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(Some Guy)   OctSurprise.com now has a countdown to Sunday October 21, under which is written tantalizing words: "One of your presidential candidates isn't being honest with you". One?   (octsurprise.com) divider line
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2012-10-17 11:42:23 PM  

Theory Of Null: dr_blasto:
Probably another rickroll.

What a waste of a fairly good marketing strategy. They should have at least tried to profit off of this idea.


they played it too heavy. Blew their load too early. Could have lead us on for a while.
 
2012-10-17 11:45:19 PM  
I honestly hope they can keep trolling the right wing nutters through to the end.
 
2012-10-17 11:47:53 PM  
I'm impressed, but not at all surprised, that the fine folk of Fark unraveled this in a few hours.
 
2012-10-17 11:57:38 PM  

impaler: Awesome thread.


Agreed.
 
2012-10-18 12:17:17 AM  
Wait, what just happened? Radiohead is releasing a new album right before the debate?
 
2012-10-18 12:17:45 AM  
Its an attempt at a Rick Roll?

thats it?

They put this much effort into.... a Rick Roll?

How dissapointing has your life become when you have this much time on a farking Rick Roll?
 
2012-10-18 12:25:15 AM  
Man, CSI: Fark is a lot more impressive than that CSI: Miami clusterfark.

I guess this will be their ( •_•)⌐■-■

(⌐■_■) Final Countdown. YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! 


/bad Horatio joke crossed with GOB's theme...how could I resist?
 
2012-10-18 12:39:05 AM  
Well that was quick. Not to mention that Maro's Twitter is full of tweets from "TweetEmBack", an app that Jeff created. Furthermore, he follows Partislator, another website registered to Jeff's Google Analytics account. Most tweets on the latter account are from TweetEmBack, but the most recent isn't:


@MichaelBerrySho the clock is ticking on the implosion of the Obama campaign ... literally : http://octsurprise.com


Spooky.

Except not, because this is stupid.

Nice work Fark CSI.
 
2012-10-18 1:02:36 AM  
...and fwiw, I'm kind of sick of the direct attempts at manipulation for capital gain. Fair enough if it's art, but I do wish companies would quit thinking it's cute to lie as a marketing strategy, under the guise of some "viral" bullshiat.
 
2012-10-18 1:05:42 AM  
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2012-10-18 1:05:42 AM  
This is going to be Okeefe or some similar d-bag.
 
2012-10-18 1:15:26 AM  

dr_blasto: diaphoresis: Subby:

Name just ONE U.S. President or Presidential candidate that has ever told the truth during a campaign AND which ones never lied about the facts of an issue.

Can't do it?

/Didn't think so
//Everyone is sand

I believe Romney truthfully expressed his feelings toward 47% of this nation's population. It was a campaign fund-raising event and qualifies as during the campaign.


And was quickly taken out of context and spun. Still no reason for me to like Romney, but fair is fair.
 
2012-10-18 1:15:44 AM  

blastoh: Its an attempt at a Rick Roll?

thats it?

They put this much effort into.... a Rick Roll?

How dissapointing has your life become when you have this much time on a farking Rick Roll?


You do realize there are people on this website currently putting time and MONEY into buying Joe Biden a u-haul or something.
 
2012-10-18 1:17:20 AM  

Just Another OC Homeless Guy: And was quickly taken out of context and spun. Still no reason for me to like Romney, but fair is fair.


Errr... no it wasn't. The only context here is that Mitt thought we wouldn't find out about it.
 
2012-10-18 1:34:12 AM  
I really can't believe they haven't called the thing off yet. Are they really going to pretend they weren't outed already?
 
2012-10-18 1:35:27 AM  
 
2012-10-18 1:37:53 AM  

Triumph: blastoh: Its an attempt at a Rick Roll?

thats it?

They put this much effort into.... a Rick Roll?

How dissapointing has your life become when you have this much time on a farking Rick Roll?

You do realize there are people on this website currently putting time and MONEY into buying Joe Biden a u-haul or something.


It's a not a u-haul, its a T-Bird, moran. Get you're facts straihgt.

/#BivJoeTheGird
 
2012-10-18 1:38:56 AM  
....aaaaand then I found that he just posted this:

Cuvis the Conqueror @Godkarmachine
@octsurprise I'd hate to think one of our presidential candidates was ever gonna give us up!
....
October Surprise @OctSurprise
@Godkarmachine or tell a lie to hurt you

Yup.
 
2012-10-18 1:53:40 AM  

Triumph: You do realize there are people on this website currently putting time and MONEY into buying Joe Biden a u-haul or something. making an awesome Onion article come to life


Fixed that for you.
 
2012-10-18 1:57:44 AM  
My worthless speculation: it's a 990 tax form for a non-profit run by Jeremiah Wright. The blue-green part is highlighting Barack Obama's name as a director or executive for the charity.

The charity probably did some good things in the Chicago community, but all we're supposed to focus on is OMGZ TEH MURICUH HATERZ!
 
