Jumping the shark has jumped the shark...

[Meltsner, Kenneth]

Old bits, I guess.  My wife told me about it last year; it was the phrase's apparent misuse that prompted me to post.  I'll try to jump on the memewagon faster next time.

Although, you could extend the usage to include "a fad becoming mainstream and, as a result, no longer of interest to the real avant garde."  "Piercing has jumped the shark" would then be an appropriate use.

I suspect that "jumping the shark" has jumped the shark if there's an article about in USA TODAY, the definitive source for what's not avant garde.

Ken
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Win Treese [mailto:treese@acm.org]
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Oh, and USA Today even wrote about it last year:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/2001-08-09-net-interest.htm

    - Win