The Smarmy Carny

New Numa!

Gary Brolsma, the guy thrust into online fame via his video "The Numa Numa Dance," is back with a new video and a new dance!

Earlier this month, NewNuma.com appeared. Lo and behold, Gary finally returned at everyone's request to create a New Numa video along with his band, The Nowadays.

The newly released song "New Numa" has Russian lyrics and is performed by Minnesotan Chad Russell. It is reminiscent of O-Zone's "Dragosta Din Tei" (the original song used in the Numa Numa Dance).

Watch New Numa now:

NewNuma.com is also hosting a contest with a total of $45,000 given out in prize money to the top winners. Details will not be released until September 22, but it looks like it will probably be a "make your own video" contest.

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Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie have this great song truthfully titled "Every OS Sucks." It's funny because it's true.

There is a fairly lengthy introduction, but it's worth the wait if you're a computer geek. The song reminisces about the good ol' days when our computers never crashed. It's truly geeky snark at its best.

Be sure to check out the Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie site for more!

Ever wonder what happens when you cross a marionette with one of those giant parade balloons? Royal de Luxe is a European street theatre company that is best known for its mechanical marionettes. This video is from a show called The Sultan's Elephant:

For more videos of varying quality, search YouTube for Royal de Luxe.

If you like marionettes, you can also watch a really cool video of a much smaller scale skeleton marionette singing and dancing in a busking performance.

Here's a pretty cool video by a band named OK Go. The song is "Here It Goes," and the theme is treadmills.

Keep in mind that the video is by the band and is not a fan movie. At first, I was worried that four guys working in a fitness club or fitness equipment store had way too much time on their hands. As it turns out, it's four guys working in a band that have way too much time on their hands.

The video's online popularity is booming as the YouTube video has been viewed over 1.8M times thus far. It's now on VH1's Top 20 Countdown, too.

Two thoughts going through my mind throughout the video are:

• Who ever thought about choreographing a treadmill dance?
• How many injuries and face plants occurred during the practices for this video?

Nonetheless, this music video uses up less money and personal time than most of the videos you see on MTV and VH1.

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The "Mentos and soda pop" fad has been going around lately, and it's interesting how many people have heard of the phenomenon now. What's truly upsetting, however, is how few of those people have seen the video of videos for Mentos and Diet Coca-Cola!

If you're interested in entering a Mentos and soda pop contest, watch the whole video!

What's great about this video is that they aren't just showing off the cool effect of Diet Coke and Mentos: They have recreated the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas!

Keep this in mind next time you eat a pack of Mentos and then chug a bottle of Diet Coke. It probably won't kill you, but you might end up looking like one of those fountains!

The Power Workers’ Union (an Ontario-based organization) started the "A Better Energy Plan" campaign this summer to warn the public that if coal was removed as a source of power, blackouts would become commonplace.

The campaign included three commercials: "Stoplights," "Elevator," and "Pub."

The commercials aren't really astounding or anything, but "Stoplights" cracks me up every time I see it. "Elevator" really gets the point across, too.

Keep in mind that if you don't find these as entertaining as I did, there's no refunds on the time you wasted.

President Bush was literally beside himself during his speech at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, thanks to presidential impersonator Steve Bridges.

It is traditional that the president shows up and delivers a speech lampooning himself. (You might remember Laura Bush's dirty horse joke from last year's dinner.)

The highlight of the speech is a mental run-through of a phrase followed by the actual words uttered by Bush:

Internal President (Bridges): All right. Maintain. Be cool. Let’s give this a try: "We must enhance non-compliance protocols sanctioned not only at IAEA formal sessions, but through intercessional contact."

External President (Bush): “We must enhance non-compliance protocols sanctioned not only at E-I-E-I-O sessions, but through intersexual conduct.”