My Family is Weird

[xraytheenforcer]

My dad just requested a Rickrolling.

(as way of context, we were talking about how the Mets were looking for a new song to play for a singalong in the 8th inning, and set up an internet poll to find the winner. Of course, Digg, Fark and others got whiff of this and...the predictable happened. Now dad wants to fully understand this glorious ginger-fueled phenomenon.)

Of course I obliged. ;-)

Comments

[goovery.livejournal.com]

Of course you showed him this - http://xkcd.com/351/, right? Actually, if you do a search on the xkcd site for this comic, he gives a good explanation of rickrolling. Here - http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?comic=56&s=rickrolled&search=Search

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

OK. 'splain this bit of choctaw code to me will ya?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Well if you had said it was Rick Astley...........

[suzgrad.livejournal.com]

That's really, really weird.

I wonder who started it, and how.

[maltaran.livejournal.com]

According to the wiki page, it was started by 4chan.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Everything horrific on the internet has its basis in 4chan.

[suzgrad.livejournal.com]

It has a Wiki page??

I am so out of it.

[fenryng.livejournal.com]

My first-ever real job that did not involve my parents was as the stockroom clerk in a clothing store. The head of the men's department loved that bastard, and would play that bastard's first release (on tape) on absolutely fucking ENDLESS God-damn loop over the speaker system.

Obviously, I am still scarred by that bastard today.

We HATES him, precious, and he can fall into a volcano any damn time, now.

[peadarog.livejournal.com]

I only heard about Rickrolling for the first time in my life last night (the wookie explained it). I hate Rick Astley, but this concept is glorious madness.