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Other members are complaining about such bounces when they clearly have included new text. I suggest you get your sorry act together arsehole!!! Ian Lincoln - Independent I.T consultant -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2003 11:29 To: Deathwalker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: question by ignorant brit Your post contained no text in it at all, or only included text quoted from another article. Please resend it. NOTE: This is almost always caused by a '.' in the first column alone on a line. This is not valid for usenet. > > "Wendy of NJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Deathwalker wrote: > > > what is jumping the shark? > > > > I'm not exactly sure the etymology of the phrase (but I think it > > referrs to a "happy days" episode), but it means the point at which > > a TV series becomes unwatchable. > > > > For me, for DS9, it's about when Erzi Dax showe up and the Bobby > > Darin holodeck bits. > > > > > What is a McGuffin? > > > > Another word for "Deus Ex Machina" - in the context of the post. I > > understood it also to mean the solution to a mystery, but I could be > > wrong about that. > > Not something mcguyver's cousin knocked up then to fix something? ;) > > >
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