Never ending silliness

It's been more than a month since I read Blessed Silver Linings, where DB introduced us to a crazy video I saved with a link name of Mya god! (but never published, it was already done). My copy of the link from Jan 21 is here. I found it funny and wonderful, the joy was quite apparent but so was crazed silliness.

It was generally assumed at the time that this was a young man from Romania who had been a tad rambunctious and had shared the video with friends. Over the next few days, I saw references to the video show up in a lot of places and then it died out as do most network borne phenomena. It was entertaining, but that was the end of the road, or so it seemed.

Not so fast...

During the last couple of weeks, the 'Numa Numa Dance' has again taken the net by storm and this time around MSNBC has a name behind the video (I wonder how they tracked him down), one Gary Brolsma (from New Jersey... must everyone from Jersey be unique? I wonder sometimes if that's my problem). Chris Holland found a somewhat different version (after dealing with the MSN Monster) which seems to be considerably more hacked than than the version I've got from Dec 13 and yet also includes the ability to play a completely unmodified version (select the option without subtitles).

Like the 'Your bases are belong to us' meme, this seems like a long lived cultural phenomenon. Our grandchildren are likely to know about Numa Numa at this rate.