I was going to lead this little Friday ‘found on the web’ post with a website that imaginatively takes Mr Bush’s speeches and remixes them. But in the end, knowing how some of you get so wound up over me taking shots at the boy Bush, I thought I’d go with something a little lighter.
So meet 19 year old Gary Brolsma of Saddle Brook New Jersey. In December last year he recorded a little clip of him lip syncing to some terrible Romanian pop song by Ozone called ‘Dragon Din Tei’ which seems to have very little to do with dragons.
Supposedly the video was a joke Gary recorded for him and his buddies to enjoy, but as these things do, somehow it dot out there on the worldwide web practically propelling him to internet superstar status like the ‘Star Wars kid’ before him.
Gary sings his big ol’ heart out and amusingly dances away to the song without getting out of his chair. The video has swept the net making people around the world laugh out loud. Suddenly Gary isn’t just some anonymous boy working in a Staples store in New Jersey anymore. For a few fleeting moments his name is making it onto the pages of the New York Times and newspapers across the world as well as TV shows like ‘The Today Show.’
In fact Gary’s ‘Numa Numa dance’ is now prompting tribute videos! In the coming months there are sure to be more as people around the globe kick back and mimic the care-free spirit in which the chunky chap from New Jersey filmed what was to be his 15 minutes of fame. One such video shows a computer training suite full of people doing Gary’s ‘Numa Numa’ dance.’
Gary himself hasn’t spoken out much about his unexpected time in the spotlight, but he seems to be enjoying it. If it were nearer Christmas my money would be on a Gary Brolsma dancersize video!
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Gary’s Numa Numa dance video
Gary on NBC news
Gary in the New York Daily News
Gary’s blog
Open letter to Gary
Classroom do ‘Numa Numa dance’
The Star Wars Kid
ThePartyParty.com
Wrote the following comment on Mar 18, 2005 at 5:56 am
Bloody funny, in my opinion. The web at its best.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 18, 2005 at 5:57 am
i saw this a few weeks ago on ebaumsworld.com and i did indeed laugh out loud! it’s funny what people will record themselves doing!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 18, 2005 at 8:52 am
LOL! Where on earth do you find this stuff Simon? And all that information about where he works and lives and stuff. You should be a journalist or something :-)
Wrote the following comment on Mar 18, 2005 at 8:54 am
Oh and I really liked thepartparty.com, that’s clever stuff.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 19, 2005 at 7:11 am
That Gary guy is awesome. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A N.J. NATIVE. :-)
Wrote the following comment on Mar 19, 2005 at 9:21 am
That’s stinkin’ awesome!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 20, 2005 at 6:59 am
This is really funny stuff. I should start posting things like this. I would do better to re-think before I get upset and post something that is highly controversial. I wound up making a few people mad last week about the Terri Shiavo case…even received some nasty e-mails.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 20, 2005 at 2:03 pm
The badgerbadgerbadger one was done by the same person who did the ‘Kenya’ animation I posted a while back. That stuff makes me laugh, maybe because deep down I’m fairly simple reaaly :-)
Wrote the following comment on Mar 20, 2005 at 11:19 am
my brother sent me that a while back, along with some dancing badgers (https://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/)
….he LOVES that chunkyboy dancing, though.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 20, 2005 at 6:49 pm
Well to Marz’s brother, believe me, I wasn’t badmouthing the lad. I love the vid to. I think its great, it makes me smile everytime I see it :-)
Wrote the following comment on Mar 20, 2005 at 3:30 pm
This is tim, “marzish” ‘s brother. I love the chunky boy dancing, HE has gotten me through a lot of painful nights…. alone…. in my room… dancing with him…. He’s a saint and I won’t have you badmouthing him. You may be the King of somewhere Ive never heard of, but I don’t think you truly appreciate the simplistic genius of the dance. I also like the song :) They overplay it on Spanish radio (Why spanish radio??), but it still gets me happy when Im sitting on the freeway on my way to work.