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To: NorthMountain

“ I’ve never waterskied, so maybe I just don’t know ... but that looks like really bad form.”

That picture is a reference to the tv show “happy days”. That is the infamous scene where fonzy jumped over a shark on water skis and is the genesis of the phrase “Jumped the Shark” which is a reference to a moment when an otherwise popular show does something so ridiculous that the one exact moment can be traced to its eventual


85 posted on 12/15/2022 8:41:43 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: dsrtsage

I know who is in the picture and whence it came.

So thank you for telling me something I already knew.

Perhaps someone who actually knows how to waterski can tell me what I don’t know ... whether Henry Winkler was doing it well or badly.


94 posted on 12/15/2022 8:45:13 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: dsrtsage

Or more precisely... “the sort of thing you would do when you are completely out of ideas..”


103 posted on 12/15/2022 8:47:20 AM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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