sounds haughty but, truthfully, you are a lowly shrimp with a limp to my mighty Kraken with go-faster stripes in the grand scheme of things.
More delusions–the Kraken! The only Kraken that exists is the one you have seized upon in your mind to make a…horrible analogy. My "truths" are mightier than your mythological creature born out of some idea that is several leptons short of a quark (I assume you can get that).
While I may feel morally obligated to present the truth it simply isn’t the case that I have a moral necessity to present the truth to you. The fact that I did is beside the point.
Thank you for your charity; it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to know that it was quite a step down for you to produce ONE piece of evidence of an idea that your taste in music pleases crustaceans. Unfortunately, your brainwashed evidence proves little, indeed!
The "look" to which you refer is called bliss, a state of pure musical enjoyment that comes around 9 minutes into "Get Down". It is no surprise that you do not recognise it since a typical reggae track induces nothing but stupefaction after the opening beat and you are forgiven for this error.
It takes 9 minutes for bliss? Well, clearly if "bliss" doesn’t occur in the first 8 minutes, then there’s your problem; it only takes a few notes to distinguish bliss from cacaphony, otherwise known as noise, which the crabs are well aware of.
I see shells. Possibly seashells. Not on the sea shore though. The shells I see – the seashell shells -are clearly incarcerated. A crustacean Guantanamo is your idea of evidence of approval of Bob Marley? For shame!
If you notices, those shells, also known as "residences" were transported with a beach-like environment, so they could see a live Bob Marley concert. I see no bars, no guards, no Korans, no toilets…nothing that shows incarceration! They arrived by their own free will.
Witness the effects of industrial music on these crustaceans:
Arms thrown wide with wide smiles on their little crabby faces! I concur: they look extremely happy.
They’re dead!
A quite amazing deduction, although you fail to include any proof – anecdotal or more compelling – that Industrial Musicians do partake of our sea-based friends by way of contrast. By the same token can I assume that South American tree frogs favour German Oompah music and the deadly Canadian Moose-Eating Snake likes nothing more than to drift off at night to the beat of Indian tabla?
The evidence is compelling, and logical. Your evidence is weak, and frankly, this suprises me. But I forgive you for that, too, since your particles have been spun around one too many times by the likes of Industrial Music (and by the way South American tree frogs obviously don’t care for German Oompah music, they have a lot more rhythm than that).
This is typical of the knee-jerk reactions that followed Columbine. Aggressive? Violence-producing? Sure, I’ve become aggressive and produced a bag or two of violence for public consumption after listening to music but that was Shania Twain!
You won’t get an argument from me there.
Sit me down with Front 242’s Im Rhythmus Bleiben and I’m as mellow as a pussycat doped to the eyeballs on various opiates. Just like crabs.
Ah, well, now the truth arrives!
Perhaps we will merely have to agree to disagree on this issue, unless you disagree.
I agree. To disagree. Your idea is simply delusional. But, I do hope one day you will apprehend the wisdom to know better.
Yours truly,
The BigBang
June 28, 2005
Dr John the Rightkipper said …
hmmmm, I think there is something fishy about these mailings
The thing that really stinks is the inability to edit posts after 15 minutes. That’s barely long enough for a diversion!
June 28, 2005
The thing that really stinks is the inability to edit posts after 15 minutes. That’s barely long enough for a diversion!
Well, I could extend the time but in your particular instance, since you’ve so far posted with 5 different IP addresses, it wouldn’t make much difference. I could allow everyone from Houston to edit your comments for a longer period but … I don’t think I will.
June 28, 2005
Well, I could extend the time but in your particular instance, since you’ve so far posted with 5 different IP addresses, it wouldn’t make much difference. I could allow everyone from Houston to edit your comments for a longer period but … I don’t think I will.
Foul play, Mark. I don’t know who these other "Bangs" are, (imitators, for sure) but they are certainly not me, but your post there isn’t very nice. I was simply disagreeing with Dr. Cox’s idea that crustaceans like Industrial music. If you have a direct e-mail address, I’ll be happy to e-mail you and explain my various ISP #’s, but I can’t answer for those other "Bangs." I’m quite serious. I’m also disappointed that your sense of humor, as noted above, just flew out the window.
Good day, sir.
TheBigBang
*Oh, I can still edit. I suppose now, the discussion is over. No one was trying to hide anything, by the way. People are so paranoid!
