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Related Topics Technology » PORTLAND, Ore | Wed Apr 13, 2011 6:04am EDT PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) - Oregon state lawmakers, capitalizing on a long-running Internet meme, have created a YouTube sensation by slipping the lyrics from a song by 1980s pop star Rick Astley into floor speeches. Videotapes of the speeches by a dozen Republicans and Democrats were cobbled together with Astley's 1987 hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up," and released on April Fool's Day -- already logging some 782,000 views. The video was apparently inspired by an Internet prank, at least several years old, that involves providing a hyperlink that dupes the viewer into watching Astley's video. "It seemed non-time-consuming, funny and positive," Portland Democrat Jefferson Smith said. "Our country is facing some real partisan toxin. Any break from that seems not terrible." Other members of the Oregon state House of Representatives went along. 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