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Petals Around the Rose

a tough little puzzle thingy


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What Is Your Battle Cry?

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Internet Classic: Numa Numa Dance

Numa Numa!

And an article:

Internet Fame Is a Cruel Mistress for a Dancer

By ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE, The New York Times


(Feb. 26) - 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:

Mr. Brolsma, a pudgy guy from Saddle Brook, made a video of himself this fall performing a lip-synced version of "Dragostea Din Tei," a Romanian pop tune, which roughly translates to "Love From the Linden Trees." He not only mouthed the words, he bounced along in what he called the "Numa Numa Dance" - an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.

In December, the Web site newgrounds.com, a clearinghouse for online videos and animation, placed a link to Mr. Brolsma on its home page and, soon, there was a river of attention. "Good Morning America" came calling and he appeared. CNN and VH1 broadcast the clip. Parodists tried their own Numa Numa dances online. By yesterday, the Brolsma rendition of "Love From the Linden Trees" had attracted nearly two million hits on the original Web site alone.

It was just as Diane Sawyer said on her television program: "Who knows where this will lead?"

Nowhere, apparently. For, in Mr. Brolsma's case, the river became a flood.

He has now sought refuge from his fame in his family's small house on a gritty street in Saddle Brook. He has stopped taking phone calls from the news media, including The New York Times. He canceled an appearance on NBC's "Today." According to his relatives, he mopes around the house.

What's worse is that no one seems to understand.

"I said, 'Gary this is your one chance to be famous - embrace it,' " said Corey Dzielinski, who has known Mr. Brolsma since the fifth grade. Gary Brolsma is not the first guy to rocket out of anonymity on a starship of embarrassment. There was William Hung, the Hong Kong-born "American Idol" reject, who sang and danced so poorly he became a household name. There was Ghyslain Raza, the teenage Québécois, who taped himself in a mock light-saber duel and is now known as the Star Wars Kid.

In July 2003, Mr. Raza's parents went so far as to sue four of his classmates, claiming they had placed the clip of him online without permission. "Ghyslain had to endure and still endures today, harassment and derision," according to the lawsuit, first reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto.

Mr. Brolsma has no plans to sue, his family said - mainly because he would have to sue himself. In fact, they wish he would bask a little in his celebrity.

"I don't know what's wrong with him," his grandfather, Kalman Telkes, a Hungarian immigrant, said the other day while taking out the trash.

The question remains why two million people would want to watch a doughy guy in glasses wave his arms around online to a Romanian pop song.

"It definitely has to be something different," said Tom Fulp, president and Webmaster of newgrounds.com.

"It's really time and place."

"The Numa Numa dance," he said, sounding impressed. "You see it and you kind of impulsively have to send it to your friends."

There is no way to pinpoint the fancy of the Internet, but in an effort to gauge Mr. Brolsma's allure, the Numa Numa dance was shown to a classroom of eighth graders at Saddle Brook Middle School - the same middle school that he attended, in fact.

The students' reactions ranged from envious to unimpressed. "That's stupid," one of them said. "What else does he do?" a second asked. A third was a bit more generous: "I should make a video and become famous."

The teacher, Susan Sommer, remembered Mr. Brolsma. He was a quiet kid, she said, with a good sense of humor and a flair for technology.

"Whenever there were computer problems, Gary and Corey would fix them for the school," she said.

His friends say Mr. Brolsma has always had a creative side. He used to make satirical Prozac commercials on cassette tapes, for instance. He used to publish a newspaper with print so small you couldn't read it with the naked eye.

"He was always very out there - he's always been ambitious," said Frank Gallo, a former classmate. "And he's a big guy, but he's never been ashamed."

Another friend, Randal Reiman, said: "I've heard a lot of people say it's not that impressive - it doesn't have talent. But I say, Who cares?"

These days, Mr. Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job at Staples, his family said. He is distraught, embarrassed. His grandmother, Margaret Telkes, quoted him as saying, just the other day, "I want this to end."

And yet the work lives on. Mr. Fulp, the Webmaster, continues to receive online homages to the Numa Numa dance. The most recent showed what seemed to be a class of computer students singing in Romanian and, in unison, waving their hands.

