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Stephen vs Stephen
The greatest battle of minds since OSCAR Wilde may have PLAYED CHESS WITH Einstein...
Fry and Hawking
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~ THE FORM ~
HOW THE STEPHENS COMPARE
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• Age: 57
• Written: The Jeeves in Worcester novels; The Horsewanker; The Hippopotamus; Paperwight and some poems here and there.
• Weight: 15 stone in pure height.
• Tactics: Non-practising homosexuality and running away

• Training/diet:

Morning: Breakfast of one of whole hard boiled whole egg (hard). Toblerone (soft). Hot bath until turn pink.

Lunch: pecans. Skipping (5 mins).

Tea: Hard-boiled egg (1, whole, hard).

Supper: A whole handful of Chocolate Orange segments (halved).

 

• Age: n/a. Invented by NASA during the Challenger Space Shuttle mission to space but abandoned, smashed and broken when the mission ended badly.
•Written: A Brief History of Mime, the story of Marcel Marceau’s death at the hand of an unknown assailant with a silencer gun.
• Weight: 14 stone (with chair); 3 stone (without).
• Tactics: electrocution, off-putting voice, wheel-knives, carpet tacks.

•Training/diet:

Morning: A healthy “power drink” of Sogar Weight gain, Nurishment and a Pentium processor.

Lunch: same

Tea: tomato puree (double concentrate)
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Both have suffered hardship (gayness/wheelchair; brains too big for heads). Both are called Stephen. But what differences are there between them, and which one has the edge...? Use the spec table below to make up your own mind...
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SPECIFICATIONS
HAWKING
FRY
Legs (real) cross tick
Bent nose cross tick
Wife tick cross
PhD in astrophysics tick cross
Friends with Hugh Laurie cross tick
Bruises on upper body tick cross
Written a book tick tick
Walked off West End show in a huff cross tick
National treasure tick tick
Cybernetic enhancements tick cross
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Compare previous years' performances: • 2005 2004  2003 2002 2001

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ODDS FROM BETNOIR: WINNER Fry 3-1 HAWKING 7-1 EVEN STEPHENS 5-1  DISQUALIFICATION FRY 99-1  HAWKING 2-3
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