2012-10-18 2:00:27 AM  

Triumph: If it's Romney's tax return, then Larry Flynt would have to be behind the website, because who would miss out on the million bucks he offered for them?


That's what I was thinking.

Either that or Gary Johnson pulling a prank. He seems like he might do that.
 
2012-10-18 2:11:04 AM  
Some guy on LinkedIn matches the owner of PauseTime.
 
2012-10-18 2:47:34 AM  
Enhance...enhance...enhance...jeez, it works on CSI and SVU.

My guess: Joseph Smith's gold plates
 
2012-10-18 3:02:48 AM  
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2012-10-18 3:41:49 AM  

randomjsa: [i47.tinypic.com image 500x500]



Please have this be your troll persona forever. No words, just pictures
 
2012-10-18 4:53:53 AM  
Either this is more cockamamie birther crap or they got Romeny's tax documents . Nothing else makes sense.

if Obama had applied as a forgien student at Harvard it would have been found and revealed in 2008.
 
2012-10-18 5:32:37 AM  

PreMortem: Drink your Ovaltine?


Ummmm...it's already on the net...where she pleasures herself...not that I've seen it..
 
2012-10-18 5:34:21 AM  

Bigdogdaddy: PreMortem: Drink your Ovaltine?

Ummmm...it's already on the net...where she pleasures herself...not that I've seen it..


Oops, that was meant for this post....

Preview, how does it work?

ThatGuyFromTheInternet: OctSuprise? Aren't Nadya Suleman's 15 minutes waaaaaay over by now?

/unless she's finally doing bottomless, or hardcore, or girl-on-girl, or fetish, or...

 
2012-10-18 5:51:21 AM  

spelletrader: spongeboob: spelletrader: It's probably just an elaborate Rickroll, like their previous countdown site.

Back in 2007 there was a countdown site for a new Radiohead LP

As a previous poster pointed out, it was attributed to the same two guys

The second link has now been editied to remove the names of these two guys and the claim that they had the biggest Rick Roll of all time. Wonder why it would have been edited on 10-17-12 @ 21:18:56

Google cache ftw


Those dudes are lame.
 
2012-10-18 5:52:00 AM  

xander450: ...and fwiw, I'm kind of sick of the direct attempts at manipulation for capital gain. Fair enough if it's art, but I do wish companies would quit thinking it's cute to lie as a marketing strategy, under the guise of some "viral" bullshiat.


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
2012-10-18 5:53:13 AM  

xander450: ....aaaaand then I found that he just posted this:

Cuvis the Conqueror @Godkarmachine
@octsurprise I'd hate to think one of our presidential candidates was ever gonna give us up!
....
October Surprise @OctSurprise
@Godkarmachine or tell a lie to hurt you

Yup.


Why do people do that crap? There's no way to really fight it, though, is there?
 
2012-10-18 6:30:14 AM  

ExperianScaresCthulhu: xander450: ....aaaaand then I found that he just posted this:

Cuvis the Conqueror @Godkarmachine
@octsurprise I'd hate to think one of our presidential candidates was ever gonna give us up!
....
October Surprise @OctSurprise
@Godkarmachine or tell a lie to hurt you

Yup.

Why do people do that crap? There's no way to really fight it, though, is there?


Have the audio turned off.
 
2012-10-18 7:01:38 AM  
One candidate hasn't been sure to drink his Ovaltine.
 
2012-10-18 7:54:51 AM  

xander450: I really can't believe they haven't called the thing off yet. Are they really going to pretend they weren't outed already?


gotta give them credit for seeing it to the end.
 
2012-10-18 8:34:20 AM  

scruffy1: Becauspongeboob: spelletrader: It's probably just an elaborate Rickroll, like their previous countdown site.

Back in 2007 there was a countdown site for a new Radiohead LP

As a previous poster pointed out, it was attributed to the same two guys

The second link has now been editied to remove the names of these two guys and the claim that they had the biggest Rick Roll of all time. Wonder why it would have been edited on 10-17-12 @ 21:18:56

They probably are reading this thread right now. If they are:

YOU NEED TO 1996 YOUR WEB PAGE TO GIVE IT MORE CREDIBILITY!


Not only reading it, they are commenting on it and it wouldn't suprise me if they had submitted it.
 
2012-10-18 8:56:09 AM  

spongeboob: scruffy1: Becauspongeboob: spelletrader: It's probably just an elaborate Rickroll, like their previous countdown site.

Back in 2007 there was a countdown site for a new Radiohead LP

As a previous poster pointed out, it was attributed to the same two guys

The second link has now been editied to remove the names of these two guys and the claim that they had the biggest Rick Roll of all time. Wonder why it would have been edited on 10-17-12 @ 21:18:56

They probably are reading this thread right now. If they are:

YOU NEED TO 1996 YOUR WEB PAGE TO GIVE IT MORE CREDIBILITY!

Not only reading it, they are commenting on it and it wouldn't suprise me if they had submitted it.


Probably not, they didn't attempt to erase the openingbands.com forum post until this thread, and the post itself, was Tweeted to them.
 
