Monday, May 09, 2011

You know who else liked music, don't you?

Hitler.

4 comments:

Steve Bates said...

As soon as I saw the page TITLE tag in another browser tab, I promptly closed it w/o viewing it: "YOU JUST GOT REICHRO..." would you like to explain WTF that means, and how you know that page will do no harm?

ellroon said...

Reichrolled is a pun on the meme of Rickrolling: "Rickrolling is an Internet meme[1][2] that involves 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 hyperlink that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The link 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". Rickrolling has extended beyond web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places;[2] this culminated when Astley and the song made a surprise appearance in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,[1] a televised event with tens of millions of viewers."

So declaring you got 'Reich' rolled is a play on the meme of 'Rick' rolling... and throwing Hitler into the mix as well.

The video that comes up is an amazingly smart editing job of one of Hitler's speeches dubbed to the opening song of the Jefferson's tv show of 'We're Moving On Up'. I found it hysterical.

As for harm, my son sent it to me and my anti-virus didn't go off, but my sense of humor may have been compromised....

Steve Bates said...

That sounds vaguely familiar; I must have known that some time in the past when my brain actually had a memory...

ellroon said...

Senior moments are happening with more and more ... what?