On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Michael Neale <[email protected]>wrote:
> In episode WhateverICan'tRemember, Joe explained rick rolling as > coming from goatse - whilst in some base sense that is true (tricking > people into looking at something else), really it came more from "duck > rolling" - tricking people into looking at a picture of a duck with > wheels on it (hence the "rolling" bit). > > There was a great example of Rickrolling in 2008 during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The float for the excellent show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was rolling into view, when all of a sudden the music changed to Astley's song and Rick Astley himself walked out onto the float and performed (or lip-synced) his song. It was hilarious. Joey -- Blog: http://joeygibson.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/joeygibson FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/joeygibson Facebook: http://facebook.com/joeygibson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
