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 ...
Better Video here
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/numanuma.html
Maybe that's Maiya not Aiya. Isn't it something about 'My Hero'?
I dunno. Why are you asking yourself, arasina?
You're added, FRiend.
It's kinda like that Xerox you took of your butt getting passed around the office.
I thought he looked cute.... LOL. He was having fun!
He's embarrassed because teenagers are CRUEL to one another when it comes to something like this.
Did you start singing along? I did! And did a 'wiggle dance of joy' LOL.
I wonder how many still have their copy. LOL
Funny! Thanks for the ping!
ping
I never got mine. :-(
My pleasure, and Numa-Numa to all!
Like you, I'm laughing with him. It's very funny.
He needs to ride this for all it is worth. Think "William Hung."
Some people feel very uncomfortable watching FAT PEOPLE have fun, because they are thin and miserable. Naturally anyone big should be eating worms right along with them.
Got a fax machine? LOL
Anybody remember Star Wars Kid?
That is great. He is jammin....
YEAH! This is great! I can feel the fun coming right through the monitor. More power to him!
Just e-mail me the .TIFF - I'm very good at translating binary.
Exactly. It's even mentioned in the thread title. 'fat kid'
SO WHAT?!! His personality is darling!
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