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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:09 PM
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Poll question: When did "guess my middle name" JUMP THE SHARK?
Edited on Thu Dec-11-03 03:10 PM by underpants
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:31 PM
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1. Definition please:
What does 'Jump the shark' mean?
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:37 PM
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6. going over the top
it refers to a "Happy Days" episode in which the Fonz is water skiing and jumps over a shark. Seen as the episode that was the final straw in a show that was going downward. So it has come to refer to the incident that can be pointed to as the noticible turning point toward eventual failure.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:33 PM
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2. Rumplestiltskin.
Edited on Thu Dec-11-03 03:33 PM by trof
<mutter mutter>
other
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:34 PM
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4. Give that man a gold cigar!
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:34 PM
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3. When "meme" went out of vogue.
I think that's accurate enough.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:43 PM
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7. I must have missed that
I saw a couple of discussions about the "meme" thing and I still don't really get what it is about. I didn't see a lot of meme's though.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:44 PM
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8. We call it "the screaming me-me's" now.
;-)
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-03 03:36 PM
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5. THE
:)
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