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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:

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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: Cableguy
Could have been worse, Paris Hilton could have been signing backup.
141 posted on 02/26/2005 10:37:32 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (Support Our Troops, Spit On A Reporter)
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To: Cableguy

I wonder if a video clip of a middle aged chubby white guy doing the dance routine from Britney Spears' "Oops I Did it Again" video would make someone famous?


Just asking.


142 posted on 02/26/2005 10:40:03 AM PST by socal_parrot (Tryin' to reason with El Nino season.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Please add me to your list too.... This guy is a cutey!


143 posted on 02/26/2005 10:42:13 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

You're added - subtraction, multiplication, and division are out of this listowner's jurisdiction.


144 posted on 02/26/2005 10:56:28 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: CarrotAndStick
Yes....it cool in the same way as that feakin Tunak Tunak Tun song is.

You don't want to like it but once you hear it.....

145 posted on 02/26/2005 10:57:58 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (“I know a great deal about the Middle East because I’ve been raising Arabian horses" Patrick Swazey)
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To: Cableguy

for later


146 posted on 02/26/2005 11:01:09 AM PST by KimmyJaye (Susan Estrich: A face for radio and a voice for pantomime.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Try associating .swf files with Internet Explorer. You may get a security warning when you try to play it, but if so just click on the play-it-anyway (or whatever it's called) button.


147 posted on 02/26/2005 11:14:31 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: bd476

If William Hung can get a record deal, this kid should be able to get something. The Groundlings is a great idea.


148 posted on 02/26/2005 11:40:10 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL And a big thank you bump!


149 posted on 02/26/2005 12:06:08 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: Cableguy

bump


150 posted on 02/26/2005 12:06:10 PM PST by lilmsdangrus (hard work musta hurt somebody, somewhere....)
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To: Cableguy

Collegehumor.com occassionally has videos of people dancing.

Just hilarious stuff!!!


151 posted on 02/26/2005 12:09:22 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: rwfromkansas

This is a funny one: http://www.collegehumor.com/?movie_id=109526

Starts dancing at about 4:10 or so.


152 posted on 02/26/2005 12:31:47 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: bd476

Interesting, thanks.


153 posted on 02/26/2005 12:34:04 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Psycho_Bunny

And for some reason, that animated Kenya song popped into my head:

"We got tigers in Kenya..."


154 posted on 02/26/2005 12:41:50 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: nutmeg

poor kid couldn't take the fame, too bad..

I guess he'll think twice before he does something like that again...

He could have seized the moment, and made a fortune like that Asian dude who can't sing or dance.


155 posted on 02/26/2005 1:22:27 PM PST by Coleus (Brooke Shields aborted how many children? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1178497/posts)
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To: nutmeg

bttt


156 posted on 02/26/2005 8:44:52 PM PST by lainde ( ...We are NOT European, we are American, and we have different principles!")
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To: Slings and Arrows
Try associating .swf files with Internet Explorer.

I forgot how to do it, and I still cannot get this to play from my hard drive. I'm mystified.

157 posted on 02/27/2005 5:19:27 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: lainde

btt


158 posted on 02/27/2005 5:20:16 AM PST by wtc911 ("I would like at least to know his name.")
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To: Cableguy

He could kick the ass of the Star Wars kid.


159 posted on 02/27/2005 5:32:49 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Deb

This was funnier than SNL last night.


160 posted on 02/27/2005 5:48:03 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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