Explaining Hawkin's discovery

Imagine you have a fat friend and he always eats junk food. Normally, when you see left overs, wrappers and food boxes, you can guess what he ate ... but this friend of yours is sooo fat .. that he eats the wrapper and the boxes, and you can't tell what he ate. Recently, you discover that your friend is a messy eater and there is often times, bits and pieces of left overs around his mouth. So you conclude that you can gain sufficient information from stuff around his mouth .. that you can tell .. what he ate.

So, in Hawkin's terms, there is enough information left behind in the Event Horizon, that you can explain the Information Paradox.

A version of this analogy first appeared on reddit, posted by reddit.com/user/Iprocrastinatetmrw .

Information Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox