Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

My old site is still getting all of my Numa-Numa hits, so I'm reposting this on my front page here in the hope that the meta-tags will start linking to this site instead. So yes, there is no new content here and I'm only reposting it in a shameless attempt to build more traffic. That said, onto the Numa-Numa Guy!

This is a collection of all my links in one post and there is a permanent link to it under my profile picture to the right.

First of all, we have the video that started it all, free of all those crappy pictures people keep adding to it. The Numa-Numa-Guy!



(Note, you can right-click and save as to get the flash swf file on your own hard drive, if you like. Then you can watch Numa-Numa-Guy all you want without loading times!)

Here is the English Translation of the Numa Numa Lyrics.

Here is the smaller video with subtitles of the English translation. (click link, then click "Watch this movie" and "watch with subtitles")


Here are a few more flash videos set to the same song:
Numa-kitties 1
Numa-kitties 2
Numa-Alien (Remix)

And of course, the link to the original O-Zone music video for that song.

Plus, now a parody of that video done with lego men: LegO-Zone!

And another parody from the lowerwestboyz that really nails the original video on the principle that even reasonably attractive guys trying too hard to be sexy become alarmingly not.


And here is an example of the Internet corrupting our youth, as an entire school classroom does the Numanuma.

Next up, an American Idol parody called: American Idle. On it, a cartoon version of Mr. Brolsma does his thing, only to be savaged by Simon. It's funny in concept, but the creator of the video didn't really take it to the level of true satire.

And here is a page with a bunch of other copy-cat videos. Most of them kind of suck, but I can't help but have fond feelings for the River City Ransom one, as I spent many a childhood hour hitting my friends with garbage cans and throwing them in big holes because of that game. (P.S. The GBA version is okay, but it just isn't the same, because two-player was 90% of the fun.)

Thanks again to Dave Barry's blog (and I say that with a mixture of genuine gratitude and annoyed sarcasm) for showing me another irritatingly addictive flash game: Plastic Balls! It's kind of like Breakout, where you have to keep a ball from going down the drain by bouncing it off of a movable paddle, but the field is circular here and it adds a new dimension to an old game.

Behold it's power as you spend way too much time playing it instead of doing productive work!

Excerpts from the never-aired 1973 Scooby Doo episode with guest star Hunter S. Thompson

We were ten minutes south of San Clemente when the putrid green daisy walls of the van started closing in. I recall the fat four-eyed lesbian sweater girl saying something like "are you okay, Mr. Duke? We've got a mystery to solve..." when suddenly the gullet of the garish chartreuse steel beast began to spasm, as if a digestive track readying itself to vomit. I began clawing at my hamstrings and when I turned my head I was looking into the irridescent eyes of a grotesque animal screeching "Ruh Roh! Ruh Roh!" in a hoarse irritating dog-accented gibberish. That's when it things began to turn weird.

Thanks to Little Miss Attila for showing me the way.

You know, sometimes a relatively simple mistake can happen at almost the worst possible time and place.

U.S. Fires on Car Carrying Freed Hostage

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - American forces fired on a car carrying a freed Italian hostage as it approached a checkpoint in Baghdad on Friday, killing an Italian intelligence officer and wounding three others, including the just-released journalist, Italian officials said.
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The U.S. military said "at approximately 8:55 p.m. tonight, coalition forces assigned to the multinational force Iraq fired on a vehicle that was approaching a coalition checkpoint in Baghdad at a high rate of speed."

The editor of freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena's newspaper Il Manifesto, Gabriele Polo, said the intelligence agent was killed when he threw himself over Sgrena to protect her from U.S. fire, according to the Apcom news agency in Italy.

Oh, man... This just sucks. No matter how you look at it.

If you go here, you can play a jazzed-up version of the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure. Spend hours trying to figure out to do with the screwdriver and the toothbrush, avoid Vogon poetry, and above all, don't panic!

I have an idea.

