Reply #18: It basically means "pass the point of no return into irrelevancy" [View All]

[jmowreader]

It's from the old TV show "Happy Days." They kept it on the air far longer than they should have, and toward the end very few people still watched it.

To try to make the show exciting and watched again, the producers decided to take the whole gang to Hawaii. There Fonzie performed the stunt of jumping, on water skis, over a little fenced-off pond that supposedly had a man-eating shark in it.

This "death-defying" feat (authentic man-eating sharks are all pelagic and wouldn't take kindly to being fenced in for a cheap stunt) did not work; Happy Days was soon taken off the air.

And now you know The Rest Of The Story.