BRAVO!!!
the ever-brilliant schoss sent me something fantastic today! start with this:
Throcky Gets Physical was a physics musical written and produced by Mr. Tapper's Block 4 Physics AP class at Morristown High School, NJ. Its one and only showing occurred on April 29th, 2002 in the high school auditorium.that's right!!! _Throcky Gets Physical_! a play based on your cousin throckmorton, the namesake of the best blog ever!
Throcky was a character who appeared often in our physics textbook as "your annoying cousin Throckmorton", who was always swinging on a swing demonstrating pendular motion or trying to balance on a see-saw or something of the sort. We took his name and wrote a story about a teenage Throcky and his romantic problems. Throcky is a loser who doesn't care about school, while his girlfriend Roxy loves physics. She can't accept Throcky's attitude towards her favorite subject, and she leaves him for Darius, who knows physics. (Darius also happens to wear a purple hat and a boa, because we were lampooning a certain metrosexual who cared too much about grades.) Throcky has to learn physics in time for the prom so that he can win Roxy back and take her to the dance. Fortunately, he has help from many peculiar characters, including 3 physicists, from the past, present and future (like A Christmas Carol), the Vector Gang, and a white rabbit with a skateboard and an Australian accent. Can he surpass Darius's physics knowledge and win back Roxy? Does the audience discover that physics doesn't suck? Watch and find out!
oh, but it gets better! it turns out that throcky the musical has its own website! and this website contains song samples, video of the one and only performance, and THE SCRIPT!!!
so, if anybody wants to read a mathematical tour de force, an intermingling of drama and science that would make even the intelligent design folks blush, check out _throcky gets physical_!!! it's got action, it's got romance, it's got one of those dorky high school teacher guys who thinks he's really cool, and the best part? it's got PHYSICS!!!
posted by emily @ Thursday, September 14, 2006
6 comments
6 Comments:
i feel like we need to find the morristown high school's class of 02 and see if we can start a throckmorton revolution.
maybe we could even get on cnn!
nice post, em.
xoxoxo
schoss
i hate physics, but that post made me smile.
you shouldn't hate physics, young caitlin. you'd love it if you could meet throcky. :-)
oh, i'm sure throcky could've saved me from failing my physics class in high school! too bad i didn't hear of him until now...
they should make annoying cousins for all the hard classes... chemistry, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus, etc... those are some more classes i sure could've used help in!
the "your cousin" series! it will be like cliff's notes for high school! or the "in a nutshell" series for law school!
schoss -- you should DEFINITELY read the script if you've got the time. there's a scene where throcky encounters a kid on a skateboard who schools him in some physics. i imagine that character to be a total hottie, and totally your type, circa 1994.
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