By Rebecca Offenkrantz

As an off-shoot of the famous twitter-turned-book-turned-bad-William-Shatner-TV-Show SH*T My Dad Says — there are a plethora of “Sh*t ______Says” popping up. There are a ton of college-related YouTube videos from, “Sh*t College Freshman Say,” to “Sh*t Broke College Students Say.”

And George Mason University alumn Yousef Mourtaza is now striving for YouTube stardom, with his video “Things Afghan Girls Say (Official Parody).” Mourtaza, 25, graduated from Mason in 2008 with a degree in Business Administration. He called it “Things Afghan Girls Say” and not “Sh*t Afghan Girls Say” because he doesn’t swear in his work and is “not going to change that just to get some extra popularity.” That is not to say he doesn’t swear in his every day vocabulary, but Mourtaza finds it important to keep his work clean.

He credits his friends with coming up with the idea.

“They know I’m serious about being a comedian,” he says, “so they’re always throwing ideas at me.”

At first, he was reluctant, because he doesn’t like to “jump on a fad,” but, he decided he could do something different.

So, he put on a black wig, talked in a high pitched voice, and shot his video.

“My biggest thing was making sure people would know that I’ve experienced all this and that’s where the laughter is coming from,” he says. “I’m not just some guy who’s wearing a wig and saying some lines to get his 15 minutes of fame.”

Most of the video is shot on campus in the Johnson Center, and a few clips were filmed in the nearby Fair Oaks mall and Fairfax Corner shopping center.

The video ends with this line: “Look, all I’m saying, is if one more person asks me when I’m getting engaged… I’m going to punch them in the face.”

The Video posted on January 22, got nearly 20,000 hits in about two weeks; it has almost 40,000 hits now. And it’s generated chatter, there are more than 100 comments, like: “Hahahahah…good to know other afghan girls do this stuff too and I’m not alone.”