"Today, all the world is still a stage--but lately its been American Idol."

Lately, I've been more of an American Idle.

Or if you like reality television;

"All the world is staged, and all the men and women wannabe actors."

LOL to both above.

The more posts which accrue to this thread, the more it seems that NovaScotian's wife may be right about us.

I'm just going to go ahead and agree with johngpt... :p

I looked in the mirror and saw the truth myself. :D

You should totally rick roll your wife, that will teach her!

This one is new to me. Googling suggests that it's trickery to get someone to click on a link to the Rick Astley video?

Example:

Hey man, you have to check out this link, it is the funniest thing ever. Seriously, you will love it!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

When they click on it, they get rick roll'd.

New to me as well. From Wiki...

Rickrolling is a prank and Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman. The meme is a classic bait and switch: a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). By extension, it can also mean playing the song loudly in public in order to be disruptive. A person who falls for the prank is said to be "rickrolled".

I just rick rolled you guys! ha!

How long before the term "Rick Rolled" appears on Big Bang Theory?

Actually it's been appearing in quite a few popular shows recently, even Family Guy.. Check out the whole article

nice url spoof there through your personal web page?

/impressed
//you sir are a scoundrel

why didnt he just rick roll me and get it over and done with ... :(

Yea, I actually made a page with a PHP redirection script in it and set it in the root directory of my site. Then I made that page my 404 error page by modifying the .htaccess file.. Then I made up a believable URL, and posted it here, and since the URL didn't actually exist it went to the 404 error page which sent you to the video :p..
It's nice to know a few things like that.. come in handy when pulling a prank :D

Man, sorry to hijack this thread,

But, I just read a geek blog the other day about a sys admin that did just that. He changed his companies web filter block page to a redirect of rick roll. Then every time he would walk around his company and hear the rick roll song he knew someone was trying to look at porn.

haha

Sorry, nova, I think your wife is right, we are nerds and we congregate in herds.

"You are coming to a sad realization... cancel or allow?"

The YouTube admins redirected all the "Featured Videos" on the homepage to a single rickroll video for April Fools. It gained over 10 million views in less than a day.

Any youtube link ending in uuiU or RSH0 or -oVI is a rickroll. Those are the 3 most popular ones.

The links are plastered all over sites like Digg and Fark and Reddit.