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[http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/xkcd_389.mp3 Listen to the music] played here. | [http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/xkcd_389.mp3 Listen to the music] played here. | ||
β | A member of a marching band, after spending seasons marching in time to their music for their shows, ends up naturally walking with the rhythm of any music they hear around them, like at a shopping mall. Pausing the music for a split second would throw off the rhythm, supposedly enough to cause them to fall. The line of music in the comic is a piano reduction of a | + | A member of a marching band, after spending seasons marching in time to their music for their shows, ends up naturally walking with the rhythm of any music they hear around them, like at a shopping mall. Pausing the music for a split second would throw off the rhythm, supposedly enough to cause them to fall. The line of music in the comic is a piano reduction of the beginning of {{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}} by Rick Astley, a reference to the internet phenomenon named [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Rickrolling], a form of bait-and-switch in which a link that appears to point to something else instead links to Rick Astley's song. [[Randall]] talks about this music line in one of his [https://youtu.be/z_zwyJ6IYR0?t=35m48s talks]. |
This comic is part of the βMy Hobby" series. | This comic is part of the βMy Hobby" series. |