On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:45:28PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Even if your explanation of jumping the shark is correct, it could > be misunderstood ;). When Bobby Ewing rise from the dead, the reason > for this was that the serial season when he was dead, just was a bad > dream of his wife Pamela, the serial again was a best seller. > Jumping the shark means that something, e.g. a serial becomes a bad > seller, like Dallas was, when Bobby was dead :D.
It means to do something outrageous to attract attention when that is wearing out, and with the only result that whatever remained of your credibility is lost. So indeed, 'den H�hepunkt �berschreiten'. The origin is in the TV series 'Happy days'. When the audience started to decline the story editors made the Fonz jump over a shark. Ciao -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
