How to Succesfully Rick Roll

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I had to Do it! Somebody Had to do it! This instructable will teach even you lowly newb/noob of the internet forums how to Rick Roll well.
First Instructable so be gentle.

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Step 1: History of The Rick Roll (And the Unknown Meaning)

To Rick Roll successfully you must know what it is
A Rick Roll is providing a link to something that is relevant to the topic at hand(like saying it is about your third nipple) and then actually giving the link that leads to one of the many videos of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up". It has become a internet meme and should be respected by all! RESPECT THE RICK ROLL! RESPECT IT!(if you don't get the reference don't bother)

The Meaning of Rick Roll is unclear. thats really all about the meaning to be honest if someone wants to help me out here go ahead but as far as i know there is no meaning its just funny.

The first recorded Rick Roll was on the imageboard "4chan" as a variant of "duckrolling" the same basic thing as a Rick Roll but linking to a picture of a duck on wheels(picture can be found here:http://tinyurl.com/57qvcy ) and Rick Rolling has spread althroughout the internet and has even gone into the internets parent's house of Real Life(bum Bum BUM!)

Many official places have been rickrolled:
*The Church of Sciencetology protests in Feb 2008 were helped in many cities by massive real life rick rolls in New York, Washington D.C., London, St. Louios, Detroit, and Seattle protestors shouted "Never gonna give you up!"

*During March 2008 4 EWu womens Basketball games were Rick Roll'd before the games while Rick Astley Impersonators dance and lip synced to the song.

*During a New York Mets In April '08, against much opposition from it being used as the 8th inning sing-along as voted online (Never gonna Give You Up received more than 5 million votes)n used a run-off poll listing 6 songs instead of the write-in box and they used Never Gonna Give You Up as the home opener and was met with boos.

And Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was rickroll'd back in 2008 (what crazy year)

There is alot of other weird Rick Rolls that you can read from the knowledge base know as Wikipedia ( /wiki/Rickroll.

will421 says: Oct 3, 2010. 4:40 PM

A way to Rickroll someone:
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Rickroll `em ASCII style.

Shany120 in reply to will421Jan 28, 2011. 5:16 PM

that "picture" is pretty awesome! :)

DJ Radio says: Jan 4, 2009. 10:55 AM

this is a list of all rickrolls and their urls.

kewlbanana in reply to DJ RadioApr 27, 2010. 9:22 PM

im afraid to click on "this" for fear of getting rickroll'd.

DJ Radio in reply to kewlbananaApr 28, 2010. 1:10 PM

Well it isn't. It's a database of all rickroll links known to man.

kewlbanana in reply to DJ RadioApr 28, 2010. 6:37 PM

I just checked. It wasnt a rick roll. thanks for telling me the truth (most ppl dont). if it was a rick roll then you probably would have said something like "good eye" like Berkin told me (scroll down the list. see what he replied to my reply to his comment).

DJ Radio in reply to kewlbananaApr 28, 2010. 8:13 PM

Am I right or what? =P

kewlbanana in reply to DJ RadioApr 29, 2010. 9:26 PM

ya. you wer rite.

(p.s. i see comments from you on almost every instructable. how many comments?)