In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sun, 27 May 2007 11:44:48 +0100
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> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Sunday 27 May 2007 11:07 \__
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>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> Software Patents: Microsoft Jumps the Shark (PDF
>>
>> Kinky.
>>
>> Is this like that guy in Ireland who jumped a dolphin?
>
> Or the one in Wales, who humped a sheep? I kid, I kid...
>
You guys... :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
is probably as good a ref as any; apparently "Happy Days"
started this expression because Henry Winkler ("Fonzie",
to series fans) -- or a stunt double thereof -- was on
waterskis jumping a shark tank. The Wiki refers to
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/2006/07/P5/
which gives a slightly more authoritative reference,
and an explicit date of the jump (or at least the date it
was aired): 1977-09-20.
However, the actual phrase apparently did not come into wide
use until almost a decade later, if not two. Of course
Hollyweird has its own take on phraseology anyway, and I'm not
up on the latest variants thereof. ;-)
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