Now you've seen it, it's your duty to use this in place of "Never going to give you up" by Rick Astley.
No more "rickrolling", it's "spockrolling" (or "nimrolling"?) from now on.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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You evil bastard!
I fully endorse this idea.๐๐ป
Spockrocking? Unless rolling has some meaning that I've missed for the past decade.
Rickrolling (wikipaedia link) is where you post a link, pretending it's something relevant, but it's actually a link to Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up". My suggestion was that Star Trek fans, if playing the same trick, should instead post Leonard Nimoy's Bilbo Baggins Song.
[Edit] And without "Rick" it's not Rickrolling - and with Spock/Nimoy, I was suggesting "Spockrolling" or "Nimrolling" as possible alternatives that would work in the same way.
Yeah, Rick for Rick Astley, and "rolling" for? I figured it was created to be a sort of alliteration, and so I took a different tack and had them rhyme, spock-rocking, where rock is a form of music, spock is the character Leonard Nimoy is most known for. I'm inclined to believe you're messing with me with that explanation, because it's written with exactly the type of aloof humor I would've have used to explain the obvious to someone.
So yeah, does "rolling" mean anything, or was it just alliteration?
Sorry, I thought you actually hadn't heard of Rockrolling, so the explanation attempt was genuine. It wasn't intended to be patronising. My apologies.
If you look on the wiki page, the "roll" bit is actually from "egg roll", as odd as that sounds. Other variations tend to have taken the "something-rolled" format, so I was just going with that.
Anyway, call it what you like, the important thing is that you try it :)
I'm doing that
Fun factoid: That 'music video' was performed on the show Malibu U while Star Trek was still on the air (although it was 1967, so it would be canceled at the end of the year).
A video so absurd, I'd be covinced it's AI wizardry, would it not have been uploaded 5 years ago
The thumbnail for my next reccomended video is perfect.