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Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for Dancer of the Numa Numa (funny video of kid singing)
NY Times ^ | 2/26/05 | ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE

Posted on 02/25/2005 7:50:34 PM PST by Cableguy

There was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing the Star Spangled Banner in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.

But with the Internet, humiliation - like everything else - has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.

Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from New Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Mr. Brolsma's performance could only be described as earnest but painful.

His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, like celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.

To begin at the beginning:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: blogpopculture; dork; dragosteadintei; garybrolsma; india; lipsync; nerd; newjersey; nj; numa; numanuma; pudgyguy; romania; romanianpoptune; saddlebrook; staples; video
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To: CarrotAndStick

I like it even more now! Miya HEE! Miya HOO! Miya HA HA! (Good thing there's no video camera on MY computer!) LOL


61 posted on 02/25/2005 8:36:58 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina
Agreed.

There's a lot to be said for youthful abandon.

It's a shame there will be so many people ready to laugh at him for "making a spectacle of himself". I think he deserves to be cheered not jeered.
62 posted on 02/25/2005 8:37:03 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Children classics updated for Islam, "Allah loves me this I know, For the Koran tells me to explode")
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

The New York Slimes crowd believes fun is only for the pretty people.


63 posted on 02/25/2005 8:38:38 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Lady Jag

Thanks for the ping Lady Jag! He is so cute! More power to him.


64 posted on 02/25/2005 8:39:25 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: Lady Jag

I love it! Thanks LJ for the ping.


65 posted on 02/25/2005 8:39:35 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: cyborg
Good thing we're pretty, eh, cyborg? ;o)



We have Good Housekeeping The New York Times Seal of Approval!
66 posted on 02/25/2005 8:41:33 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina

BUMP!


67 posted on 02/25/2005 8:42:31 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Cableguy

Maybe someone could transliterate the song so we could all sing along. And then we could all - oh never mind.


68 posted on 02/25/2005 8:44:01 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: laurenmarlowe

Isn't he wonderful! I'll be practicing the song and doing my own video rendition in his honor. Look for it.


69 posted on 02/25/2005 8:45:14 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor)
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To: bentfeather

He is so sweet!


70 posted on 02/25/2005 8:46:17 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor)
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To: cyborg
Considering Mr. Feuer and Mr. George are from N.Y. I suspect their idea of fun might includes the southern end of a north bound yankee.

I'd just as soon do without.
71 posted on 02/25/2005 8:46:52 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Children classics updated for Islam, "Allah loves me this I know, For the Koran tells me to explode")
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Yes artsy fartsy people annoy me.


72 posted on 02/25/2005 8:48:31 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Lady Jag
I'll be practicing the song and doing my own video rendition in his honor. Look for it.

Estimated broadcast date, please? ;-)

73 posted on 02/25/2005 8:49:44 PM PST by Cloud William (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Lady Jag

Can't wait!!


74 posted on 02/25/2005 8:50:10 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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To: cyborg

You mean you don't like prissy men who say 'dahling' to one another as they critique the latest crapfad? Who'da thunk it.


75 posted on 02/25/2005 8:50:42 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: Lady Jag

Yupper he is!!


76 posted on 02/25/2005 8:51:33 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: arasina

Yeah *lol*


77 posted on 02/25/2005 8:51:34 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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bttt


78 posted on 02/25/2005 8:51:59 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: arasina

Jeez! Whatever the lyrics say, that is a hell of a catchy tune! I am dancing and bouncing around my bedroom in my briefs with a hair brush for a microphone as this plays right now! There is something to be said for letting it all go!


79 posted on 02/25/2005 8:53:13 PM PST by speed_addiction (Ninja's last words, "Hey guys. Watch me just flip out on that big dude over there!")
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To: speed_addiction

Be Careful, sometimes letting it ALL go can end up being rather painful!


80 posted on 02/25/2005 8:58:31 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Children classics updated for Islam, "Allah loves me this I know, For the Koran tells me to explode")
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