gone viral

[Jonathan Lighter]

My guess is that "after the jump" means something like "after the spike in
interest" or perhaps "after the big event itself."

But there's no telling with only one ex. to draw on.

JL

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> You'd thnk "viral newscasting" or "gone viral" would be a bad thing.  See
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