Group suggestion: Worshippers of Rick Astley as God.

[Magrittes Pipe]

There's gotta be some out there.

[Moloch]

1. Is he still around?

I haven't heard from him since the late 80's.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[terrya]

3. Count me in.

Yes, as a fan of his from his heyday, it's important to keep the flame burning. I'll worship at the altar of Rick.

T

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. Do you pledge fealty and supplication?

[terrya]

5. But of course.

Fealty, supplication and constant, everlasting worship and praise!

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Hallelujah!

Pray with me, brother Terry!

[terrya]

7. For now, Brother whoisalhedges, I'll meditate on some of HIS teachings...

From the book of "Whenever You Need Somebody", HIS first gospel:

I'll bring my love to you
I'll bring my love to you
I've been stood up and messed around
And taken for a fool
But next time around
I'm gonna change the rules
And I don't care about the things that people say
It's you I think about each and every day
It's much to late for you to change your ways
I can't keep holding on expecting you to stay
When you're all alone and if you're feeling down
Call me, I'll be around
* Whenever you need somebody
I'll bring my love to you
You don't have to say you love me
I just wanna be with you
Lost Inside your love is where I wanna be
I'm just asking you to spend some time with me
Time and time you say you wanna be free
And you can have some fun that's ok with me
You will never know just how good I feel
The joy inside of me makes me feel so real
When you're all alone and if you're feeling down
Call me, I'll be around
(* repeat)
I'll bring my love to you
I just wanna be with you
It's much to late for you to change your ways
I can't keep holding on expecting you to stay
When you're all alone and if you're feeling down
I'll be, I'll be around

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Let us read now from the book of St. Ron:

17:4 Together forever, and never to part, the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, Rick.

17:5 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: I'm never gonna give you up.

[arwalden]

9. Oh HELL Yeah! I absolutely ADORE Rick Astley...

If I'm ever feeling low or need a lift... I can just pop in one of his CD's (or play one of the mp3's I downloaded)!!!

You know he's still active too. He has a super web site!

http://www.rickastley.co.uk/

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. Our Lord will never give us up!

[arwalden]

36. It would take a strong strong man... to ever let him go!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. Count me in

I'm renouncing my old tacky faith

[Magrittes Pipe]

11. Well, with all that Opus Dei and Illuminati intrigue, who could blame you?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. 2 words - Knights. Templar.

:scared:

[sundog]

14. Together Forever & Never to Part

You need to contact Allen about this.

There may be legal issues. :7

[arwalden]

16. Don't You Know I Would Move Heaven And Earth?

I can think of no serious legal issues.

[RogueTrooper]

15. I used to be Rick Astley's doppelganger

When I was a teenager I looked exactly like our Rick. This coincidence was during his reign as a "pop prince". It was a very weird time for me when I was a sixteen year-old. Teenage girls used to stop me in the street and ask me for my autograph ( I had the occaisional "screamer" as well ).

Alas, Rick stopped being famous and as the years went by we started to look less alike; although people do say they can see the resemblance still. He can sing but not dance; and I can dance but not sing ( sometimes I get the feeling that we were a geshtalt entity cruely torn apart ).

Added - I just checked out his website. Lordy! 'tis like looking in the mirror.

[Magrittes Pipe]

17. You are a gift from Rick!

Praise thee! :D

[RogueTrooper]

18. On you knees

:evilgrin:

[terrya]

19. HIS hymn, "Never Gonna Give You Up" is now a holy earworm...

and it is good.

[mondo joe]

20. Will SWING OUT SISTER be his Mary Magdalene?

[Wat_Tyler]

21. No, I believe Boy George has the role sewn up.

And, he's gonna DJ!

[asthmaticeog]

22. I'm in.

A man who looks like Howdy Doody crossed with Harry Connick Jr. and sings like a soul brotha MUST be a direct creation of divinty.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. No no - begotten, not made - one in being with the father

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. We believe in one white-boy-soul baptism for the forgiveness of sins...

...and we hope for the resurrection of the milquetoast funk.

[asthmaticeog]

27. Then is Robbie Nevil the holy spirit?

[Magrittes Pipe]

29. Heretic!

Boo! :grr:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. No - Michael McDonald is

[XNASA]

23. What shall we call ourselves?

Astlifarians?

[terrya]

24. Clever! But NOT sacrilegious.

:-)

[XNASA]

30. It would be if you were Jamaican.

How about "The Royal Order of St. Rick in Defense of the Immaculate Conception"?

[terrya]

32. Yes...that can work. And since it's an "Immaculate Conception"...

we do NOT get into danger of "sex threads"

PERFECT. :-)

T

[XNASA]

34. We could call it RORDIC......

..for short.

[terrya]

35. We sure could!

Acronyms are ok. Easily remembered ones especially.

[Beware the Beast Man]

28. I'm sick of these fundy A-ians!

Forcing their bad 80's club music down our throats!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. It's this Astleyism bashing that makes me want to leave DU - calling us

A-ians and such - I thought this was the party of tolerance? :wtf:

[sundog]

37. Bananarama as apostles

[Magrittes Pipe]

39. Ask, and ye shall receive.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2549982

[Susang]

38. Where do I sign up?

I have been feeling spiritually bereft as of late. Perhap Rick can help me, as he's helped so many others. :-)

[Magrittes Pipe]

40. All you have to do to sign up is write our mission statement.

:D

[Susang]

46. Oh no, I'm a follower, not a leader!

I just want to forget and lose myself in his Astley-ness. :-)

[sundog]

41. Kylie Minogue as Judas

[Magrittes Pipe]

42. How dare she betray Our Lord?!

:grr:

[sundog]

43. She had a comeback

[sundog]

44. Simply Red as Pontius Pilate

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

45. Tears for Fears would be John the Baptist, no?

[terrya]

47. Kick. I can't believe this is on page FOUR.

Heretics!