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  • Saturday's now standard promulgation of the new year's honours list at the end of the old year rather than at the start of the new only adds to this impression of compulsive seasonal gun-jumping.

    Britain in 2011: all our yesterdays | Editorial 2011

  • Anyway, The Daily Caller, in what might be an instance of "AHHHHHHH GOVERNMENT WASTE" gun-jumping but seems suspicious enough to mention, has run a piece about how the press team for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is spending a full week at least in Hawaii when the purpose of their visit is a committee field hearing next Wednesday.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Court Gives 2009 Republicans A Big Win Eliot Nelson 2011

  • Franken on Monday urged Justice's head of antitrust, Christine Varney, to investigate whether Comcast's appointment of 43 individuals to various positions at NBC Universal was "gun-jumping" and violated the "spirit of federal antitrust law."

    Sen. Franken urges Justice to investigate Comcast antitrust violation Cecilia Kang 2010

  • Chris Messina jumps the gun, assuming bidirectional support (i.e. producer and consumer), looks forward to further OpenIDness at WordPress, edits his post to remove the gun-jumping.

    Wordpress.com adds support for OpenID | FactoryCity 2007

  • Now, I am so disgusted with the slimyness, the finger pointing and the erratic gun-jumping, I will do anything I can to ensure Obama wins this election.

    You CAN see Russia from here! 2008

  • Ever since some schmuck posted the contents of J.K. Rowling's final Potter novel online earlier in the week (probably courtesy of gun-jumping online retailer DeepDiscount. com and distributor Levy Home Entertainment), I have been treading lightly on the internet lest I inadvertently stumble upon the ending.

    Spoiler Alert! Some Media Outlets Suck 2007

  • If this couple had been one of those in San Francisco who got a liscence before there was a legal foundation in that state for their marriage, I would be inclined to agree with you about the gun-jumping thing.

    Synchronicity, of a Sort « Whatever 2006

  • If this couple had been one of those in San Francisco who got a liscence before there was a legal foundation in that state for their marriage, I would be inclined to agree with you about the gun-jumping thing.

    Synchronicity, of a Sort « Whatever 2006

  • But that's a grim, gun-jumping way of looking at things, isn't it?

    Hail to the Chief, redux 2004

  • The algorithm and Google's results have always been at best pseudo-objective, and Google has made these kinds of gun-jumping censorship mistakes before.

    TechCrunch Devin Coldewey 2011

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