So…I suggested to one of the more cheezier ladies in the office check out The Theory of Everything.

“Oh. Ok. Which one is that again?”
“It follows Stephen Hawking’s early life/work and his romantic-marriage to his first wife.”
“First wife??! That’s a spoiler.”

“What? How? No it’s not: everybody knows she runs off with the piano teacher.”
“Sammy!”
“Oh relax…she takes their 3 kids with her.”
“Sammy!!”

“Seriously? You know it’s Stephen Hawking we’re talking about…he’s got Lou Gehrig’s Disease…s’why his hands are all crooked up here and he talks in a cool robot voice. Like. This.”

“Please stop. The spoilers and the robot voice.”
Turning back to my keyboard I mumble: “Fine. But the robot voice wasn’t that bad.”

We’re silently working for a few moments when:
“Hawking overcomes his physical difficulties and writes a book called A Brief History of Time. It’s a bestseller!”
“SAMMY!!”
“It establishes him as a leading scientific authority!”
“God!!! There’s no point in watching this movie now is there?”

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