Funny how "Hawking" rhymes with "talking" and "walking," and he can't do either.
And the first four letters of his Christian name spell "step," and he also can't do that.
Hawking's Irony
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Listen up, dummy. The joke points out the sad irony of Stephen Hawking's name sounding like actions he physically couldn't do because of his disease. "Hawking" sounds like "talking" and "walking," and the first letters of his first name spell "step," all things he couldn't do. Get it now, genius?