I know I’m late to the table on this one, but I’m getting a huge kick out of it. I got RickRolled last night.

What is RickRolling, some of you might ask? RickRolling is an example of what makes the internet truly great. It where viral marketing meets the prank phone call, and it’s been building up steam over the past year. In short, it’s an online prank that’s resurrected the uber-80’s pop hit “Never Gonna Give You Up,” by Rick Astley.

I’d totally forgotten about it.

I’m almost embarrassed to say how I got RickRolled. I was internetting around and landed on perezhilton.com, where I came across a headline that promised to show video footage of Whitney Houston smoking crack. Well. I remembered how Whitney once stated rather too emphatically in an interview with Diane Sawyer that crack was “too cheap,” and that she “makes too much money to ever smoke crack.” Not that I cared too much about a rich Diva’s drug of choice, but I thought at the time, “Whitney, thou doth protest too much.”

So I thought I’d just take a little peek at the offered video link. Hey, it was late, and I had had a glass of wine. A little junk food for the brain can be fun, right? So I hit the link. No Whitney scoop. Just a blast from my 80’s past.

Now I can’t get that song out of my head.