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No More Rickrolling

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

So there's this phenomenon called "rickrolling," which consists of tricking someone into clicking on a link that really goes to Rick Astley's classic video for "Never Gonna Give you Up." Now, I have a lot of respect for Rick Astley; I remember when his album was legitimately cool, not just in an ironic way. Rick's vocals were so smooth. And that "I'm shaking invisible maracas" dance move was way ahead of its time -- so far ahead that its time may never come. Plus, what a bartender that was. Check out his "bounce the fence" move at 2:07. So I think that it's time for everyone to abandon rickrolling. It's too cliched, and plus Rick Astley was just too good to mock in that way. Instead, people should "wham" each other, that is, trick people into clicking on Wham's classic video for "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on April 02, 2008 (boomark / email).