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Saturday, October 18, 2008

So then... I just went down for lunch, and I got Rick-Rolled.

For those unfamiliar with the term... Well, it's sort of hard to explain. One day on the internet, someone decided that Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up was the most annoying song in all of history. He also felt that he ought to spread it to the rest of the world by tricking them into listening to it, or watching the music video. Eventually, it caught on, and due to the fact that most people using the internet are total pricks, thousands of other internet users were soon bamboozled into clicking a disguised link, and were then subjected to Astley's music. They would then be greeted with a message saying "Rick-Rolled", usually with spelling errors or letters replaced by numbers.There were several variations to that, and even some malicious ones, where the user was forced to listen to the entire song(through the means of an uncloseable window).

...So yeah. The radio was playing, tuned in to some oldies channel. Right as I was about to deliver a spoonful of delicious battered fish into my mouth, that familiar tune floated out from the speakers.

It was just really unexpected. It's quite amazing, really, how these things wind up like this on the internet. Sometimes I wonder if Rick Astley knows that his music is being used as a weapon in online psychological warfare.

So, anyway. Mandatory donuts.
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-Joe

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