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You click onto it and, hey presto: you’ve been Rickrolled. It seems that someone is very keen to get people to watch the video for ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ on Youtube (almost 2.5m hits so far). And now Rickrolled is a proper word.

To be Rickrolled is when browsing internet forums, one comes across a link in a thread expecting to find one thing.

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Rick Astley. Birth name, Richard Paul Astley. Born, February 06, 1966 (1966-02-06) (age 41). Origin, Flag of England Newton-le-Willows, St Helens.