June 28, 2005
I have a direct email address. It’s just not displayed anywhere. The disclaimer page explains all. As far as humour, well … I was trying neither to be funny nor deadly serious, merely making a statement. I have no objection to your conversation, nor do I even mind that your clones are running rampant all over this post. I was not implying that you had something to hide, only that, based on the assumption that all posts by TheBigBang were you, the multiple IP addresses in use would defeat the comment editing mechanism. My sincerest apologies for coming over all business-like. If there was a smiley that represented the slight upturning of the lips, not quite a smile, not quite straight-faced, then this is where it would appear. Well, if there was a smiley and if I used them. Which I don’t. So it wouldn’t.
June 29, 2005
I can’t possibly have five.
Afraid you do. BetweenBangs is the woman in the picture at the top of the post (invert head (or monitor) to see more clearly). SmallBang is from Melbourne. Not that it really matters now, anyway.
I hate typos too and I’ve extended the time to help reduce those terrifying moments of realisation in the future. I still find typos in year-old articles these days and it sends me into a panic trying to edit them before anyone points them out.
As for cooler weather … well, I suppose we can’t compete with you in terms of raw temperature but then, you’ve got to be used to it. This simply isn’t cool enough for me. I think I have an inner Viking who longs to spend all his time among the fjords buried deep inside.
June 29, 2005
I can’t possibly have five.
Afraid you do. BetweenBangs is the woman in the picture at the top of the post (invert head (or monitor) to see more clearly). SmallBang is from Melbourne. Not that it really matters now, anyway.
That could be, now that I think about it, because I was using a proxy service, and each time you sign back on it must generate a different ISP#. But that service doesn’t work on most forums (including my own), and it doesn’t work with formatting–the URL linking, pasting photos, etc. So, my first 3 posts could have been different, then when I abandoned the proxy service, you see my real ones. But discussion of ISP# numbers, locations, e-mail addresses and such, leaves me cold…sort of "kills the laughter." On my board it’s something I never, ever tell anyone, and won’t allow anyone else administrative access, because I trust few people and they just don’t need to know where people work, live, etc, unless they choose to offer that information themselves–it’s sort of like giving out your name. Some people I do trust, and they know who they are. 😉
Anyway, I abandoned the proxy, so I hope you know I was only having fun since that interview is hilarious, and just begs for some fun back. This page is being *watched* so I’ll say no more, but to ask the pertinent question of the day:
Why did the crabs cross the road?
*I’ll have to test out REVCO at the beach in FL when I go to see the shuttle take off, but I am certain it will scare them away…reggae’s percussion more closely mimics the pounding of the waves. :-))
June 29, 2005
Right about this time every year, in ‘The Perishers’ cartoon strip, in the Daily Mirror (a UK paper) We have the ‘eyeballs in the sky’
The reference is contained in the plot of the characters annual trip to the seaside
Wherein the pet dog (Boot for thats his name)always toddles down to a rock pool on the beach and peers into it
The said pool’s inhabitants being crabs, who’s leaders await the yearly coming of the eyeballs (which obviously belong to Boot the dog) and call on all the other crustaceans to worship the phenomena
As you can guess the Boot steps in the pool or summit and creates a disaster or some other mayhem
Where upon the survivors, flay their leaders within an inch of their lives!
Pity its only fiction, and nothing like that will ever happen, to the moronic twosome who rule the universe
I thought you might like to know this, since there is a pungent tendency, for crustaceans on this site
June 30, 2005
This page is being *watched* so I’ll say no more
Okay, well that‘s piqued my interest.
But as for: Why did the crabs cross the road? …
It would appear to be a protest of some sort.
Dr John: I haven’t read the Mirror in a long time but I remember the strip well. The part about it being "not funny" seems to stick in the mind.
June 30, 2005
"The part about it being "not funny" seems to stick in the mind." wrote Mark
Humour Mark? I don’t recall alluding to the hilarity factor of the strip, as part of my tirade
Still it’s got to beat the pants of Scorer (another Mirror cartoon strip)
Where you can get a (real sad) ‘genuine Tolcaster shirt as worn by Dave Storry’ for just £34.99 plus£3.50 p&p at http://www.scorermegastore.com
Honest, I never made it up, its for real
June 30, 2005
This page is being *watched* so I’ll say no more.
"Okay, well that’s piqued my interest."
Yea, I wondered about that, too, Mark. I’ve been trying to figure out exactly who could be watching this page that actually matters in the grand scheme of things…?
June 30, 2005
This page is being *watched* so I’ll say no more
Okay, well that’s piqued my interest.
