The greatest prank ever pulled
We sent out our newsletter last week. If you didn’t get it, you need to sign up immediately. In our “Hang out with us online” section, we include a link to a Rick Roll. See below.
Nine (9) of you clicked on this link. This is amusing because this is perhaps the lamest Rick Roll of all time. According to Wikipedia:
Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been “Rickrolled”.
Our link was neither masked nor obfuscated. Now, perhaps our “Rick Roll link” wasn’t a true Rick Roll because of this fact. I’ll leave that one to the philosophers and blog commenters. And now back to your regularly scheduled beer programming.
Also, don’t click on this.
Good thing I haven’t wasted my time with your newsletter. Do you guys even brew beer anymore?
Touché, Bill. We do still brew beer, though we’ve been busier with other aspects of launching now that we’ve settled on our final launch recipes, so that has cut into some of our brew time.
Still. Next Monday. Mark my words.
Make that 10 people. You can thank me later. :)
This is my vote for greatest prank…Harvard sucks
http://www.harvardsucks.org/Watch-the-Video/