"Jumping the Gun" is prematurely advertising some event.
"Jumping the Shark" is inventing new fantastic facts to fit your
bullshit soap-opera script.
/j
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 08:33 +0000, fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
  On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:55:16AM +0100, victor
wrote:
  that makes sense now, so someone jumped the gun.
 Some time ago I learned on this list the expression
 'jumping the shark' - IIRC it was Paul Davis using
 it. But what is 'jumping the gun' ?
 Ciao,