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Pelosi discovers the Rick Roll

post #1 of 13
1/13/09 at 6:47pm
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This is simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. Shouldn't the Speaker's people have better things to do?
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post #2 of 13
1/13/09 at 6:52pm
What the heck was that?

BTW, isn't that a copyright violation? I posted a YouTube video of me flying an RC plane with some background music from the Transformers movie, and YouTube's new automated system to detect copyrighted songs in videos removed my audio. I wonder if that could happen here ...
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post #3 of 13
1/13/09 at 6:55pm
What the fuck doesn't even seem to cover this.
Odd.
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post #4 of 13
1/13/09 at 8:30pm
Nice to see they've got more knowledge of the internet.
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post #5 of 13
1/14/09 at 2:29am
It's nice of them to include a comment directing oldies to google "rick roll". Perhaps they should also google "awful internet memes".
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post #6 of 13
1/14/09 at 5:15am
Nice to see that this lame internet meme, which is a feat in itself considering the competition, managed to find its way to the upper echelons of government. Maybe we should expect Obama to bust out a "How can she slap?" reference or to accidentaly the whole oath?
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post #7 of 13
1/14/09 at 7:03am
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post
What the heck was that?

BTW, isn't that a copyright violation? I posted a YouTube video of me flying an RC plane with some background music from the Transformers movie, and YouTube's new automated system to detect copyrighted songs in videos removed my audio. I wonder if that could happen here ...
Only certain artists and companies are really vigilant about that sort of thing. Prince won't allow any of his music anywhere on Youtube. But whoever owns the rights to Rick Astley's music would be a fool to try to do the same.
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post #8 of 13
1/14/09 at 4:44pm
Of course, they're even behind the times for non-internet folk since the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade did the same thing, with actual Rick Astley.
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post #9 of 13
1/14/09 at 4:48pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
Only certain artists and companies are really vigilant about that sort of thing. Prince won't allow any of his music anywhere on Youtube. But whoever owns the rights to Rick Astley's music would be a fool to try to do the same.
True. Well, their automated system to detect music works very well though, too well actually. I read from somebody who was taping an event and there was background ambient music of some copyrighted song in the background and got flagged as well. It's getting pretty ridiculous.
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post #10 of 13
1/14/09 at 4:58pm
is... is that a muzak version of "god's away on business"?
maybe i just wish it to be.
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post #11 of 13
1/14/09 at 5:03pm
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Of course, they're even behind the times for non-internet folk since the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade did the same thing, with actual Rick Astley.
I watched that with my sister and 9-year-old niece, and had to uncomfortably explain it to both of them. They still didn't get it, but my sister enjoyed the song. "Wow, where's he been, anyway?"
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post #12 of 13
1/14/09 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by Trav McGee View Post
I watched that with my sister and 9-year-old niece, and had to uncomfortably explain it to both of them. They still didn't get it, but my sister enjoyed the song. "Wow, where's he been, anyway?"
As I was watching it, I was wondering what anyone not familiar with net culture would think. The thought of explaining it to anyone who didn't know about it always makes me laugh.

"Well, you tell someone about a video that they would want to see, but then you send them a link to a Rick Astley video."
"Why?"
"Because it's funny".
"No it isn't."

My guess is you should just tell them that, like the shake & bake, that just happened and leave it at that.
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post #13 of 13
1/16/09 at 7:09am
http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/index.html...i.rickroll.cnn
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