Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Not Impressed

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Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

15 August 2008

Not Impressed

I was feeling a little taken-for-granted yesterday. So I decided it was time I Rickrolled Sonny Ma-Jiminy.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll - A person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to a video of the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".)

Rickrolling is the dumbest form of prank. Usually a prank involves a prankee being caught out doing something dumb by a pranker, but Rickrolling is basically just wasting somebody's time. But I figure that Sonny wastes enough of my time that he could handle having the tables turned on him.

He asked for the Happy Mrs Chicken game on the Peppa Pig website, and I instead headed over to Youtube and showed him this:

He said, "Mummy, I don't like this one. Turn it off." Which is, I believe the universal response to being Rickrolled, so I had to accept that.

6 comments:

Adelaine said...: LOLOLOL....oh my! That is a crazy video!

And I have never heard the term rick-rolling. Learn something new every day!; 15 August, 2008 09:15
Adelaine said...: BTW - just showed it to Uno and Dos - they LOL'd too! And Uno is dancing!; 15 August, 2008 09:17
Swift Jan said...: LOL classic!; 15 August, 2008 09:51
Jen said...: Awesome, I am so going to do this to one of my kids. If our kids aren't good for a laugh, then what good are they (kidding, just kidding). ;); 15 August, 2008 10:43
MaricrisG said...: I get rickrolled by my daughter all the time! She's the queen of the TV and whenever I get to watch something-she always had something to say! btw, just dropping by to say hi! I will be back again.

Maricris
just another SITstah mama; 16 August, 2008 02:41
Nauntie Lush said...: I love this! There is one that I will send you too...it is one of one of our Presidential Candidate's speeches. It is so funny! Not as funny as the Muppets doing it, but still funny!; 16 August, 2008 06:11

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15 August 2008

Not Impressed

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