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01 April 2008

Why? WHY? Today, of all days!

post by: BoringPostcards at: 06:57 | 21 comments

BP is very naughty, very very naughty.

posted by typewriter 01 April | 07:55

What are you going to do to regain my trust, huh buddy? WHAT?

posted by iconomy 01 April | 08:31

Wow, that's a first for me!

posted by lleachie 01 April | 08:38

I am so numb to Rick Astley at this point that I just stared at that for a while, trying to figure out if this was a vanilla rockroll or a special rickroll and coming away with a sense of vague disappointment.

I miss goatse.cx.

posted by cortex 01 April | 08:55

I met Rick once in Greenwich Village back at the beginning of the millennium. He was actually a pretty chill dude. So I can't understand the "Oh no, Rick Astley!" reaction one is supposed to have to a Rickroll. It's just goatse without teeth.

posted by Eideteker 01 April | 09:14

I think it's closer akin to pointing to a spot on someone's shirt and then bipping them on the nose when they look down than it is to goatse. The proper reaction to a Rickroll (or nose bip) is to shake your fist in mock anger and vow revenge, whereas the proper reaction to goatse is a vicious beatdown of the perpetrator, followed by a good long cry.

posted by Atom Eyes 01 April | 09:39

Good job, BP. You totally got me. (I've seen only two genuinely funny pranks so far today, and one only fooled me because it technically happened yesterday).

Eid, that's the funny part. It's like goatse that you can't get banned for.

posted by muddgirl 01 April | 09:39

Hey, Rick Astley! I'd forgotten all about this song.

For, like, 5 minutes.

posted by Hellbient 01 April | 09:55

The best part about getting rickrolled is that his corny dancing never improves!

posted by Joe Invisible 01 April | 10:05

Is tis the thread where we can admit that dammit, no matter how corny I thought that song is and was when it came out, Rick is cute. Like, perfect eighties cute.

posted by dabitch 01 April | 10:22

Eid, that's the funny part. It's like goatse that you can't get banned for.

Only because I'm not wielding the banhammer. (I put the moderate into moderate-ion.)

OMG BUNNY! (sfw)

posted by Eideteker 01 April | 11:04

It's just goatse without teeth.

Wait, what? Cloaca Dentata? Somehow I never noticed them.

posted by danostuporstar 01 April | 11:11

I like that song.

posted by essexjan 01 April | 11:50

no wai!???

posted by dabitch 01 April | 11:59

So do I.

Clearly I didn't escape the 80s unscathed.

posted by BoringPostcards 01 April | 12:12

You totally got me, BP! I kind of liked this song too. It reminds me of one good summer. The one thing about this song, it has a very annoying way of becoming embedded in the brain. I can't get it out of my head.

posted by LoriFLA 01 April | 12:12

And here's the riposte to it.

posted by essexjan 01 April | 12:38

Ha! I'd read about that song, ej, but never heard it. Nice.

posted by BoringPostcards 01 April | 12:50

I like the song, but I am an unrepentant lover of '80s music. And it seems that I wake up most mornings with Never Gonna Give You Up in my head. At least it's an earworm I enjoy.

posted by deborah 01 April | 13:11

I'm waiting for some television show (it'll probably be "Best Week Ever") where they tell someone on the street to look over because Rhiannon is going to perform and then Rick sings instead.

posted by drezdn 01 April | 15:32

Gah! Got me.

posted by Specklet 01 April | 17:09

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