I wasn’t referring to black helicoptors or anything like Gia’s Halliburton lurker, just your general "anything you say can be cut and pasted against you," Internet stuff. IOW, I was merely trying to divert things away from ISP #’s and info I didn’t want to discuss. 😉
Lol, OK, Mark, you obviously have the talent for photo-shopping, and thus must be Dr. Impostor after all, (besides, it doesn’t appear that the real Dr. Cox is the writer in the family or much of a pic-twister…runs and ducks from flying particles). I am curious as to what program you use – all I have is the Microsoft Photo Suite, which is elementary. What’s a good one? I’m convinced it’s a certain personality (and maybe one with more time on their hands) that is good with "photo wars.") 🙂
"…yearly coming of the eyeballs."
I like that…Dr. John, do you have a link to that?
Cheers!
*Mark, if a box postmarked ‘Florida, USA’ turns up on your doorstep with a ghost crab, and an opened REVCO cd inside , don’t blame it on me…….
July 3, 2005
Why is there no delete button here?
July 3, 2005
Deep Impact! Turns my frown upside down. Yes, I’m the real Candy. 🙂
July 5, 2005
Dr Phil did come across well in the Deep Impact programme last night. But a pink shirt and a green cocktail? Hmmm.
Mind you, Brian’s shoes were awful too. What on Earth made him think orange went with anything else he was wearing? I know it was a science programme and not a fashion show but still, it was very distracting.
July 6, 2005
How do I see your new blogs?
My new blogs? Do you mean entries other than this one? If so, then top left, Home ( http://neonbubble.com ) and Archives will show you all the "fun" you’re missing. Otherwise I’m not sure what you mean; the only other site I run is Web Nymph which is an RSS aggregator of other sites.
July 10, 2005
Deedee wrote: Mind you, Brian’s shoes were awful too. What on Earth made him think orange went with anything else he was wearing? I know it was a science programme and not a fashion show but still, it was very distracting.
Admit it, he’s still freaking irresistible. Dr Brian Cox is just so nice, only knowing this after having met him, just once, in person. He’s an awesome person!
April 19, 2006
Mark,
Did you hear the ad on The Science Channel tonight for some program postulating, "Do Aliens Like Reggae?" This is scientific blasphemy! When will scientists get it into their quark-filled heads that it is CRUSTACEANS that like REGGAE!
Silly scientists, Trix are for kids. ~rolls eyes~
‘Hope you’ve since rehabilitated your crabs from ~shudder~ REVCO.
Yours most truly,
The Big Bang (-:)
May 14, 2007
Wow hahaha
Talk about random, type in a random phrase in Google, see the words ‘Meanwhile, the zebra was trained in hoof-to-hoof combat by 22 SAS Regiment and was out for revenge on the cat world after seeing its mother mauled to death by a lion.’ in the links description… HAD to read it.. Was a nice chuckle 😀
September 10, 2008
Can’t be long now until the world is destroyed by the lhc thanks to Brian Cox and his scientific friends.
September 18, 2008
PLEASE DONT DESTROY THE WORLD,BRIAN COX.
THANKS VERY MUCH.
LILIANA FROM COLOMBIA.
September 19, 2008
Liliana,
You’ve got nothing to worry about. We’re very nearly almost fairly certain that any destruction will only really take out Europe, the Middle East, and part of Asia and Africa. The resulting New Earth configuration (think of a 3-D Pacman) should leave Colombia as The Eye and your contry will then be able to govern the whole new planet with a cocaine fist.
September 19, 2008
I don’t think the Large Hardon Collider will actually collide any beams until mid-November, only then will have to stare into the abyss of Brian Cox’s black hole. Until then, I’m going to have as much sex as possible in case it’s my last bang before the big one.
April 1, 2009
I’m smile with the picture of the women with your face upside down
I don’t know but is very beautiful this scientist (L)
is so sexy at the last picture *_*
and good luck with the LHC 🙂
May 9, 2009
can i ask, is this a piss take or did brian cox really say all this?
and i apserlootly love the one of him in the hat.
May 9, 2009
To Brian: Colombia already governs the US with a cocaine fist. Afghanistan, on the other hand, prefers to govern the US with a heroin fist, which is a much mellower fist even if it makes you constipated. Mexico governs the US with a marijuana fist, which is why McDonalds and other fast food chains will never go out of business in my country.
May 21, 2009
Did someone just call me a lady? I bought a new laptop, so my IP address has changed. I still cyber stalk Dr Brian Cox on occasion. I’ve been busy with a new job working with Centrex programming.