Never Gonna Give You Up

I stumbled upon (in an old school way, meaning I didn't Stumble Upon them) a local blog called Citizen Rain this weekend whose home page states, "We serve up the day's most interesting links from 295 Seattle blogs and the media." I will certainly be bookmarking their page especially when the first story I read there was this gem:

                                                    

"Ever heard of 'rickrolling?' According to the (Spokane) Spokesman Review, it's a prank in which someone clicks on a internet link and ends up watching a video by Rick Astley – the 80s singer (pictured here) famous for the song Never Gonna Give You Up.'

"The Spokesman today reports that an Eastern Washington University student pulled a fast one on a New York Times reporter writing a story about 'rickrolling.' Twenty-two-year-old Pawl Fisher posted a YouTube video of someone lip-syncing Never Gonna Give You Up at an EWU women's basketball game. If you watch, it looks like the entire game comes to a pause as cheerleaders, athletes and audience members start rocking out to the song."






"The video ended up in a March 24 NYT article, with the reporter writing: 'A routine timeout turned into a 1980s flashback, as two men on the sidelines briefly hijacked the proceedings with a popular prank known as rickrolling.' But the incident never really happened – Pawl is an aspiring film-maker. He crafted the scene with film editing. 'My intention was never to punk the New York Times,' he told the Spokesman. 'My intention was to punk the whole planet.'"

"Ever heard of 'rickrolling?' According to the (Spokane) Spokesman Review, it's a prank in which someone clicks on a internet link and ends up watching a video by Rick Astley – the 80s singer (pictured here) famous for the song Never Gonna Give You Up.'

"The Spokesman today reports that an Eastern Washington University student pulled a fast one on a New York Times reporter writing a story about 'rickrolling.' Twenty-two-year-old Pawl Fisher posted a YouTube video of someone lip-syncing Never Gonna Give You Up at an EWU women's basketball game. If you watch, it looks like the entire game comes to a pause as cheerleaders, athletes and audience members start rocking out to the song."






"The video ended up in a March 24 NYT article, with the reporter writing: 'A routine timeout turned into a 1980s flashback, as two men on the sidelines briefly hijacked the proceedings with a popular prank known as rickrolling.' But the incident never really happened – Pawl is an aspiring film-maker. He crafted the scene with film editing. 'My intention was never to punk the New York Times,' he told the Spokesman. 'My intention was to punk the whole planet.'"

Comments

[Kari]

That is too funny. Don't worry Bean, I'll never give you up.

[Allie]

So I was just on you tube and noticed that under "videos being watched right now..." was our good friend Astley and I wondered, has Rickrolling caught on? I hope so!!!