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Jumping the Shark
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^
| 12/18/2005
| Salena Zito
Posted on 12/18/2005 6:39:00 AM PST by NorthEasterner
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To: NorthEasterner
Re: Jimmy Carter - anyone remember the time he ran the Peachtree Road Race and collapsed from the heat? There were some great wire photos of him like a limp noodle being assisted away by the Secret Service. That was totally jumpin' the shark.
To: Wally_Kalbacken
ha forgot that one great stuff
To: NorthEasterner
I think Jimmah "jumped the shark" much earlier when he expressed puzzlement that the Soviets could not be trusted to keep their word.
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posted on
12/18/2005 8:48:28 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
To: NorthEasterner
I think one of Carter's great JTS moment was sitting in his chair with a sweater on telling us all to do the same, or his "malaise" comment.
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posted on
12/18/2005 8:50:20 AM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe
Excellent point. Though it is now much harder to fool the populace, apparently, there is still a great opportunity to do so or there are a great many who are easily fooled, or both.
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posted on
12/18/2005 8:57:16 AM PST
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: Williams
Please don't forget the joke about Montezuma's revenge to the President and dinner guests of Mexico in Mexico. What a dork.
Comment #47 Removed by Moderator
To: Capt. Tom
Helmet, meet Lei.
To: steelcurtain
You mean about using a psychic to find a lost airplane and having seen a red, white and blue UFO?LOL! No, I haven't even heard about those!!! I was just referring to him being anti-war and making dumbass comments.
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posted on
12/18/2005 9:08:17 AM PST
by
sirchtruth
(Words Mean Things...)
To: PROTESTBYPROXY
Well, if you add the whole administration, you had Jodie Powell kissing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's wife (a religious no no), looking down at her breasts, and announcing "now I have seen the pyramids!"
Powell and some others also publicly urinated at the base of the great pyramid (the real one).
And brother Billy Carter, a beer drinking hick, was paid $100,000 by Khadaffi as an "international consultant."
Then you had Jimmy Carter personally scheduling who could play tennis on the White House courts.
It's a long list, many younger people don't know that Carter started out with a lot of public good will as a decent guy, but his administration was one embarrassment after another, leading to his defeat in a record landslide.
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posted on
12/18/2005 9:11:51 AM PST
by
Williams
To: NorthEasterner
Bump for later read! This is going to be a FR Classic!
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posted on
12/18/2005 9:24:09 AM PST
by
albee
("Those that bite the hand that feeds them will lick the boot that kicks them!" - Eric Hoffer)
To: Bon mots
Are you saving your Billy Beer for a Party wake when Carter dies. I am. The only reason I ask is, I noticed that can was still unopened.
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posted on
12/18/2005 9:26:50 AM PST
by
rock58seg
(It's time for Islam to actually become a religion of peace or a religion of the past.)
To: NorthEasterner
bump
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CINDY SHEEHAN'S JUMP-THE-SHARK MOMENT?
(metaphor--Jon Hein via PJ-Comix, logo--Jon Hein)
by Mia T, 9.01.05
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- THE GREAT FISH moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail. The mouth was open just enough to permit a rush of water over the gills. There was little other motion: an occasional correction of the apparently aimless course by the slight raising or lowering of a pectoral fin--as a bird changes direction by dipping one wing and lifting the other. The eyes were sightless in the black, and the other senses transmitted nothing extraordinary to the small, primitive brain. The fish might have been asleep, save for the movement dictated by countless millions of years of instinctive continuity: lacking the flotation bladder common to other fish and the fluttering flaps to push oxygen-bearing water through its gills, it survived only by moving. Once stopped, it would sink to the bottom and die of anoxia.
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posted on
12/18/2005 9:40:11 AM PST
by
Mia T
To: NorthEasterner
Ford = His pardon of non crimes for RMN.
Carter = Rabbit, Olympic athletes, panama canal, malaise speech, gas lines, Iran, lusted in his heart.
Clinton = When we got to the "Character doesn't matter" part by his supporters.
Bush 41 = Read my lips, no new taxes.
Gore = No legal controlling authority
Kerry = His post Viet Nam treachery
Dean = Never followed his antics very much, so the scream will do
Of course I do recognise a boilerplate overall JTS moment. It goes, "Hi I'm running on the Democratic ticket for...."
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posted on
12/18/2005 9:53:51 AM PST
by
rock58seg
(It's time for Islam to actually become a religion of peace or a religion of the past.)
To: wolf24; Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
What a great picture. I like the catch-phrase too. Freeper, Orbiting_Rosie's_Head, is the originator of "Riding the tank."
I like that expression to describe a politician's going over the cliff. - tom
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posted on
12/18/2005 9:56:55 AM PST
by
Capt. Tom
(Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe
Ron Brown's plane crashed on April 25, 1996, in the fourth year of Clinton's first term. As revealing as Clinton's fake tears at the funeral were, he had done plenty of other things to reveal his true self by then, not all of which the mainstream media managed to hide from the public...notably the Waco massacre to stop the public relations problem the standoff was causing, which was already in his first months in office...and his bungling in Somalia and his sabotaging the efforts to prevent genocide in Rwanda...the list is endless.
To: NorthEasterner
To: rlmorel
I admit it. I ALWAYS wondered at the origin of that saying, "Jump the Shark"...:)If you're a TV fan, the "Jump The Shark" web site is very entertaining. (I don't know if I'm allowed to post the link here, but if you do a search on "Jump The Shark", you'll find it with no problem).
To: NorthEasterner
>>jumps a shark, marking the decline of the show<<
This is a pet peeve of mine, as that episode did not mark the decline of the show. The show started declining when Howard left.
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posted on
12/18/2005 10:08:09 AM PST
by
1L
To: rlmorel
. I ALWAYS wondered at the origin of that saying, "Jump the S
hark"...:) I also. But, I was told it was Evil Keneval.(sp) In Vegas
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posted on
12/18/2005 10:13:36 AM PST
by
don-o
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