# I'm a-gonna Rickroll my friend for Xmas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913 "2009-12-11T21:20:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/1 "2009-12-11T21:20:59Z")
The plan: take the box from my new digital camera (Canon S90), and replace the camera therein with [this t-shirt](http://www.shirtstastegood.com/shirts/things-rick-astley-will-never-do). Wrap box as present for an old friend. Use camera to take picture of friend unwrapping and opening gift. That is all. (Is that M & P enough?) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/2 "2009-12-11T21:25:09Z")
I’d love to do this for my son — except give him the camera, which I plan to do anyway. I doubt he knows what rickrolled means, though, so I’m the only one who would be amused. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/3 "2009-12-11T21:28:54Z")
I believe he is the one who introduced me a few years abck to the idea of Rickrolling, by emailing me a TinyURL link to the Rick Astley video on YouTube and just saying “check this out”. Then when I asked him why he sent me a link to a Rick Astley video, he replied “U JUST GOT RICKROLLED LOL!!!1!” (Or something like that.) So he deserves it! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/4 "2009-12-11T21:36:29Z")
If you want to provide a soundtrack to the gift opening, there’s a great mashup by DJ Morgoth of “Never Gonna Give You Up” with Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, called “Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up.” Googling “DJ Morgoth” should produce his website and a MP3 version of the song. 😉 (It’s neat - the instrumental part is Nirvana, the vocals are Astley; it’s kind of funny until the chorus kicks in, and then it sounds great!) ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/5 "2009-12-11T21:49:41Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > I believe he is the one who introduced me a few years abck to the idea of Rickrolling, by emailing me a TinyURL link to the Rick Astley video on YouTube and just saying “check this out”. Then when I asked him why he sent me a link to a Rick Astley video, he replied “U JUST GOT RICKROLLED LOL!!!1!” (Or something like that.) > > So he deserves it! Yeah! You tell him! You may need to get him with [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1bq_GBuBg&feature=related), which is the newest incarnation of the meme. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/6 "2009-12-11T22:04:48Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > Yeah! You tell him! You may need to get him with [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1bq_GBuBg&feature=related), which is the newest incarnation of the meme. You sure? That’s been around for years, and memes move pretty fast. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/7 "2009-12-12T01:28:03Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > You sure? That’s been around for years, and memes move pretty fast. Yes, but there seem to be local pockets that are a bit further behind. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-gonna-rickroll-my-friend-for-xmas/520913/8 "2009-12-12T01:48:21Z")
Well, it’s the newest -roll that i know of.