Updated
on September 18, 2007
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September 12, 2007
I saw your wedding
video with the Thriller song performed. I was wondering how much
did it cost to hire the choreographer and how long it took all of
you to practice the dance?
--Joy
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A choreographer, Joy? Ha! We at Team Rockwood don't need
fancy people in tights teaching us how to dance. The truth is that Brian
himself learned the dance by repeated watchings of a digitally-slowed-down
version of Thriller. Then he taught the rest of the wedding party how to
do it over the course of a month.
Cost: free! Well, except for the time
it took to do repeated viewings. And the mental anguish from waking
up in the middle of the night screaming, "The funk of 40,000
years!" But that goes away after a while.
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September 13, 2007
Inauguration
dance? Bill Clinton did it first dancing to Fleetwood Mac's "Don't
Stop" or was it Hillary?
--Michael
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It was Bill, Michael, who got Fleetwood Mac back together to sing that
song for his inaugural ball back in 1993. Way back in 2000, Will Rockwood
ran for president under the platform of getting
David Lee Roth back into Van Halen. But now, since Diamond
Dave is back under his own free will, there's no need for him to run
again.
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September 14, 2007
You know you have so many comics in you archives now,
I was wondering...Have you ever thought of publishing older ones in
a book? Just asking if it has ever crossed your mind.
--Rookee alding
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Offers of money always cross our mind, Rookee. Putting a book together
would be pretty cool, but it would also be a lot of work. We might
consider it if there seemed to be enough interest, though. How about
it, readers?
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September 14, 2007
Hi! Your wedding
party dance is amazing! Can you tell me where to get that version
of the song?
--Liz
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Sorry, Liz, you're going to have to geek out like us. Brian recut that
version of Thriller to match up with the video (the version
on the CD is different). We recommend buying hundreds of dollars of video
editing software and doing it yourself. That's how we did it, and look
how successful that turned out to be. Good luck!
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September 15, 2007
I wanted to know if Skip has gotten his $10.5
million dollar phone, yet? Or is he somehow behind the offer?
--Cee
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He's not behind the offer, Cee, but at just $10 million, Skip would have
to be slumming to get an island that cheap. He prefers to shop for
classier real estate. You can look at what he looks at by going here.
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September 17, 2007
Brian:
That explains
why when people go on a diet they actually GAIN weight.
--Jane Rohan
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That, or they get a double cheeseburger with their diet
coke, Jane. That's why we here at Team Rockwood shun
dieting. Bring on the deep-fried
Twinkie!
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September 17, 2007
I am neither a rocket scientist nor an
employee of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, but I
do know that when you take a measure of mass, such as a kilogram, into
orbit it will weigh less up there than at sea-level.
I surmise that the problem with the prototype
kilogram is that Skip took it into orbit unbeknownst to BIPM.
The answer to most questions is usually the simplest.
--DH
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It will weigh less, DH, but a kilogram is still a kilogram, even in space.
A kilogram is a measure
of mass, and mass doesn't change, even in orbit.
However, your theory is intriguing.
The weight of that reference kilogram would be less if something
had caused France to move away from the center of the earth. Perhaps
there is something after all to the theory that the French are light
in the loafers!
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September 17, 2007
The kilo losing weight is just another
example of why I dislike the metric system so much. I mean, a perfect "10" isn't
the same as it was just a few years ago. Binary is much better. After
all, there are only 10
types of people in this world; those who understand binary, and
those who don't.
--Bad Panda
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What's truly amazing is that even though that joke is widespread, all of
the t-shirts that depict it all have white text on a black shirt. See?
And here?
And here?
Apparently there is only 01 way to do a binary joke.
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September 18, 2007
Oh Brian, where do you come up with your
ideas? It is a hoot! Thanks for the chuckle.
--Alyce
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It's easy, Alyce. We have a room filled with one
million monkeys writing away on one million typewriters. Every night
we walk in and use the best ideas for that days comic. Fortunately for
you, all of our monkeys seem to like their jobs, otherwise we think we'd
probably be stuck with a lot of jokes about flinging poo.
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