Rockwood: The Rockwood Mailbag.

The Rockwood Mailbag

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Have you always wanted to let Team Rockwood know just what you were thinking? Do you wonder why the panels of the strip are laid out horizontally instead of vertically? Or do you have sensitive documents that will bring down the government? In any case, we want to know! Just fill out your name and e-mail address, then let 'er rip! No question or comment is too bizarre for Team Rockwood to take a stab at, and if we can get enough mail coming in, this page will be updated weekly! (Unlike the old mailbag page, which got updated about four times in two years.)

So consider this an experiment in web interactivity. Or, consider it a way to artificially inflate our hit count. Either way, just write in!

Updated on December 3, 2001
		November 21, 2001 If the space turkey is radioactive, Y is the crew still alive after being hit by cosmic rays for a year? --Matt
		Good question, Matt! The fact is that early Russian spacecraft were pieces of junk with inadequate radiation shields. Of course, since it was just a turkey, who really cared? However, the space station is designed to house life that keeps living, so its shields are a little more protective.
		November 24, 2001 Well, I have to say, I think the writer of the thirteenth haiku may have lost their marbles in reality. --Frank
		November 26, 2001 I like the rythym patterns in the haiku you hated. --Tinny
		November 26, 2001 So, why do you hate the 13 haiku? I like its rythym, kinda like steady "pitter patter plop" of rain, and it's cool in funky poetry kind of way. Keep up the funky (not smelly) work, Anonymous! ;_0 --Lillo
		November 30, 2001 Why does the eight haiku for this week and the twelfth haiku last week have only one line apiece? Is this cause you wrote them both? Also, who wrote the "Haiku 13"? Does the number represent anything? Is this another game to smell? Why all the mystery and suspense over a dumb haiku? Why can't I stop writing questions?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?! --Juanita (don't make fun of it!)
		The haikus with one line were just bad HTML (now fixed). Until someone donates a copy of Dreamweaver to Team Rockwood, things like that will just happen occasionally. As for the now-infamous Haiku Number 13...people, people, PEOPLE! Get a grip! We never said we hated it, we just said "we don't know what was going on with this guy" because it had nothing to do with anything else on the Rockwood site. It still doesn't, but we suppose we have to give it some kind of credit for generating a lot of mail.
		November 26, 2001 Dear Team Rockwood, I hate to do this, but I must strongly complain about your website. It has a major problem. At first everything was great. Initial euphoric time I spent reading all the back issues and getting included in the mail bag was wonderful. And I must admit, the fact that you researched my name is impressive, very impressive. But since then your website has been nothing but trouble for me. You see, I have about 10 websites that I read religiously during the hours when I don't sleep, some call them work-hours but I digress. On average it takes me about 1-2 hours to read them all. So when I come back to your website for the next round, you still have the same comic. What gives? Really. Even with my memory, short as it is, after 5th or 6th time that comic, as wonderful as it is, is not so funny anymore.Can you please fix this? Its not like you have anything better to do than to write a new comic every hour for free for our enjoynment, is there? --Vadim
		Actually, Vadim, we are very busy right now, but we do have a solution to your problem! You see, the problem is your memory isn't short enough. Fortunately, that can be fixed through temporal lobe brain surgery . With your newfound memory loss, you'll be able to enjoy each day's new Rockwood comic strip over and over again, as much the last time as the first! In fact, Vadim, before we forget, you were about to order a 2002 Rockwood Calendar, and we'd hate ourselves if we didn't remind you. So enjoy that lobotomy! Oh, and by the way, before we forget, Vadim, we'd like to remind you that you were about to order a 2002 Rockwood Calendar. Just jogging your memory!
		November 27, 2001 I noticed there's a ton of white space next to the finally working (thanks, Brian!) Promote link. This would be a perfect spot for a link that says "Haiku" and has one of those ever so popular grey electrons going around it. (Just like hydrogen, right?) --James K. P.
		November 27, 2001 Y do the promote links not work on the archive pages. --Matt
		Because we're lazy! Well, that's the short (and probably most accurate) answer. The other answer is we're working on a site redesign, and we don't feel like changing 40 pages of code for what might only be up a month. You can get to the Promote link through most of the front pages, and hopefully sometime soon, we'll have a little Haiku Thursday orbity link, too.
		November 28, 2001 You've got the Pope wearing the hat thing he'd only wear at high mass (Sundays, Holy Days, and important Feast Days), not at his computer, while in a chatroom! (He has this skullcap thing he wears, instead.) --Lizzy & Sara
		November 28, 2001 Your panel with the Pope had me rolling on the floor! I wonder what he would do on some of these video chats... --Will
		We don't know what the Pope would do in video chats, but Lizzy and Sara are right in that he would be wearing a skullcap. This, of course, is the difference between real-life and cartoons. In a cartoon, a guy wearing a skullcap could be lots of people, but a guy wearing a miter (that's the pointy hat, for those of you who don't know) could only be the Pope. It's a kind of cartoonist shorthand. On the other hand, maybe Lizzy and Sara assume too much. Perhaps the Pope does wear his miter to chat on the internet. After all, we have no way of knowing!
		November 30, 2001 I'd take you up on that challenge to write a sonnet (well, it might not have been a challenge, but that's how I interpreted it), if only I could remember what the rules for writing a sonnet were. Maybe next time... --Minako
		Judging by the response to Haiku Thursday, the last thing we want to do is challenge our readers to compose sonnets. We think we have an intelligent enough fan base to pull it off, we're just not sure if we're prepared. However, our curiosity often gets the best of us, so if you feel up to it, write 14 lines of poetry in iambic pentameter and send it in. Maybe you can give Bill a run for his money.
		November 29, 2001 I been reedin yore komik stripe cents I wuz jis a tadpole. Its lik kuntree gravee on oppossum fryd stake. Mmm! Mmm. --?
		Please stop sending us letters, Mr. Gates. And might we suggest you use your company's spellchecker software?
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