<![CDATA[Gawker: historic moments]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: historic moments]]> http://gawker.com/tag/historicmoments http://gawker.com/tag/historicmoments <![CDATA[Vince McMahon Gets Rickrolled]]> This is why they script the damn things. The chairman of WWE tried to call someone during a wrestling match to award them 200 grand. But got a reverse ringtone: Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," the official symbol of rejection and the worst prank in the world. [Kayfabe; clip below]

Witness McMahon's confusion and make your own metaphor about one ludicrous offshoot of modern culture yielding to an equally ludicrous offshoot of the generation that will replace it.

I had a friend who was really into wrestling. It's analogous to opera, he explained. I countered that it's really bad opera. He countered and two months later I was out of the hospital.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=395595&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Vogue Subtly Endorses Barack Obama]]> Historic moment alert: The cover of the April issue of Vogue has a black man on it. Yes, not a white man or a black woman. We've seen that before, if infrequently. You know who else is a black man? Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton is a woman. And the only thing Vogue hates more than t-shirts that change color with heat is other women. I think I've proved my point. [via Fashionologie]

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