Scion of NLP

For those of you who don’t know what Rickrolling is … here is the definition from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that 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 destination of the link without clicking. When a person clicks on the link and is led to the web page, he or she is said to have been “Rickrolled”. The song may have been favored for this use by those regarding it as the worst popular song of all time. Rickrolling has extended beyond Web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places; this culminated when Astley and the song made a surprise appearance in the 2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a televised event with tens of millions of viewers.

Lately I’ve been really battling the odds with my business — I’ve been putting so much of my time to trying to get my book published and create new material for future courses (none of which will bring a return until next year) while still doing all the other stuff to keep putting food on the table … (*yeesh!*) … let’s just say it’s put me behind the eight-ball …

… and yet, I think of the old saying, You don’t fail until you stop trying.

So … in response to Dean Hunt’s recent blog post I, Would Rather Get Kicked In the Testicles Than Read Your Content, I’d have to say I’ll be more likely to Rickroll my clients and followers before I give up on my passion of teaching NLP! … that’s not to say it’d be a bad thing — the kind of people who think Rickrolling is funny are the type of students and JV partners I’m looking for.

  Boo-ya beh-beh!

However … I’d be more likely to Rickroll you with the Muppets version …

… or — for the the younger crowd — the Sack Astley, Little Big Planet version …

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