The best came from the in-tray today. One reader, at 7.44 am:
I will not be RickRolled today. I will not. I’m on to you.
A followup from the reader at 1.52 pm:
NOOOOOOOOO
Heh. Another:
God Dammit. That’s literally the first time in my life I’ve fallen for a Rickroll. I even knew full well what today’s date was; I’ve been proudly outsmarting little jokes like that all morning long. I tip my hat, sir.
Others were less polite: “You fucker!” / “Bastard!” / “Damn you!”. Another didn’t compute:
When I click onto the link under the headline “Rand Paul Said What?“, I get a link to some singer named Rick Roll. Just an FYI.
LOL. Another reader:
You know, it never occurred to me, but Paul kinda looks like Rick. If he ever does the song, he has my vote.
Another emailed during the few minutes before we switched out the initial Rickroll link for an ad-free version, which are really hard to find on YouTube these days:
I’m actually quite disappointed this year. Someone on YouTube in their infinite wisdom stuck an ad in front of the video, so instead of the familiar synth-drum fill, I got Olive Garden. Another example of how aggressive advertising ruins everything on the Internet. Many thanks for the ad-free nature of The Dish.
The thanks goes to all the subscribers for making it possible, such as this one:
If I weren’t already a subscriber, getting Rick Roll’d on April Fool’s Day would have brought me into the fold.
You can join him and 28,122 others here. See you in the morning.
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