yes I was avoiding mentioning 4chan. A lot of good clean funny stuff comes from 4chan, but really it is like a hazardous disease lab that breeds horrible things in an effort to produce wonderful cures. Don't go into the lab unless suitably prepared and trained.
Also as mentioned by Casper, it was used as a protest by Anonymous, or sometimes not even a protest, just good clean fun (eg Liverpool St station in London, I even saw them setting up for it at a BART station in SF on my first visit to SF (which made me immediately realise how much I love that city (oh no, more nested brackets then lisp (someone correct me if I don't close them all (thanks))))). On Jan 4, 9:01 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > and both duckrolling and its evolution to rickrolling comes from > 4chan. Which you shouldn't go to if you value your sanity, not to > mention the professional courtesy (such as e.g. being employed) of > those who can see your computer screen. But it can be hilarious on > occasion. > > On Jan 4, 7:05 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). > > >http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Duckrollhttp://www.urbandictionary.c... -- 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.
