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sagehen4/08/2011 9:20:56 pm PDT

Oregon state legislature rick-rolls itself:

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But Smith—who developed the concept with his wife, a few colleagues and several friends, one of whom is video editor—had a few rules about the joke. The lines had to be delivered on the House floor during a lawmaker’s regular floor speech—which is, under Oregon law, videotaped for public records purposes. And the lines of the lyrics had to be spread out, so as not to tip off the state House clerk or other observers to what lawmakers were up to.
“It was way harder taking words and spreading them out than simply manipulating them (on video),” Smith says. “There are some easy lines in there to say without getting noticed. ‘You’re never gonna’ is easy. ‘I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling’ is easy. But an ‘ooh?’ That’s tricky.”