
	Numa Numa Dance



	This Entry: Date: 2005-02-14 Time: 22:35 Comments: 18 Return To: Recent Entries



	Elsewhere: Search: Archive: • Aug 2008 (2) • Jul 2008 (2) • Jun 2008 (4) • Apr 2008 (2) • Mar 2008 (2) • Feb 2008 (2) • Jan 2008 (4) • Dec 2007 (2) • Nov 2007 (4) • Oct 2007 (1) • Sep 2007 (6) • Aug 2007 (4) • Jul 2007 (3) • Jun 2007 (2) • May 2007 (2) • Apr 2007 (4) • Mar 2007 (2) • Feb 2007 (4) • Jan 2007 (4) • Dec 2006 (4) • Nov 2006 (24) • Oct 2006 (3) • Sep 2006 (1) • Aug 2006 (2) • Jul 2006 (3) • Jun 2006 (6) • May 2006 (5) • Apr 2006 (5) • Mar 2006 (1) • Feb 2006 (8) • Jan 2006 (11) • Dec 2005 (8) • Nov 2005 (12) • Oct 2005 (10) • Sep 2005 (18) • Aug 2005 (8) • Jul 2005 (10) • Jun 2005 (14) • May 2005 (8) • Apr 2005 (10) • Mar 2005 (14) • Feb 2005 (12) • Jan 2005 (12) • Dec 2004 (9) • Nov 2004 (18) • Oct 2004 (13) • Sep 2004 (12) • Aug 2004 (16) • Jul 2004 (6) • Jun 2004 (10) • May 2004 (8) • Apr 2004 (8) • Mar 2004 (27) • Feb 2004 (19) • Jan 2004 (8) • Dec 2003 (10) • Nov 2003 (18) Random Entry Others: • Jen • Keltie • On LiveJournal

Numa Numa Dance

Well, us over-thirty types have to accept the fact that we are a bit behind the curve from a socio-cultural perspective. Doubtless many faithful readers will not realize that the innocuous-sounding title of this article would return about 98 700 results if submitted to Google.

All you readers are therefore excused for not knowing that the Numa Numa dance concerns a young american who is so enamoured with his favorite Romanian dance track that he has produced a webcam video featuring himself enjoying this track to its fullest. While some feel he is making an ass of himself, I think he looks like he’s having a great time — I love it.

If someone sees Rob, they should force him to watch it as the guy’s moves are very reminiscent of Rob’s while he’s playing with those dancing games for the PS2.

Introduced to the phenomenon by basking_lizard I went to play it for Chris this morning and found her link was broken. Highly concerned I then spent over 2 hours (I am not making this up) looking for the exact version her link was to. You see there are two main versions of the video out there, and neither was the one I was looking for.

Gotcha interested? Here’s a link I finally found to the Numa Numa Dance (flash player required). And yes, I did save a copy this time.

Now, those of you who believe that I would be sated of googling after a two hour search for an american kid dancing in his dorm room to a romanian song that sounds little better than the old mod files I used to enjoy have another think coming. I present to you the highlights of other Numa Numa animations:

Japanese Animation 1 (flash)
Japanese Animation 2 (flash, cute)
Dots from MIT (flash)
Very Strange Israeli (flash)
There’s always a copycat (flash)
Lego (windows media)
Trash Can Madness (windows media)
Israeli Music Video Partially translated into Hebrew unless I miss my mark. (mpeg stream… 27 MB!)

Phew. That’s a lotta Numa Numa.

And in case the song is getting stuck in your head, the guy has slowed it down a touch, it’s called Dragostea Din Tei. There seems to be some disagreement about who wrote it, but the recording used is by O-Zone. An mp3 is available for download here.

return to cmh blog

› funny 2005-02-14 22:35 ...18


	Rock on Numa Numa Yes- I love the Numa Numa. I'm not sure about the other versions- except for the super cute Israeli music video. That was also really great! at 2005-2-14 23:02 by Bixby


	Numa Meme Also- I meant to add- I told Alia that I think we should all do our own video recordings of the Numa Numa dance, with the moves exactly like the guy in the original Numa Numa Dance, thus perpetuating the Numa Numa dance- a bit like the infinite cat idea. Or maybe a group Numa Numa dance? Okay. Now I have to go watch the video of people doing the live action version of the Kenya! Kenya! song. I love this stuff. at 2005-2-14 23:08 by Bixby

whee!

I can't get the lego one to work on my machine. :P But I did manage to discover that 'numa' is 'sleep' in Hebrew. :)

The think I think is kind of neat about the two Japanese ones and the Israeli one is that they take the Romanian (?) words and bring them directly over to that language or to English, which results in some cute sight gags (like the guy sleeping, and then sitting up in bed). It makes me wish I knew more of both of those languages, so I could get the rest of the funny.

Also, I'm going to go fix my link.

at 2005-2-15 01:28 by alia


	I also thought the copycat was cute. :) at 2005-2-15 01:38 by alia


	Cool! Now that is cute. :D at 2005-2-15 06:53 by nurd_grrl


	yada yada yada You guys rock, you had everything I was looking for. I love the lego one. at 2005-4-15 15:57 by Naughty Ned


	PIMP that was soooooooooooooooo funny my Nizzle! Dat was da coolest, I wanna chill wit Gary in New York BRO! at 2005-4-15 15:57 by Nightmare


	israeli video dam those girls in the video ae hoy, especially the one on the toy car and the one with the short black hair! at 2005-5-10 16:14 by mr.x


	aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwsssssssssssssssssssssssooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this song is the best at 2005-5-17 18:22


	hahha at 2005-6-16 12:22 by joe


	Best song!! I am fluent in Hebrew so I understand it all and its HEE-LARIOUSS at 2005-7-10 16:05


	Best song!! I am fluent in Hebrew so I understand it all and its HEE-LARIOUSS at 2005-7-10 16:05


	( . )( . ) who are those girls!???? ( . )( . ) at 2005-7-14 01:39


	so funny im also fluent in hebrew and i love the israeli and i showed it to my friends and they loved it too!! at 2005-9-25 13:28


	whats does it all mean? fluent in Hebrew? why not translate for the rest of us that arn't. I would love to know what they are saying. at 2005-11-3 17:36 by unversedamoeba


	their names, i missed 4 The blonde woman in white is Orna Datz, the man making tea is her husband Moshe (�Datz oseh li teh�). They are considered the #1 singing duo in Israel, and were the Israeli representatives in the 1991 Eurovision song contest. The balding man is Tuvia Tzafir, a comedian and actor who has made several children's videos. The man who is coughing in the middle of the trio is Oded Menashe, a children's actor. The two guys flanking Oded while he coughs are Harel Ska'at and Harel Moyal, actors. Then there is Roni Douani. The girl in the dark pink dress that Tuvia sings at through the bullhorn is Agam Rodberg, an actress. The two girls with dark hair are Maya Buskila and Ninette Teib. They were the cast of Kochvei Pestigal 2004, a children's show (referred to as �mofa' shel yeladim�) for Chanukah, for which Numa Numa was the theme song. at 2005-11-3 17:38 by unversedamoeba


	Israeli numa numa the israeli numa numa is histarical i almost pissed my pants. wholly shuit and who likes those fuckin japaneese shuit faces at 2005-11-20 17:00 by Philip A


	numa does not mean sleep in hebrew do your correct research before posting incorrect things at 2007-4-1 04:49

Add your comment...