Mar 28, 2008
Professor, Yes, *Professor* Brian Cox
**UPDATE** 02.12.08 More on Professor Brian Cox here.
Yep, Brian has been promoted to Professor. Weeeeee! We found out a few weeks ago, but couldn’t say anything until it had been announced at the University of Manchester. I’ve just re-designed his website, so make sure that if you link to it you use the words Professor Brian Cox in order to help all the search engines catch up.
Now, that he’s so respectable, I’m wondering if he needs an image change to live up to the title?
THE PROFESSOR
When I was growing up, my very favourite programme on tv was Gilligan’s Island. Apparently, when I was very little my imaginary friend was Gilligan, that is how much I loved it. I probably stopped watching Gilligan’s Island when I was about 12 or 13… long before I realised just how hot The Professor was. Though I’m not sure the look would suit Brian.
PROFESSOR UTONIUM aka THE PROFESSOR
I love the Powerpuff Girls. I tried so hard, mainly unsuccessfully, to get my son into the Powerpuff Girls in order to legitimately watch the show. The girls’ ‘creator’, Professor Utonium, is pretty much the standard 1950s idea of a professor. When I told my son that Brian had been promoted to Professor he asked, ‘Is he going to start smoking a pipe now? He’s got to smoke a pipe if he’s a professor.’
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH aka THE PROFESSOR
My son is pretty much obsessed with everything Matt Groening does, including, but not limited to, Futurama. The Professor on Futurama is pretty much Professor Utonium in about 50 years’ time, shrivelled and insane. I think Brian’s got some time before he hits this stage.
So far, the positive things we’ve learned from cartoon representations of Professors (and, no, I didn’t forget Professor Professor from The Secret Show (which rules, by the way), I just couldn’t find a good picture of him), is that from now on Brian should be referred to merely as THE PROFESSOR. Not quite as cheeky as ‘Dr. Cox’, but it’ll have to do.
But what about real world Professors? Well, the number one Google UK image search result is a photo of Professor, Lord, Professor Lord, BARON Robert Winston. I’m telling you right off, I don’t think Brian even has enough facial hair to achieve anything near this look.
Now, dear old Professor Einstein is single-handedly responsible for the mad-scientist stereotype. He even smoked a freakin’ pipe. Yea, he kinda owns this look, so it’d be silly to try and emulate it. Besides, Brian looks shit in jumpers.
Richard Feynman was a Professor, had ‘long hair’, was a musician and was a god. damned. horndog. Seriously. The guy was sexy beyond belief. I mean *look*!
So, I think Feynman has the best ‘Professor’ look out of them all… What do you think?
And as far as the look of a ‘professor’s wife’ is concerned…? Forgeddaboudit.
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You forgot Stephen Hawking Gia!
A professor-rich post with no mention of Professor Yaffle! I’m distraught.
http://xkcd.com/182/
Dammit Feynman!
Hurrah!
Oh yea, Paul. *that* is a real good look to go for… ;)
I like you gia
Gratz Brian! W00t! U r 1337 h4x0r.
Congratulations. Will he now profess that he wants his eggs sunny side up?
Well done to the prof!
Well done the Professor!
Trying to think of others, but all I could think of was Professor Moriarty, and Professor Albus Dumbledore.
But also remember those he’s left behind:
Doc Emmett Brown
Doc Indiana Jones
Doc’s Spengler, Venkman, and Stantz.
And that other fictional doctor, Gillian McKeith.
What he needs now is a groovy 70′s wardrobe, and a partner, so that they can investigate gritty science, in a Body and Doyle fashion. The Profess(or)ionals
:P
Congratulations! :)
Happy Birthday Professor Einstein!
hi,
Many congratulations to Brian.
I think it’s vital that any change of image must not clash with the specific chair they award him with, so I advise to hold off on the new wardrobe / hair until it actually arrives.
The other vital detail is whether he intends to be on the side of good or evil. I think that should be part of the official title, eg Prof Brian Cox PhD(evil), to save confusion.
Congratulations to Dr/Professor Cox! Perhaps he can tell me why your Blog appears to be struck through throughout.
R, weird. The ‘strike’ tag in this post is closed, so I’m not sure what would be doing it. I’ll twiddle with that and see if anything changes. Sometimes different browsers deal with it differently.
*edit* Ahhhh, there was a problem with it. The first end tag was misspelled, and obviously your browser wasn’t listening to the second or third end tags… Weird.
Thank you. All fixed now.
I saw the professor singing!
Congratulations on being such a remarkable man, Professor Cox. I saw your interview with Andrew Denton on ABC Melbourne Australia on 9th Sept 08 and was totally blown away by your enigmatic presentation of the “collider” experiment in Switzerland, but not only that, I was impressed by your youth and knowledge and I must say I’m not from a scientific background, but so totally impressed by your natural and matter of fact explanation of all things discussed that even I, a 55yo mother of 3 was gobsmacked.You have the abilityand the charisma to make people want to study physics. I’s sorry if this sounds rather “cheesy” but I was so impressed with your interview.Cheers and good luck in all your future works.
Melbourne Australia.
Dear Giagia
I arrived here via a google search for Prof Brian Cox to find your website. I was looking for details of what had caused the LHC to be closed down.
In between the listing for your site and that of Sue Rider Management is one for BBC Radio 4 – Big Bang Day-Ask The Expert.
In this listing they claim that Prof Cox will answer questions on the Large HARDON Collider.
The mind boggles!
Best wishes
Pat Walton