Rickroll'd

For a while I thought I had really misfired with my little Rickroll link in the post below. I assumed that most people were not nerdy enough know what it means to be "Rickroll'd", but that was okay - it still made me giggle. In case you are wondering, all it really is, is a stupid little prank (you can read more about it here), a prank that I have fallen for about 10 different times in the last few months (I guess I've surfed a lot while going through chemo).

Anyway, as I said, I didn't think many people would "get" the joke, but I didn't realize people would actually completely misunderstand. The worst was my Mom, who thought it was my new "theme song". She said, "I LOVED the video you linked to!" I tried to explain that it was just a joke, but she wasn't having it, she just kept saying it was a great "theme song". I was mortified at the thought that people might assume, as my Mom did, that I was linking to the video because I thought it was cool (I still can't figure out if she was just yanking my chain - which she is exceptionally good at).

Then there was Mathilde (and probably others), who watched the entire video and left scratching their head. When I told Mathilde it was a joke, and tried to explain, she said something like, "That's dumb." I started to feel bad for the people who sat through the entire video waiting for something more.

The only thing that made me think the joke hadn't completely bombed were the number of pretty damned funny comments, with silly identity thieving and all.

But then, yesterady afternoon, I knew I hadn't misfired when I got an email from Mathilde. The subject of the mail was, "going to make you mad at all those Danes". There was this link, http://www.computerworld.dk/apple, that obviously linked to an article about Apple (Mathilde has heard me bitch many times about how anti-Apple Denmark can be). Excited about the prospect of getting riled up, I clicked the link... I can't believe I got rickroll'd by Mathilde!

Then, when I got home from work, I started jumping with joy when an email arrived from Rod with the subject, "woohoo she is done, she gave up!" (Rod has heard me bitch a few times about how Hillary just will not accept defeat). The mail had this link, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/us/politics/08campaign.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin, which I excitedly clicked on...

I was rickroll'd twice in 2 hours! And both times were a hundred times more clever than my little "click here" link. It made me so happy :-)