Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can't
>>> be serous. If that is the last remaining argument you have against cold
>>> fusion, you have jumped the shark.
>>>
>>>  I like that expression "jumping the shark".  Does it mean the same as
>> "screwing the pooch"?
>>
>
> It means the voice entry system has added its own "improvement" to the
> original statement.
>


No, not in this case. It means over-the-hill. Used up. Quote: "a term to
describe a moment when somethin that was once great has reached a point
where it will now decline in quality and popularity."

In Japanese they would say "you are past the sell-by date."

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

- Jed

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