I went through a phase where anytime someone called me up to hang out, I'd quote Coolio and say "How we gonna get there? We ain't got no car, fool!" But that ended after both of my friends stopped calling me.
Some songs written by two people don't come from the combined efforts of those two people. They come from elves, who write the songs while they wait for the Fudge Stripes to finish baking.
It would've been more fun for Jimmy to write something like "Dear suckers, you just shelled out six million bucks for a handful of us to write 24 recaps and long treatises on Emperor Palpatine's political beliefs."
Chinese Democracy was actually ready to release in 2003. But when Axl saw the Wikipedia article on "Sweet Child O Mine," he decided to wait until the world got a little less stupid.
