[lbo-talk] usage notes: jumping the couch

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 1 17:05:43 PDT 2005


At 11:31 AM -0700 9/1/05, popbitch wrote:


> >> Parlez-vous Popbitch? <<
> "Jumping the couch" enters vocabulary
>
> The phrase "Jumping the shark" has itself
> jumped the shark. The new way to describe
> something becoming irredeemably shit or
> totally over is... Jumping the couch.
>
> The phrase is inspired by Tom Cruise's
> mentalist "I'm so in love" behaviour on
> Oprah earlier this year.
>
> Other recent examples of jumping the couch
> include: Sharon Osbourne's anti-Maiden
> vendetta at Ozzfest, Pete Doherty's Live8
> duet, all of Jude Law's recent movies.



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