Did everybody see the Southpark movie? If not, I recommend it as an excellent,(and hilarious) piece of social satire, but I ask because of a scene in that film where an excitable young cuss by the name of Eric Cartman is implanted with his own personal V-chip.

You know about V-chips, right? Those little devices that they put in TV's that 98% of the population never does anything with? Well, in the hands of someone who makes a little bit of effort, it allows parents to block television programs that they don't want their kids to see. I've heard a lot of complaints that tech-savvy kids will figure out how to get around it, but frankly, any parents who can't keep a four-digit code secret from their kids have already passed on far more damage through their genes than the kids will receive from watching The OC or wardrobe malfunctions at the Superbowl.

But back to Southpark. Cartman's V-chip works a little differently. It is implanted under the skin and whenever he utters a profanity, he is given an electric shock.

I propose that all politicians be implanted with a P-chip, and that whenever they propose a stupid law or regulation, they will suffer for it. And none of this "won't be re-elected" stuff, because let's be honest, people's memories for this sort of thing last about as long as the average commercial break. So politicians are proposing all sorts of idiotic things with impunity!

Like this senator who is proposing that indecency standards be extended to cable TV.

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) told a group of broadcasters yesterday that he wants to extend that authority to cover the hundreds of cable and satellite television and radio channels that operate outside of the government's control. In addition to basic cable channels such as ESPN, Discovery and MTV, that would include premium channels such as HBO and Showtime and the two satellite radio services, XM and Sirius.

"We put restrictions on the over-the-air signals," Stevens said after his address to the National Association of Broadcasters, according to news reports confirmed by his staff. "I think we can put restrictions on cable itself. At least I intend to do my best to push that."

Under my system, immediately following that statement, he would have screamed and dropped, twitching, to the floor, his hair all standing out straight.

Or when members of the Homeland Security Department and the INS suggest that non-citizens living in the US be required to wear electronic tracking ankle-bracelets. They're already doing it for all immigrants appealing their asylum cases, whether they have been convicted of a crime or not. Listen to the story here. Now for those people, the bracelet might be preferable to being detained, but when the officials start talking about expanding the program to "every non-citizen applying to stay", in the US, that's truly insane. Just another example of the 'one-size-fits-all' approach that the government so often brings to bear in complex issues.

Under my system, these officials would have been given an entirely new perspective on having to carry electronic devices.

Now, of course, the P-chip plan has a couple of hurdles to overcome. First, how do we pay for it? Well that's actually quite simple. CSPAN will pay the entire cost. Think about it. Congressional debates where anyone who says something stupid is given a painful electric shock? Their ratings will skyrocket.

Another issue is one of standards. Who decides which ideas are stupid and which are not? Eventually, the technology may advance to the point where brain monitors can actually determine if an idea is poorly-thought-out or disingenuous before it is ever verbalized, but frankly, I'm not willing to wait that long.

In the meantime, we will have to appoint someone to be the arbiter of which ideas are stupid and which are legitimate. In the absence of any other qualified nominees, I volunteer myself. It will be a lot of work, but that's just the sort of self-sacrificing person I am.

I've been getting a fair number of hits from people looking for Numa-Numa stuff, so I'm going to collect all my links into one post and put a permanent link to it under my profile picture to the right.

First of all, we have the video that started it all, free of all those crappy pictures people keep adding to it. The Numa-Numa-Guy! (Note, you can right-click and save as to get the flash swf file on your own hard drive, if you like. Then you can watch Numa-Numa-Guy all you want without loading times!)

Here is the English Translation of the Numa Numa Lyrics.

Here is the smaller video with subtitles of the English translation. (click link, then click "Watch this movie" and "watch with subtitles")

Here are a few more flash videos set to the same song:
Numa-kitties 1
Numa-kitties 2
Numa-Alien (Remix)

And of course, the link to the real music video for that song.


Here are links to my original posts about this:
Post 1: Fun Things (02/12/05)
Post 2: Numa-Numa-Yay (02-13-05)
Post 3: Poor Numa-Numa-Guy (02/26/05)