2012-10-18 8:59:10 AM  

Theory Of Null: So what artist or band is it for? who is releasing an album on Oct 22?



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2012-10-18 9:21:54 AM  

HeartBurnKid: Just Another OC Homeless Guy: And was quickly taken out of context and spun. Still no reason for me to like Romney, but fair is fair.

Errr... no it wasn't. The only context here is that Mitt thought we wouldn't find out about it.


The context was "a closed fundraiser" and they showed it out of that closed fundraiser, therefore "out of context," you see.

/Fox News logic
 
2012-10-18 9:36:59 AM  

impaler: HeartBurnKid: Just Another OC Homeless Guy: And was quickly taken out of context and spun. Still no reason for me to like Romney, but fair is fair.

Errr... no it wasn't. The only context here is that Mitt thought we wouldn't find out about it.

The context was "a closed fundraiser" and they showed it out of that closed fundraiser, therefore "out of context," you see.

/Fox News logic


We can use that logic in many ways.

It's also OK to cheat on your wife, so long as it's in secret. If someone gets proof of your cheating and shows your wife, that evidence is out of context.
 
2012-10-18 9:44:27 AM  

rufus-t-firefly: It's also OK to cheat on your wife, so long as it's in secret. If someone gets proof of your cheating and shows your wife, that evidence is out of context.


I'm pretty sure my wife would cut my penis off if I tried this. not worth the risk.
 
2012-10-18 10:00:54 AM  

ManateeGag: rufus-t-firefly: It's also OK to cheat on your wife, so long as it's in secret. If someone gets proof of your cheating and shows your wife, that evidence is out of context.

I'm pretty sure my wife would cut my penis off if I tried this. not worth the risk.


Hey, it's Fox News logic. I didn't say it was based in reality.
 
2012-10-18 10:04:27 AM  

xander450: ....aaaaand then I found that he just posted this:

Cuvis the Conqueror @Godkarmachine
@octsurprise I'd hate to think one of our presidential candidates was ever gonna give us up!
....
October Surprise @OctSurprise
@Godkarmachine or tell a lie to hurt you

Yup.


This tweet:

@OctSurprise Which candidate will make you cry? Or say goodbye?

Was favorited by @OctSurprise.

FWIW.
 
2012-10-18 10:07:23 AM  
I'm curious as to why they went with octsurprise.com when octobersurprise.com was available as well....
 
2012-10-18 10:52:09 AM  
Comes out October 22.

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2012-10-18 11:58:08 AM  
What I hope it is: Romney amending his return for 2011 to take the whole charitable deduction.

What I think it is: Bullshiat.
 
2012-10-18 12:00:33 PM  

PreMortem: Drink your Ovaltine?


Son of a biatch!

youseTrollinBoxxy.jpg

/adjusts tinfoilhat
 
2012-10-18 12:05:36 PM  

Nemosomen: What I hope it is: Romney amending his return for 2011 to take the whole charitable deduction.

What I think it is: Bullshiat.


At first i was like "hmmm..." but then I was all like "as if". This is the 4th similar stunt of called bullshiat on.
 
2012-10-18 12:38:22 PM  
Ok for anyone new to the thread I'll re-consolidate all the info that was used to trackback and expose these guys.

First everyone did a whois on octsurprise.com, naturally. Of course that is privately registered so we had to find connecting sites to try to dig into.

Fark user MrEricSir ran a reverse search on the IP itself to find the link to pausetime.com (that site brings up AV alerts, surf at your own risk), which in turn led to Anthony Maro and this address.

I took a different route when I googled and came across the wiowsa connection and did a whois for whatisoccupywallstreetabout.

No name available but it did have an email address which is also associated with a site named scatterfamily.com, a quick whois of that site led to Jeffery Hopwood and is registered to this address two blocks from the other.

It's fairly simple after that to google the names and find the http://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonymaroLinkedin info on Anthony as well as on Jeffery to see that they not only live near each other, but also work together at Discovery.

Then Fark user elchip googled the two names together and found a reference to "The Greatest Rickroll Ever" having been done by these two guys. Of course they soon deleted that post when they saw we were on to them , but of course they couldn't edit the google cache.

"The Greatest Rickroll Ever" that they refer to is a site they launched in 2007 called "radioheadlp7" which had a countdown timer and promised the latest Radiohead album info when the timer ran out. The band denied all knowledge, but still over 20,000 people signed up and got Rickrolled when the timer finally ran out.

This is the same thing, just a lot sloppier.

I sent Tweets with all of this info to their Twitter account and they promptly blocked me and removed the Tweets from their feed.

Feel free to use any of this info to educate and alert people.
 
2012-10-18 12:45:50 PM  

spelletrader: Feel free to use any of this info to educate and alert people.


Why didn't they get Farkers looking for OBL. Probably could have cleared up that shiat in weeks.
 
2012-10-18 12:47:27 PM  

mrshowrules: spelletrader: Feel free to use any of this info to educate and alert people.

Why didn't they get Farkers looking for OBL. Probably could have cleared up that shiat in weeks.


/shrug this is what us unemployed bomb techs do in our free time.
 
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