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submitted 6 months ago by teft@lemmy.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14552478

Might not be super obscure but as a lifelong LoTR fan and new Trek fan this was my first watch!

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[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 21 points 6 months ago

Now you've seen it, it's your duty to use this in place of "Never going to give you up" by Rick Astley.

No more "rickrolling", it's "spockrolling" (or "nimrolling"?) from now on.

[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

You evil bastard!

I fully endorse this idea.๐Ÿ––๐Ÿป

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

I'm doing that

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Spockrocking? Unless rolling has some meaning that I've missed for the past decade.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Rickrolling (wikipaedia link) is where you post a link, pretending it's something relevant, but it's actually a link to Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up". My suggestion was that Star Trek fans, if playing the same trick, should instead post Leonard Nimoy's Bilbo Baggins Song.

[Edit] And without "Rick" it's not Rickrolling - and with Spock/Nimoy, I was suggesting "Spockrolling" or "Nimrolling" as possible alternatives that would work in the same way.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, Rick for Rick Astley, and "rolling" for? I figured it was created to be a sort of alliteration, and so I took a different tack and had them rhyme, spock-rocking, where rock is a form of music, spock is the character Leonard Nimoy is most known for. I'm inclined to believe you're messing with me with that explanation, because it's written with exactly the type of aloof humor I would've have used to explain the obvious to someone.

So yeah, does "rolling" mean anything, or was it just alliteration?

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry, I thought you actually hadn't heard of Rockrolling, so the explanation attempt was genuine. It wasn't intended to be patronising. My apologies.

If you look on the wiki page, the "roll" bit is actually from "egg roll", as odd as that sounds. Other variations tend to have taken the "something-rolled" format, so I was just going with that.

Anyway, call it what you like, the important thing is that you try it :)

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