Rickrolling

Apr 10, 2008, 08:03 AM

Authors : Richard

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Post date : Apr 10, 2008, 08:03 AM

The Times reports that the New York Mets (a baseball team for the non-sporting readers – and in the USA for the geographically challenged) decided to have a poll for a new theme tune.
Classic American songs (well, when I say 'classic', Livin’ on a prayer by Bon Jovi was one apparently. This is the States after all) were offered as choices, but the surprise eventual winner was Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never gonna give you up.
It transpires that the Mets had been ‘rickrolled’, whereby internet users put up false links to popular websites, which instead take the web surfer to a video performance of the song.
According to The Times, more than 13 million people have been tricked into watching the video.
Twenty years on from his original performance, Astley is now surfing a new wave of popularity, and there is talk of a tour and a greatest hits collection.
Exactly who is behind this scheme appears to be uncertain, with even Rick Astley bemused - but, whoever, this has got to generate some money and some tax receipts.
Perhaps HMRC should start rickrolling some stars of yesteryear.
No longer will they have to die to regenerate interest in their music, rickrolling could be the answer.
Wait a minute! You don't think that HMRC already thought of this and were behind the original idea.
No, it couldn’t happen, could it?
Any bets on who's next for this latest tax generating idea?

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