Mr. Reiman figures the larger world has finally caught on to Gary Brolsma.

"He's been entertaining us for years," he said, "so it's kind of like the rest of the world is realizing that Gary can make you smile."

Edit: Found better link. Still makes me lol.

Depression Quiz

http://psychcentral.com/depquiz.htm

I got a 26 - mild depression

Last time I got 11 - possible depression


I'm



going


down

George B. Goof

What goof you ask, there are so many. Last night the Late Show with David Letterman featured a clip of a speech of George's saying he was doing everything in his power to protect airplanes, bridges and "nuclear power pants."

That cracks me up!

Place the State

Place the State on a map of the US

my score:
43 perfect out of 50
Avg. error - 19 miles
86%

Humanzee?

Last night I saw a program on the Discovery Channel about Oliver the "humanzee," a possible human/chimp hybrid. Genetic tests proved Oliver was a just a chimp, but a really weird looking chimp. Anyway, I still thought is was pretty interesting and the thought of real human/chimp hybrids is just too scary.

Some links about Oliver:

http://www.rotten.com/library/cryptozoology/humanzee/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_the_chimpanzee

The Flying Spaghetti Monster created me!

I'm converting to Flying Spaghetti Monsterism

Cyborg Name Generator

http://www.cyborgname.com/

color test

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Funny e-bay feedback


Edit: new link

A brainteaser

A father and his son were involved in a car accident in which the father was killed and the son was seriously injured. The father was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident and his body was taken to a local mortuary. The son was taken by ambulance to a hospital and was immediately wheeled into an operating room. A surgeon was called. Upon seeing the patient, the attending surgeon exclaimed, "Oh my God, it's my son!"

Can You explain this? (Keep in mind that the father who was killed in the accident is not a stepfather, nor is the attending physician the boy's stepfather.


click on comments to see answer

Someone keeps stealing my letters...

Was it you?!

Star Wars Country Songs

Return of the Sith country love songs:

"You're So Beautiful (Only Because I'm So In Love With You)"

"Do It To Me One More Time (Like You Did By The Lake At Naboo)"

"You Had Me At 'I Will Not Condone A Course Of Action That Will Lead Us To War'"

"Naboo Nights (Tatooine Mornings)"

"They Told Me To Let Go Of Everything I Loved (But I Couldn't Let Go Of You)"

"Sometimes Love Makes You Do Crazy Things, Like Slaughter A Bunch of Younglings"

"I Don't Like Sand (But I Do Love You)"

"Remember When We First Met And I Was Only Ten Years Old?"

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (You Looked Exactly The Same As You Do Now. It's Weird.)"

"My Love Burns Hotter Than My Legless Torso Right Now"

From www.fametracker.com

Too Cute

A baby hippo and a turtle have found friendship

Who's on first?

classic!

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml

Dumb Things People Say

http://therussler.tripod.com/dtps/index.html


Warning: Some of the backround wallpaper on the pages is painful to look at.

Leo: (July 23—Aug. 22)
You must learn to stop screaming "Rape! Rape!" at the top of your lungs. Everyone can see perfectly well what you're doing without the grandstanding narration.

notMENSA

Are You Stupid Enough to Join notMensa?

To bad I'm too smart:

Score: 100 %
I.Q.: 198

( You are a genius, and have hidden talents which, once developed, could make you the saviour of mankind. )

Personality: You are very humble and unassuming. As a result everyone thinks you are stupid. Little do they realise that below your masquerade as a village idiot resides a brain which could outperform a Supernova Computer.

Self Esteem: Being unaware of your incredible intelligence you suffer from exceptionally low self esteem to the point of being a manic depressive.

Emotional: due to your high intelligence you are an emotional wreck. (You will discover that all geniuses are)

Honesty: You are an outstanding member of society.

Other Traits: Hidden talents that would make you excel in any field from art to mathematics. In fact, once you apply yourself, you will simultaneously become famed in every undertaking.

Disorders: Incapable of appreciating your own brilliance.

Career Suitability: President, Artist, Historian, God

notmensa membership: Sorry!!! You are far, far too intelligent to join notmensa. So sod off - we don't want your sort in our society